well, ive been to 165km/h in a Nissan Micra 1.5D.....and i could heard the pistons screamin "LET ME OUT!! LET ME OUT OF HERE DAMMIT!!!!!" lol but has a passanger i went to 305km/h, when my father rented a 360Modena...

my record though was at sunrise on the bonneville salt flats in my M3 and i hit 176.

any pics of the m3?

Bonneville can be very scary. lol

Dads Pro street 1970 Chevelle 1100rwhp on 16 octane and N2O

176mph cant remember the E/T

oh god, another one.

lol... 16 octane? That's some serious power! lol

176 but can't remember the ET? lol... That's because he can't find a website that tells him how quick a car is that runs 176! lol

do people just not read through the site first before joining and see that if you make something up we will find out about it???

or maybe he just does not know the et time. hell i dont know what et even means.

is that the "phone home" dude?

lol... That's the Elapsed Time for a 1/4 mile run. I'm a drag racer, everyone here knows that. I can tell you that you do NOT take an 1100 horsepower car down a drag strip and remember the exact trap speed but not the elapsed time... or at least close to it. Not only that but I think he's getting the class mixed up. Pro Street cars don't usually run that much horsepower. 1100 at the rear wheels is a whole lot off the crank. lol

Hey Monkey, just out of curiosity, whats the fastest you have been down a quarter mile track?

Very fast. That's about the extent of it. Fast enough that I couldn't see straight and for part of the run couldn't breath.

^^^ sounds like someone could not find on a website how fast a car needs to be to not be able to breath or see straight :)

lol... yeah no kidding huh? lol. I qualified and earned my Class 1 NHRA license years ago when drag racing was going to be my career. I kinda messed that one up but it was fun.

lol that is dedication, monkey. My friend used to race his camaro, and had to go through heart surgery. But now he has a supra, not sure if he races that or not.

16 octane and N2O

1st, sorry thats supposed to be 116 octane
2nd, I drove the car over 4 years ago, so im sorry if i cant remember a rough E/T. My dad sold it not to long after that.
3rd, Im not into drag racing that much so if i got the class wrong im sorry.
4th, again it could have been flywheel Horsepower

how old are you?

22 why ????

well i thought you were younger but even at 18 i wouldnt let you drive a car with that kind of power if i was your father

He's asking you because he wants to know your knowledge... (:)) Kidding.

He only let me drive it that one time. It was a reward for graduating High School with an 80% avg.

1st, sorry thats supposed to be 116 octane
2nd, I drove the car over 4 years ago, so im sorry if i cant remember a rough E/T. My dad sold it not to long after that.
3rd, Im not into drag racing that much so if i got the class wrong im sorry.
4th, again it could have been flywheel HorsepowerI am in no way calling you a liar, remember that. Remember though that we hear a lot of stuff here that's obvious BS. Let me tell you why what you said sounds unlikely... remember that I'm not saying you're lying just questioning a couple things as a drag racer...

1) 116 is generally used for Pro Stock cars and engines with 15:1 and higher compression ratios... It's a rare fuel in the amateur classes...

2) 4 years ago and you can't remember the et but you can remember the exact 176 mile per hour? Look at how that sounds from our point of view.

3) I'm not saying the class was wrong but generally cars with that much power are registered as Super Comp or full Comp cars. Pro Street cars are nowhere NEAR street legal anymore and usually aren't nitrous injected unless they're four bangers.

4) That's understandable.


Now, here's what makes it strange, to me at least. I've been drag racing since I was a kid. I currently race a 99 Monte Carlo Super Gas car (there's pics floating around the forum but if you'd like to see some I'll post a couple again) and a somewhat sorta street legal bike. Super Gas is a 9.90 index and my car traps at 151 or 152 mph, depending on the track. I know how hard it is to drive a car like that and that's on a delay box with throttle stops. Off the stops I can get deep into the 8's at around 160. That's extremely hard to handle because it's a full power launch and shift. A 176 trap speed in a car like that is a sub 8 second run. For someone who's not into drag racing and has no drag racing experience to jump into a 176 mph car for his first run is insane.

That's all...


Other than that welcome to the forum... glad to have you here...

