Yeah, happened again..G-nette county, got pulled for Loud Exhaust. What now?

[teh_mugen18]

Its my first time ever getting pulled over for a "loud exhaust" on my car, but im wondering what should i do now? The officer just told me i need to get it fixed. End of story.

Only thing i can think to do is basically just get a silencer or something like that and shove it into my exhaust and make it quieter between now and my court date.

[Atlblkz06]

Farting is not socially acceptable - get a muffler !

[teh_mugen18]

Farting is not socially acceptable - get a muffler !

lol...but its also an autoX car, so i mean...muffler? not really all that attractive to me right now...

[JITB]

u know what u need to do!

[87 Turbo II]

Autocross is your excuse? I didn't realize it was such a high stakes racing league ou can't make compromises on. Oh please. You daily drive the car too, live by the rules. Your loud ass car shouldn't be a punishment for me and others on the road. There plenty of mufflers that breathe well and don't sound like ass.

[wantboost]

Autocross is your excuse? I didn't realize it was such a high stakes racing league ou can't make compromises on. Oh please. You daily drive the car too, live by the rules. Your loud ass car shouldn't be a punishment for me and others on the road. There plenty of mufflers that breathe well and don't sound like ass.

if all you are going to do is lecture him...... leave----------------------->

there are a few things you could do, fight the ticket, a few of my buddies have gotten the same ticket and all of them were dropped. do you have the stock exhaust(the judge should drop the ticket)? if so just put it back on till after your court date. lastly just pay the ticket and take your chances (if i lived in g-nett i would not lolol)

[87 Turbo II]

It's not JUST a lecture, he asked for advice. My advice, get a muffler. You don't lose a whole lot of power from a muffler. A restrictive header, or cats yes, the muffler, no.

[wantboost]

It's not JUST a lecture, he asked for advice. My advice, get a muffler. You don't lose a whole lot of power from a muffler. A restrictive header, or cats yes, the muffler, no.

thats a little better

[seanrg1116]

keep ur damn foot out of it and keep a low profile

if they dont hear you the dont stop you

[David88vert]

Install a turbo to chop up the exhaust note... As a bonus, it will make you faster ... :-)

[Stormhammer]

Get a resonator ( or a resonated tip )

the longer the resonator, the better

[ATL_EG]

just push in the clutch when you see cops
it's worked for me so far

[AirMax95]

Never got one in the WRX. Invidia 3" TBE are known to be on the loud side.

Maybe your car is not cool the GPD? Just kidding, lol.

[superboost]

Install a turbo to chop up the exhaust note... As a bonus, it will make you faster ... :-)

+1 I haven't had mufflers on my turbo-car in years.

[Vteckidd]

you should sell the car and buy a kia, with the amount of problems/topics you post cars are just not for you

[Vteckidd]

oh and if you got a ticket, quit being a dumbass. I rode around 2 years OPEN HEADER in COBB COUNTY and only got a ticket once, because i was redlining it down East West Connector

[bigdare23]

I never got a ticket and I have a BC Spec II LOL. It just wasn't your day.

[Grimm Reeper]

I never got a ticket and I have a BC Spec II LOL. It just wasn't your day.

Yea and your shit is loud as fawk

[teh_mugen18]

Lol i was accelerating coming out of my neighborhood from a dead stop, and i was doing maybe 35 and i saw the cop up the road (Jimmy Carter), sitting there with his lights on. I thought maybe he'd pulled someone else over, and so i go past him in a sensible manner. Next thing i know, he is behind me, so im thinking oh s***. So, i dont even try to go down the road anymore, im at a red light. I u-turn at the red light and pull into QT. blue lights. end of story.


I guess it just wasnt my day/evening...
Either that, or i just made it really easy for him to stop me..I.E. i kinda surrendered

[teh_mugen18]

But i guess, what ill do is get a stock exhaust from my Honda place, install it, go to court, fight it with proof that i repaired the car, and hopefully get it dropped.

[jwrape]

u know what u need to do!

^agreed

[m3dic8d]

Tickets like that are like fix it tickets I'm pretty sure if you put different exhaust on they will drop the ticket... just show up at court and say you fixed it, say you had a hole in your muffler or some shit and didn't have the money to fix it lol

[Cool Cat Racing]

The law by nature is unconstitutional. There is no way for any officer to equally enforce the law since there is no set testing method. The wording allows any officer to call it illegal if he feels its too loud. That's a personal decision, not a legal enforcement and cops aren't allowed to do that. Go on 240atlanta.com and search for exhaust tickets. you'll find a long post by me explaining it. I'm about to leave work and start drinking so I don't feel like writing it again. Basically any cop giving you a ticket for exhaust being too loud it overstepping his legal boundaries and the ticket, if argued well, is not admissable anywhere in the state.

[Slomaro Z28]

I'm running open exhaust on my Z28 and haven't had a problem, I'm sure its prob. louder.

[Decepticon™]

lol...but its also an autoX car, so i mean...muffler? not really all that attractive to me right now...

PLease tell me your kidding!!!!

[m3dic8d]

I'm running open exhaust on my Z28 and haven't had a problem, I'm sure its prob. louder.

Yours probably doesn't sound like a lawnmower either though.

[Slomaro Z28]

Well if he sounds like a lawnmower and not a weedeater he is doing good

[m3dic8d]

Well if he sounds like a lawnmower and not a weedeater he is doing good

[Decepticon™]

Well if he sounds like a lawnmower and not a weedeater he is doing good

i guess im going in the right direction. LAWNMOWER>WEEDEATER.

