EPA Proposal to Prohibit Conversion of Vehicles Into Racecars

[superbenk]

This article & others related to it have been passed around a mailing list I'm part of recently:

https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2016/06 ... o-racecars

I'm wondering how this affects those of us with old Fiats that have de-smogged them or otherwise modified them? I would expect the same laws apply in that case as well? Many of our cars are registered classic or antique which means they don't go through emissions testing, but it sounds like this applies regardless of that.

[DieselSpider]

The end of that notice appeared to indicate that this was involving medium and heavy duty vehicles over 8,500 lbs so our less than 3,000 lb spiders are probably safe. It also did not say you could not convert them to race cars only that they wanted you to leave the emmisions controls intact if you did convert vehicles in this class to racing.

[gandyrail]

Um -- I think it is against EPA law for anyone to remove emission controls on any car (period)
Not that it matters.
But it is ok to have gas stations pump high amounts of ethanol that potentially destroy your motor
Sorry did not mean to get political