Speeding in a shed!

Just to add, 100mph in a 53 plate clio didn't feel safe.

120+ in a MX5 (roof up) did feel safe and totally planted.

110 with the roof down felt just as safe.
 
Ask Dolph or Gilly about the Kia Pride with injection moulded tyres. Or the Golf with it's "what way next" steering. Both of those did over a ton no worries You just gotta be committed
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Well if we are being reckless - 80mph downhill with a following hurricane in a minor 1000. The speedo waved around like a leaf and eventually went all the way round in a full circle. :D


It was actually like playing granturismo where you max the car out and you hit the rev limiter and the car drops by about 5 mph. Terrifying.

Then there are VW beatles with all the wieght on the back so the steering goes soggy at high speeds. :-/
 
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PiKe said:
Firstly, Violent-J you're an idiot.

Secondly, Small engined cars aren't inherently less safe than bigger ones, my 1.2 clio has discs on the front, ABS and handling is pretty responsive, and the tyres are low profile 15's with plenty of grip, doesn't take much road to come down from 80 to 30 or so.

The engine isn't up to extended periods of time at 80mph or higher though, at 80mph you're around 4.5k rpm, 90 would be 5.5k and so on, it'll do 80mph happily albeit noisily , but the engines not built for it.
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That's not nice :(
 
L0rdMike said:
How have you timed it, stop watch and speedo is going to be way out.
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Yea I used a stop watch mate, basically redlined it, soon as I dropped the clutch pressed the button and soon as I reached 60 pressed it again. Admittantly it's not ideal but I wouldn't have thought it was that far out? maybe a few tenths of a second either way?

How do you time your mr2 Mike?
 
Violent-J said:
Do you drive? What's that... no?

Get out of motors asap boy.
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:rolleyes:

Yes i drive, but i also learn things while i drive and learn whats safe and whats not.
There is no denying micras are trolleys.
There is no denying the Japanese designed them for city use where its absolutely packed of other cars and bikes.
And there is no denying that my willy is definitely bigger then yours
 
William said:
Then there are VW beatles with all the wieght on the back so the steering goes soggy at high speeds. :-/
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I remember trying to drive them around test course. The arse just slides around and you start to spin :p
 
Violent-J said:
Yea I used a stop watch mate, basically redlined it, soon as I dropped the clutch pressed the button and soon as I reached 60 pressed it again. Admittantly it's not ideal but I wouldn't have thought it was that far out? maybe a few tenths of a second either way?
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Try as much as seconds either way, then add the fact your speedo isn't accurate and you probably only timed 0-55.

And 0-55 is a lot different to 0-60. My car can do 0-55 in about 8.3 seconds - 0-60 is nearly a SECOND slower due to a gearchange.
 
Zip said:
:rolleyes:

Yes i drive, but i also learn things while i drive and learn whats safe and whats not.
There is no denying micras are trolleys.
There is no denying the Japanese designed them for city use where its absolutely packed of other cars and bikes.
And there is no denying that my willy is definitely bigger then yours
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:rolleyes: I doubt that mate, I'm like a horse.
 
Violent-J said:
Yea I used a stop watch mate, basically redlined it, soon as I dropped the clutch pressed the button and soon as I reached 60 pressed it again. Admittantly it's not ideal but I wouldn't have thought it was that far out? maybe a few tenths of a second either way?

How do you time your mr2 Mike?
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Could be about 2 seconds either way. You will never get it quicker than what it says in the book. That is, if the book time is done using optimal conditions and a decent launch. I gave up trying to get mine near the book, I got to within about 2 seconds.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Try as much as seconds either way, then add the fact your speedo isn't accurate and you probably only timed 0-55.

And 0-55 is a lot different to 0-60. My car can do 0-55 in about 8.3 seconds - 0-60 is nearly a SECOND slower due to a gearchange.
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Ah, you need to change to 4th to get 60? I do 0 - 20 1st, 20 - 40 2nd, 40 - 60 3rd all be it redline in each gear.
 
William said:
Could be about 2 seconds either way. You will never get it quicker than what it says in the book. That is, if the book time is done using optimal conditions and a decent launch. I gave up trying to get mine near the book, I got to within about 2 seconds.
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I beat the book :D

With a G-Meter.
 
Nah you need 3rd I think in a mondeo to get to 60, I think it bounces off the limiter in 2nd. I tried it :-/

FoxyBoxing said:
I beat the book
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I just wheelspin and mess it all up. I think a 1.8 should be able to do it from the factory in about 10.5. I got to 12 on the stopwatch and gave up. My car is knackered so I guess its probably more like 14. :p
 
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Ah, you need to change to 4th to get 60? I do 0 - 20 1st, 20 - 40 2nd, 40 - 60 3rd all be it redline in each gear.
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No he had to use 3rd as the Mondeo limiter in 2nd is about 58mph?
 
Ah that's suprising long gear ratios for a Mondy, thought that would be the kind of gearing for a performance car. How I'd love to drive something fast :(
 
Violent-J said:
Ah that's suprising long gear ratios for a Mondy, thought that would be the kind of gearing for a performance car. How I'd love to drive something fast :(
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Err, no, it's reasonably short, most cars will do 60 in 2nd.
 
Violent-J said:
Ah that's suprising long gear ratios for a Mondy, thought that would be the kind of gearing for a performance car. How I'd love to drive something fast :(
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i can change at 1st 20kph, 2nd 85kph, 3rd 120kph and then 4th goes up to about 120-125kph :p
And that in an L series wagon. The ratios are all over the place
 
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