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The fastest speed you have driven at?
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I think I might have like a heart attack or a panic attack if I was going that fast on a motorcycle...
when i was in physical therapy after my foot surgery, the guy would talk about his bike and how much fun it was to go fast. he always emphaized how you couldn't feel 60 if you weren't looking and how much fun it was....that made me want to have a bike maybe enxt year but its tough toget a motorcycle license in illinois.
According to my insurance company, the average life span they give to someone on a bike is between 3-4 months in south Florida...
ok, in my Lancia Delta HF Turbo (1.6l fwd) I managed 121mph, and it's rated at 122mph. That was sutained too, it would get there hella quick. I regularly went over a 100mph and not just on straights either, here's one for iGAV, racing an RS Turbo up the A1, hit top speed, round long sweeping corners, not easing off a bit, beat the RS because of it 
in my Toyota Corolla hatch (1.3 12v fwd 5sp) i had 4 friends in the car and hit 101mph in 3rd gear! but that maxed out at 105 (in 4th i think, 103 in 5th)
just last week i did 109mph in a friend's Land Rover Discovery, backed off as it became a tad unstable.
i went from Boston to The Bronx, dropped a friend off, and on to Brooklyn, in 2 and a half hours before, average of about 90 i think.
and that's on public roads (oh, and for those who know, i live right at the end of the B660, one of the best driving roads in England, and only a couple of miles away from the new Bedford Autodrome, flew past there every day on my way to school, took the bus 28 minutes, my record was 6, and it's 11 miles of country roads )
on the track, around 130ish in a 16v 'grale and an Alfa SZ.
one of these days i'll get above that, hopefully sideways at Pikes Peak
in my Toyota Corolla hatch (1.3 12v fwd 5sp) i had 4 friends in the car and hit 101mph in 3rd gear! but that maxed out at 105 (in 4th i think, 103 in 5th)
just last week i did 109mph in a friend's Land Rover Discovery, backed off as it became a tad unstable.
i went from Boston to The Bronx, dropped a friend off, and on to Brooklyn, in 2 and a half hours before, average of about 90 i think.
and that's on public roads (oh, and for those who know, i live right at the end of the B660, one of the best driving roads in England, and only a couple of miles away from the new Bedford Autodrome, flew past there every day on my way to school, took the bus 28 minutes, my record was 6, and it's 11 miles of country roads
)on the track, around 130ish in a 16v 'grale and an Alfa SZ.
one of these days i'll get above that, hopefully sideways at Pikes Peak
I don't know if thats true or not, but some have very good reasons for limiting speed. Mercedes E55 (I think it was that model) is limited to 155 mph because no one mass produces tires capable of taking such a heavy car any faster. its capable of quite a bit more.
If you do just be sure not to act like all the idiot tourists around here and burn out your brakes on the way down. That's what gets them on Pikes Peak. That and doing stupid **** like shifting into neutral on the way down and running right off the side.Originally posted by evoluzione
one of these days i'll get above that, hopefully sideways at Pikes Peak
Nah, that's the great thing about a bike. With a little car it takes a day and an age to get to top speed. With a big bike you can do it in 5 secs and then be back at legal speeds 5 secs later. So your time of danger is much much lower.
Well that would be a good guess but it wouldn't be right. My first street bike was a '91 Suzuki Bandit 400 back in '94. By the way I've been riding motorcycles on my own since I was 6. In any case I started using Bandit as my online name back then and started using MacBandit in about '96 when I started joining Mac sites.
In any case the bike I was riding was a BMW K1200RS. I worked at a BMW Motorcycle shop for 7 years and was Service Manager for 5. Sometimes you have a customer that wants you to take it out as fast as you can and make sure everything is okay with it. It just so happened that on that day the road was clear and the weather was good. I would have gone faster but they're limited to that speed.
My previous fastest speed was on a BMW R1100RS at 146. I just ran out of straight away. I use to live out in the country and the closest pizza place was 7 miles away one way. So I went for the pizza on the bike. Motorcycles have been my only form of transportation for most of my life even with Oregon rain. In any case I was able to get down the curvy country road and to the pizza parlor and back in 12 mins. That included paying for and strapping the pizza on. Oh, and when I got back the pizza was still burning hot in the middle of winter. Fastest pizza delivery I have ever heard of.
I love reading all the posts from guys with really spiffy sports cars who've gone soooo fast.
I have a crappy, 23rd hand, 1998 Chrysler Lebaron. It grinds when I'm in what I guess is equivalent to first gear (automatic transmission). I've gone over 180 Km/hr in my car many times, but last year I went 195 Km/hr, with three passengers. Let's just say that I did it when they were all busy talking, so they (girls) wouldn't freak out. Unfortunately my girlfriend felt how fast we were going and looked at the speedometer. For some reason, she wasn't as impressed as I was...
The speedometer only goes to 200 Km/hr, so I think I'd need to be going down a hill to go any faster
I have a crappy, 23rd hand, 1998 Chrysler Lebaron. It grinds when I'm in what I guess is equivalent to first gear (automatic transmission). I've gone over 180 Km/hr in my car many times, but last year I went 195 Km/hr, with three passengers. Let's just say that I did it when they were all busy talking, so they (girls) wouldn't freak out. Unfortunately my girlfriend felt how fast we were going and looked at the speedometer. For some reason, she wasn't as impressed as I was...
The speedometer only goes to 200 Km/hr, so I think I'd need to be going down a hill to go any faster
Originally posted by Durandal7
If you do just be sure not to act like all the idiot tourists around here and burn out your brakes on the way down. That's what gets them on Pikes Peak. That and doing stupid **** like shifting into neutral on the way down and running right off the side.
