Exactly. You can also get a ticket for just having a tip welded onto your stock exhaust. Unfortunately I found that out the same day I was ticketed for "depositing mud on the roadway"

 

Modified exhaust is illegal. Ticket isn't bogus. /thread

 

i got ticket in my gto, i forgot to ask the city cop for his db meter to tell me how loud my exhaust is.

 

is it modded? If so, it doesn't matter how loud it is. When are ya'll gonna understand that?

 

the state inspection book states you must have a sealed exhaust system and nothing about a muffler, took a copy of this page to court and the pink slip for a recent inspection and ticket was dropped

 

[QUOTE=ruquik]i i forgot to ask the city cop for his db meter to tell me how loud my exhaust is.[/QUOTE=requik]

i might be wrong but i believe virginia used to have a 95 db limit, i think thats right, but i think they changed it to the descretion of the officer to choose whether or not its too loud, but if he wanted to he could write you a ticket if it was really quiet because it has been altered from oem standards

 

no, its what dued said above, anything aftermarket is illegal, only kinda exhuast you can have is OEM, or OEM replacement. is no sound law.

 

what's required for inspection has nothing to do with this..

passing inspection and being 100% street legal are two entirely different things that people get confused far too often.

 

btw...straight thru exhaust..doesn't always = more power..

and louder....hardly ever better (except in turbo cars where backpressure is the no no...but in which case the turbo actually acts a muffler and calms the exhaust note a bit)

btw..i rode my 83 supra open header for a week or two...passed a few troopers on the highway...never got a second look...hell i even went up and down main street altavista a few times...gave the cops a nod...and never was bothered...it's all i how you handle yourself...body language and driving style are as much to blame in getting pulled over as equipment/speed/etc...

 

i think it's just bad luck, it happens to everybody once and awhile, mine was just really close together and i got captain america the second time. i kind of feel like, through my personal experience most police are bullies. and it really doesn't seem to matter what i drive. and everyone who says there is a difference between inpection legal and street legal is right. but even you guys have to admit that doesn't make much sense. the whole point of a safety inspection is to make sure the car is safe to drive on public roads, why would things that aren't safe be allowed there and not on the street? the answer is simple, it doesn't have anything to do with safety and it has everything to do with revenue: hence bogus tickets. whatever, i'ma fix it and be done with it, thanks, sorry, etc. i appreciate all the feedback, it makes me feel better to know that i'm not the only one.

p.s. small turbos, they don't muffle all that much