Fnfast99TA

i was driving my 99 m6 ta home from birmingham, alabama last night on the interstate 4 lane and a lt1 ta pulled up beside me and reved up i was like lets go then right before we went a ls1 camaro and a cobra pulled up beside us sop it was on well it turned into a ls1 camaro/ls1 ta race and i notice im pulling ahead by half a car length as i hit 6th and i wanna win by a car or so so when i finally get there i look at the speed odo im goin 155 and it feels like i am only touching pavement every thirty feet or so so i let off and was like never doing that again hahaha

Velocity

Shifting to 6th doesn't slow you down? What mods do you have?

baddogz28

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Hmmm... You could take 5th to 155...

LSONE

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i think what he's saying is he ran it to the top of 5th, shifted into 6th, and then ralized how fast he was going so he slowed down. i dont think he ment he put it in 6th and accelerated higher.

S8ER95Z

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I went to 170mph and It didnt feel like I was lifting at all..

BigBronco

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must be the LT1

well your car might have a better suspension set up... to keep the car down

S8ER95Z

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LMAO.. well im all stock suspension... so I doubt that... who knows maybe it was and I just didnt notice? i also dont get any weird feelings while riding roller coasters, could be a bad thing. LOL

2001whiteSS

you guys must have some seriuos mods, i was at 130 ish at the top of 5th, and that was shiftin at about 5500 rmps before i put the brakes on. one thing about going fast that you dont think about till your up there is that it takes a LONG time to slow down.
careful guys

Clipper

S8ER95Z

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You should be able to touch your 162mph speed limiter no problem.. i dont know about the gearing in the manual..but with 3:42s I was just over 5300rpm in OD...

00TAProject

I rolled my 5th to 135 and was probably to 4200rpms.....Maybe wasnt paying attentiopn to RPM'S due to the cars behind me! I got's a M6 LS1.....Felt fine at 135 too.....no floating feeling.

I will have to further investigate my 6spd when I get home....Got a straight stretch the goes for about 5 miles.....Should be plenty of start and slow down room......But this wont come around until MArch or Arpil or 05'...:sad:

GuitsBoy

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Gears maybe? According to the gear calc with 4.10s:

167 MPH @ 4500 RPM
177 MPH @ 4750 RPM
186 MPH @ 5000 RPM

Even with the stock cam making power as low in the rpm band as possible, 6th gear is still pretty useless for top speed runs. 4.30 or 4.56 might bring top speed back inline with peak HP. But I sure as hell dont feel comfortable spinning that driveshaft past 10K RPM

-T

SidewayzOZ

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I thought my car was fairly smooth at 155. I was in 5th gear, but I dont remember how much I had left.

PHANTA-Z

Its gets a bit white knuckle for me at anything above 140 in my car. Maybe the drag radials dont help. Lowering should help out, but i dont go above 120 on any kind of a regular basis. Hit 130 the other day with a friend in the car, and yes, even with some decent brake upgrades (SS lines, SBS pads, Brembo OE rotors, Motul Fluid) it takes a hot friggin minute to bring it down from speed. Do be careful.

Velocity

I've hit 140, and I was totally shocked at how good the car felt up there. Then I was also shocked as I was coming up on traffic how long it really did take to slow back down.

I remember thinking I had slowed back down enough -- but I was still RAPIDLY gaining on the Honda SUV in front of me. I looked down at the speedo and I was still going 95!!!!

Confirmed: It takes a hell of a long time to slow back down from 140.

GuitsBoy

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These cars should have come with parachutes from the factory.

S8ER95Z

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Actually..I usually only do this with ZERO traffic anywhere..late at night... I back off and let the air/engine drag start bringing me down... You are right I hit an exit ramp first time i had the car back out doing ~140mph and I had to stand on them...get off...(tried to let them cool a lil bit) and then drop the rest of the speed off before I got to the stop sign.

Next mod: Brake upgrade.

5POINT7

This thread just got jacked.

Mike 01WS6

I usually take 4th till 135-137ish....then its 5th gear from thereon out.

Y2kHawk05

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I've hit the 155 mph twice. Once sober and once drunk. The sober experience felt too good and the drunk experience felt too bad. Scared me enough to never want to do the speed again on the street. Since, I've hit the 130, 135, and maybe the 145 mark and my car loves it. Problem is, in H-town you just never know who or what may pull out in front of you. I can name twice a driver has pulled in my lane when I was at an unknown high speed. Once, my car went side to side, drifting and only by incredible luck did I not lose complete control. The other time, a driver pulled directly into my lane in the last minute, I hit my breaks, my tires slightly squeeled as the driver in front of me hit his breaks, my anti-locks kicked in as I started to drift, the other driver gave it the gas and I know I was within inches of his back bumper. That was a heart stopping, knuckle gripping, eyes closing experience. To be careful is not saying enough.

Here is another high speed story that has a sad ending. My nephew has about the sweetest 87 IROC I've seen in a very long time. Up at the lake one weekend is doing 140 on a two lane road. Hits the grass and spins forever. The IROC hits a tree *** end first. My nephews sub box with dual 12's flies through the back window and goes more than 100 yards through the woods. You can only imagine what the car looked like. Fortunately, my nephew was somehow ok.