I understand what your saying. Im starting think Im wrong about the speed. For some reason the number 176 is the frist number that comes to me when i talk about it. Im going to ask my dad for the time slip (if he still has it) and Ill scan it in cuz now Im all confused.

PS: I have done a little drag racing. I have taken my truck to the strip a couple of times but its not my favorite thing

Understandable. Like I said, it's not that I don't believe you but sometime when you're bored go back and read a few pages of this thread and you'll see what I mean. lol

Ok so I talked to my dad and I asked him about it. He laughed at me when I told him that I said 176mph. He then showed me the time slip.
1.76 60ft time
10.9@121mph
The HP was 1100 on C16 fuel????? and it was on the flywheel.
forgot to ask him about the class though

Ooh, let me add...

I went 125mph (on my speedo, doesn't mean it's right!) in my (stock) 1987 325is. I've got speed rated Yokohoma tires (88H, for 130mph FYI). I believe it's transmission limited. I believe it's 4500ish rpm in final gear. It hits a wall around there and stops accelerating. I have a feeling my car could push 130 if I get a Dinan chip, if it's the case of a governor or RPM limit.

Have you guys heard of a governor in 1987 BMW?

I have also done 130mph in my friend's 1.8T Jetta 2001. That was exhilirating (sp?). I stopped there, it's not nice of a friend to hold the top speed and not the driver of the car.

Am I just losing it or is Jared talking about the same thing that Z71 is? Hmmmm

Dude, I'm losing it. That must have glitched or something. I don't recall quoting that or command C'ing it, then command V'ing it. That's whacky right there.

Sorry for the double post, but is it possible that it merged the two comments? Cause I distinctly remember just posting my comment... nothing else...

Which one was yours?




I think I know what happened...

It starts with... "Ooh, let me add..." and so on.

What do you think happened?

I wonder why the two IP's match.

That only happens if the two users are on the same computer. Which isn't allowed on this site.

One account per person bro.

He went to Jared... :smt047

But I am just me. I'm not Z71, just Jared. I have no clue how that could work/happen. Maybe there was a glitch at the server? Idk. This is a private computer, no one uses it except my lil bro who occasionally plays WoW. No SCF for him

If Ghalos said the IP's match you're just feeding us lies...

It may have been Me. I was using a public wireless network.

Ok, that's really weird to have one user talk about something and then have another profile continue the topic. wtf is going on? I think someone's pulling our leg here.

lol... yeah no kidding huh? lol. I qualified and earned my Class 1 NHRA license years ago when drag racing was going to be my career. I kinda messed that one up but it was fun.
Just out of curiosity, how did you mess up your drag racing career? I'm interested to know because I might be heading down the same path.

I went to prison.

But otherwise it would have worked out fine? I feel kind of bad for you now. That would really have sucked.

Yeah, he killed someone. Now that I think about it, he kind of looked like you Venom...


just messin with you man.. lol.. Monkey's a good guy. I don't recall what he went for.

Grand Theft Auto...

Don't feel bad for me Venom. I wouldn't change a thing in my past. I've learned a lot more about life than the average person ever will because of the places I've been...

Yes, that's true. I have wondered if some of the bad things that happened in my life actually made me a better person.

Prison made me a better person. That doesn't happen very often. I'm one of the lucky ones.

How long were you in there? It couldn't have been too long b/c I'm pretty sure you go a little crazy after spending 10 or more years behind bars.

I went 100 yesterday in my car only because I was running a little later than I had planned to a club meeting that goes on for the end of the quarter (but it didn't really matter since it ran from 12:00pm - 10:00pm). Also, I think the frustration that I was following vehicles doing like 55 or 60 going uphill ticked me into slamming the gas and going into the fast lane and just go like a bat out of hell. But I eventually slowed back down since I had to get off the freeway a little bit after the short sprint.

Prison made me a better person. That doesn't happen very often. I'm one of the lucky ones.
what car did you steal?

in prison did you drop the soap?:p
haha jk monkey

31-32mph tonight! new record!

vtec, does your rank title suggest you'd hit the gas pedal, like floor it, or.. something else..............

it basically means i'd drive that RX-7, not hit it with a sledgehammer, or screw it in the fuel tank:p
I have to change that...

