Realistically speaking though, I'd say an overwhelming majority of
cars running in non-stock classes, and probably a significant portion
of cars running in Stock, don't meet the legal sound limit, 95 dB(A)
as measured by SAE standard J1169 (distance 18 inches at a 45 degree
angle from the tip I think?).
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Viet-Tam Luu (a.k.a. "Tam")
SFR-SCCA Solo2 #149 T1-CS, #149 EM
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On 5/30/06, Anthony Tabacco <tony@atarchitects.com> wrote:
> Those of us who live in a political world would like to see the supps
> changed to, "shall conform to the same sound standards as allowed on
> public roads". Avoid the word "noise" and any mention of a db level.
> Being able to say this in response to the nice old folks holding speaker
> cards at the back of a Planning Commission hearing is much easier for
> everyone to digest. It doesn't matter that the law is imprecise on this,
> it just "sounds" better.
> Tony
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