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> OT - TOP SPEED!, how fast and in what car
Mrs. K
post May 3 2006, 10:57 PM
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90mph....in my first car ('66 VW Bug) on the way to the River when I was 19!

I know, not that fast, but for a 19 year old girl in her first car it was (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mueba.gif)

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post May 3 2006, 11:09 PM
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How about this for scary...
140 in a 90 F250 Ext Cab Long Box (460 5 Spd)
102 in a 97 Ram Reg Cab Dually through turns (Cummins 5 Spd)
95 in a 71 SuperBeetle (Stock 1600 95%Gas 5%Diesel)
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post May 3 2006, 11:38 PM
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150+ in a D Jaguar, my buddys dad's car, my buddy did 160+ indicated on the hwy between Vegas and Reno...his dad bought it and couldn't get away to pick it up so Dennis sold him on us doing it....unbelieveable, what a car, I'd have tried to go faster but I was scared shitless that something would break and if I lived his dad would have cheerfully killed me....I looked pretty damned good in that car though...BR Green, just lovely..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) boy did that thing use oil...
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post May 4 2006, 12:59 AM
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Passenger: 150+, not sure how much faster, just remember watching the needle drop below 150 in a Shelby AC Roadster, 289 Ford with 8 one barrel Webers.

Driver: 120 in a AMC Javelin back in the late 60s.

Recently: 110 in a 968
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post May 4 2006, 01:03 AM
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I hit 170 tonight racing a Honda 929cc sportbike. I pulled on him pretty well leaving a dumb look on his face.
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post May 4 2006, 01:56 AM
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How did the back end feel at 170?

I assume this is the 914 were talking about.
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post May 4 2006, 03:56 AM
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150 in a buddys Ranchero with a 429 Cobra Jet when I was in college. (not safe)
140 in my '93 Dodge Stealth. Closed road before the Silver State Classic Challenge.
180 in a Champ Car as a driving Instructor for Cart 101 at the Las Vegas Speedway.
130 in Elvira a couple of times for short bursts. I don't know what the top end really is.
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post May 4 2006, 04:35 AM
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i dunno how fast i was going in the 914 this past sunday on the drive to the R&G SwapMeet, but i traveled 55 miles from Downtown Los Angeles to Riverside in 25 mins. Does anyone know how to convert this into MPH? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


You did that in a fuel injected 2.0???

To figure out the average mph you just divide the distance traveled by the time.

55 miles divided by 25 minutes = 2.2 miles per minute.

Multiply by 60 to get M.P.H.

60 x 2.2 = 132 M.P.H. average speed.

That's a mighy high average. For every minute you dawdled at 120, you would have had to do a minute at 140+ to make up for it!

I didn't realize that Riverside was located at the bottom of a cliff under LA! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


what size tires?

thats whereyour estimate is skewed



Umm...195/60/15's all around..close to the stock height. DANG!!! 132 is that possible in a stock FI 2L?
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post May 4 2006, 04:38 AM
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I took the two seater ride at INDY last Saturday with Stephane Gregoire driving we went 180. Now that doesn't seem that fast at INDY, but the straight speed was fun and the TURNS at 180 was a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!
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post May 4 2006, 08:49 AM
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175 in a 911R on the Gandy Bridge heading east. The tops of the window frames were flapping and the car was lifting....circa 1984

160 in a 928GTS on 275 South as I was going over Busch Blvd....circa 1989

Lately 115 in my Civic yesterday (come on pedal faster)

135 in my S-2000 between Sebring and Tampa a couple of weeks ago

125+/- in my 914-6 on the backstraight at Sebring

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bwtm... you guys that went 135+ in 944s, wasn't that cool that above 115 it came climbing and climbing. The 1st time I couldn't believe that it would go that fast. My 84 944 was the best feeling car I've driven above 120
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post May 4 2006, 09:21 AM
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I bought my '96 Mustang GT new using my cousin who was a Ford Salesman. He wasn't at all happy that I didn't pick the 3.55 optional rear ratio.. but I knew I'd be commuting ALOT so stuck with the ridiculously tall 2.73 ratio.


