quote:Originally posted by Aus Ford:quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
I got lectured by a local cop that my entire car was illegal. He wanted to know where all of the emission equipment was?
When he found out all I was required to have was a PCV and evaporative controls AND they were there, he was speechless and walked away in a grumph!
I'm surprised he believed you.
Usually they are determined to "reinvent" history and say your 40 year old car should have every emission device on it ever thought of, even if they weren't invented when your car was built. Doh !
Worse! This cop wasn't born then yet!
I always think the issue is the headers. They are loud, but you know what? I just test drove a Porsche Cayman which is a little loud to begin with at idle and when you hit the "exhaust" button on the console the thing turns into a Harley Davidson.
The stacks of the Webers sticking up with no air cleaners on them doesn't help my case either.
I don't know how the California guys get by with this the way the CHiPs are and curbside inspections out there. NY generally doesn't care. You could always say you just blew out the muffler a minute ago here. Problem is he is still going to pull you over and the car has no ground clearance to go over the curb alongside of the road.
I had that discussion with a NYS Trooper and he wanted to know why it took so long for me to pull over. I mentioned the ground clearance and he said so what. I said that's all well and good but there was no safety/immediacy issue and I was looking for a safe place to pull over AND is NYS going to pay for the damage to the car particularly considering forcing me off of the road was not necessary? I don't think so?
He didn't like that. Gave me a speeding ticket. He does have to justify his job some how you know so that he is entitled to a pension?
The way the PDK transmission works, you just keep hammering the floor with the accelerator and I'm telling you that car is loud AND you can get an optional $3500 "sport exhaust" factory installed! I don't think that makes it quieter?
Maybe Porsche comes and fights with the cop for you considering (JUST) the STANDARD Cayman is $88,000? Try about $100k for the S. The Cayman is the ENTRY level Porsche! The 911 I liked was $168,000.