Noise restrictions at the track

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Mar 04, 09 7:09 pm

I was talking to someone at the swap meet who was saying that a voluntary regulation of noise at drag race tracks was coming into force next year, with a compulsory requirement to run mufflers thereafter.

Please does anyone have any information on this??

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Mar 04, 09 9:53 pm

Any sportsman class Pete (super mod/super pro et down to sportsman et) don't know about RWYB but it'll probably follow soon after,

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Mar 04, 09 10:22 pm

Thanks Mark, any dates for this and do you know if they will be measuring noise at the track or just a visual check that you have mufflers installed....

I can see the sales of Flowmasters rocketing

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:17 pm

2010 optional, 2011 mandatory, it isnt set in stone yet, think it gets voted on at the end of the month, dont know how they'll police it yet,

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:34 pm

Voted by whom?

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:39 pm

no uncorked headers , thats well out of order

finest sound know to man ! a V8 with open headers , well is for me

so who decided all this

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:43 pm

Jeff wrote:Voted by whom?

UK drag racing tech comitee, it was spoken about on eurodragster recently after the SPRC/APIRA Dinner dance

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:45 pm

That sucks!

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:48 pm

what a load off crap, i hope its somethin to do with legislation rather than our dragrace organisers that have this rollin along,, where the hell do you put mufflers when yer headers exit under your front fenders by the front tires ????????????????

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Mar 04, 09 11:51 pm

Cannonball wrote:what a load off crap, i hope its somethin to do with legislation rather than our dragrace organisers that have this rollin along,, where the hell do you put mufflers when yer headers exit under your front fenders by the front tires ????????????????

trying to figure that one out ourselves Dunc, it isn't legislation, they are on about bringing it in before it is forced on us, it is already in force in NDRS (sweden etc)

challenger · Post by **challenger** » Thu Mar 05, 09 12:08 am

gona cause a lot of aggro if this kicks off , dont see the point, drag strips am normally well away from residential areas , to many folk in this world that like to change things when they just fine as they are !!!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Mar 05, 09 12:24 am

I would like to see 8 flowmasters on a top fueler or 1 on the jet car come to that.
What a load of crap

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Mar 05, 09 6:35 am

Welcome to the warm and fuzzy world of political correctness.

I think the rationale is "its better to do it to yourself before someone does it to you, because when they do it to you, they don't use the K-Y".

Maybe Turbos will become more popular as they such out the exhaust energy.....

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Thu Mar 05, 09 6:39 am

Cannonball wrote: ....where the hell do you put mufflers when yer headers exit under your front fenders by the front tires ????????????????

I think the answer is "The headers will no longer exit under your front fenders by the front tyres....." Lots of re-design coming up

latil · Post by **latil** » Thu Mar 05, 09 8:20 am

Seeing as most dragstrips are old runways,how about mufflers on all the planes taking off at airports? The world is run by brainless twats.