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I'm ditching the 2L



Lets see,
 
Katana 600-128mph
Corrado-135mph w/ alot of rpm's to go
GTI-125mph
Scott's yellow mk2- shit my pant's fast! Speedo wasn't working, somewhere 130-140mph in what felt like 10 sec.

Lars Bruchmann <pilotlars@yahoo.com> wrote:
yeah, the 2.3 was standard, i thought it was a 4 cyl,
like in my merkur... it had some power, but the bulk
and lack of aerodynamics would limit the speed, i
though. or, rather, i hoped!
--- Brian McGarvey 
wrote:

> It had a 2.3 Tag on the back, but had a pretty big
> V6 under the hood...
> This was after my brother drove it @ 260 kph for
> about 2 hrs.. then it 
> would only do 220..
> :-O
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Lars Bruchmann wrote:
> 
> > what in the name of zeus's butthole did they do to
> > that granada's engine?!?!?!! my uncle had one, a
> very
> > nice (yeah, right) beige kombi (station wagen). 
> it
> > was a tank!!!! i dont think it went more than 90
> with
> > a tailwind. i'd give it a wide berth on the
> autobahn.
> > it's got the aerodynamics of a curio cabinet!!! 
> were
> > you dropped from a cargo plane and bailed out of
> the
> > car in a parachute to make it go that fast???
> > heeheehee.
> > --- Brian McGarvey 
wrote:
> >
> >> Fastest Ive gone
> >> 225kph 136mph in a German Ford Granada
> >> 125 in a Porsche 924
> >> 148mph on a VFR750F :-O .. thats damn fast...
> >> Brian..
> >> 95.5 in a quarter mile..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Lars Bruchmann wrote:
> >>
> >>> fastest i've gone: 122 mph in my golf gti, 153
> >> mph in
> >>> a porsche turbo (as a passenger in the back
> seat),
> >> 175
> >>> mph in a B747 at take-off.
> >>> --- David Utley wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> There is quite a bit on conjecture over how
> fast
> >> he
> >>>> is -actually- going... However, anyway you
> slice
> >>>> it, he has to be going at least 160 mph, and
> that
> >> is
> >>>> indeed impressive... I personally plan to
> never
> >> go
> >>>> over 150... :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> David
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From: Brian McGarvey 

> >>>>> Date: 2004/11/13 Sat AM 12:54:33 EST
> >>>>> To: Scourge 
> >>>>> CC: Rocco list 
> >>>>> Subject: Re: I'm ditching the 2L
> >>>>>
> >>>>> whoo hoo baby..
> >>>>> 309kph..
> >>>>> 192mph in a mk1...
> >>>> iiiiinnnnnnssssssaaaaaannnnneeeeee...
> >>>>> I think there are some folks out ther
> wondering
> >>>> now..
> >>>>> its 22M...
> >>>>> but damn...
> >>>>> watch the shift light bouncing...
> >>>>> blink blink blink... aaaaahhhhhh blink
> >>>> bli-bli-bli-- dammit shift.
> >>>>> hehe
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Scourge wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't care how happy I am with my
> motor.....I
> >>>> want what this guy has!!!!!!
> >>>>>> http://smokeblunts.net/iso.wmv
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -George(green with envy)
> >>>>>>
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> >>>> engine sing...
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