Never had a problem with open headers & decent sized cams

 

wow, i have a hks exhaust system full 3inch turbo back.. umm, idk if thats legal, but its not retarded loud.. how much are the tickets?

 

If you're car is Registered in another state and your down here for college, can you get a ticket for your exhaust? Virginia has the same laws about aftermarket exhaust, the secret is keep it looking like stock and the cops won't touch you. I just got Tampa area for college and saw this... So even though I have VA tags on my car can Florida cops still get me?

 

Just my thoughts on this...

My '74 Z car is running straight dual pipes from the header to a pair of tiny glasspack tips. I set off every car alarm in every parked car I pass in a parking garage. I carry earplugs in my console so I can drive long distances without causing hearing damage or rattling my brains out of my skull. I think that fits the description of "Retarded Loud."

In the past two years and 50-odd thousand miles of driving in the Tampa Bay area I've yet to be pulled over. I've had cops ride up right next to me, I look over and nod to them, and all I get back is the occasional thumbs up as they pull past.

Either it's the gray hair at the temples that is saving my ass or the fact that I don't pull 7K shifts around them or do much of anything to draw unwanted attention. Whatever it is, I believe noise enforcement is HIGHLY SELECTIVE, and in my experience it selects against (recent vintage) imports and against younger drivers.

It is certainly not fair, it just is what it is.

 

Absolutely.

 

Just read this thread, and it's full of great info. I can't stand when people complain about exhaust tickets when the law is RIGHT there, and so simple to understand for the most part.

I will say, however, that I've never been 'picked on' for my exhaust. I ran around on open headers for a week and a half, and drove my car 20 miles per day with it like that. I rode right next to cops, and got thumbs up from them. I even had one ask me in a parking lot if I had a different motor in it, because it 'didn't sound like any 5.0 he'd ever heard'. Even though I'm running a catless x-pipe to dumped Flowmasters, and still don't get bothered. I'm just lucky I guess, and counting down the days till I get an exhaust ticket.

 

states that you MAY NOT modify your exhaust to anything other than stock... coming from the last cop that pulled me over while i was sitting at a stop light... he told me that most cops dont enforce it unless theyre looking for a reason to pull you over

 

^ Go die.

 

You guys are right, 'probation' periods are a horrible idea for new users.
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No, fuck you.

 

I bet if i drove through FL in the wagon, the cops would shit their dicks off.