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just wondering whats the law in reguards to exhaust pipes? must the go all the way to the back of the car/ute. i have a diesel and got bored so i took off the back half, so theres no muffler ect, it ends just after the cab.

so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

thanks...

I think it has to be past the last opening door and below 92dB or so?

Mr. octurbo wrote: so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

Mr. octurbo wrote: oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

Ummm yes, you answered your own question.

30cm past the last opening window of the vehicle.

Theres also a noise limit which i think yours mau just exceed.

98db i think in queensland. depending on what car it might not pass emmissions either. some diesels have cats and stuff and it also has to exit at an angle or something freakin rediculous like that

If its half as noisy as my 2.8 is without the muffler on, you'll get sick of it after a week and the legality of it will be a mute point.

If you've got a long drive to work tomorrow, might want to stop off at the chemist and get some panadols for that screaming headache you'll have later

Actually, before I got my new zorst the old one would occasionally "fall off" , always had a set of earmuff's on hand in the cab

Do yourself and the four wheel drive movement a favour and put the muffler back on.

No one want to listen to an atmo diesel farting through no muffler from 4 blocks away any more than I want to hear some guy in a mirage with 8 subbies and poor taste in doof doof.

Play with mufflers, resonators and extractors - I have heard some cool atmo diesels- sure they made some noise, but they weren't offensive. you are young padwan..... you will learn that volume is one thing, but tone is everything.

Have a listen to a BMW M3, GT3 porsche 911 or any ferrari or Maserati- 100% legal, but all the fabulous noise you would ever want to hear.

Steve.

I paid not much more than $100 for a muffler which gave the jeep a nicer note, especially at lower speeds/revs and i can live with it. But i agree with the chemist comment, if you're feeling a bit under the weather a loud annoying exhaust can make you feel worse. I don't consider my exhaust loud or annoying but last year we stripped the roof and doors off the jeep up at fraser and went for a drive on some inland tracks. All we could hear was my exhaust rumbling along at 1900rpm

Mr. octurbo wrote: so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

does this need an answer?

how young are you? (going by the "young kid and exhaust" )

j-top paj wrote:

Mr. octurbo wrote: so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

does this need an answer?

how young are you? (going by the "young kid and exhaust" )

I thought he was using a young kid as a canary...

4-5 blocks away I find hard to believe

Boss wrote:4-5 blocks away I find hard to believe

u ever heard a diesel with no zorst

Gwagensteve wrote:the four wheel drive movement

We're a movement?

chimpboy wrote:

Gwagensteve wrote:the four wheel drive movement

We're a movement?

Yep .. some would say bowel..

j-top paj wrote:

Mr. octurbo wrote: so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

does this need an answer?

how young are you? (going by the "young kid and exhaust" )

x 303.... is it school holidays already?

Just to inform you, mum made me take it off or should i say put the other half back on. my mates liked the sounds of it so did the guys at work but i think the people next door wont when i leave for work at 4-5.

thanks for the info about the rules and regulations.

cheers

Mr. octurbo wrote:just wondering whats the law in reguards to exhaust pipes? must the go all the way to the back of the car/ute. i have a diesel and got bored so i took off the back half, so theres no muffler ect, it ends just after the cab.

so will i be expecting a fine if i get pulled up?

oh yeah its dam loud you can hear it 4 -5 blocks away.

thanks...

Can also kill you inside the cab while driving around, bodies of cars aren't sealed very well, and while it might sound great, the gas doesn't fly away how you'd like to think it would it actually hangs around and as sucked where ever.

As most cars, 4wds, etc, the drive line will allow it to swirl back up into the cab and you get to breath it all in.

Making you feel sleepy then you do fall asleep then if your lucky to be going in a straight line might get just enough time to breath in suffocating you, even over short drives it'll effect you.

even opening the windows won't help as it'll just increase the suction effect even more.

zagan wrote:
Can also kill you inside the cab while driving around, bodies of cars aren't sealed very well, and while it might sound great, the gas doesn't fly away how you'd like to think it would it actually hangs around and as sucked where ever.

As most cars, 4wds, etc, the drive line will allow it to swirl back up into the cab and you get to breath it all in.

Making you feel sleepy then you do fall asleep then if your lucky to be going in a straight line might get just enough time to breath in suffocating you, even over short drives it'll effect you.

even opening the windows won't help as it'll just increase the suction effect even more.

Sw this happen over a period of some hours in the snow one year. we had made camp while another group was trying to climb a hill ahead of us. The last car in the group, (who was one of the more experienced guys and should have been up the front) sat in his car with it idling with the heater on for ages. eventually started to feel the effects and was throwing up and fighting unconsciousness. Very scary.

On my sierra ute, the exhaust finishes in front of the rear diff but well past the cabin (LWB trayback) but the fumes are still noticeable, if not nauseating.

Steve.

right. flame suit on.

I have a 1HZ which i took the rear half of the exhaust off to try and source a heating problem i had (suspected a dropped baffle). I left it off due to pure laziness, and here is what i found

1. It sounds horn as buggery, and you can hear it from several valleys away as i found at LCMP this weekend.

2. on the long trip home it gave me the shits with the constant drone.

3. Yes it stank inside the cab

4. the note was actually quite good, and probably illegally loud.

5. Put your muffler back on dude. it will give you the shits after a while.

MILO

Boss wrote:4-5 blocks away I find hard to believe

4-5 blocks away is nothing My last truck at full revs you could hear 2 - 3 kms away on our property.

Gwagensteve wrote:Have a listen to a BMW M3, GT3 porsche 911 or any ferrari or Maserati- 100% legal, but all the fabulous noise you would ever want to hear.

Even better yet, an Aston Martin as they floor it from the lights

shop around the exhaust joints. i used to drive a hjz78 or 79 cnt remember, but it was my work ute, had it fully loaded with crap the 1hz was a doughy, found a pacemaker system complete extractors to tailpipe, supposed to be 20% increase in power and less fuel usage. sounded good too had a real whistle to it bout 3000 rpm

Stax man, stax!!!

They're the shiat!!! They'll even make ya dick bigger!!!!

RoldIT wrote:Stax man, stax!!!

They're the shiat!!! They'll even make ya dick bigger!!!!

Ben wrote:

Gwagensteve wrote:Have a listen to a BMW M3, GT3 porsche 911 or any ferrari or Maserati- 100% legal, but all the fabulous noise you would ever want to hear.

Even better yet, an Aston Martin as they floor it from the lights

Raced one of those new r32 Golfs the other day. Wanted to keep racing it just to hear the exhaust note - they got it right on that one. BTW the wife's boosted sube kick its asssssss.

the have to be at least 12 inchs from the last opening of car

GBC wrote:

Ben wrote:

Gwagensteve wrote:Have a listen to a BMW M3, GT3 porsche 911 or any ferrari or Maserati- 100% legal, but all the fabulous noise you would ever want to hear.

Even better yet, an Aston Martin as they floor it from the lights

Raced one of those new r32 Golfs the other day. Wanted to keep racing it just to hear the exhaust note - they got it right on that one. BTW the wife's boosted sube kick its asssssss.

I had a drive of an R32 and yep, the note is grouse, even from inside the car, ironically, bought an STI WRX though, which don't have the WRX "thump" anymore due to turbo/manfold changes. ... oh well

Steve.