Shhhhhhhhhhh

[Fatjim]

Its coming

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10494503


http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/rules/vehicle-equipment-amendment-2007.html#schedule3

[Steam]

And CUE the whining....

"how unfair"
"how can they DO this?"
"bastard government"
"John Key will make it all better"
"woe, woe!"

[CookMySock]

just make a little plug/baffle thingy to shove up the pipe for wof purposes.

DB

[Finn]

And CUE the whining....

"how unfair"
"how can they DO this?"
"bastard government"
"John Key will make it all better"
"woe, woe!"

They've had emission laws in for quite a while too, yet your bikes are still on the road.

[Swoop]

Another law that will get universally ignored, like red-light running...

[Soul.Trader]

This is good. I'm sick of boy racers that interrupt my dinner conversation while I'm eating in a nice outdoor setting at my favorite restaurants. It's entirely possible to have an exhaust which sounds nice, without being incredibly loud, and allows ample engine performance, on any street vehicle.

[HungusMaximist]

just make a little plug/baffle thingy to shove up the pipe for wof purposes.

DB

You got it!

If you're smart of course :msn-wink:

[bucket boy]

This is good. I'm sick of boy racers that interrupt my dinner conversation while I'm eating in a nice outdoor setting at my favorite restaurants. It's entirely possible to have an exhaust which sounds nice, without being incredibly loud, and allows ample engine performance, on any street vehicle.

do you have any idea how many vehicles wont meet this db level in standard form.Once again a law gets passed to sought out the boy racers and every one pays for it

[Subike]

I wonder if they will test out the desiel locomotives that run the length of NZ on rails.
Those fuckers would be the noisiest by far.
I think anyone would agree that you can hear a desiel train miles away from any rail track,
And where do aircraft come into this mix
Helecopters buzing around the city, worse noise polution than any automoble.
Then we have chainsaws and lawn mowers......sunday morning quiet? yeah right!
So the boffins have got it right at getting it wrong again, applying a new law , when all that is needed is enforcement of existing law.
Typical NZ Government, give the problem to a commitiee, have an enquiry, write new laws, listen to idiots.

[NighthawkNZ]

This is good. I'm sick of boy racers that interrupt my dinner conversation while I'm eating in a nice outdoor setting at my favorite restaurants.

I sick of rattly chain saw harleys that do the same thing


It's entirely possible to have an exhaust which sounds nice, without being incredibly loud, and allows ample engine performance, on any street vehicle.

Yup

[koba]

I guess it will be at least as effective as the last revision. :laugh:

My current irk is "rules for the sake of it".
It Seems fasionable to introduce rules that limit resonable people who listen and obey but have no effect on people causing the problem because they don't listen to rules anyway.

Just like the tagging thing and our local ban on "any motorised recreation" around our local (Hutt) river.

[yod]

its election time

what do you expect?

[sels1]

Its coming

About time. Bloody noise polluters.......:bleh:

[Pex Adams]

This is good. I'm sick of boy racers that interrupt my dinner conversation while I'm eating in a nice outdoor setting at my favorite restaurants. It's entirely possible to have an exhaust which sounds nice, without being incredibly loud, and allows ample engine performance, on any street vehicle.

You have to remember most of these vehicles don't have warrants anyway~!

[McJim]

Why do they never specify the rev range tested?

My bike is quite quiet at up to 3,000rpm....it only sounds visceral at about 6,500rpm onwards.

[koba]

3000 or 4000 revs was the range specified in the last lot of regs, interesting tho as my VFR is just ticking over at 3000 revs yet my Volkswagen redlines at 4000! hardly fair for the ol' volksie at the top of its rev range.
Doubt, even with its stock spec exhaust, it would pass the test anyway even with the current extra allowance for rear engined vehicles...

[koba]

Must dig that out of my stacks of paper because I can't find it on the net now. When I read it it had an implementation date and was supposed to be all set to go. maybe what we are getting now is a modified, delayed version of it?!?

[Ixion]

Why do they never specify the rev range tested?

My bike is quite quiet at up to 3,000rpm....it only sounds visceral at about 6,500rpm onwards.

They do. 50% of peak power revs.

There's a bunch of (not very reaosnable) defaults in the cae that peak revs are not known.

There's a fall back 'common sense' provision to deal with something like a vintage vehicle .

Testing protocol is here (http://www.lvvta.org.nz/Noise%20Emissions%20Std030706.pdf)