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Why is the law needed? We have laws against modifying emissions equipment on street driven automobiles and people just circumvent those laws. So what if there's a similar law for race cars or will those laws be strictly enforced by race track owners precluding cars with modified emissions from racing?
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I agree, what is the back story, can somebody elaborate by providing factual information?
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About 2-3 yrs ago the EPA cracked down on tuners who were selling emissions deletes and reiterated applicable law regarding the deletion of such equipment.
These companies tried to using a customer waiver to skirt the law and protect themselves.
Large fines were handed out and the market (diesel especially) for emissions deletes evaporated. |
But aren't the same companies still manufacturing these components for road cars? I'm curious why there was no similar attempt to pass a law for road cars where a much larger support base exists. What makes race cars so unique that it requires a special law? |
A political decision was made to exempt purpose built race cars (ex NASCAR) from the Clean Air Act.
There never was an exception for "on-road" vehicles being converted into/used for "off-road" but the EPA never enforced it.
Allowing an exemption for "on-road" would kneecap the CAA unless, IMO, the vehicle was re-registered as "off road". |
Understood, but short of race tracks denying entry to cars with modified emissions equipment, the end effect for manufacturers of emissions circumventing equipment will be exactly the same as the current state for road use cars. I doubt race cars would be subject any more scrutiny than road use cars from the state or federal enforcement agencies. |
Agree. However every company doing business selling cat-less dp's, tunes, etc is at some level of risk today. I guess diesel "rolling coal" tunes were the worst offenders and the easiest to prosecute.