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Old 01-23-06, 02:56 PM
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no modified suspension
no modified air/fuel intake
no modified exhaust


great! another reason for colorado springs police to pull people over.
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So are they saying they're gonna pull over all the Harleys with straight pipes!?

I think not..
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no, just cars and trucks.


its just funny. they wait for people to street race and pull them over but anytime a new racetrack is built they close it down for sound ordinance violations....the tracks they do have in colorado they keep closing for various reasons also. its retarded.
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Move to Alabama, we don't need exhausts provided there is a nice burble from a custom cam & you dont' drive exhaustless in the middle of the night.


So.... Technically, you can still turbo/supercharger your vehicle :P

No problems!
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i could...but what fun would that be?
lol

im running my es from now on as a daily driver during the winter. so no more mods

Once i getting settled in my new house i'll look into an sc400. then we will see what laws *have* to be broken to acheive the car i want.
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Originally Posted by 3rdelement
no modified suspension
no modified air/fuel intake
no modified exhaust


great! another reason for colorado springs police to pull people over.
Good! I hate those stupid ricers and their lous azz mufflers. It's pure noise pollution. The intake and suspension...eh whatever.

My 0.02
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I would not worry about those too much. My college buddy in Florida says they have a no mods rule on the books there, but for many years they have had no state inspection or even emissions testing. It was one of the loosest states. All the cops ever tell him with regard to his modified Corvette is just not to rev it up (noise) in the neighborhood and race it at the track. The police in his area are well aware of the no mods rule, but they could not care less.

I think those kinds of laws are enacted as another way of punishing street racing.

Very moronic for California especially since I have friends there with modified suspensions for offroad use.

Ricers, I don't like. If you are going to modify your vehicle and put a fart-can muffler on it, get it powered up by real aftermarket parts not racing stickers.
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well 2 of my friends that drive "non-ricer" vehicles have already gotten busted.
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Thank the ricers for that one. Think about it from their standpoint, you have these gay little cars buzzing around bouncing all over the place due to their cheap APC coilovers on stock springs...**** gets old after a while. That was one of the reasons I left the Honda game(and I had 5 Hondas over the years), tired of being stereotyped as a troublemaker and constantly being pulled over for no reason. None of my cars were even ricey, dead stock on the outside just lowered significantly---but done properly. Ricers really ruin things for the true enthusiast
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Damn, so no modifications whatsoever then basically? I thought California was bad
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See http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?id=50721

As they have a list of updates for all the states pertaining to legislation.

Here in Mexico City, we have tons of rice rockets but except for emissions testing, nobody cares how low or even how loud your car is.
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i don't see how a modified suspension hurts anyone
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stupid colorado laws
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Originally Posted by ChrisES
i don't see how a modified suspension hurts anyone
It depends. For off road use, does not makes sense. They should tailor the law more carefully (it is your tax money at work).

I do know of a few cases here among racing friends where their cars were jacked so low some of their aero kits would scrape the ground on occasion or nick a pothole. There, I could see an issue. I have seen lowriders here so low they literally turn into a cowcatcher for trash, even cigarette butts.
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That's why I like it here. You never see Alabama on the SEMA site.
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