[lm6y]

Wow Jeff, I can't even imagine that.

I have one neighbor with a VERY nice 70 Z-28 with Flowmasters, and an 81 Camaro drag car ( we have some pretty good holeshots after a few "tweeks" on saturday morning), another with a 71 Super Beetle with loud pipes (I'm still trying to get him to build a big cc motor for that one), and my 944 with a Flowmaster.

My neighbors are great. The ones that aren't car guys get free work done on their cars because the rest of us are such gearheads. Or I have been known to mow the whole block with the rider every now and then to keep in the good graces of them.

Is the car still under the legal noise limits? Here, if the police get repeated calls about stuff like that, and you aren't breaking any laws, the caller gets a nice little chat with the officer. He will explain to them that you are within the law, and there is nothing the officer can do, as long as you aren't provoking them, and repeated calls are harassment, which IS punishable by law.

Have the policemen heard your car, and agree it's not too loud? I would want an officers word to back you up.

With that said, I sure wouldn't change anything. It is YOUR house after all, and your neighbors don't own you, or the neighborhood.


HardDrive, we had the same problem when my Father put up a privacy fence around the back lot about 20 years ago (I bought the house, and the back lot from my Father after he retired). The neighbor to the south claimed we were putting the fence on his property, as his driveway abuts our property.

This neighbor was one of those "pushy" types. Ex- Cop, and really tried to be a hard ass. My Father was Chief of Police at this point btw..... Everyone agreed on a surveyor, and when the surveyor drove the property line marker stake in the middle of the neighbors drive way, Dad asked him if he wanted to tear down his garage ( the property line ran down the middle of it), or if he wanted the "pretty" side of the fence, or the "ugly" side facing him. I still kick the gravel out away from the marker every now and then, just to let him know that I know.