In a message dated 1/17/02 12:46:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, pethier@isd.net
writes:
> >So, put mufflers on it. In San Diego it's 93db. We're used to it.
> >It really isn't so bad.
>
> I see a lot of traffic on this list which implies that the biggest
> challenge
> facing autocrossing is recruiting and keeping participants. That's surely
> not the problem here, and I suspect in most other places. The big problem
> is finding and keeping sites. If quiet exhaust systems help, let's have
> quiet exhaust systems.
>
> I'd support a rule calling for street-legal sound levels from exhaust
> systems on all cars in all classes right up to A-Mod. Several car types,
> notably normally-aspirated RX7 cars and two-stroke specials are going to
> find their levels of tuning heavily dependent on the allowed sound. It
> would help competitors with such vehicles if there was a nationwide
> standard
> for autocross exhaust noise.
>
> There are a lot of autocross clubs, but the tail that wags the dog (not in
> my town, of course, but in most) is SCCA Solo2. An unambiguous rule
> covering all Solo2 and ProSolo events (whether on isolated venues or not)
> would go a long way to setting a de facto standard for all autocross clubs.
> This could make sites easier to get and hold. It would also give traveling
> autocrossers some confidence that they and their competitors would be
> playing from the same sheet of music, so to speak.
>
> I encourage members of the SCCA to write the SEB with their thoughts on
> this
> subject. More and better sites can only help ALL autocrossing clubs, but I
> think SCCA needs to take the lead.
>
>
I second the motion!
If everybody has to run a muffler the playing field is level. Hell, even the
NHRA requires mufflers and the tuners are actually making MORE POWER!!!
John Taylor
PS: I loved the sound the un-muffled 427 sounded in my old 1969 B/P Vette but
times have changed.
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