[Greg Reimer 7376]

It seems to me that an uncorked stocker is between 92 and 96 decibels at 50 feet. If you re running around in a street vehicle or custom bike that's louder than that, you're pretty obviously asking for it. When I was trying hard to both grow up(and not really grow up), they passed laws about glass packs and Corvair turbo mufflers.Just having them got you a fix it ticket. In 1974 I bought a '62 Impala hardtop with two rather old glass packs on it, got written up about the second week I owned the car,bought two new head pipes, two stock 2" inlet/outlet mufflers and some real nice short tailpipes with turndowns. We put all that stuff in the trunk to show any subsequent traffic officer in the event of another traffic stop regarding the glass packs, then went out one Friday night and indulged in the act of coasting up to a light in gear with the key switched off and then turning it on to produce a backfire. We blew off one tail pipe, and blew the other side muff and tailpipe clear off, so the next day I drove the car to the gas station I worked at,installed the new muffs and tailpipes and head pipes, tossed the old stuff in the dumpster, and instant silence. It was so much nicer having a quiet car, and no more problems with the local constabulary. Leave it to calipornia to add one more fee, fine, or tax onto our daily lives to run up the cost of living.