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My understanding is screamers:

  • are illegal
  • cannot be engineered
  • incur a $15,000 fine if they bypass the cat converter

Plumb them in and you wont need to worry about it. There is also a law that says any road exhaust pipe needs to end after the rear axle, but that wouldnt carry a big fine as long as it went through a cat.

To find out the fine ask for what the fine will be if your vehicle does not have a cat and is required to, as this is what they will book you for.

The only time screamers sound good is over 6000rpm, all other times they sound like a leaky exhaust and/or a fart, I was a idiot and got one when I first got my exhaust done a couple of years ago, I drove home from the shop and when I got home rang them back up to get it plumbed back in.

For a street car its not worth the hassle, fines and general annoyance, also you lose a lot of the induction sound because it is overpowered buy the vomitous exhaust noise.

I prefer the sound of the induction at 24lb than the sound of a noisy exhaust anyway.

My understanding is screamers:

  • are illegal
  • cannot be engineered
  • incur a $15,000 fine if they bypass the cat converter

Plumb them in and you wont need to worry about it. There is also a law that says any road exhaust pipe needs to end after the rear axle, but that wouldnt carry a big fine as long as it went through a cat.

To find out the fine ask for what the fine will be if your vehicle does not have a cat and is required to, as this is what they will book you for.

Isnt It something like 12inches from last opening door/window etc. That only what i have ben told. I have never checked it

You're going to find out soon enough.

Make sure you post back and let us know exactly how many thousand it is.

Haha love it. Officer would be licking his lips if he caught you.

Edited by Al Despo

In the city couple years ago, just when they started going hard on the EPA stuff.

I actually copped one $80 fine for the two pages of defects.

And a couple hundred for the noise level, but nothing for the screamer and lack of cat.

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