Whats ur country's "car culture" like?
In Singapore, regulations make it such that ricers thrives.
A rant about my country’s car modification regulations.
Its pretty funny that the authorities seems to promote ricing from the set of regulations.
In Singapore,
Whats legal:
-Bodykits
-Decals/stickers/graphics
-tinting of windows (black at a certain transparency)
-Air filter/Intake
Whats illegal:
-Any exhaust mods that are not approved.
(Exhausts systems need to be approved by the authorities, but its not as simple as buying one off the internet and getting the proper paperwork done. Exhaust systems need to be sent for testing and stuff, which is costly and only makes sense for dealers who imports a large batch to do so. The best part is, even if u get an exact same exhaust thru other sources it will not be legal. Hence we have very limited exhaust choices, and some cars doesnt even have any.)
-Aftermarket HID headlights, ledtaillamps
-Engine swaps (totally illegal, even if u blow an engine, swapping to another is still technically illegal)
-turbocharging/ supercharging (although its stated that approval is required, its actually impossible to be done)
-internal engine mods i.e. bore/stroke to increase capacity (illegal, but difficult to be caught for)
So with the main power mods totally outlawed, most modded vehicles over here would be having huge bodykits, gigantic GT wings, crazy racecar livery, and having next to no power, the makings of a ricer.
Funny how my countries unique car culture would actually be ricing.
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Pretty good here in Ontario
And they say America gets all the freedom. If Donald Trump gets in, we’re officially ripping the tagline “the land of the free.”
In Europe they start to ** us with stupid stuff. My friend had this sticker on his back window and police stop him to take it off. So no comment :(
My car would be a goner then hahaha
depends on the country.
Weight reduction bro. It’s the solution to more performance.
Even weight reduction is frowned upon, have a friend’s mirage impounded by the authorities due to a stripped out interior…
Swedish car culture
All I know is in Indo, you can’t import cars older than 2 years old. Any experienced Indonesian petrolheads that can add more?
Wait, WHAT??!!!! So i can’t import cars from the 90s then?
lmao the GT86 front bumper on the Impreza, good job whoever made that.
On the other hand, here’s a quick question: How are safety improvements, like roll cages and six point harnesses? Or is the most you can do for a better car approved brakes, which cost way too much for approval and take way too long to be approved, and approved exhaust systems which are much like the brakes, and a proper air intake setup, as well as the best tyres on the market and some downforce?
Yea tht gt86 bumper made me cringe. Roll cage are supposed grey areas, some people said they encountered no issues, some were made to remove them. Harnesses should be legal as far as i know. As for the brakes, luckily even though they claim that approval is required, so far i have not run into any issues. And yep, if u have an NA econobox, u can never turbocharge it without breaking the law, so stupid power is impossible.
Indonesia : 0 f*cks given for cars. Bikes : no straight pipes
Definition of 0 fcks given cars in indonesia
Else than a Harley sure is
Did anyone else notice that’s an FR-S bumper on a WRX?
What about tuning and chips
Tuning and chips are allowed.
Finland:
Engine displacement increase maximum of 25% larger than the largest original
Engine power maximum of 20% more than most powerful orginal
Brakes, suspension, tires, must be as good or better than the most powerful original in both cases.
Maximum of 10Cm widening (5cm per side)
Installing turbo to cars made after 1990, and the car must pass emission tests which will cost 1500€ (pass or fail) and the emissions may not exceed the emission of the stock higest emission enigne (which is tecnicly next to impossible if you want to make power at the same time) which restricts the boost to 0.5 Bar (or 7 psi) Unless the stock car has a model with forced induction.
(For example if you have Honda Civic, made between 90-2016 there will not be turbo in any case, unless you poured a truckload of money to it)
Nitrous kit may be installed, but the bottle must be disconnected from the system in road use, there will mentioning of it in the cars registration papers, and in routin traffic stop police might want to see that it is diconnected. If connected the car is instantly deemed illagal at the side of the road and you get hefty fine.
The cars need to pass road safety test on every year, and all modifications need to be passed at the same inspecion. and every mod will be on the cars papers. In case of accident and the car has any mods which are not on papers may void your insurance, and get you fined for them.
on exterior mods current “trend” is “clean” and relatively often low with relatively big wheels, and possibly some relatively close to original looking bumper / sideskirt combo, but there is also cars with more extensive / radical exterior mods.
Interesting! I find ur laws very similar to ours, although the restrictions are not the same, the end result seems pretty similar: minimal power gains allowed, hefty fines for infringing on any of the unreasonably strict rules.