Insane speed in german cars... slightly OT, had to share...

[tpiwonka@ttacs.ttu.edu (Robert Piwonka)]

I have not been following this topic but since we are talking about top
speed a 92 maxima se 5 spd can do 145MPH stock.  This was down hill into a
flat staight and assuming the speedo was correct(no reason it shouldn't be).
This is same engine that is in 300z non turbo(roller rockers).  I was in
passenger seat, scary with bad tires:)

Robert Piwonka

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of brianm@earendel.org
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 10:45 PM
To: Daun Yeagley
Cc: Rabbit16v; Scirocco List; jason@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Insane speed in german cars... slightly OT, had to share...


I have done 140 before and its damn fast... i mean really fast. and yes i
konw i was _only_ doing 138, but hey... its still damn fast. if the
painted dotted white lines were not solid.. trust me on this. you were not
going as fast as you thought.. assuming size of dot and space etc.. and
your personal refresh rate for your particular set of eyeballs..
Brian


On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Daun Yeagley wrote:

>
> --- Rabbit16v <Rabbit16v@attbi.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like there's a big flaw in this theory!  Who wrote
> > this anyway?  I
> > didn't see a signature.
>
> Ummm - physics?
>
>   Seems odd that my 2.0l 16v
> > Rabbit hit 140mph
> > without too much trouble,
>
> Uh, right.  Is that what the speedo read?  VW speedos tend
> to read higher at high speed.  What RPM were you turning,
> and what was your transmission gearing?  Plug that into the
> gear calculator on scirocco.org and you'll get a better
> idea of how fast you were really going.
>
>
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