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Originally Posted by Tcoat
If you remove the original and replace it with an aftermarket you have modified the muffler. Any change from the stock version is a modification. A play on words will not change a cop nor a judges mind.
As far of the rest of the exhaust goes the laws covering the cats cover headers and pipes. It is illegal to do ANY modifications to the emissions system so this leaves very little that can be changed in an exhaust system that you could not get dinged for.
Noises that come from a stock car can be proven to be "normal". If they are not part of the stock setup they are indeed unusual and subject to the law. Saying that other cars do it does not make it usual for all.
You can try to twist things around all you want but they have heard all of that rationalization before and will hear it again. Everybody just needs to ride this blitz out and things will go back to "normal" soon. I went through this sort of crackdown in the at least twice in the 70s, once in the 80s and several times in the 90s and they always eventually just said "screw it it ain't worth the hassle".
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Just like the safety blitz on trucks, until they found that 99% of the trucks they checked fail the test. Then they realize that pulling all these unsafe trucks off the road would kill the Ontario economy. The politicians cave in to big businesses and turned a blind eye to the whole things. Last I heard, people are still getting injured or killed by flying truck wheels.
When they catch those 86 drivers with modified muffler, this is what they will do to you! be warned and book an appointment with your proctologist in advance if you have UEL headers or aftermarket exhaust!