So, who's gotten yanked for their exhaust? if you have, please say what you've had done... and how many times you've been ticketed

 

I still have stock exhaust for now, but I have illegal tint (5% all around) and I don't get f'ed with

 

got a ticket for window tint, but never for exhaust.

 

dammit am i the only one

are you guys running catless w/dp?

 

no. cat back only

 

I got a ticket in my prelude back in 02 (cat back exhaust), and this year in my GTI(cat back exhaust) if those count...none in the evo yet...but i have only had it for a month and just put the tbe on about 2 weeks ago I try to stay out of fairfax county...that is where I got my other two...

 

"Pulled over but not cited with my old setup. I had the Buschur 3" with the race muffler. That was SUPER loud. Since I've switched to the Magnaflow, I don't even get looked at twice."

-Pure Evo
DCEvoClub.com 12/16/04

 

I have been pulled over 8 times for my exhaust and cited 4
I have a ctaless turbo back with a helix muffler

 

mind you I drive like a granny on the street, usually at the speed limit or a bit under...but they still **** with me

 

I had work order for having" Big Muffler" per cop, even though i told them ihave cat.
converter, so, the following wk. i removed cat. converter to give them ligit reason when they pull me over next time.

 

got one in my S2000, none in my EVO yet

 

They can give you a ticket for an exhaust? I got pulled over and the guy told me that he could give me a ticket. I told him that he couldn't becuase my exhaust meets all regs and passed emissions. And I informed him that the law stated that they can only give you a ticket if you have modified exhaust... meaning you take the cat out. Which mine isn't.

If it is illegeal to have an after market exhaust then wouldn't a ton of muffler shops be out of business?

Fox

 

you have a street legal exhaust. i'd wager the vast majority of the evo exhausts are not street legal. they have to pass certain tests in order to be sold as street legal--many of our exhausts i'm assuming were not tested or would not pass anyway.

 

Unfortunately, the law isn't just that it passes emissions, but that it's "stock-like" in emissions AND sound control (see below). "Modified exhaust" doesn't just mean no cat to VA - their definition of "exhaust" is everything from the motor back. You can have an aftermarket exhaust (like you say... meineke would go out of business if you couldn't) but Meineke ain't putting 3" turbo-backs on peoples' cars

* Here's the VA Law: "No person shall drive and no owner of a motor vehicle shall permit or allow the operation of any vehicle on a highway unless it is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard factory equipment, or comparable to that designed for use on the particular vehicle as standard factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise (*note: this is where cops have discretion to pull you over or not). An exhaust system shall not be deemed to prevent excessive or unusual noise if it permits the escape of noise in excess of that permitted by the standard factory equipment exhaust system of private passenger motor vehicles or trucks of standard make."

In other words, you can get a ticket, you can contest it, you can do whatever and maybe get lucky, maybe not - the law isn't perfectly clear because so many cars are so different. It really sucks, but...

 

yeah I got 2 exhaust tickets for my turbo s2000, one of them in Nova