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EPA Seeks to Outlaw Conversion of Street Cars to Racers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes to make it illegal to remove emission control equipment on street-legal cars when converting them into track-only race cars.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes to make it illegal to remove emission control equipment on street-legal cars when converting them into track-only race cars.
The Specialty Equipment Market Assn. vows to fight the plan, claiming it “defies decades of racing activity” explicitly allowed by the agency, Automotive News reports.
SEMA complains the would-be ban is buried in a single paragraph of EPA’s 639-page plan for establishing greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. The trade group claims the race car ban is clearly outside the scope of heavy-truck rulemaking and was slipped into the truck rulemaking proposal without adequate public notification.
EPA, which posted the proposal in the Federal Register last July, expects to issue final rules for trucks in July.
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