The new “what did you do to your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVIII

FL 4Motion

So, not sure if yalll were already aware and discussed and I missed it or not but the epa, under current admin just came down like the wrath of god on the aftermarket tuning industry recently.

It all started with those douchbag diesel bros show, the physicians association of Utah bought a truck from them suspecting rightly so that it wasn’t emissions legal and got it smoged, it was polluting 30 times hat was the legal limit for that model. I mean if you’ve ever watched an episode, it’s like brodozers meet rolling coal wilth a side of steroids. Fvcking embarrassing.

So, they just got hit with an $850k fine and are also possibly on the hook for the prosecution’s legal fees, $1.2 million iirc.

Driven brands, the Corp that is Holley, flow master, dinan, apr, accell, msd, etc just got nailed hard as well for $800k iirc.

Apr immediately dropped stage two everything for vw, Audi, etc.

The epa has said that the “for off-road use only”. Wink wink disclaimer will no longer be any kind of legal shield and it’s $37,500 fine per vehicle that tampers with or removes emissions equipment. They say they’re only going after the companies not individual car owners, at least for now.

This has been a huge damper on the Audi/German tuning market since everything is turbo and now you’re limited to stage 1 and getting stage two or three + parts will most likely get harder and harder.

It was only a matter of time before this was going to happen but you can thank the rolling coal diesel truck idiot crowd for getting the most loo the other way epa in history to be the one to crash the party.

Apparently modding any car @fter 1968 could be an issue since that’s when the epa emissions laws were created. This last part had me a bit confused since muscle cars didn’t get cats till 1971, but who the Fvck knows.

Carb approved blower for my jk doesn’t sound so bad now I suppose,, and electric conversion in about 15 years, most likely bc no more gas.

TTRS at stage one makes over 500 hp so I’m not too mad, basic weight savings gets my;wet weight to around 3180lbs, not to shabby. Still sucks tho.