The other week while driving back from New Orleans I stopped back in Virginia where my tuner was to look at my car to diagnosis my boost creep issue that at the time I didn't know what was happening. I meet him at the dyno and he gets in and plugs his laptop in. He tells me to go WOT until it cuts out on this back road that runs parallel to 95. It cut out real early so he tells me to just park on this side street while he looks at the data log. While we're stopped I'm on prime reading or something and all the sudden I see flashing lights in my rear view mirror. It was a few minutes after I did the run so I'm pretty sure at this point he didn't see anything. He asks to see my identification "odd since usually they say license, registration, and insurance". So I end up giving him my license and he asks me "you race this thing, is that NOS back there?". I tell him no I don't race, that's not NOS either. He then questions me why I do so much stuff to my car if I don't race and asks if I've ever run it on the street. In my head at this point I'm thinking what's he trying to get me to admit. I just reply "I don't race on the street, I actually go to the track to do those things and I'm on vacation right now and just had a track event at VIR this past week". He then starts asking my tuner questions about what he's doing and why he has a computer out. He hasn't looked at my inspection yet either at this point... but as he asks for my other documents he peeps his head around and see's my expired inspection that ran up in 09. He asks "when was the last time this was inspected". I said "it was in a station in 08, it ran up in 09, and it won't pass since it doesn't have cats on".
He then goes back to his car to run my information. At this point I'm thinking well he didn't catch me speeding or witnessed any reckless driving so all he can really give me is an expired inspection ticket. So whatever, I go back to reading prime, and my tuner goes back to doing what he's doing while we wait.
He comes back and hands my documents back and says "well, you boys aren't doing anything illegal, and I can't give you a ticket for your inspection". I ask him "why not". He says "you're not in your home state". At that exact moment I fist pump right in front of him with excitement. :biggrin:
After that the officer asks us if we have a dyno around here and also if I've ever run the quarter mile and the horsepower and weight of my car. Cool guy, and much nicer then the NJ state trooper I've run into years ago. All in all still no tickets in my nsx and have been moving violation free for about 7 years now.
Luckily too my radar detector was in my arm rest which I took out of the window earlier because I think in VA they're illegal. Since then I got my FOP card back that the NY trooper took when I was on the way to watkins glen this past year for kids day.
