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Ekona

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  1. Not quite.* There is no law that says you must run cats, and as such there's no law stopping you from running decats. However, under the C&U Regs 1986 S61 Linky: ...or in plain English, if you make your car produce worse emissions than as it comes out of the factory you can be prosecuted, so this also applies to hi-flow cats as well. The EU Regs mentioned refer directly to the emissions of the vehicle, which is why the statute simply puts those rather than actually give us the detail. It's exactly this kind of stuff that's going to be a nightmare to de-tangle from when we Brexit, so now you can see why it's going to be many, many years before we take back control etc. Interestingly the text reads "or permit to be used", so if you let your missus drive your car with hi-flow cats on then you can both be charged. However, back in the real world this is never ever ever going to happen. Ever. If you get stopped and charged under this precise law, I'll pay the fine for you. Realistically if you've got no cats then your car will be antisocially loud (for the most part), so they'll simply S59 you instead which requires no proof and has no right of appeal. Far less paperwork than calling the DVSA (VOSA) out to actually carry out a proper test on the vehicle, which would be required for conviction as otherwise it's not beyond reasonable doubt, and unless you strike really unlucky and happen to get stopped on a random DVSA test (again super unlikely as they go after commercial vehicles 99.9% of the time) it's not going to happen. With fewer resources these days it's even LESS likely to ever happen. In short: Fit and forget, just don't drive like a knob. But that applies all the time anyway. *These laws are for England & Wales, I would imagine there's not much difference in Scotland but alas that's more difficult to find. Happy to be corrected if you can show me the proof.
  2. Hah, Dblock! Man, there's a name not heard for years. Angry little man, wasn't he.
  3. Venus spins the total opposite direction, and a day is longer than a year there too. I'm guessing that was Retard God's attempt at making a planet.
  4. I won't be sad if SS goes from the calendar tbh. If they can't make money despite having full attendance and utterly horrendous prices, then the contract is all wrong and needs to be torn up. Once all the big Euro races are gone and F1 loses the Euro audience, watch the owners hastily re-do contracts. F1 will change drastically once all free-to-air is gone after this year. It's simply not a sustainable sport, and when the Italian GP goes as well you can imagine how well that will go down...
  5. A 2004 350Z will have the earlier engine in anyway, the DE. If you mean can you fit the later Revup and HR engines then the easy answer is no, not as a straight swap. You need a fair amount of modification to the wiring loom (and the exhaust in the case of the HR) plus ECUs which makes it cost-prohibitive. Welcome along btw
  6. I couldn't imagine believing in some mystical being, and then getting so angry because others believed in a completely different mystical being that they have no proof of either.
  7. Of course you can, just remove the pax seat
  8. I'd like to be in her traxx fnar
  9. No rush, forum looks so much tidier without them. I must say that I'm really liking this new format, despite me never being a fan when forums change. I'm struggling to see anything I don't like, or that's worse. Big thanks to all involved, I can only imagine the headaches this must've given you.
  10. Man will destroy the world long before Jesus mk2 ever does. It'll be long after I'm gone though, so it bothers me not a jot.
  11. I prefer to think of it as a grammatical way of making an emphasised point But yes. Super sad emoji required.
  12. What web address are you browsing to?
  13. The spacing makes it look a little extreme on here, I'll admit. Force of habit though.
  14. Jay's sweet testicle sack, apparently
  15. This is why you lock your mobile devices with a passcode Also, this is why you use a burner phone (or so I read on the internet somewhere).
  16. Why on earth would you let your missus go through your emails and private messages?! Sod that.
  17. You don't need Tapatalk any more, the mobile version is no longer lacking any functionality.
  18. But it IS coincidence, nothing else. This kind of stuff has been disproven so many times by psychologists as people making facts fit whatever they want. It's a common thing, like when the sun comes out just as you bury someone or you pray for a sign and the postman knocks at the door. All bobbins. Sorry man, I'm not trying to be argumentative here directly at you, you're making some excellent arguments and I'm really enjoying this debate.
  19. It's the Ring specifically that I refer to with my question, as it's a public road and not a trackday (assuming a TF day of course). In this situation your own road insurance doesn't cover you, so if you crash into someone else's car then your insurer will be coming after you directly for that repair cost. Okay if you nudge a Nova, not so good if you dent a Dodge Viper.
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