[Paul Huryk]

Originally Posted by LTb1ow

*Don't turn it into politics por favor Jose*


Been a lot of buzz round the diesel world cause the EPA cracked down hard on a few tuning companies, and now its like a landslide of companies no long offering DPF, EGR, cat etc deletes. Which was to be expected, you can't expect the EPA to not notice your rolling coal, burnout vids on public roads on youtube adverting your emissions delete stuff, BUT...

Someone mentioned that hot rodding stuff only contributes a very very small fraction of overall emissions and that the EPA is merely trying to keep their jobs since they have basically put requirements on everything from BBQs to gas cans. So they go after very high public aware stuff to show face.

Kinda curious if anyone had any numbers on hot rod stuff compared to overall car usage.

Should I go put on my tinfoil hat?

I'm not even sure if that information is available...


Two things come to mind with that:

1) I bet that normal cars that run around not properly tuned put out many X more bad emissions into the atmosphere than if they were running 100% - and the EPA doesn't care about them. And if they squeek by local emissions standards, no attention is paid.

2) The EPA is a reactive portion of the government and it only gets up off it's butt and looks into things when enough people complain - usually being ones that have connections in such an agency...