Nurburgring noise limits
Nurburgring noise limits
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andyscoobs

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337 posts

240 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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How strict are they with the noise limits at 'The Ring' ?

fergus

6,430 posts

299 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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andyscoobs said:
How strict are they with the noise limits at 'The Ring' ?
Don't take your vulcan bomber to the car park and run it up to max thrust and you'll be OK.

Seriously, unless your car has a very boomy exhaust and you make a lot of noise in the car park, or directly around the barriers, you'll generally be fine. There is an offical noise limit and sometimes I think the officials need to be seen to be policing it, or they can use it as a deterrant if they perhaps didn't like your attitude in the car park, etc.

andyscoobs

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337 posts

240 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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cool

Thats what I was hoping to hear.

LaurenceFrost

691 posts

276 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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I agree with fergus. The noise limit is there so they can find a reason to throw you off.

My Evo is 106dB static and I was really worried about being tested, but as long as you don't give them a reason to test you, you'll be fine.

If you have a loud car, my advice would be:

1) Don't dick about in the car park revving your engine to alert the marshals.
2) Crawl through the barriers on literally just the clutch (or as few revs as you can make do with).
3) Once though the barriers and cones, get 200-300 meters up the straight before you floor it. This way, the Porsches, bikes and other cars at the barriers will drown you out massively.

andyscoobs

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337 posts

240 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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My car is about 105db's with the Fabspeed exhaust and then about 100db's with the extra bean cans h&S made for me.

Thanks for the advice

RMac

347 posts

245 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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take your bean cans.

LaurenceFrost

691 posts

276 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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andyscoobs said:
My car is about 105db's with the Fabspeed exhaust and then about 100db's with the extra bean cans h&S made for me.

Thanks for the advice
I took a bung-type silencer to pop in the tailpipe just in case, but I didn't need it. I think you'll be absolutely fine.

hugoagogo

23,428 posts

257 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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ask the cerb boys, some of them didn't get on, although I believe they went to the other entrance in Adenau

fergus

6,430 posts

299 months

Thursday 19th February 2009
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hugoagogo said:
ask the cerb boys, some of them didn't get on, although I believe they went to the other entrance in Adenau
a TVR on track? confused

Adenauer

18,970 posts

260 months

Friday 20th February 2009
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LaurenceFrost said:
I agree with fergus. The noise limit is there so they can find a reason to throw you off.
Err, no. The noise limit is there to keep the greenies that want the track closed, happy. It's something that the NGmbH had to introduce to ensure the continuation of TF.

IMO it's a bit risky to say that your car's running at 105dB and just hope that it'll be alright, long way to come to not be allowed on the track. A bung or something like that is a good plan, but if you still want to risk it "as is", then as some have said on here, don't be a carpark hero, don't continually blip the throttle, and don't give it the beans until AFTER the cones.