Long distance driving w/ TD's.
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Long distance driving w/ TD's. I would like to know if anyone has ever gone on a long drive, let's say about 12 hrs, with true duals. I want to know if it was tolerable or unbearable. I have to drive to San Diego, CA from Albuquerque, NM in a few months and I'm concerned about the drive. I'm thinking of going back to a "Y" set-up to make it a more comfortable drive. The other concern I have is when I get to Cali, how bad the cops are going to harass me because of the loudness and of course the CA emissions crap. I'm going to live there for 3 months also. So what do you guys think?
I did 120 miles with an open cutout with a family of four. We had the windows up and the kids were watchin videos in the back and I kept tellin' them to turn the video dow, so if I could esily hear their videos over an open cutout, duals should be fine...for me at least.
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i have a big cam, kooks lts and texas speed duals w/ sweet thunders i have taken the car on a few 4+ hour trips. It's not fun, I roll with the windows down so don't hear little rattles .. but the duals are definitely worth it.
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I had TSP duals on my Z28 and made numerous trips from NC to OH (7 hours from base to my parents house) and it wasn't too bad.
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You'll be fine. The cops dont really worry about the exhaust. But i've seen people from SD that have been ticketed for their exhaust. But i think they had aggressive cams
if your car is not registered in CA, then you cannot get a ticket for not having CA legal emissions.
Like I wanted to register my car in michigan so that I could have tints and no front plate legally.
Like I wanted to register my car in michigan so that I could have tints and no front plate legally.
Well, uh, that's not exactly true.
Yeah, it gets you out of smog, but it doesn't let you change the appearance. Tint/plate/etc. laws have nothing to do with where the car is registered.
Back to the OP, I've done a couple of 3-4 hour drives and it really is not bad at all. Then again I was cruising at like 1600 in sixth, but whatever.
Oh, and SD cops generally like muscle cars. I mean, if you're speeding, they'll pull you over, but I've never been pulled simply for exhaust.
I have TDs as well.. i have tail pipes, i did dump it for a day.. thought i was going to blow my brians out. the lope from the cam and the fact the exahsut was dumped. I thought that my car was going to rattle apart. With the windows up and the T-tops on... OMG i changed it sooo fast and never looked back
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Thanks for all who chimed in. I feel better knowing the drive shouldn't be too bad, I would really hate to change back to a "Y". I don't have a cam like some of you so hopefully I'll go unnoticed while I'm in SD.
I drove 2300 miles with dumped Sweet Thunders.....I was ready to blow my brains out about 1 hour into the trip. Now I have them out the back and it's loud as hell with the cam, but tolerable inside.
Same thing i said couple posts above you. With TDs dumped with a cam.... Ehhh not a good idea
Hmm. I drive back and forth from Dallas to Houston. 4 hours. TDs, bullets, 228/230 cam. Maybe I love my car more than you guys, because driving long distance is my number one stress reliever.
I've made the trip from San Diego to Oklahoma and back quite a few times with my old TSP true duals. Sweet thunders ran out into a CME. I loved it. A police officer in Carlsbad didn't. My car is registered in Oklahoma and I was the happy new owner of a $100 and something ticket that I had to pay. <--this was when it was a bolt-on car.
