I've autocrossed at the lot at Ft. Meade and I'll have to say that
some of the "go carts" got pretty loud. I probably wouldn't worry
about it too much, I've never seen anyone with a decibel meter at a
Ft. Meade event...;)
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Derek Engelhaupt
Customer Engineer
Hewlett Packard
'97 White Mazda Miata
Odenton, MD
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
--Lucretius
---"Burns, James B." <BurnsJB1@central.SSD.JHUAPL.edu> wrote:
>
> Do the Farm Show lot in Harrisburg or the lot at Ft. Meade have any
specific
> decibel requirements for sound? The only thing I've read at all
said that
> exhaust systems should be quiet, but it wasn't defined what quiet
is. I
> wouldn't consider a Neon without a muffler quiet, but others might.
The
> reason I'm asking is that I have an ITS class RX7 that I'd like to
autox in
> CSP sometime. It has a muffler, but I still don't think most
autocrossers
> would call it quiet. It registers about 101dB at Summit Point,
which is
> under the SCCA Club Racing limit of 103dB, but it is still pretty
loud.
>
> Brad Burns
>
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