[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How Fast have you been? (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 10/2/2010 8:53:03 PM EDT
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On the ground in control of a motorized vehicle.
for the sake of this discussion on a Track or other controlled environment. |
It gets kinda floaty about 1 or so.
Not much my cars aren't geared for it or I run out of road. All of my Mopars are 3.55 or 3.73 so at 1:1 I run out of gear. My focus doesn't have the balls to use a short distance to go fast so I have to wind it out and I run out of road. Plus it's not safe to speed
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| An indicated 144 on the straight at Grattan in a C5 Corvette, and an indicated 125 in a 911SC on the straights at Road America. While younger and stupid, the speedo on my Honda Interceptor read nearly 125 on a back road, not a track. I don't do that sort of thing these days. I've only done about 110 on the autobahn since the little BMW rental only had a 1.6 liter engine. Plus, over 90 or so, the gas mileage dropped dramatically. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Got my Jeep (TJ) up to 120mph, downhill, pulling a trailer. I almost shat myself when I looked at the speedometer. Somewhere in Wyoming. If true you are fng nuts lol. I about poop myself when i get my TJ up to 75 and that's without a trailer.  I was following my dad and trying to keep up while he passed someone. The speedometer only goes to 100. So the 120 figure is what he gave when he was chewing my butt off over the phone. 
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Got my Jeep (TJ) up to 120mph, downhill, pulling a trailer. I almost shat myself when I looked at the speedometer. Somewhere in Wyoming. If true you are fng nuts lol. I about poop myself when i get my TJ up to 75 and that's without a trailer.
75? That's highway speed around here. I think I accidentally poked 95 downhill at night on a long stretch in my XJ. Wind was going east from behind me, was dark, no other traffic to gauge my speed... Looked down, went 
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155mph Mass Pike southbound. Speedo topped out at 120. I was using the Heads-Up Display after that. Which was a good thing, because I couldn't take my eyes off the road. I was young and had a fast fucking car. I get squeemish just thinking about that day now.  Exact same story on the exact same road. Man, I was a dumb kid. |
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175 in a Gembala enhanced Porsche
152 in a 1967 Fastback Mustang that I built. 5,200 rpm with a engine that pulls to 7,000 145 in my C-6 chevette 110 mph in a Astro van ( that was STUPID ) 100ish down the front straight of Fontana speedway in my Rotax powerd Kart 54 mph down hill on my MTN bike ( eye tearing FAST! ) |
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145 driving, 170 as a passenger. Did a ride-along in a Cup car, but I never knew how fast we were going. Could have been going 130, could have been going 180, no idea. I was too busy staring at the wall (which seemed inches away) and realizing that I would probably crack half the teeth in my mouth if we hit it. Drove 105-110 on a gravel road once when I was 17. Wasn't a nice "clean" rally style gravel road, either. Dusty, rocky, straight ass country road. No fucking idea what I was thinking, just put some loud, fast music on the stereo and floored it.  I really had no comprehension of what would have happened to me if I had lost control. |
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On the ground in control of a motorized vehicle. for the sake of this discussion on a Track or other controlled environment. 155 in a '67 Maserati Ghibli Even passed a CHP, who was parked on the right side on the 101, near Malibu Canyon. I stepped on the gas and kept going, thinking it would be 30 seconds at least, before he knew what blew by him and I got off a stop, or two, up the highway and parked under the overpass for a couple of minutes. I went back the other way and he was gone, so he went after me! I was nervous as shit. My dad's was burgundy. 
Chris |