Sat. Night

Well, i figured i would let u guys know about this weekend. Me and a friend of mine were just cruizen around looking for some fun :evillol:, and sure enough as i pulled out of a gas station, a car in the far lane speeds by me at what i would say was about 60-70mph. So we have a chain of redlights as we leave the city and i would say if it was the last it was 1 of the last lights b4 we got out 2 the straight country, so we kinda fool around passing him and the slowly trying 2 bait him 2 floor it.....so the last light is up and i pass him far and stop at the green light. He pulls up and we wait for red, he rolls down his window and ask what i was running, i told him bone stock and asked him. He said he had an after market intake and that it was an 04 accord. light turns red, then green and we jump. I would say i was a full car ahead of him by the time we got out of the intersection....we go about 1/4 (what id guess) and i start to brake a good 5 or 6 cars ahead of him. He speeds up past me and i have slowed to about 50.....as i see him keep going, i reaccelerate and go from rolling at 50 to around 100 and i am quickly gaining on him, i pass him around 120-130 and run about another 1/4 until he has completely disappeared from my rear view.:banghead:

Can a SVX even go 120mph?

I'd imagine with it's age, AWD killing it's power, low power output and automatic gear box it'd be hard pressed to do 100mph.

Hmm.. interestingly interesting.

Maybe, 120 isnt that[I] hard to believe. Hell my 94 saturn (RIP) with 230k and 124 hp would hit the 113 governor with no problem

dont neutra drop the car at any given time. it might be cool the first time around, but the second might not be. just a heads up.

o4 accord. musta been a 4 cylinder auto. glad you had fun.

and idk about 120 in the svx, but its believeable.

i think their theorectical top speed is like 150,, but considering that they're a high 15 or 16 second car in stock trim (with a sub-100mph trap speed) it seems like it would take 2 or 3 minutes to reach it :sleep:

it'll take me about a min or so to hit 120. when i get bored and gas gets cheaper, i'll see what it tops out at.

120mph maybe dropped out the back of a C-130...

kidding, i agree... if it could do it, it'd probably take an agonising several minutes to get there. Like where you and your buddy are rocking back and forth in unison to help scoot it along going "c'mon! you can do it!"


Ah... as it's said, it's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow. :)

Woot more underestamations about the SVX. I have gotten 2 about 135mph in no more than 2min. The car maxes out at 160mph.

Bull.

Does the speedo go to 160mph?

I highly doubt 230hp and 224ft-lbs pushing through a power robbing automatic ontop of more power robbing fulltime AWD that it'd do 160mph.

A C5 Corvette with a 350hp LS1 can just barely do 170mph flat out over a large distance. A F-body with the same power plant will barely go 160mph. I had a LS1 Z28 Camaro, fastest I had it up to was 140mph, and it wasn't accelerating very fast at those speeds, was still climbing but I could tell it wasn't going to much higher.

You're trying to tell me that your car, a good 120hp down from a LS1 powered vehicle... I won't even mention the rest, but just on power alone... that top end wise it'll keep with?


C'monnn man.

Yeah by max out i ment the speedo goes 2 140.....And i personnal have had it 2 130-135mph. But it was down maybe a mile or more probaly.

I see...... big difference between 140 and 160.

Oh wait im sorry that was a typo it registers 160 on the speedo.:banghead:

^^^:wtf:

I guess 120 isn't that hard to believe...
Good kill, either way... Glad you had fun...

I had my Focus go around 110ish max, untill I had to slow down because of traffic up ahead. That 110 run took me probably a little over a minute when the left lane was wide open on I95, and it seemed like the car could've went a little more than that 110ish...

Thnx man, idk i had it 120-130 ez. And it felt pretty good, wasnt shaking dramaticly or anything. (about a normal shake for 100+mph) but it actually felt like i could have gotten it higher but with space limited and my opponent clearly defeated, i let off.

:cwm27:

Thnx man, idk i had it 120-130 ez. And it felt pretty good, wasnt shaking dramaticly or anything. (about a normal shake for 100+mph) but it actually felt like i could have gotten it higher but with space limited and my opponent clearly defeated, i let off.

Your car shakes at 100mph? You might wanna check the alignment. Mine didnt shake at all when i was goin just over 120 in 3rd. But it might depend on the car.

If a car has a highspeed wobble, then it's not stable.

Check the alignment, and the lug nuts... and tire pressure... jesus christ if you do anything, check the tire pressure. I drive a ton of miles these days and I see car after car with tires balloning out due to low pressure.

Not only does it affect your handling to a point where under hard cornering the soft side wall could curl under and pull itself away from the bead of the rim causing a catastropic failure... but in this day and age it helps keep your fuel mileage respectible as well.

If a car has a highspeed wobble, then it's not stable.

Check the alignment, and the lug nuts... and tire pressure... jesus christ if you do anything, check the tire pressure. I drive a ton of miles these days and I see car after car with tires balloning out due to low pressure.

Not only does it affect your handling to a point where under hard cornering the soft side wall could curl under and pull itself away from the bead of the rim causing a catastropic failure... but in this day and age it helps keep your fuel mileage respectible as well.


Word, I read how that apparently tons of gas is wasted and accidents are caused because of low tire pressure, so starting soon cars are going to have a tire monitoring system.

K, i checked the alignment and the tire pressure was both ok, i has 2 loose lug nuts which i tigtened, gonna have 2 see if it fixes.

I know my rx-8 has a tire pressure monitoring system on it and the 350's have one aswell, dont know about any of the other cars out there that are decently priced cause obviously the more you pay the more you get (Or that would be the general idea)

oh here is to help out with the whole top speed issue, i found this info on the SVX http://www.cars101.com/subaru_svx.html In short, the speedo goes to 160 but top speed is dependant on the year the model was built ealier models had the top speed of around 150 while the later models had the top speed of 130.

SImilar to the rx-8's now, 03-06 manual rx-8 have a top speed of somewhere between 160-170 drag limited while the 07-08 have a top speed electronically limited to 145. (Not that it matters much, like we are ever gonna go that high up in our daily commutes.)

cause obviously the more you pay the more you get (Or that would be the general idea)

or sometimes the more you pay the more "name" you get, like a bmw, mercedes, or porche *cough* overpriced *cough*

Thanks Gotian the link was very helpful.