Aftermarket Nightmare

[DanTheFan]

Not really a ‘nitro’ or NHRA kind of issue but this (long) article describes the EPA attack on auto enthusiasts. We know this has been going on but within the article I learned of some very familiar companies getting hit. It does impact the future of racing too, especially for street machines.

The EPA Is Targeting Aftermarket Car Modifications - The Auto Wire

The US EPA has been targeting manufacturers and sellers of emissions defeat devices in a crusade that puts the car hobby at risk.

theautowire.com

 

[r2]

This has been going on in California since 1979ish.
Impressive firepower for the EPA ... They're here too protect the air.
What about the children at school?

 

[5150 mechanic]

Ironic.
I really liked this movie when I was a kid.

The Last Chase - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[J. S.]

The EPA is made up of un-elected career bureaucrats who have very few checks and balances. They have almost unlimited power. What they say goes. We have these agencies throughout our government.

 

[scratch]

Lets not forget a majority of these folks could not troubleshoot a lawnmower to get it to start,one of the earliest known righthoods to becoming an adult. As a youngster (and probabley a lot of members here) I was required to mow our yard, roughly the size of a football field with only a push mower,and whenever it would breakdown (which it did frequently) my father and I would field dress it right there (no shade),then walk up to the Western Auto Hardware store,(open 7 days a week) buy whatever parts were needed, go back and he would watch and instruct me how to repair the mower right there in the field. And then finish the job,sometimes late. I cant pinpoint what that taught me as a youngster,but it taught me something. Most of the bureaucrats today never had it so good as a youngster.And thats too bad.
They don't know you but they dislike your hobby,or what I call an outlet. But they have no problem with China ramping up coal fired powerplants either....

 

[none]

I’ve come to the realization that the USA is going to hell in a hand basket. Glad I’m old

 

[T.Smith]

Lets not forget a majority of these folks could not troubleshoot a lawnmower to get it to start,one of the earliest known righthoods to becoming an adult. As a youngster (and probabley a lot of members here) I was required to mow our yard, roughly the size of a football field with only a push mower,and whenever it would breakdown (which it did frequently) my father and I would field dress it right there (no shade),then walk up to the Western Auto Hardware store,(open 7 days a week) buy whatever parts were needed, go back and he would watch and instruct me how to repair the mower right there in the field. And then finish the job,sometimes late. I cant pinpoint what that taught me as a youngster,but it taught me something. Most of the bureaucrats today never had it so good as a youngster.And thats too bad.
They don't know you but they dislike your hobby,or what I call an outlet. But they have no problem with China ramping up coal fired powerplants either....

Aaah, poor baby, you had it so rough. How dare these youngsters not have it rough like you did.

 

[T.Smith]

638hp right off the GM Bowling Green assembly line. I'm good.

 

[r2]

Aaah, poor baby, you had it so rough. How dare these youngsters not have it rough like you did.

Rough. lol
Sucking off mom's teet until your 30, then the government, is the way too do it, right.

Glad you're good though, while the world goes to **** and learns nothing without an open book test. That's the type of thinking that got us here.

 

[r2]

I’ve come to the realization that the USA is going to hell in a hand basket. Glad I’m old

While I totally agree. Weren't we supposed to leave this place for the better, of future generations. Makes me cry too think of those who served and gave their lives for what we have allowed to happen.

 

[T.Smith]

Rough. lol
Sucking off mom's teet until your 30, then the government, is the way too do it, right.

Glad you're good though, while the world goes to **** and learns nothing without an open book test. That's the type of thinking that got us here.

Oh please, speak for yourself. I have three kids, two are out of the house and the other is on her way to school in the fall, and it didn't take them mowing football size fields of grass with a piece of **** lawn mower, that should have been maintenance before mowing the grass (Work smarter, not harder, as my U.S. Army Veteran Father use to tell me) to accomplish their work ethic & position in life. Yup, I'm good, and the world will continue on long after you and I are both long gone.

 

[4onthefl4]

Give it up, cave in, throw in the towel, call it what you want but the ICE is being phased out. We'll be driving EV's in the U.S. by 2032 whether we like it or not.
And I'm sure the goverment will pass a law you can't modify your EV.

 

[r2]

Oh please, speak for yourself. I have three kids, two are out of the house and the other is on her way to school in the fall, and it didn't take them mowing football size fields of grass with a piece of shit lawn mower, that should have been maintenance before mowing the grass (Work smarter, not harder, as my U.S. Army Veteran Father use to tell me) to accomplish their work ethic & position in life. Yup, I'm good, and the world will continue on long after you and I are both long gone.

You should know my reply was not a personal statement, or attack. It was in general Tony.