Motorsport New Zealand Acknowledges LTSA Changes

The following was taken directly from the Motorsport Express newsletter published by Motorsport New Zealand.  It comments on the recent rule changes made by the LTSA to exhaust laws.

Getting Noisey
The decision by the LTSA to get heavy with enforcement of a piece of 1970s “sleeper regulation” on vehicle noise proved one of the talking points at the AGCM. Reports of rally cars being stopped on touring stages and other heavy handed enforcement of the regulations (presumably driven by the boy racer controversy) could severely impact the sport.  Basically, the regulation requires that cars must not make significantly more exhaust noise that the vehicle when it was first manufactured and that the exhaust system must be of the same design (ie include the same number of mufflers, baffle boxes etc).  The problem is being taken up with officials and Associate Transport Minister Harry Dynhoven, who attended the annual Awards dinner gave an assurance that the problem was “being fixed.”

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