How long were you in there? It couldn't have been too long b/c I'm pretty sure you go a little crazy after spending 10 or more years behind bars.I got 16 months the first two times and two years the third time.

what car did you steal?

in prison did you drop the soap?:p
haha jk monkeyAn Infiniti J30, a 1969 Firebird, a 1070 El Camino...


No, I didn't drop the soap..... on purpose. lol

Do you carry the shamrock tattoo monkey?

Why does that sound familiar?

Shamrock tattoo is like the logo for the white supremacy gang thing in jail. I figured you wont make it into "la eme" or the black gang, and staying by yourself is not an option so you must have joined the other one.

They don't do that in California. Skinheads wear lightning bolt tattoos. I don't know what movies you've been watching but you don't have to join or hang out with a prison gang in california prisons. lol

i once did 560 mph.







in a 737 lol. 113 in a honda cr-v the other day. stupid top speed limiter. lol

well i did a 130kmh with a montecarlo

the other day i got stuck in the snow so i floored it and got the wheels spinning 115. if that counts.

you were stationary and the wheels were spinning 115mph???

Some cars have the speedometer hooked up to either the rear axle or the transmission so when the tires spin the speedometer shows how fast they're going. It makes for quite interesting burnouts. lol

115mph burnout even on ice is that even possible?

Yeah... stupid (no offense to anyone) but possible...

Wouldn't it be wise to hook up the speedo to the wheels that arn't driving the car? Just a thought.

^^Well for auto trannies when your in ice and you here the wheels spinning, it can give you a sense of what gear its on, and tell you whether or not you need to let go of the gas or push it more. For example when my dad gets our little camry up our steep driveway, he most of the time tries to keep it in first, or just keeps it in "l", so the tires don't spin to much, because if they did it tends to be more difficult to get the car up the driveway. Plus it also helps save the tread some lol.

Yeah in my Jetta if I turn off the traction control and stuff and am on snow and/or ice and floor it the speedometer will read anywhere from 80 to 115. But if I keep the traction control on it won't do that.

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Some cars have the speedometer hooked up to either the rear axle or the transmission so when the tires spin the speedometer shows how fast they're going. It makes for quite interesting burnouts. lol
I always wondered how that works, thought it had like... some censor in the wheels thats super uber like ATTESA or something...

Or a little thingy on the hood thats like "OMG I FEEL TEH WIND GOING 4298748392748932MPH WE GOIN THAT FAST WHOO!"

Or... The rear axle

Or... it just hooked up to the wheels that don't drive the car.

Anyways, when was the transmission thing started? Because I'm guessing this corvettes probably a 1995 Vette, and its Speedo hits 138MPH in the burnout. So was this recent? Or was that to keep the price down in the vette?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SehjVxybVIA

P.S. Sorry for the random BS, im very tired...

Yeah... stupid (no offense to anyone) but possible...

But wouldn't you have to shift up a gear or two for the axle to be spinning that fast? Or horribly over rev the engine.

Anyways, when was the transmission thing started? Because I'm guessing this corvettes probably a 1995 Vette, and its Speedo hits 138MPH in the burnout. So was this recent? Or was that to keep the price down in the vette?
Keep the price down? No... Hooking the speedometer up to the transmission is the more expensive and most accurate way to run a speedo...

But wouldn't you have to shift up a gear or two for the axle to be spinning that fast? Or horribly over rev the engine.In an automatic it wouldn't matter. Sometime when you're bored (if your speedo's hooked up to the tranny) put your car on jackstands, put it in first, and slowly give it gas. See how high the speedometer goes while the rpms rise. Remember, with no traction there's no resistance.

^^^ well the whole wheel speed sensors is more accurate as it averages out all four wheels. This is the system used in most race cars which run some time of data acquisition system such as motec. I know BMW uses this technology, don't know about any other cars.

135 mph in an 04' Mustang GT: yellow and completely stock, not my car, i wish it was though :D

^ Not bad considering they top out at 139mph. 135 is haulin ass though.

i GOT 108MPH IN MY CADDI TONIGHT!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA WOOOOOOOOOO
THAT THING WAS F'IN SCREAMING!!!!