I live in Calgary, Alberta, which is basically right by the mountains. When I was 15 or so, my Dad was driving down the mountain, and I said "maybe we can save gas by just putting it in neutral". My Dad and I are of Scottish descent, so that was appealing
Well, when it came time to break and turn, he realized that the car had stalled, and so the power stearing and power breaks weren't working. He wasn't sure if he could just turn the car on again without breaking it (you can)... I'm pretty glad that he worked out a lot, because we came pretty freakin close to dieing that day. He just barely kept us on the road, while the breaks slowly decellerated us to a stop, several kilometers down the road.
Originally posted by MarkCollette
I love reading all the posts from guys with really spiffy sports cars who've gone soooo fast.
I have a crappy, 23rd hand, 1998 Chrysler Lebaron. It grinds when I'm in what I guess is equivalent to first gear (automatic transmission). I've gone over 180 Km/hr in my car many times, but last year I went 195 Km/hr, with three passengers. Let's just say that I did it when they were all busy talking, so they (girls) wouldn't freak out. Unfortunately my girlfriend felt how fast we were going and looked at the speedometer. For some reason, she wasn't as impressed as I was...
The speedometer only goes to 200 Km/hr, so I think I'd need to be going down a hill to go any faster
Hell, yeah. I've had my share of fun in beaters. My first car was a '79 Datsun 310 which I bought for $600 in '92. At the time it looked very very good for it's age and had low mieles. I use to do 100mph in it daily coming home from high school. One time on my way to washington I got it up to 120MPH going down a really long hill. It never ran the same after that as I floated the valves on it for about a mile to get to that speed. Later on I took out a deer at about 90mph and had to put a new radiator, hood, and front fender on it from a junk car I bought. Then I forgot to put coolant in it and just put water in it which froze and the car over heated and warped the head. So I put the head off the beater car on mine which had worse valve guides then the one I took off. Ahh, my first car, there wasn't much left when I was done with it. I also jumped it quite a bit.
Ive done about 150MPH in my 1972 Datsun 240Z. Its tuned to the tits.
tripple 40mm Weber carbs
JE Pistons
Hooker headers
Nismo radiator
aftermarket cam and crank (cant remember the lift and duration off the top of my head)
Nismo comp gearbox
MSD Ignition system
Supertrap exhaust system
welded rear diff
13" crossdrilled brembro brakes on the back
10" crossdrilled bushnell brakes on the front
Compmotive 17" rims w/ Toyo Proxies RA1 tires
and so on.... its a really fun ride... next year im putting a turbo on it
A few pics for yall. just so this post isnt such a tease
Link
tripple 40mm Weber carbs
JE Pistons
Hooker headers
Nismo radiator
aftermarket cam and crank (cant remember the lift and duration off the top of my head)
Nismo comp gearbox
MSD Ignition system
Supertrap exhaust system
welded rear diff
13" crossdrilled brembro brakes on the back
10" crossdrilled bushnell brakes on the front
Compmotive 17" rims w/ Toyo Proxies RA1 tires
and so on.... its a really fun ride... next year im putting a turbo on it
A few pics for yall. just so this post isnt such a tease
Link
you've kept that in really good condition. it has fast written all over it. that supercharger should bea fun thing to add.Originally posted by rhpenguin
Ive done about 150MPH in my 1972 Datsun 240Z. Its tuned to the tits.
tripple 40mm Weber carbs
JE Pistons
Hooker headers
Nismo radiator
aftermarket cam and crank (cant remember the lift and duration off the top of my head)
Nismo comp gearbox
MSD Ignition system
Supertrap exhaust system
welded rear diff
13" crossdrilled brembro brakes on the back
10" crossdrilled bushnell brakes on the front
Compmotive 17" rims w/ Toyo Proxies RA1 tires
and so on.... its a really fun ride... next year im putting a turbo on it
A few pics for yall. just so this post isnt such a tease
Link
iJon
Oh my! Thats scared me!
I don't even want to imagine how scared i'd be at those speeds on a bike.
scem0
Originally posted by rhpenguin
Ive done about 150MPH in my 1972 Datsun 240Z. Its tuned to the tits.
tripple 40mm Weber carbs
JE Pistons
Hooker headers
Nismo radiator
aftermarket cam and crank (cant remember the lift and duration off the top of my head)
Nismo comp gearbox
MSD Ignition system
Supertrap exhaust system
welded rear diff
13" crossdrilled brembro brakes on the back
10" crossdrilled bushnell brakes on the front
Compmotive 17" rims w/ Toyo Proxies RA1 tires
and so on.... its a really fun ride... next year im putting a turbo on it
A few pics for yall. just so this post isnt such a tease
Link
My dad has a 240Z. What a great car. He hasn't driven it in years though as it was in mint condition until two people hit him in two days and totaled it. He bought it back from the insurance company and parked it.
Just one question. Why do you have bigger discs on the rear of the car then on the front?
Hmm, nice video but the guy is kind of stupid for doing those speeds in a residential area. It's best to find an empty road with no driveways and no trees so you can see if there are animals.
Steve's a great guy. We used to love joking with him about expensing client dinners at the local steakhouse back to NeXT. He hated that. It offended his vegitarian sensibilities.
actually mate, superchargers and turbos are very different to one another. a supercharger compresses the air before it enters the engine, the denser the air, the better it is, whereas a turbo works on the exhaust gasses. the latter being more fun i think, as it's not as smooth as the supercharger (although these days they're a little more subtle). nothing like watching that turbo boost guage creeping from the negative into the boost zone and feeling it punch you in the back and catapult you forward at scary speeds