Made a top speed run

[Meatyshells]

coming back from my friends house a little while ago (3:30am) I made a top speed pull in my car
He lives in the middle of no where right where the free way ends.

I gunned it and i took the car all the way up to 5000rpms in 5th gear. But because my speedo was maxed out way before then i didnt really know how fast i was going. Came on the computer and used a gear/rpms calculator and figured out i was going 155mph. And the road was straight, didnt slant down or up. And i feel that my car could of pulled a little more actually, but i didnt want to blow anything up. I think i could of gotten to mayb 160/165mph

i would say that is pretty good for a v6 no?

was kinda scary, when i put the clutch in and shifted into neutral, my car turned off lol, must of been something about the vacuum at such a high speed. But i just started it back up when i slowed down a little.

Dont think ill ever do something like that again for a while.
was it stupid to do? Probably... was it fun? Sure was

[StrtRacer98]

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:rock:

[nightrider2]

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thats not bad at all, really has nothing to do with the engine...RPM is RPM, its all about the gears, now the thing that gets me is your 5th and my 4th are the same ratio (.7x) and your 4th and my 3rd are the same(1.00) my car will do 115 at 5500 in 3rd and the theoretical top speed for my set up is 175 figuring for a 5500 rev limit. do you have a 3.73 or lower rear?

[crushedout]

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thats not bad at all, really has nothing to do with the engine...RPM is RPM, its all about the gears, now the thing that gets me is your 5th and my 4th are the same ratio (.7x) and your 4th and my 3rd are the same(1.00) my car will do 115 at 5500 in 3rd and the theoretical top speed for my set up is 175 figuring for a 5500 rev limit. do you have a 3.73 or lower rear?

What type of gears do you have that will do 115 in 3rd? auto or stick? With my 3.23's I was hitting 5000 RPM's or so in 4th gear. 3rd gear for me maxed out around 90MPH IIRC.

[nightrider2]

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auto...hence the .7 4th gear ;) and I have a 95 3.42 rear in it.

[josh98bird]

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Your nutz my friend!

[00FlowCamaro]

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110 has been the highest i've gone and i will never take it that fast ever again.

[nightrider2]

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110 has been the highest i've gone and i will never take it that fast ever again.

WHAT???? its so much fun....get that adrenalin pumpin, everything is in slow motion afterwards

[00FlowCamaro]

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0-60 is a lot more fun than going 110 mph.

[nightrider2]

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um no....0-135-0

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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Alright now get a Z28 cluster so you don't have to calculate when you get home!

[JusFlyinBy]

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So this is for real? These cars will do 155 with the limiter removed and no power adder of any sorts? No sh*t...

I remember 4 years ago when I maxed mine out. It took an eternity to hit 118.

[StrtRacer98]

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I think he has a cam, rockers, springs & heads, plus his intake and long tube headers and a tune.

I can see it doin 155

[94kah-mer-oh]

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damn in my old firebird i pulled 115 stock if only it wasn't crashed this would be my new goal

[Fbody3400]

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I think he has a cam, rockers, springs & heads, plus his intake and long tube headers and a tune.

I can see it doin 155

Ok, I was wondering what the hell was going on here. No way that a stock 3.8 would make it past 130/140.

Maxing the speedo out on the ole' Trans Am was, lets just say, exhilaratingly scary.