[teh_mugen18]

PLease tell me your kidding!!!!

lol wish i was, im gonna go run it in the Solo event next month if i can get the one final bug worked out from the swap before then...

EDIT: lol, just for a bit of fun, not gonna get TOO serious

[Decepticon™]

^^^WOW..........

[teh_mugen18]

^^^WOW..........

What? y'all act like i could never do anything like have some random fun drivin on a parking lot full of cones?

[redrumracer]

how yall goin make fun of the guy for wanting to do autox? i mean using that as an excuse for his exhaust is pretty lame, but dont knock the guy for wanting to do a legal racing event.

[m3dic8d]

how yall goin make fun of the guy for wanting to do autox? i mean using that as an excuse for his exhaust is pretty lame, but dont knock the guy for wanting to do a legal racing event.

I don't think it's the autox they're making fun of, but the fact that he won't put on a muffler because he does autox...

[Decepticon™]

im not making fun of you Joel, just think the Db could alittle work before start fukin shyt up you cant fix or pay for. When you start having too much FUN you start breaking stuff.

[Decepticon™]

I don't think it's the autox they're making fun of, but the fact that he won't put on a muffler because he does autox...

FO SHIZZLE

[teh_mugen18]

Ohh...lol, well only problems with the car that i'm having is this issue with the cooling down the internals and fuel delivery/getting the motor to act like its got some guts to it, and i know it does with 100% compression lol....

everything is new lol, new engine, belts, hoses, wheel bearings, 4-point harness, etc., so its ready to go man, ill just suck it up and get a stock exhaust for a minute....lol

[Ran]

Get a resonator ( or a resonated tip )

the longer the resonator, the better

x2 That's what I'm doing.

[Kaiser]

There's nothing unconstitutional about the exhaust law. For a law to be "Unconstitutional" it has to actually fail to "Pass Muster." Using a personal judgement of the officer has been proven repeatedly to be a perfectly effective way of deciding enforcement levels. Terry stops are a good example (Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968)) of where a police officer saw NO actual wrongdoing but proceeded to act anyways. The state law as far as noise pollution is concerned is very easy to interpret and is LESS subjective than the Reckless Driving or Too Fast for Conditions laws, both of which are regularly upheld.

The very idea that the law is "Unconstitutional" because of the fact that the officer has to make a judgement call on how to enforce it is ridiculous. Laws are constantly being interpreted by the police as they make rulings on how to enforce them. That's part of their job and duty as the primary means of enforcement for the law and members of the executive branch. Whether they interpret the law the same way as a judge, lawyer or lawmaker does is arguable, and thus the reason why we have a number of tickets being overturned in the system.

OP: As far as it goes, you can put a muffler on the car and go to your court date with a receipt from a muffler shop and probably use that as proof you got it fixed. You can have said muffler shop weld a bolt-up flange and easy-remove hangers for your new muffler. You can drive muffled integra around, not have cops bother you as often, save your hearing and when you get to the AutoX events, unbolt your muffler and go free-flow.

[m3dic8d]

There's nothing unconstitutional about the exhaust law. For a law to be "Unconstitutional" it has to actually fail to "Pass Muster." Using a personal judgement of the officer has been proven repeatedly to be a perfectly effective way of deciding enforcement levels. Terry stops are a good example (Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968)) of where a police officer saw NO actual wrongdoing but proceeded to act anyways. The state law as far as noise pollution is concerned is very easy to interpret and is LESS subjective than the Reckless Driving or Too Fast for Conditions laws, both of which are regularly upheld.

The very idea that the law is "Unconstitutional" because of the fact that the officer has to make a judgement call on how to enforce it is ridiculous. Laws are constantly being interpreted by the police as they make rulings on how to enforce them. That's part of their job and duty as the primary means of enforcement for the law and members of the executive branch. Whether they interpret the law the same way as a judge, lawyer or lawmaker does is arguable, and thus the reason why we have a number of tickets being overturned in the system.

OP: As far as it goes, you can put a muffler on the car and go to your court date with a receipt from a muffler shop and probably use that as proof you got it fixed. You can have said muffler shop weld a bolt-up flange and easy-remove hangers for your new muffler. You can drive muffled integra around, not have cops bother you as often, save your hearing and when you get to the AutoX events, unbolt your muffler and go free-flow.

I completely disagree. I've gotten so many tickets for stupid shit just because the officer had a Napoleon complex going and decided to take it out on everyone that fits into a certain mold that he happens to dislike. I get tired of being fucked with nonstop for stupid shit like not having tags when I was driving the car home from purchasing it. He wrote me a ticket that I'm going to have to go to court to deal with. Not the only time shit like that has happened but the most recent.

I believe it is unconstitutional because if you catch an officer that doesn't like you, your car, or is simply having a bad day you're going to get a ticket because it's his judgment call. And sorry, but I don't feel that's the way it should be. How many times have I been pulled over for some bullshit reason and gotten multiple tickets that shouldn't even be against the law (driving past curfew because I didn't switch my license over, window tint, exhaust, driving with no tags even though I had just bought the car, improper lane change for avoiding an accident because he didn't see the other car, etc etc).

It's corrupt and there are a lot of cops out there that shouldn't be.










Flame on, because I know I'm going to get tons of people coming in talking about how they protect us blah blah blah... go ahead