The Voice of Reason
And of course by this I mean...
Have you ever personally brought a car to the point where it simply would not go any faster? Please respond with (yes/no) and the applicable vehicle.
I personally have not done such crazy things.
EDIT: Please include the achieved speeds as well
Last edited by Egg Nog; 11-17-2004 at 05:19 PM.
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not i personally, cuz i cant drive, but my dad in several of his cars
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and pearls
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I haven't, unless go-karts count
Rockefella says:
pat's sister is hawt
David Fiset says:
so is mine
David Fiset says:
do want
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Most of them
But not the A610.
At 165 mph our Scottish motorways have slight bends which actually become fecking tight corners. Bottled it , 1000 revs to go and 165 on the clock and losing rear grip. A quick squeeze of the buttocks prevented any embarrasment
Don't get much chance to get any of the REALLY fast cars to top out as trackdays don't have long enough drags to let the speeed build up much over 150. Of course the track is whre ALL attempts to go fast shoudl be done
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
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I topped out my Civic, not a lot of speed only 115Mph. Wasn't that crazy, the car was pretty stable at that speed with stock wheels. Had a lot of revs to go and a lot of speed according to the speedo which gets up to 150Mph, but the top speed is limited.... and it would never reach that speed anyways, from 110 to 115 took like 20 seconds.
Furniture
niiiiiiice matra, that little part at the end rally summed up the story...hehehehe
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and pearls
Enthusiast
In a '90 Mazda 323 hatckback. Maxed out at ~105 MPH. I've gone faster but never topped out like this, floored for 5+ minutes.
"Racing improves the breed" ~Sochiro Honda
Furniture
i topped out my dirt bike once at about 75-80, and a four wheeler at 57
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his cocoa leaves and pearls
Space Modulator
My oldies ,HD and EK Holdens. It would have been miles per hour and not many of them. Most of my later ones would have been too scary and Im too sensible. Really.
"A string is approximately nine long."
Egg Nogg 02-04-2005, 05:07 AM
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Wish I could...
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The Golf tops out at 120. Only did it once, and it was a little scary. The car gets a weird shake from around 95-105, then it stops. Erm, that and the Mk3 isn't the most aero-efficient thing in the world...
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The things we do for girls who won't sleep with us.
Patrick says:
dads is too long so it wont fit
so i took hers out
and put mine in
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did ~120mph on my eclipse, it was stable, no shake or anything.
thats about as far as it would go then the governor kicked in.
1993 nissan 240sx hatchback(stock) <<drifter, straight liner, road courser
"Horsepower is the force that determines how fast you hit the wall. Torque is the force that determines how far you take the wall with you after you hit it."
"Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races" - Carroll Shelby
"Real cars don't make power at the front wheels....they lift them."
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Yes, my '79 Olds Firenza with a small-block V-8 at about 128 mph calculating from the tach since the speedometer only went to 85. It was on a totally empty divided highway in Michigan just after sunrise on a Sunday morning. I was on my way up to my grandparents' cabin and couldn't resist seeing what it would do. It was a nice car -- seemed like the faster you went, the more stable it became.
Attached image is a car just like the one I had.
Last edited by blackcat77; 11-17-2004 at 06:05 PM.
Furniture
150kph(about 95mph) in a soft top jeep wrangler. the shaking and road noise was incredible, the box-like shape was so un-areodynamic that it couldn't go any faster. i never topped out my car, in case something happens to it(the jeep was a freinds)
Size Queen
My Saturn has a limiter at 115mph. I've hit that many times. My step-dad's Monte Carlo shut off at 108. Did that as well. I know I've hit other limiters, but I honestly can't remember what it was in.
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