Considering a few posters we’ve seen here over the last year or so asking about “straight-piped,” muffler delete, or glass-pack muffler swaps for their cars…
When you tick-off your neighbors for 5 years, civil court might be in your (or your mommy’s) future!
A sad second story… a local teen couple here in Florida died from CO poisoning from a faulty exhaust.
They were parked in a local park, engine running (AC on likely) and fumes from the modified exhaust on the car killed them. 18 and 19 years old.
Does he have real tiny wheels to run on behind the ones with the ridiculous camber?
Here’s hoping my neighbor sees this… Damn kids and their stupid loud cars. Get off my lawn.
No, just mommy’s Mastercard for new tires every few months 
Will mommy’s credit card also cover the suddenly frequent ball joint replacements too? 
Once of the benefits of living in a semi-rural area is that the houses are far enough apart that nobody really cares if you lave a loud car. My house is on 2.5 acres, the smallest lot size in the neighborhood is 1.25 acres (IIRC). Everyone has a decent amount of space. Almost all the new neighborhoods/subdivisions going up have 3000-4200 sq foot homes on 1/4 acres lots. I couldn’t deal with that. I guess it also matters on what the local laws are and what kind of neighbors you have. My car is significantly louder than stock, it has catted long tubes, and an aftermarket catback system. My Mustang before that also had a catback, the Bronco before that has straight pipes, and I’ve never had a complaint about excessive noise. The kicker is is that around where I live 30% of pickup trucks and at least half the muscle cars you come across have aftermarket exhausts. It’s just really common, and has been for as long as I’ve been driving at least. The president of our homeowners association has two mid-late 60’s Broncos, one is a highly modified dedicated rock crawler and the other is less extreme, but the both have straight piped exhausts. They aren’t his daily drivers though, he has a bone-stock Silverado for that.
I don’t have a problem with loud exhausts so long as you aren’t hooning about in a residential area. With that said, if I lived in an area where homes were packed together like sardines, then I might feel differently.
. With that said, if I lived in an area where homes were packed together like sardines, then I might feel differently.
That is what I call a human ant hill. 
… and I think that most of us would like to be his tire dealer.
But, at least he “payed” his dues.
Yeah, and that’s the problem. The younger set doesn’t get that there are places not to hoon. My next door neighbor obviously went to a race at some point and heard how they drive in and out of the paddock, and wants to imitate them. So there’s a lot of throttle blipping in neutral on the driveway, followed by full throttle takeoffs where he’s often up to 60 before he gets to the end of the street.
I don’t have a problem with loud exhausts either as long as their owner knows where and when to enjoy them. But I find myself wishing this kid’s car would get totaled so I don’t have to hear him anymore, and that’s coming from a car guy who likes race cars. I imagine the other neighbors are probably having fantasies about brutal murder right about now.
The really disturbing bit about this kid, who is in tech school right now and is therefore at least 18, is that he gets even more loud and obnoxious when the 12 year old blond girl down the street is outside. I mean, showing off for little girls? Seriously?
Showing off for his mental and emotional equal maybe?
I did not have a noisy car until I left home. I knew not to do dumb things to tick off the neighbors… because they’d call my parents and I’d be in trouble before I returned home! To heck with HOA… we had the Motherhood Watch Association.
And I still knew not to make loud noises at rude times and use the plat as my personal racetrack because I lived there, too.
That was another good thing about the good old days.
If I did that I would not have a driveway as mine is gravel.
I’m getting ready to do some general update maintenance on my truck, new suspension bushings, all new brake parts, new radiator, new hoses, stuff like that, and while looking through the catalogues, thinking maybe installing a glass-pax muffler … lol …
I had one on my 62 Ford Galaxy during my teenage years, and don’t recall it being overly loud. To me it just sounded a little different, sort of a buzzing noise, rather than the tranditional muffler’s rrr rrr rrr noise.
We are still living the good old days in that respect. When I was young, my friend’s mothers would know to keep me out of trouble because my mother asked them to. When my children were young, we had the Mommy Network as the neighborhood ladies referred to themselves. Now that my children are having children, their generation still has the Mommy Network. It’s an eternal feature of life.
Yes if you got in trouble or did something wrong your mother would know about it before you got home.
Just pour some sodium silicate in his crankcase. That’ll fix him right up.
We used to have that “one neighbor” here and who lived half a block away.
For some god only knows reason he would go out about 10 at night, crank his car up, and just rev it to 5 grand on and off for 15 to 20 minutes. Combined with his herd of mutts which yapped 24 hours a day it was a bit irritating.
The guy was a city councilman and the car he was revving was an early 70s Nova/350 with long tube headers and nothing from there back. He would do this on nights even when it was 20 degrees outside.
Someone (cough) started eliminating his dogs with a .22 and he decided to move so that brightened up the 'hood and quietened things down.
Rather than eliminating the dogs, I think 1 or 2 22 slugs in his head would have been a better solution.
