Originally Posted by lateapex911 (Post 4226482)

The issue is getting the car, which is nosed into the shop, backed up the 8' wide, 100' long, uphill drive to the street, bordered by 60' of house on one side, and a fence the entire length on the other. Then, once it's out on the street, it needs to be backed out enough to turn 90 degrees to nose into the trailer.

Originally Posted by berettafan (Post 4226589)

oh i see, that IS different. not a 'pleasant' sound at all.


;)

Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 4226833)

Having a load exhaust is irresponsible, getting upset at someone else because someone complains is too.
They shouldn't be mowing a lawn at 9 pm but two wrongs ..........

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe (Post 4226825)

What you need is a muffler you can temporarily install on the end of your pipe..

Originally Posted by cgarr (Post 4226852)

And there is nothing they can legally do about it, but they still called the Cops, and they said the same thing, nothing they can do except respond, just like there is nothing I can do about them mowing their lawn at 9pm except call the Cops and have them respond I guess: Get it?

Originally Posted by speeder (Post 4226270)

I'm kind of surprised at the attitude of many of the respondents to this thread, namely people condoning making a lot of noise to intentionally annoy their neighbors. Jokes about inviting friends over with loud bikes and cars to "get back" at the mean old lady who called the cops; besides the obvious immaturity of this, what about all of the other neighbors who didn't call the cops? :confused:

They all get a collateral dose of sht Harley sound just for being there? :rolleyes:

I've been a gearhead all my life; work on my own cars, rebuilt several engines, etc., etc... Unless you live in some really rural area and have a lot of space around you, it's not fair to subject neighbors to auto repair sounds or loud pipes at any time, IMO. It's completely reasonable for people to expect not to be subjected to that kind of noise coming into their houses or for their neighbor's driveway to look like Tijuana with broken cars and tools laying around. That's just common courtesy.

It interesting to me that I live in a large, old apartment building in a big city surrounded by other big apartment bldgs. and I rarely hear loud partying sounds or barking dogs. Cars and bikes w/ really loud pipes are rare enough that I really notice them when I'm home. We are not allowed to work on cars in the parking garage, and I'm glad. It would look like the slums of Baghdad if we were. It's bad enough when people do it on the street. It just looks bad.

I'd love to have the dream house w/ huge garage/shop, but it would be insulated from neighbors somehow. Hidden, insulated, etc... The next best thing would be a separate shop in a remote location from the house. That is actually ideal. You will never find neighbors who want to hear a race car or bike run w/ open headers, even for 5 minutes. It's ear-splitting.

For lateapex, wouldn't a tiny electric winch solve your problem of loading your race car in street? How much could that cost, or rather how much could your race 911 weigh? Just seems like a logical solution. :cool:

Originally Posted by berettafan (Post 4226589)

notfarnow my neighbors have their house for sale here in Maryland; if you are thinking about moving i'll make sure you get the 'in' price. Would LOVE to have somebody like you as a neighbor!

Originally Posted by berettafan (Post 4226589)

i guess since popular forms of entertainment these days don't make noise that neighbors can here (texting, video games, overextending your credit, shopping on the internet, feeding a porn addiction) we have become a bunch of wimps who think the sounds of life should be a few taps on a keyboard or cellphone.

said it before and i'll say it again, if i here somebody fire up an unmuffled race car getting ready to load it up on a trailer i'm grabbing a six pack (gotta share!) and running towards the noise like a woman at a shoe sale!

Originally Posted by 76911 (Post 4229205)

Well a new neighbor came over last night around 6:30 to see if I could quiet down why they eat, all my other 6 neighbors know that I'm quiet after dark but this one had to learn about this neighborhood,(we have one dragster,2 late models and my 2 porsche's) sh the picture explains it all this morning he came down to the shop and apologized http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1223589931.jpg

Originally Posted by coolngroovy (Post 4235066)

I had an early start one morning, but the neighbours needed to have a loud party outside my bedroom window.

Twice i went over & asked if they would turn it down, all nicely of course!
The second time, i was informed my a highly intoxicated punter that somehow this was my fault.
I just shook my head & tried the best i could to sleep. Very unsucessfully!

Next morning, when i was going to work at 5am, i took my TL series bins [speakers] & placed them strategically in both the window openings, plugged them into 100watts of Yamaha glory, set the volume to 1/2, threw 'Surfin with the alien' in the cd, then hit repeat.
Then i trundled off to work!

Strangely, i never had another noise issue with the neighbours!
That was years ago. My current neighbour & I have an understanding: He doesn't fire up his mower before 9am, & i dont shove it places it shouldn't be! Simple!
That was an agreement we came to at 6am one fine sunday morning!