The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport conducts noise testing across all disciplines and levels of motor sport. This testing is conducted to ensure compliance with local civil authority requirements for noise pollution.
CAMS takes integrity and sustainability of motor sport very seriously and compliance with civil authority requirements is imperative to ensuring our regulatory authority is upheld.
CAMS currently conducts noise testing at all rounds of the Australian Off Road Championship, and will do so at various Off Road events below National level over the coming months. As part of this program, testing will be conducted at the ARB Griffith 400 held on July 18 - 20 with the intent of educating competitors, crews and event organisers of the current regulations surrounding noise limitation.
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I know there has been a lot of confusion (as with most things that have CAMS involvement) about the test procedure, accuracy etc in the past. Just wondering if this has been sorted? Have also heard a lot of cars got written up at SA that passed elsewhere. Can anyone elaborate on this?
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Wouldn't it be smarter to get your car/buggy/truck under the limit rather than on it or close to the maximimum decibels allowed.
At least that would be one thing less to think about at a race meeting.
It would be a great help to the officials and helpers at and near the start line (if no where else) cause it can be painfull being that close to some of the cars taking off.
WH&S could also become an issue if we don't get our noise under control.
Just my thoughts,
Many cars presented at Waikerie scrutenerring already written up from Finke. What a scrutineer is surposed to do there and then is beyond me. However many off the cars written up the first time were done again. The test was carried out by the National Tech rep.
Figures i saw on a sheet with car numbers went as high as 103db with quiet a few turbo cars well into the 90's.
The rules are simple if there written up for noise and have not fixed it before the next race then they are not allowed to run till repaired.
I love the sound of a sweet V8 taking off, but as Ian said OH&S, council rules and the officials on the track deserve the respect of all of us obeying the rules.
just my 2 bob's worth.
The noise reading is taken at the race track. How then does a scrutineer do a check before it runs at the next event. Sure the competitor can say i added a new muffler or stuck chicken wire up the exhaust but it still would need to be tested somehow at that time.
Would the competitor need to have the CAMS tech man come to him and do the test before the next race. Repairing a written up condition that has been noted is easy to check but noise becomes a little more tricky, especially if the competitor goes to a couple of events with no noise testing. Suddenly he has 2 or 3 events with no note about noise and the scrutineer thinks all is good.
Maybe a 3 strikes policy with the log book then held until the competitor can prove the car now complys. Surely by the time you get to 2 strikes it becomes more serious. there was a bit of a "what next" attitude about the rightups at Waikerie especially from the guy's noted at Finke.
Dave, it is more to do with where the race is and what the conditions are eg overcast, humid, etc, it just takes some common sense on the part of who is performing the tests, if the condition's aren't right then you shouldn't have a penalty recorded, we have no control over the element 's Nor does the guy doing the Testing, so if it's 95db and the Weather can swing that 10 each way , then set the noise limit at 85 db and be done with it, we will all have a target to hit, rather than the system in place.
The testing isn't relevant if there are no specific penalties listed. People have said "three strikes & you're out" but nobody can find where that's written, including an event C of C at a national level. If specific penalties are not written then they cant pull them out of their jumper.
