wHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?

[BusaNostra]

http://jalopnik.com/the-epas-crackdown-on-race-cars-explained-1758111546

[Silk]

Putting aside the enforcement aspects of this (which give rise to a whole lot of practical questions), the proposed regulation seems pretty clear. If you alter the emissions equipment on an EPA-certified motor - even if it's going in a car that will be for track-only use, you're in violation of the Clean Air Act. And since the EPA is characterizing this as a "clarification" of existing law, it is not prospective only and would be applicable to lots of track and autocross cars that aren't licensed for the street. If you have a motor that was built from scratch by Roush or folks of that ilk, you might be ok. All in all, troubling to say the least, but again open to questions of how EPA would enforce the regulation.

[sevenup]

I belong to a FB page that is dedicated to an obscure sports car called an Arkley...basically a different body on a Spridget...many/most of the participants are in the UK/Scandanavia or other European countries...it always astonishes me that those EU participants are so limited on the modification they can make to a basically stock 50 year old MG midget or Austin Healey Sprite...there are often stories that insurance companies do not pay off in accidents, even modern vehicles, due to a simple improvement on vehicles (such as shock tower brace on a Z3) This far reaching government legislation scares me...

[jimrankin]

I don't think that having a Roush or anyone else's motor will save you from this legislation as long as your putting it in a car body that was originally an emission compliant vehicle. It's really "the car" not the motor in it that puts you into being compliant.

Typical government overkill. Racing only vehicles aren't the problem they should be concerned with. I see the logic of y=trying to prevent emission compliant "street or multi use" cars from being modified to a non-compliant state but there are other ways to control that than a 'ban" on modifying a track only car. California doesn't have a regular vehicle inspection of street cars. I wish it did as a lot of the totally unsafe/ uninsured/ and probably smog belching wrecks would be off the road. Regular mandatory vehicle inspection would take most of these cars off the road and probably save more air in a day than we make racing, track day or autocrossing in a year.

[jlumba81]

Here's a link to the petition against the EPA rule change.