Sign the Petition Against EPA's Anti-Race Car Proposal
techrat_77
Senior Member
The EPA is proposing the elimination of future hot rods, plain and simple. Sign the petition and let your voice be heard while it still can! SEMA is actively protesting this measure.
According to reports, "It would outlaw the conversion of any type of emissions-certified vehicle into a racecar, and make it illegal to sell any emissions-related parts for those cars."
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-epa-withdraw-its-proposal-prohibit-conversion-vehicles-racecars-0
According to reports, "It would outlaw the conversion of any type of emissions-certified vehicle into a racecar, and make it illegal to sell any emissions-related parts for those cars."
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/tell-epa-withdraw-its-proposal-prohibit-conversion-vehicles-racecars-0
Comments
http://semasan.com/page.asp?content=aa2016FED1&g=SEMAGA
News.... http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/09/epa-illegal-modify-car-racing-sema-official/
The EPA is claiming that this is already in place, but the verbiage in the Federal Register seems pretty specific.
Either way, I'm emailing my senators and representatives.
Me too, the way it reads, they dont want you to be able to buy emission related parts to fix an emissions system and keep the car legal either.
Or they just want you to buy a new car that is compliant with the latest emissions regulations.
That's exactly it. We haven't forgotten about "Cash for Clunkers" have we?
Don't be shocked if you found car manufactures paying big money lobbyists to get this stuff passed.
Wrong....
This has nothing to do with street legal vehicles. The intentionally confusing wording more than suggests that it will prohibit the conversion of a street car into a race only machine, which typically means elimination of factory installed emission equipment. It also puts at risk factory produced race cars such as the CJ's, COPO's and Drag Pak's.
Why do you think SEMA, an organization that Ford, GM AND Chrysler are a part of are getting the word out on this?
I really dont understand the drag paks and copos deal anyway. You are paying for a race ready car, they should be run in their race ready state. It should be driver racing. I just dont get the angle. How many people do you see putting new LS crate motors, with their emissions and computers in the emission year cars. Those will still pass emissions. Last I checked if you file an application for a street rod, your car will be tested with the specs for the drive train. So if you put a 2015 crate LS motor in an old coupe, you should be tested as a 2015. I really dont know what the rules are anymore, but the 1990 Jeep we restored has never been called in for emissions anyway, even though we kept all the systems and mile of vacuum hoses to run the systems.
Again.....this proposal pertains to race cars that are not driven on the street.
http://jalopnik.com/the-epas-crackdown-on-race-cars-explained-1758111546?rev=1455052382182
Most of your local bracket racers are running converted street cars. These people aren't going and buying high dollar race cars to race every week, well, most of them aren't.
But still as a percentage, it's low.
.... with cars are typically drive less than a hundred miles per year!
Is this bill concerneing only new cars, or all that cars that have already been converted to race cars?
lol... and are they proposing to have EPA offcials at every race track in the country? Now that would be money wisely spent... NOT!
That is the key though, EPA has lost the majority of its federal funding, which is why their budget is based on how many fines they collect. I guess if you are going to build something, build something that had no emissions systems.
They are saying it doesn't matter what the vehicle/engine does, if it came with a Certified emissions system, that system shall always remain intact. This reaches even further than just converting your 3rd gen Camaro into a race car. This is for all those with 60s and 70s era cars that are putting LS, Mod and new gen hemis in them. I'd bet anything that a 69 Camaro with a stock/mildly modified LS1 in it will put out less emissions that the engine it came with, but that's not how our government thinks.
There is no way they could retroactively apply it to vehicles that are already converted for off road use.
No one is telling me what I can or cannot do on my unregistered vehicle that is not being driven on a public road. No one.
http://competitionplus.com/drag-racing/editorials/dave-densmore-speaks-commentary-what-epa-proposes-is-unamerican
Densmore is spot-on in his commentary. The EPA has been basing it's work on issues and politics instead of facts for some time now. They conveniently ignore the much shorter supply of rare-earth minerals used in battery manufacture and the greater long term harm battery disposal creates to the environment, let alone the increased pollutants from the manufacture of said vehicles, yet still push electric cars as "the answer." The industrial diesel engine I've been documenting is touted by the manufacturer to produce cleaner air coming out of the muffler than what is going into the intake manifold. Many advances have been made to the internal combustion engine and long term use is still cleaner than most other sources. Allowing hot rodders to "tweak" the technology could bring about the next big breakthrough in technology.
Electric vehicles HAVE been pushed quite aggressively in some markets. Interestingly enough, they were found to increase smog in China due to how their electricity is generated. Hydrogen cells are a fascinating concept and I agree they will play a part in future power plants. It's been almost 20 years since I last worked on a hydrogen project and I have to think there have been improvements there somewhere. True hybrids hold some promise, and I think that is an avenue hot rodders could improve if the government stays out of our sandbox.
https://www.votervoice.net/SEMA/campaigns/45394/respond
http://competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/epa-withdraws-regulation-on-motorsports
Good news. However..... SEMA is not convinced this will be the end of this until the RPM Act is passed and enacted.....
https://www.sema.org/news/2016/04/15/sema-president-chris-kersting-responds-to-epa-decision-on-racecar-regulation
Again.... https://www.votervoice.net/SEMA/campaigns/45394/respond
Join SEMASAN.... http://pages.message.sema.org/san-signup/
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/04/18/epa-proposal-to-regulate-race-car-conversions-dropped-after-outcry/?intcmp=hpff
EDIT: Wasn't aware this was old news. Anyway, still good. :-)
Here's the unfortunate fact. Even though that language has been stricken from the regs, it turns out we aren't in the clear.
Additional details with video of the press conference at PRI....
http://competitionplus.com/competitionplustv/cptv-news-updating-the-rpm-act
Link here to: SEMA RPM Act Info Page
Very informative and so important! Video was well worth the watch!
Yes, and thanks.
The wheels are turning on this....
http://competitionplus.com/competitionplustv/cptv-news-bill-to-protect-motorsports-reintroduced-in-the-us-house-of