3 months later I'm drying through Mount Shasta on Hiway 5 on the way to Canada and I'm doing 120MPH on a long sweeper. Can't get any more speed 'cause I'm geared too high and I'm low on the torque curve.... then that damn over-stiffly-sprung stick axle hit an expansion joint... and the Mustang rear end did the legendary sideways bunny-hop......


Messy Messy pants.......

Also.. with every sail in the locker flying, and the little diesel pushing flat out.. I got my sail boat up to 7.3 KPH according to the GPS (not Tide aided).... for a 7 ton boat with 5 feet draft and a 25' waterline, I had to set up the re-entry heatshields on the bow!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)
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post May 4 2006, 10:37 AM
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i dunno how fast i was going in the 914 this past sunday on the drive to the R&G SwapMeet, but i traveled 55 miles from Downtown Los Angeles to Riverside in 25 mins. Does anyone know how to convert this into MPH? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


You did that in a fuel injected 2.0???

To figure out the average mph you just divide the distance traveled by the time.

55 miles divided by 25 minutes = 2.2 miles per minute.

Multiply by 60 to get M.P.H.

60 x 2.2 = 132 M.P.H. average speed.

That's a mighy high average. For every minute you dawdled at 120, you would have had to do a minute at 140+ to make up for it!

I didn't realize that Riverside was located at the bottom of a cliff under LA! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


what size tires?

thats whereyour estimate is skewed



Umm...195/60/15's all around..close to the stock height. DANG!!! 132 is that possible in a stock FI 2L?


Ummm...?

No.

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post May 4 2006, 01:17 PM
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135 (max speedo) in my modified riced out honda civic (sold) on a bridge

155 in a RS America race car - undisclosed road in California

105 in my current 993 - weak huh? ( chicken)

80 in my 80cc shifter kart as noted by my Mychron
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post May 4 2006, 02:17 PM
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168MPH (calculated from tach @7800) in my old 67' Mustang. Did this coming home from work on a Saturday afternoon on Hwy 85 south starting at El Camino. I lifted before before the engine was all the way done (it would turn 8000) when I had thoughts of being hamburger in a tin can if anything went wrong.
Very, very dumb.
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post May 4 2006, 02:38 PM
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Umm...195/60/15's all around..close to the stock height. DANG!!! 132 is that possible in a stock FI 2L?
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LOL. You can't really think that your 2.0 *averaged* 132 mph on LA freeways on a 55 mile trip from downtown to Riverside! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) (Can you?!?)
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post May 4 2006, 02:50 PM
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122 mph on a flat stretch of the Pa. Turnpike in the 914 Turbo, had a little more pedal but saw a Trooper going the other way and backed it down. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)
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post May 4 2006, 03:02 PM
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142 MPH @ 10.28 elapsed time through the 1/4 mile in "B" Gas dragster in the year 1955. K-88 chassis research frame w/pontiac motor. Not fast, but a thrill on a cheap build with my buddy's.

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post May 4 2006, 03:25 PM
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About 125 in my aunt's 944, on a back road in Alabama when I was 15. That was one of the first times I ever drove anything, I couldn't believe she handed me the keys and she just kept saying "go faster! hit the gas!" -- obviously, she was the "coolest" one in the family. In retrospect it appears she was insane.

Greatest feat of speed, however, was making it from Thousand Oaks to Gardena (which is all the way across LA County) on a Friday afternoon, left at 4:10 and arrived at 5:05 to get my girlfriend's car out of hock. In my '86 Volvo wagon. I passed a CHP on the opposite shoulder of the freeway at about 75, I don't even know if he saw me go by. What a rush. God I can't wait to get my 914 back on the road.
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post May 4 2006, 07:11 PM
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197 (GPS Verified) - Techart 993 (700hp) would have gone faster but aerodynamics compressed suspension and was sitting on bump stops causing irratic handling

175 - 911 Turbo race car

140 - Modified 924 Turbo (250hp)

65 - Cannondale Road Bike (stupidity)

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post May 5 2006, 04:58 AM
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Buried the 150 speedo in my 914 v8 last year, tall gears and such, seemed OK at that speed, a little loud.

Buried the speedo AND tach on my 79 capri when I was a kid

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