Man i love that car...

^ Not bad considering they top out at 139mph. 135 is haulin ass though.

really?! i didnt know dat, it was on the 15 pass blue diamond, but yea it was hard to go past 130, it wasnt going anywhere much too fast so i stopped around 135ish... :)

but true it was fun... lol.

^^^ well the whole wheel speed sensors is more accurate as it averages out all four wheels. This is the system used in most race cars which run some time of data acquisition system such as motec. I know BMW uses this technology, don't know about any other cars.
Wheel speed sensors are the most accurate ONLY on race cars where the tire pressure is very closely regulated. On a street car it isn't. No, not even the almighty BMW. lol

Monkey, why in gods name don't they just come up with an IR speed sensor...Lol seriously, wouldn't that be fine? I mean really HOW often would it need to be calibrated if it's a stationary unit?

.

In an automatic it wouldn't matter. Sometime when you're bored (if your speedo's hooked up to the tranny) put your car on jackstands, put it in first, and slowly give it gas. See how high the speedometer goes while the rpms rise. Remember, with no traction there's no resistance.
But the numbers he was saying were on the ground, where my guess would be that very few cars have enough torque to do a burnout in a gear high enough to let the axle/wheels reach speeds over 100mph.

^^ with an auto transmission the torque can be multiplied to be more than what the vehicle actually has.

if you raise the rpm's very quickly the torque converter delays a split second, during the split second extra pressure is built and it converts more torque than the engine has, thus the vehicle may only produce 350 ft lbs of torque, and normally under no curcumstances would be able to spin out in high gear, but with an auto tranny, if your just cruising, and then literally stomp on your pedal, you culd theoritcally produce hundreds more ft pounds. from what I know, as much as twice as much torque as the engine poduces.

^^That sounds like it would be very stressful on the drivetrain. lol

^^ with an auto transmission the torque can be multiplied to be more than what the vehicle actually has.

if you raise the rpm's very quickly the torque converter delays a split second, during the split second extra pressure is built and it converts more torque than the engine has, thus the vehicle may only produce 350 ft lbs of torque, and normally under no curcumstances would be able to spin out in high gear, but with an auto tranny, if your just cruising, and then literally stomp on your pedal, you culd theoritcally produce hundreds more ft pounds. from what I know, as much as twice as much torque as the engine poduces.

Thanks for that, very interesting stuff there.

But the numbers he was saying were on the ground, where my guess would be that very few cars have enough torque to do a burnout in a gear high enough to let the axle/wheels reach speeds over 100mph.Yes but a lot of cars, muscle cars for example, can spin the tires up over 100 in second and most have the torque to do burnouts into second if the ground is wet.

^^That sounds like it would be very stressful on the drivetrain. lolIt is...

But the numbers he was saying were on the ground, where my guess would be that very few cars have enough torque to do a burnout in a gear high enough to let the axle/wheels reach speeds over 100mph.

there was a picture in a car magazine a few years ago of a kia van doing a burnout and the speedo was up to 180kph while doing it

I went about 120 Miles Per Hour in a Corolla GTS. Come on. It`s a drift car, not a Veyron

judging by the matrity of our posts i would be surprised if you have ever sat behind the wheel let alone driven

there was a picture in a car magazine a few years ago of a kia van doing a burnout and the speedo was up to 180kph while doing it
How is this possible? Wow.

I went about 120 Miles Per Hour in a Corolla GTS. Come on. It`s a drift car, not a Veyron
That's still fast.

2 weeks ago i went 3 miles in 3 minutes....in my moms Vibe....got stuck in a traffick jam
it suckd bad.... :(

I went about 120 Miles Per Hour in a Corolla GTS. Come on. It`s a drift car, not a Veyron

and there goes any respect i had for him, if i had any.


probably not

I went about 120 Miles Per Hour in a Corolla GTS. Come on. It`s a drift car, not a VeyronDRIFT CAR??????? Who the hell are YOU kidding? lol

and there goes any respect i had for him, if i had any.


probably notNo kidding... lol

fastest i've gone in my jeep is about 75. considering I was only at 2000 rpms, I imagine i could push it to about 110. but i wouldnt want to. at 75 all the air pushing against it makes some crazy and slightly uncomfortable sounds.

just figured i should post in here, as I havent, for over a year

Did around 153mph on I-30 going to Little Rock in my Mazdaspeed3. The GPS in my Escort 9500 stopped reading my speed at 127...guess it thought I was pretty much F**ked if there was a cop around.

