EPA To Prohibit the Conversion of Street Cars into Race Cars

[SSGT Mustang]

Here, this may help

http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/09/e...sema-official/

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by FireSale

I've been over the original documents several times as best an my mind will allow. My take is that this is a proposal to prohibit tampering with the emission on any new vehicle beginning with model year 2018. You would not be able to legally put a pre emissions engine in an regulation year and older body and no new emission controlled engines in older pre emission bodies.

The automotive business has been after something like this for a while now. It's an extension of their attempts to apply copyright law to people who tune their own EFI systems.

Dale

The new language reads as follows:

EPA is proposing in 40 CFR 1037.601(a)(3) to clarify that the Clean Air Act
does not allow any person to disable, remove, or render inoperative (i.e., tamper with) emission controls on a certified motor vehicle for purposes of competition. An existing provision in 40 CFR 1068.235 provides an exemption for non-road engines converted for competition use. This provision reflects the explicit exclusion of engines used solely for competition from the CAA definition of “nonroad engine”. The proposed amendment clarifies that this part 1068 exemption does not apply for motor vehicles.

The way the proposed bill reads, it says that the exemption given in 40 CFR 1068.235 no longer applies to motor vehicles. In a nutshell, you cannot modify any motor vehicle for racing or motorsports use.

[jwsamuel]

Originally Posted by FireSale

My take is that this is a proposal to prohibit tampering with the emission on any new vehicle beginning with model year 2018.

Actually, those regulations have been in place since 1984 when catalytic converters became standard equipment on all cars.

Jim

[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by SSDiv6

It would apply to any race car built from an OEM body, which would apply to bracket racers, Super Street, Stock, Super Stock, Comp Super Modified, COPO, Drag Pack and CobraJet cars.

It will also effect the aftermarket companies too, including tuners.

Just remember that POTUS told the military and the whole world our biggest threat is climate change and global warming!

.aaand what the epa spilled in western Colorado..
epa is a joke! and a bad one at that.

[Nick Heath]

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