What is the...
#21
04-11-2006, 07:39 PM
RE: What is the...
Don't usually drive TOO much above the speed limits (always seem to get caught by the bubble-gum machines), but.......
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1971.......About 102 mph in my '66 Corvair Corsa (turbo) on the Harbor Fwy in L.A. (about 1:30 in the morning)
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1986.......About 110 on I-15 coming back from Vegas in wife's '85 300ZX Turbo.
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1971.......About 102 mph in my '66 Corvair Corsa (turbo) on the Harbor Fwy in L.A. (about 1:30 in the morning)
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1986.......About 110 on I-15 coming back from Vegas in wife's '85 300ZX Turbo.
#22
04-11-2006, 08:29 PM
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173 mph in my '97 NSX on a lonely highway between HW 16 and Ione Calif. Nobody out there, and you can see for miles in front and behind. Great road for testing your ride. (and guts..)
#23
04-11-2006, 09:40 PM
RE: What is the...
Ah....225kph in an A4 Avant...between Heidelburg and Frankfurt...I think it was the A5. (about 139mph)
in my current car the fastest I've beenis 120mph....well that is not true...the fastest that I have drive was 120mph in my car....I was asleep in the backseat, woke up to see a car looking like it was standing still in the next lane...my friend was doing 140 on the northway (between Albany and Montreal)...I kindly asked him to get back down to 90mph
in my current car the fastest I've beenis 120mph....well that is not true...the fastest that I have drive was 120mph in my car....I was asleep in the backseat, woke up to see a car looking like it was standing still in the next lane...my friend was doing 140 on the northway (between Albany and Montreal)...I kindly asked him to get back down to 90mph
#25
04-11-2006, 09:51 PM
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alas, the limiter stopped me... the well known 130... well, hopefully soon to be faster but on a closed course of course no but i keep it safe, dont want to get anyone else involved in my stupidity...ever
Russ and Hans ... yea I-95 by bridgeport is horrible, acutally 95 is horrible in general, that road scares the **** out of me
no but i keep it safe, dont want to get anyone else involved in my stupidity...everRuss and Hans ... yea I-95 by bridgeport is horrible, acutally 95 is horrible in general, that road scares the **** out of me
#26
04-11-2006, 10:15 PM
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ORIGINAL: rich1068
Remember them well! My dad had the Vauxhall Cavalier (Opel Ascona) with the same running gear. Four door saloon instead of the Calibra's two door coupe. Thief magnet though, so he had to get rid of it. A sixty year old bloke fighting off car thieves outside the office is not a good thing.
I usually drive like an old woman but my personal best is probably around the 130 mark. This usually only happens when I'm having the map tweaked and my tuner is sitting next to me with a laptop going 'More...more...more...more...' until I bottle it
ORIGINAL: AWDaholic
I posted a thread similiar to this about a year, or so, ago... MY PB is/was an indicated 282Kmph in my (then) 1993 Opel Calibra Turbo (triple Black, tinted, bone-stsock), prety much any time I wanted, while I owned it, between the years of 1996 and 2000. For thos that aren't familiar, the "Turbo" Calibra was a 2.0l, 16v, DOHC, 6-speed, AWD, 205ps (approx 215hp), 189tq, gem produced by OpelAG from about 1990-1999, I think. Unless your car said "Porsche" AND "Turbo" you were subject to being pwned, BY ME, if you cruised central W. Germany between 1996 and 2000...
Roughly 177/8mph, for those unab;e to convert km to m...
I posted a thread similiar to this about a year, or so, ago... MY PB is/was an indicated 282Kmph in my (then) 1993 Opel Calibra Turbo (triple Black, tinted, bone-stsock), prety much any time I wanted, while I owned it, between the years of 1996 and 2000. For thos that aren't familiar, the "Turbo" Calibra was a 2.0l, 16v, DOHC, 6-speed, AWD, 205ps (approx 215hp), 189tq, gem produced by OpelAG from about 1990-1999, I think. Unless your car said "Porsche" AND "Turbo" you were subject to being pwned, BY ME, if you cruised central W. Germany between 1996 and 2000...
Roughly 177/8mph, for those unab;e to convert km to m...
I usually drive like an old woman but my personal best is probably around the 130 mark. This usually only happens when I'm having the map tweaked and my tuner is sitting next to me with a laptop going 'More...more...more...more...' until I bottle it
#27
04-11-2006, 10:22 PM
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145mph in my old 95 3000GT and the fastest ive done yet in my A4 is 105 mph, not going to got past that untill i get my valentine 1
#28
04-12-2006, 10:07 AM
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ORIGINAL: AWDaholic
A friend of mine, back in Germany, at the time, had a wife that worked for OpelAG in Russelsheim. He told me that OpelAG also had an "insider's" engine, a TT 3.0 V6 with something like 390hp/425tq, cost $14,000.00 US, and you HADDA know somebody who know somebody, to get one. This was about a decade ago.
A friend of mine, back in Germany, at the time, had a wife that worked for OpelAG in Russelsheim. He told me that OpelAG also had an "insider's" engine, a TT 3.0 V6 with something like 390hp/425tq, cost $14,000.00 US, and you HADDA know somebody who know somebody, to get one. This was about a decade ago.
#30
04-12-2006, 12:22 PM
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ORIGINAL: HansBlix
LOL, I'm scared of topping 80mph around there now cause the pavement quality is so bad
ORIGINAL: Russ03A4
4 people in the car going 125mph on I-95 near Bridgeport, CT!! This was a smokin' car!!
4 people in the car going 125mph on I-95 near Bridgeport, CT!! This was a smokin' car!!
LOL, I'm scared of topping 80mph around there now cause the pavement quality is so bad