If the GPS stopped reading at 127, how did you figure 153 exactly?


2 weeks ago i went 3 miles in 3 minutes....in my moms Vibe....got stuck in a traffick jam
it suckd bad.... :(


....so you went 60 mph? Unless you are merely a learner, thats really not that impressive. If you're only a learner then it could be intense.

Sorry if that sounded like an asshat thing to say, I didnt mean it that way.

I went about 120 Miles Per Hour in a Corolla GTS. Come on. It`s a drift car, not a Veyron

120MPH is near the top speed of the average rally car, since rallies do not usually have mega-long straights. Oh, and, the Corolla GTS/Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX not a drift car, it's a good base for a drift car. ONLY the RWD Corolla's are drift worthy, which should be obvious as drift cars are almost always RWD...


I went almost 30MPH on my mountain bike some years ago, and that's freaking fast for a bike!!!!

And as I have mentioned before, a friend drove me home a few months ago and hit around 100 to 110MPH on the highway, but it felt rather slow.....

For the record my top speed on a bike was around 58km/h. It was extremely fast and i felt my bike shaking because of the big air resistance.

Did around 153mph on I-30 going to Little Rock in my Mazdaspeed3.

I don't think the speed 3 will hit 153. You have to understand that just because the needle on the speedometer reads 153 or 155 it does not mean you are actually going that fast. they are usually off. On the mini they are off by what i call the 9% rule meaning. if your doing 100 your really going 91. I know the speed3 speedometer is also off I just do not know by how much. My brother doesn't really let me play with his car that much.

If the GPS stopped reading at 127, how did you figure 153 exactly?





....so you went 60 mph? Unless you are merely a learner, thats really not that impressive. If you're only a learner then it could be intense.

Sorry if that sounded like an asshat thing to say, I didnt mean it that way.
Eh? No. I got stuck in a traffic jam. Wait...oops.:o I meant 30 minutes. Sorry about that. We were going so slow it didn't even show up.
Sorry about the confusion.:o

Eh? No. I got stuck in a traffic jam. Wait...oops.:o I meant 30 minutes. Sorry about that. We were going so slow it didn't even show up.
Sorry about the confusion.:o

D'oh, that makes more sense.
Man, in traffic around Atlanta I can go 3 miles in about 2 1/2 hours. Eventually you learn to keep from driving anywhere from 6-9am and 3-8 pm.

^ugh....fortunatly for me i dont live in a big city here...whats weird tho it that we have the only traffick monitering system beside houston, even dallas doesnt have one.....weird...pretty good for a town of 150,000 huh?

If the GPS stopped reading at 127, how did you figure 153 exactly?

Inspired guess maybe?

I don't think the speed 3 will hit 153. You have to understand that just because the needle on the speedometer reads 153 or 155 it does not mean you are actually going that fast. they are usually off. On the mini they are off by what i call the 9% rule meaning. if your doing 100 your really going 91. I know the speed3 speedometer is also off I just do not know by how much. My brother doesn't really let me play with his car that much.

mazda quotes top speed for the speed3 as electronically limited to 155mph........

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsS pecs&vehicleCode=MS3

That's pretty fast considering the horsepower it's got^^

well i have hit 113 in a mitsubishi galant 4cyl... it doesnt sound too fast but it sure feels like it lol 132 in a lexus gs300 and 105 in a g35 coupe .. havent really taken it too hard yet

How do you get such precise numbers?

^out his @ss

mazda quotes top speed for the speed3 as electronically limited to 155mph........

http://www.mazdausa.com/MusaWeb/displayPage.action?pageParameter=modelsS pecs&vehicleCode=MS3

yeah but the mini is also limited at that, and the most i have been able to get out of it was 140, drafting a golf Gti.... so my point still stands.