No dig on CA I lived there for 40 years, how can they fine legal exhaust noise?? Ironic they show a GT3

https://www.menshealth.com/technolog...a-enforcement/

 

It's f*cked up

 

Legally, think they will lose in court as the cars all passed emissions. Blame it on those Mustangs and Chevys.

 

I would say they're not targeting oem cars, but just the people who think it's fun to run straight pipes or crazy loud exhaust and like to rev it in commercial / residential areas. Some of these exotics are louder that F1 cars. People need to use some common sense.

 

It’s a sound meter, and it will just pick up the decibels at a certain range regardless of car. My guess it will not get off the ground crazy Governor postering ….

 

Simply keep the revs down when you see the signs and you don't have to worry about it.

 

Gotta love the closing line in this article. What a joke of a publication MH's has become.

 

Better yet outlaw CA government officials from using motor oil on their head

 

Only hummmmm they’ll be hearing is the sound from their mouths when there’s rolling blackouts and they wonder why they got rid of ICE.

 

That's nuts. Plenty of OEM exhausts (cars and bikes) which will easily surpass these limits. And WTF is "traffic calming infrastructure"?

Took the family to southern CA (Newport Beach area) and visited some friends in Irvine + LA during spring break last month. Between cost of real estate ("standard" 3000 sq ft spec home on a tiny lot crammed into a subdivision full of nearly identical homes in Irvine in a good school district $2-2.5M, even more for my buddy in LA) + ridiculous income taxes + gas prices + politics + crime + homelessness +++ -> it boggled my mind why anyone who's not independently wealthy would move there. Santa Monica? There were more homeless people than residents or tourists walking around. My kids thought the homeless with shopping carts worked for the city picking up garbage- serious.

Sorry for bashing CA, but I've become more intolerant to bad politics, bad policy, corruption, money grabs, and big government with age. This intolerance has been accelerating and I'm only 51, ugh.

 

Agree, but for example supercup pipes on a GT3 is substantially louder than an F1 car by quite a bit. And know there are people putting those on street going GT3 cars which is >115db. Some tracks dont allow, so certainly that is unreasonable on street. The common sense side would say that is excessive for on street use, but you know how that goes.

 

But the weather is great...

 

There is no limit to CA government stupidity. This isn't even in the top 1000 dumb ideas they've come up with.

 

I don’t live in Cali and absolutely have loved cars my entire life but the Dodge community on the East Coast is absolutely ridiculous. If the Dodge’s sound anything on the West Coast like they do here then you can blame them Lol.
Having said that I still think any legislation is asinine.

 

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...ise-from-cars/

frankly they should crack down on about every Harley D I have ever heard 1st ...