What's your Top Speed?
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Instructor
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I have to wonder when I see posts like this one, did you really think this through?
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
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Pirate, tho’ I understand both the above statements, the one major variable is that you never know if that interstate is deserted. I like feeling the ability of my car as you do, but the other problem is while on public roads, one always is looking over their shoulder. I have 3 HPDE’s under my belt and the difference of exploring our cars’ abilities in a controlled environment is incomparable. A friend of mine took his Z06 from Northern NJ to Texas to do the Texas mile just because. It is doable.
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I have to wonder when I see posts like this one, did you really think this through?
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
digit speed you have no idea how fast things can get
out of hand.
Find yourself a track and you can go over 200mph
(it will only cost you 100k in mods to find out).
Good luck
Pro
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From: Diamondhead, MS
I think you mean triple digit speeds, I can do double digits on my bicycle lol.
Melting Slicks
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I think it varies what different people find safe and/or prudent. back in the day young and dumb or whatever i would glide into the lower triple digits frequently on highway bursts, and thought nothing of it. but yea that's what HPDE is for! 
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167 mph in a close to stock 02. I could have kept going but I felt like the front end was lifting (when your butt checks tighten, it's time to slow down 
)
In my monster 98 I only did 165 but I would have loved to see how fast it would have went as she had 767 rwhp. Now I'll never find out as I sold it.
According to GM, the 6-speed coupe will do 174 mph, in 5th gear. I believe the Z06 was 171 mph due to different gearing.
disclaimer: I did none of the above
)In my monster 98 I only did 165 but I would have loved to see how fast it would have went as she had 767 rwhp. Now I'll never find out as I sold it.
According to GM, the 6-speed coupe will do 174 mph, in 5th gear. I believe the Z06 was 171 mph due to different gearing.
disclaimer: I did none of the above
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167 mph in a close to stock 02. I could have kept going but I felt like the front end was lifting (when your butt checks tighten, it's time to slow down )
In my monster 98 I only did 165 but I would have loved to see how fast it would have went as she had 767 rwhp. Now I'll never find out as I sold it.
According to GM, the 6-speed coupe will do 174 mph, in 5th gear. I believe the Z06 was 171 mph due to different gearing.
disclaimer: I did none of the above
)In my monster 98 I only did 165 but I would have loved to see how fast it would have went as she had 767 rwhp. Now I'll never find out as I sold it.
According to GM, the 6-speed coupe will do 174 mph, in 5th gear. I believe the Z06 was 171 mph due to different gearing.
disclaimer: I did none of the above
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I have to wonder when I see posts like this one, did you really think this through?
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
There are lawyers salivating on television on damn near every commercial break that would love to put your post up on a screen in a courtroom when suing you for everything you’ve got, if anything goes wrong.
Find a controlled environment to get the answer to your curiosity.
Model A vert to 45mph!.... The Carrera was certainly the most stable. The C5, I feel, requires some ground effects attention for me to be comfortable at speed... I didn't experience these speeds in the California desert. 😎
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I have raced against my friends 2012 Shelby GT500 and pushed to 146 on highway 395. 2AM.
very stable car,
at 146 Shelby was about half car faster, ahead of me, but vette was still going,
GT backed off.
shelby was 540 hp 6 speed
my vette is stock 350 hp 6 speed manual.
very stable car,
at 146 Shelby was about half car faster, ahead of me, but vette was still going,
GT backed off.
shelby was 540 hp 6 speed
my vette is stock 350 hp 6 speed manual.
Melting Slicks
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From: Raleigh Suburbs
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From: Mobile, AL
Didn't realize this thread would create such controversy. At any rate, I safely hit 130 with no other cars around which was enough for me to satisfy my curiosity. It was as fast and stable as my Ferrari had been. Later in the day, I was exploring its performance envelope when the back end decided to suddenly step out. I felt the traction control intervene and reign it back in. I was surprised how quickly it tried to swap ends. There was no controlled break away or progressive slide like I've experienced in other high-performance cars. However, since I'm gradually learning the limits of the car, it's the main reason why I left the Traction Control/Active Handling on and now I'm thankful I did! It also explains the reason behind a lot of the Z06 and ZR1 wrecks I see on YouTube.
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My GPS said it was 157........when I was across the boarder in Mexico, before they built the wall.....wait, they haven't finished that yet. Yeah, it was in Mexico.