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"Clean air act"
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<blockquote data-quote="SecondhandSnake" data-source="post: 16588016" data-attributes="member: 116684"><p>I'm so glad that faceless alphabet agencies with no oversight help tell me what to do with my own property to make this a safer world. God bless America.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh I'm sure they're salivating at the thought of clamping down on motorsports.</p><p></p><p>And while states may not have a means of enforcement through emissions tests, remember that tampering with or modifying anything considered an emissions critical device is a federal offense. And that doesn't just encompass cats or EGR. It's damn near everything, and that is made abundantly clear in the EPA training material supplied to SCT users as well as OEMs. You're only safe as long as the EPA isn't snooping on your car (or has a state doing the leg work for them, like CA.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Unfortunately it's completely within their bounds to prohibit you from operating/registering a non-compliant vehicle on state owned roads. But they can't tell you what you can and can't do on your own private property.</p><p></p><p>I'm surprised there hasn't been a challenge to the policy with some of the diesel parts that if you even purchased an item, you were required to supply a VIN, which was then permanently black listed from registration and therefore street use. That seems like a gross overstep, and would prevent future owners from running a perfectly compliant vehicle on the road. Though I'm sure they would grant some sort of exemption with an onerous inspection process that would technically make it "reasonable." Ex: Oh we're not permanently banning it, you just have to bring it to an EPA station, fill out mountains of paperwork, have them inspect every nut and bolt for a week, dyno test it in three different conditions and prove that it still has emissions margin, and then wait 12-24 months for the EPA to amend the blacklist. See? Perfectly reasonable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SecondhandSnake, post: 16588016, member: 116684"] I'm so glad that faceless alphabet agencies with no oversight help tell me what to do with my own property to make this a safer world. God bless America. Oh I'm sure they're salivating at the thought of clamping down on motorsports. And while states may not have a means of enforcement through emissions tests, remember that tampering with or modifying anything considered an emissions critical device is a federal offense. And that doesn't just encompass cats or EGR. It's damn near everything, and that is made abundantly clear in the EPA training material supplied to SCT users as well as OEMs. You're only safe as long as the EPA isn't snooping on your car (or has a state doing the leg work for them, like CA.) Unfortunately it's completely within their bounds to prohibit you from operating/registering a non-compliant vehicle on state owned roads. But they can't tell you what you can and can't do on your own private property. I'm surprised there hasn't been a challenge to the policy with some of the diesel parts that if you even purchased an item, you were required to supply a VIN, which was then permanently black listed from registration and therefore street use. That seems like a gross overstep, and would prevent future owners from running a perfectly compliant vehicle on the road. Though I'm sure they would grant some sort of exemption with an onerous inspection process that would technically make it "reasonable." Ex: Oh we're not permanently banning it, you just have to bring it to an EPA station, fill out mountains of paperwork, have them inspect every nut and bolt for a week, dyno test it in three different conditions and prove that it still has emissions margin, and then wait 12-24 months for the EPA to amend the blacklist. See? Perfectly reasonable. [/QUOTE]
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