There are so many of those around here. If the police wanted to do a fundraiser, they could pull hundreds of these over with little effort. IIRC the ticket is $600. It might be higher now.
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It’s always awkward to issue a ticket to a colleague.
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Deletes aren’t a new thing among tuner crowds of all stripes. I’m constantly hearing about muffler deletes, cat deletes, and so on.
These days car manufacturers take great pains to tune their systems for maximum power, highest emissions compliance, and maximum quietness. Even performance oriented vehicles are often quiet enough that manufacturers feel the need to pipe real or fake engine sounds into the vehicle to make it sound sportier to the driver.
The funny thing is on modern turbocharged vehicles, when you do a cat delete, you’re usually reducing performance because some back pressure is required for the turbo to work properly. When you do a muffler or resonator delete, your car is louder for sure, but often sounds like crap too. As someone who enjoys performance vehicles, I can say that long drives with a loud and droning exhaust is really exhausting.
And anyway modern diesel trucks with all their male fragility-triggering emissions control stuff still manage to put out absolutely massive amounts of torque while also managing to be quiet and not pump out all those dangerous particulates. There’s really no reason to remove that stuff. It’s only done to be an asshole.
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Well, mostly. There is enough variation in factory engines that they tune for all of the above for the lowest percentile engine. A proper dynomometer tune will get more power, reliably, better emissions, and definitely quieter (if you’re into that kinda thing) than stock unless your car happens to have one of those lower tier engines. If you have a higher tier engine, you can get a lot more out of it than the stock tune.
None of which has anything to do with the catalytic converter or muffler. A higher-flow cat can gain a little bit, mufflers won’t gain any performance except in the brain of the nut behind the wheel.
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Not to mention the risk of being ticketed for Excessive Noise (which would be a bitchen name for a band).
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Cubert: Hey, Leela, help me apply these flame decals I got in my cereal. They’ll make the ship go faster.
Leela: And what’s your scientific basis for thinking that?
Cubert: I’m 12.
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Also for special forces use.
And for the ladies
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The cowl/headlight looks like a hockey goalie mask. Great time to remind Russia (still angry about it) of how our US college-player team beat their top-ranked professional players in the 1980 Olympics.
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The C2 Corvette Designer Created A Shockingly Quick, Wind Tunnel-Tested RV That Used Its Exhaust System To Incinerate Your Poop
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There are fairings and then there are fairings, meet the H-D CVO Road Glide ST
btw the “mud” spatters on the mudguard? Intentional, they are “forged” carbon fibre, so it will never look clean (also used all over the bike).
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Not sure if this belongs here or in the The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2) topic (probably both), but there’s this:
Which is more performative bullshit. EPA doesn’t mandate this technology, but the EU does and automakers aren’t going to spend the money to remove something one place and keep it in another without a good reason. And, while I’ve been in some cars with some really bad implementations of AS/S, I’ve been in some cars with really good ones (my car is a mild hybrid and most of the time I don’t even notice when it’s on so I don’t bother to turn it off most of the time – only exception is on hot days when I want to keep the AC running). I’ve also never been in a car with this technology where it can’t be turned off relatively easily.
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Don’t care; I can turn it off.
Which I have when the battery was low. Or in hot weather.
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Exactly – for all the people who complain about this, it’s easy to turn it off. On my car, it’s a physical button and it’s such a good implementation I don’t bother most of the time anyway. On my Mrs. Ficus’ car, it’s a little more annoying of a system, but disabling it is two taps on the infotainment screen. It’s just not that big of a deal. It legitimately does save fuel and reduce emissions.
It’s just more performative bullshit from the bullshit EPA administrator trying to dunk on the libs rather than do his job improving the environment.
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The one vehicle I’ve been in where this was implemented in an awkward way was in a gasoline-powered golf cart. So maybe Trump, who is probably has far more experience driving golf carts than regular cars, had a bad experience with one of those once and decided he wanted to rid the earth of them.
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