For creators, podcasters, and industry voices.
Legal Tuning has built the most comprehensive public dataset on Clean Air Act enforcement against the performance automotive aftermarket. 130 cases, $720.5M in disclosed civil penalties, every consent decree linked to its source. We make that data — and the underlying story — freely available to creators covering the industry.
What we offer
The data, free
Full access to our enforcement database, including filterable views by year, defendant category, state, and penalty range. Case-level deep-dive notes available on request. We do not gate any of it behind login or pricing.
Episode research support
Pre-built angles tailored to your content focus. Defendant deep-dives. Statutory citations linked to the relevant section of the Clean Air Act. A 20-minute Zoom walkthrough with our team if useful.
Affiliate revenue share
Optional, never required. If your audience converts on the program, you earn 20% of first-transaction revenue per referred customer. Per-creator unique discount code. Monthly payouts.
What we ask
Two things, neither difficult.
Credit + a link.
Mention Legal Tuning by name in the episode where you use the data, and include a link to legaltuning.com/enforcement in the description. That's the entire ask for editorial collaboration.
Consistency with the message.
We don't partner with channels actively promoting the modifications the EPA enforces against. If your channel's content style is “rolling coal” or selling defeat devices as positive product reviews, we are the wrong partner for you. Educational, technical, race-only, off-road-genuine, and industry-analysis content fits well; product-promotion content for noncompliant components does not.
Sample episode angles
Six angles your audience would actually watch.
Each of the angles below maps to specific entries in the public enforcement database. We can pull the underlying defendant list, settlement amounts, statutory citations, and consent decree links for any angle you choose.
The Diesel Performance Industry's Quiet $20M Year
Walk through every diesel-segment EPA settlement from FY2021–FY2025 — including Diesel OPs ($10.4M), Rudy's Performance Parts ($7M), Premier Performance ($3M). Filterable data, sourced consent decrees.
PPEI / Kory Willis — The Felony Plea That Should Have Made National News
Single-case deep dive on the 2022 case that established performance tunes touching emission controls are defeat devices, regardless of bundled hardware. $1.55M civil penalty plus felony plea.
Catless Exhausts Cost the Industry How Much? (Real Numbers)
Borla Performance Industries paid $1,022,500. Allied Exhaust Systems, $1,100,000. Pypes Performance Exhaust, $84,000. The pattern, the law (42 U.S.C. § 7522(a)(3)(B)), and what the well-documented shops did differently.
What Happens in the First 48 Hours After an EPA Letter
Procedural walkthrough using real consent decrees. Holding letter, retained counsel, litigation hold, evidence file. The shops that responded with documentation in place vs. the shops that didn't.
Hino Motors — $525M Federal + $153.9M to California
How a Toyota subsidiary's emissions certification falsifications produced the largest mobile-source civil penalty in US history. Federal-only or federal-plus-state — what changes in the math.
Section 177 States Explained — The Map Most Shop Owners Get Wrong
The 17 jurisdictions that have adopted California vehicle emission standards under federal Section 177. Which states. What it means for catless components, ECU tunes, and aftermarket retail. Live state-by-state breakdown.
Affiliate program details
Optional, transparent, simple.
The affiliate program is offered after the editorial collaboration is established. We do not lead with the affiliate — we lead with the data. The affiliate is how we compensate creators whose audience actually converts on the program, not a way to incentivize coverage.
Open a partnership conversation.
Reach out via the form below or directly to hello@legaltuning.com. Tell us your channel, your audience size, and the angle you're interested in. We respond within one business day.