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Old 06-27-2007, 12:20 PM
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Default What is the fastest you have taken your car?
107 or whatever the speed limiter kicks in for me. im only in fourth gear at like 4k though
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Old 06-27-2007, 12:23 PM
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not sure, 130ish... my speedo only goes to 115 and it was pegged for a while. maybe 140?
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I had mine to 140 on the way back from st. louis one night at about 2 am according to my scanmaster. My 115 mph speedo was pegged for quite a while
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went about 145-150 once and i had the t-tops off i couldnt hear anything for a few days lol, sounds like a freaking jet is flying 5 feet over your head at full throttle
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Had mine up to 150ish a couple of times when 635 wasn't crowded.
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i too only have the 115 speedo. is there any other way besides a programmer to take the 107mph limiter off?
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had mine to a calculated 155 on a back road one night. young and dumb at the time.
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i too only have the 115 speedo. is there any other way besides a programmer to take the 107mph limiter off?
not that I know of.
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135 on the northway
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my buddy bought his 01 ws6 off the lot and hit 157
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Had my speedo pegged, 155 speedo, so I would guess in the 150 range.
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156 down in Mexico racing another Camaro
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135-ish down a rural county highway here in Ohio.
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156 down in Mexico racing another Camaro
oooooh, im tellin

138 in a stock hondurr accord, haha
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153 2 mile straight road
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130ish. it'll go faster but im chicken lol
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i was cruisin,found a nice streatch a few weeks ago 5th gear but had to shut down due to a small town called searchlight approaching rather quickly.my highest top speed is 165 same car
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I've been into the 150s before. I took the following pic while I was driving:

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pegged on a 155mph speedo + a few hundred rpm with the 3.73s Terrified.
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169mph off the scanmaster, IIRC it was around 6200-6300 in 5th with 3.73's.
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