hi ive ordered a Blitz exhaust are they road legal?

Will i get stopped by the police for having this exhaust on my01?

Has anyone been stopped with a blitz exhaust on?


Cheers.

 

Is it legal? Well two categories really.....

1) Emmissions - your removing the centre cat, but presume you have OE downpipe. It may or may not be okay. You may need to replace centre cat for MOT

2) Noise levels - not sure what the legislation is on this but I would assume their is a noise level and would safely assume that a blitz would exceed that limit

But not many plods enforcing the legislation as they are usual busy eating donuts and giving out speeding tickets

Wouldn't worry too much....i don't

Bob
Bob

 

I have a blitz exhaust and link pipe on my UK300. I've had no problems or haven't heard any reasons why it should be illegal.

 

I have and was told it was too loud - it needs a Kite mark (apparently), was given a defect notification that needed to be signed by an MOT centre.

Went to MOT centre - noise is not part of an MOT test, so they signed it, and also said it ws only bikes that needed a kite mark on the exhaust.

This is in 2 years of ownership!

I have been past traffic cops, normal cops etc and not had a problem, just with this one jobsworth b1tch. I have a frien who is a WPC, and she said that the copper that pulled me is hated within the force!

Mind you, I never drive through town late at night, and am only lat home 1 or 2 times a week!

As the law stands I believe it is illegal to change an exhaust to make a different sound from the OEM, therefore making all aftermarket exhausts illegal.

My Nur SPec R is mated to a 3" system all the way through, so is somewhat more "boomy" than those fitted to the standard 2.5" sections

 

Can't wait to see what fun I have then when I change my up and down pipes, and the exhaust then starts flaming

 

Thanks for the reply's guys,

Ive ordered it and should recieve it 2mrw the problem is ive never heard it on any car and i was scared if i bought it and it was too loud.

What kind of power increase will i get?

 

hi as long as you have a catted downpipe everythings fine, should have no probs at all

tony

 

Not a massive amount with the downpipe cat still in place. A few more bhp and a bit more torque. But a lot more in volume...

 

Thanks for the reply's guys,

Ive ordered it and should recieve it 2mrw the problem is ive never heard it on any car and i was scared if i bought it and it was too loud.

What kind of power increase will i get?

 

A strange feeling of deja vous...!

 

you will be pleased, not over the top happy with mine.
did not really notice any power increase until i changed the downpipe, it was like a different car then thou.

tony

 

it's fooking loud mate

 

i guess i will find out tomrw when it arrives.

 

just found out that when I put the Equal length manifold on mine, it will make it even louder!!

UK300, i can't find any videos of mine at the moment, but imagine a chinook helicopter and speed up the sound, and you wouldn't be far off the noise!

 

not sure about that, when I went from a firestorm backbox and added el headers it was no where near as loud

Rich

 

What manifold did you put on?

Not particularly worried about noise, as I got the headers for the driveability increase!

 

powerstation headers on mine - never had a problem

when I had the firestorm on they made a horrible noice, like a resonance as you came on boost, swapped for a HKS hiper and they now sound ok (not as good as std headers but I don't care, Im happy with the extra touque )

 

Blitz Nur Spec is obscenely and really embarrassingly loud IMHO.

 

All replacement exhausts need an 'E' mark. The same rules cover bikes as well as cars.

Mike

 

I can pull up outside someone house, and before I even get out of the car, they would have opened the front door. The neighbours will certainly love you. I suggest getting them ear plugs for Christmas LOL

 

That's what I thought too - though I'd have thought there's a bit of a grey area surrounding Japanese import cars which have been through SVA, the whole point of which is to approve cars which don't necessarily have 'e' marks all over them. How can a copper insist that a car has an 'e' marked exhaust if that car has been legally imported, SVA'd and registered without one?

 

As far as i'm aware it wouldn't pass an SVA. A friend of mine was pulled over and they checked the car with a dB meter (failed miserably)!!

 

There's some confusion here. Japanese import cars can and do pass (E)SVA with non-'E' marked exhausts, provided they pass noise and emissions tests as part of the SVA. That's really the whole point of having the SVA test at all if you think about it

So, having established that there's no requirement for the exhaust on an import to be 'e' marked, the question is, what restrictions (if any) are there, and how (if at all) are they enforced?

I've heard some pretty shocking tales about how roadside noise checks are done - sticking the mic straight up the pipe instead of holding it a couple of metres away at 45 degrees to the car (which is how I believe it's supposed to be done).

 

so how much db is allowed?

The blitz is a 96 DB with the bung is that legal?

 

nope