A factual update to a story we ran last week on the EPA and race cars

wattsupwiththat.com ^ | 2/15/2016 | Anthony Watts

[rktman]

Last week, WUWT ran a press release from SEMA as "The EPA is out of control - now they want to ban hobby race cars" that looked to be completely legit and accurate. It was in fact legit, coming from SEMA, but it was also inaccurate in that the SEMA press release didn't accurately gauge the EPA proposal at all. To set the record straight, see this article in Jalopnik, partially reproduced below. Anthony

Motor Trend, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dodge, wasn't the only publication to weigh in on SEMA's wild-but-plausible allegations against the Environmental Protection Agency's "clarifying" that it can regulate track car emissions. We covered it, lots of outlets covered it, so did they. But so far MT is the only publication to have their story on the subject disappear after it was published.

[rktman]

More on the epa and SEMA battle. Interesting. Well, if you care about motorsports. Or mod-ing your street vehicle. Which I have done and ain't goin' back.

[JBW1949]

I read something on the internet a couple weeks ago (I forget where...I’m old) that suggested NASCAR go to electric cars....

I just sat there with my jaw dropped....*ROFL*

[nascarnation]

They already have Formula E for the folks who like that kind of thing....

[rktman]

And no confederate battle flags allowed either. Or beer. Or smoking. Or Daisy dukes. :>)

[DoughtyOne]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Yeah! I wanna know if it affects street rods. I’m building one now, and it won’t have a cat converter or anything. If it’s old enough, will it be exempt?

[Charles Martel]

I don't believe any of this touches the pre-emissions control model years (except possibly if you install a later model engine). At least, not yet.

Whatcha building?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Whatcha building?”
Chopped, channeled, full fendered 32 ford coupe. It has a small block chevy in it that has to go. Going for a 50’s street rod, so it has to have a flathead.

[rktman]

Don’t know. But there are high flow cats out there if you need to consider it.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I don;t want a cat. Hope it’s not mandated. The chop and channeling were well done except for the windshield. For some reason it’s an inch short on the passenger side. So I gotta buy another frame to have my buddy build it right. But the chevy small block and auto tranny gotta go! I’m a 50’s guy!

[rktman]

You never know what evil lurks in the epa zombies mush brains.