Epa'd Again!

[GTR_77]

  On 14/06/2013 at 1:00 AM, Terry_GT-R34 said:

It happens in communist countries where government officialdom has ballooned out & the walls have ears.

THIS X100000000000

[wolverine]

I'm gonna make a bet no one behind the iron curtain would give a shit about your car, this only happens in 'democracies'.

[luke gtr]

ok, so start sending in cops number plates, and all the harleys with open pipes?

[StevenCJR31]

yeah i dont know how harleys get away with making so much noise

the coppers had them years ago here in wa but soon went back to their jappers

[NYTSKY]

That app is not available yet, is it?

[luke gtr]

  On 15/06/2013 at 1:16 PM, StevenCJR31 said:

yeah i dont know how harleys get away with making so much noise

the coppers had them years ago here in wa but soon went back to their jappers

no, I meant bikie gang type harleys.

and marked cop cars....

[Redline_GTR]

Yep gotta fix those ear bleeding bikes! My old man owns a Harley and even he admits its very over the top - and his is stock!

[SMOKEYV35]

  On 15/06/2013 at 3:47 PM, NYTSKY said:

That app is not available yet, is it?

I downloaded it about 6 months ago just out of interest but deleted as only for new and I'm in vic.

[Truffles]

God bless QLD.

I'd say the "reported by an officer of the Victorian Police" Is either A) an off-duty member of the service, as previously noted or B) Perhaps an officer in traffic noticed your car ahead of them or driving the other direction and noted the plates to report and follow up on, as it didn't warrant pulling you over at the time.

[badben]

  On 12/06/2013 at 9:39 AM, SMOKEYV35 said:

And to add to what Terry said - in NSW there is an actual EPA iPhone app. All you have to do is type in the rego of a smokey/noisey car and press 'send'.

Nek minut, letter in mail.

(As a side note, if you're a car enthusiast in NSW my suggestion would be to download that app, and report as many smokey rust buckets as you can - keep them busy with other things ;-))

What's this app called? Doesn't seem to exist.

Edited July 3, 2013 by badben

[SMOKEYV35]

  On 03/07/2013 at 5:24 AM, badben said:

What's this app called? Doesn't seem to exist.

It must have been taken down.

All the info is here on the nsw govt website though:

http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/pollution/ReporttoEPA.htm

I have physically downloaded it before, so it did exist at one point not long ago - deleted it when it wasn't Vic specific.

[poeticjustice88]

As it has been mentioned. We gotta get thr harleys off the road. But the other day I am at the servo. And I hear the greatest sound to ever grace my ears. It was a purple 1970 'cuda with a blown 605 cube hemi pulling her along. I want to know how it was legal to have something that loud on the road yet I get pulled over for a skyline with a zorst.

Now you have to understand how loud this thing was. I heard it honest to god 3 minutes before I saw it. When it finally came to view, I rolled into the servo running on this monstrous mechanical camshaft lobing at around 2000rpm. Three people filling their cars up threw their hands over the ears. People inside the serrvo started coming out as they had no idea what it was.

This car was in fantastic condition. I got talking to him and told me it had 1400 hp and 800 ft pnd of torque. The kind of numbers that could dwarf nearly any car on this website AND be legal.

Just because it is a classsic or he may have some fancy hot rod rego makes it no less of a distraction to drivrrs as my car ata tenth of the volume. So how can they justify making it legal. Even if it only gets driven once a month or whatever on the rego it might have. That one drive a month would scare more drivers then I could in a year If I tried

[34GeeTeeTee]

We get our EPA cleared Saturday finally!

[Daleo]

  On 17/07/2013 at 1:39 AM, poeticjustice88 said:

As it has been mentioned. We gotta get thr harleys off the road. But the other day I am at the servo. And I hear the greatest sound to ever grace my ears. It was a purple 1970 'cuda with a blown 605 cube hemi pulling her along. I want to know how it was legal to have something that loud on the road yet I get pulled over for a skyline with a zorst.

Now you have to understand how loud this thing was. I heard it honest to god 3 minutes before I saw it. When it finally came to view, I rolled into the servo running on this monstrous mechanical camshaft lobing at around 2000rpm. Three people filling their cars up threw their hands over the ears. People inside the serrvo started coming out as they had no idea what it was.

This car was in fantastic condition. I got talking to him and told me it had 1400 hp and 800 ft pnd of torque. The kind of numbers that could dwarf nearly any car on this website AND be legal.

Just because it is a classsic or he may have some fancy hot rod rego makes it no less of a distraction to drivrrs as my car ata tenth of the volume. So how can they justify making it legal. Even if it only gets driven once a month or whatever on the rego it might have. That one drive a month would scare more drivers then I could in a year If I tried

Don 't be fooled mate; these guys get hit by the EPA just the same.

If he's managed to get an engineering approval for it; as soon as he gets stopped for a stationary noise test; he'll be screwed. They'll go over it with a fine tooth comb, and give him enough defects to put him off the road.

It's not about pointing the finger at someone else who's making noise; it's about making sure yours is compliant.

[poeticjustice88]

  On 17/07/2013 at 3:15 AM, Daleo said:

Don 't be fooled mate; these guys get hit by the EPA just the same.

If he's managed to get an engineering approval for it; as soon as he gets stopped for a stationary noise test; he'll be screwed. They'll go over it with a fine tooth comb, and give him enough defects to put him off the road.

It's not about pointing the finger at someone else who's amking noise; it's about making sure yours is compliant.

Oh no I am not pointing the finger. Simply saying that the hot rods and harleys seem to get away with it. As I have never seen one of either that would be legal volume so I assumed they had a permit

A nd if that was the case, I was complaining about how their cars at 5x the volume are not a problem and mine is

[Daleo]

  On 17/07/2013 at 4:07 AM, poeticjustice88 said:

Oh no I am not pointing the finger. Simply saying that the hot rods and harleys seem to get away with it. As I have never seen one of either that would be legal volume so I assumed they had a permit

And if that was the case, I was complaining about how their cars at 5x the volume are not a problem and mine is

I really don't think they do; I know a bunch of guys running cafe racers, & Harleys, let me assure you that they do get noticed.

I've had bikes with noisy pipes, and even though they've been ADR legal I've been given a hard time.

Hot Rods are also able to have club rego, and this bypasses a bunch of requirements.

The fact that they don't get get pinged, is largely related to the amount of usage these types of vehicles get, and also when/where they are used.

[C4a0s]

  On 17/07/2013 at 5:51 AM, Daleo said:

The fact that they don't get get pinged, is largely related to the amount of usage these types of vehicles get, and also when/where they are used.

yeah this is the main reason....

Brisbane and its suburbs is not exactly what u'd term as small plus these are definitely not their daily rides so....

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

so if you have a Ferrari or Lambo or a Zonda or a anything exotic and loud from the factory you can get done for EPA?

Those cars are loud as a raging porn star, so if you get an EPA notice how does that work in the scheme of things for noise?

[C4a0s]

think u can just show that its stock...then they'd clear the EPA?

cant EPA u for a stock exhaust right?

[sydking]

  On 19/07/2013 at 2:53 AM, C4a0s said:

think u can just show that its stock...then they'd clear the EPA?

cant EPA u for a stock exhaust right?

Someone correct me if im wrong, But a stock r32 GTR exhaust will NOT pass the legal limit under the EPA test