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Originally Posted by 72projectbird
Well that's no fun.
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In the old days, at Waterford Michigan Road Race Course, there were not sound restrictions. Then the people started building subdivisions in the area and lots of people wound up living within sound distance of the track.
So then when a race was held they started complaining to the city officials who represented that area. So the racing was limited to a race once a month.
Then even that deal was not good enough for the owners of the homes so the track had to put up sound barriers. And finally the SCCA had to monitor and lower the sound readings of any vehicle that exceeded the noise standard during a race. So flowmaster came up with the plan where we the Track and SCCA officials would record the noise and tell Flowmaster what the numbers were and they would install mufflers that just met the sound requirements during the races. So then we could race for the weekend. ROYAL PIA but the only way to keep the local officials from banning racing at the track.
That also applied to the Grand Prix races in the city of Detroit. Sound limits.
I quit after 13 years with the SCCA region leaders.
Tom V.