What's the fastest you've gone?

[CAptynCrunch]

hello i am the owner of the 91 protege that my cousin formerly talked about. There seem to be a few people who dont have the facts here no offence intended. my car is one of the last of the japanese factory racing trend that plagued the WRC in the late 80's and early 90's where there were only a hand full of exact street versions of the WRC cars produced to allow the company to race their car in international rally competition. For the record my father (a former street racer) who has recently changed his views on japanese cars (for the better) has been tutoring me on the intricacies of engines. we found that my car also came stock (and i use the term loosely) with super high compression pistons , bronzed rings, forged pistons and a high performance header.
its exact compressin ratio is a mistery but we can tell that it is roughly 13-1 (the new 2001 celica GTS is exactly 11.5-1) now this in and of itself generates a fair bit of kick. My cousin was mistaken now dont laugh but the only place i can find decent information on my car is from gt2 yes in know inaccurate but it contains a car that is for all intents an purposes a car that is exactly the same as mine (at least exteriorly) in the mazda protege GTX a four wheel drive japanese version with a turbo engine and 176hp now from that and the fact that mine has higher compression i checked out the mazda turbo used on that model and its relative horsepower gain and determined that my car had roughly 160HP (My cousin over guestimated at 170,sorry) it has a full rally suspension that holds firm at 140mph yes that is correct it has done that speed cheked for accuracy by my friend at college that has a gps speedo in his 96 talon tsi awd that CAN'T overtake me in the flatout (but it can kill me off the line). I used the weight scale at my local recycling depot, as we all do in St. Johns, says that it weights in at +or - 10 1979 pounds with a full tank of gas and us in it this equates out to 11.5 to 1 power ratio with us in it or a 10 to 1 with it empty (not much use without a driver) I have nothing against american cars (in fact im a true vette lover) but i have been able to bag everything up to a camaro Z28 or a 4.3 GT Mustang (my friends and not off the line , he kills me there) any way i just figured i mention the specifics of my car so as not to affend anyone or confuse. if anyone has any info that i haven't listed on my caar please help me out thanks for the site to post this on.

[Chris]

That is really light, I have gotta look hard for one of those!

[Bert]

got 130mph out of my British spec Escort RS Turbo and about 120mph out of the mk1 fester you see below.

[gang$tarr]

that japanese spec protege's turbo must not be very good.... that's not a big gain at all. If yours with no turbo is only 16hp less, the higher compression can't give you tooooo much more horsepower...
I guess that turbo must be very small

[Steel]

Did 155 mph on that same CBR600 F3 Sunday. My GOD i was aobut to shit my pants!! You cannot imagine what its like! The engine was pretty much redlined in sixth, but i couldnt hear it scream cause the freaking wind was so loud, even through the helmet! and it was sooo....fucking....COLD! But my god, That was sooo crazy, i can't believe i did 155 miles an hour on a motorcycle!!

I am not gonna forget this soon.

[gang$tarr]

I want a crotch rocket.... they look like soo much fun

[hakka]

me too....maybe a Ducatti

[Chris]

Lets just say that Mazda really neutured the turbo'd cars. With 1500 bucks, 200hp is yours

[themarsman]

I took my '94 Porsche 911 Turbo to 181 mph racing a '98 Corvette, I hit a small bump and the front end felt really light!. I haven't been over 150mph in any car since though.

[hakka]

I guess you probably beat the vette, right?

welcome to AF

[themarsman]

I probably should of told the whole story originally, well here it is:

I has entering I75 at 4:00am heading North from Square Lake road and going about 75-80mph when I see the corvette coming up behind me fast, probably about 110mph. I drop the car into fourth and get on it hard, I am not sure if he accelarated harder at the time but he never got by me. He did get next to me before my car started pulling on him, In about 1 min I couldn't see him behind me anymore. About another minute later I hit a cement strip on the expressway, which normally wouldn't be a big deal but I felt the suspension go up, but didn't feel it come down! I looked down and saw I was going a little above 180mph on the speedometer, I imediately let off the gas and slowed down to about 75mph and got over into the right lane. In about 30 seconds the corvette flys by me probably about 150mph. I am not even sure he saw me as he went by.

I fly planes quite a bit and the only way I can explain the feeling I felt was when you first start to rotate on take off you pull back on the yoke and the air under the wings takes the weight off of the suspension and then after gaining a few more knots you pull back a little more and takeoff. I feel pretty sure I was real close to taking off and since then I haven't been over 150mph in any of my cars.

[gang$tarr]

I want a Hayabusa!! those are crazy, they perform better than a mclaren. 0-60mph in high 2 seconds and 1/4 mile just under 10 seconds... STOCK

themarsman: got any pictures of your porsche, sounds like an amazing machine

[JE123]

Originally posted by gang$tarr
I want a Hayabusa!! those are crazy, they perform better than a mclaren. 0-60mph in high 2 seconds and 1/4 mile just under 10 seconds... STOCK

Those bikes are bad ass. I don't think they cost very much either. What is their top speed? I bet it is something crazy like 200 mph.

[JD@af]

Originally posted by themarsman
I probably should of told the whole story originally, well here it is:

I has entering I75 at 4:00am heading North from Square Lake road and going about 75-80mph when I see the corvette coming up behind me fast, probably about 110mph. I drop the car into fourth and get on it hard, I am not sure if he accelarated harder at the time but he never got by me. He did get next to me before my car started pulling on him, In about 1 min I couldn't see him behind me anymore. About another minute later I hit a cement strip on the expressway, which normally wouldn't be a big deal but I felt the suspension go up, but didn't feel it come down! I looked down and saw I was going a little above 180mph on the speedometer, I imediately let off the gas and slowed down to about 75mph and got over into the right lane. In about 30 seconds the corvette flys by me probably about 150mph. I am not even sure he saw me as he went by.

I fly planes quite a bit and the only way I can explain the feeling I felt was when you first start to rotate on take off you pull back on the yoke and the air under the wings takes the weight off of the suspension and then after gaining a few more knots you pull back a little more and takeoff. I feel pretty sure I was real close to taking off and since then I haven't been over 150mph in any of my cars.

Holy shit, man, that's a killer story. I hope to acquire some stories like that in the future. 'Course the fastest my car could go, given enough horsepower, would be 160 mph, as that's where it would redline in 5th gear.

[gang$tarr]

yeah they're so sick
top speed is 201mph

i think they're under 20k american, that's a hell of a lot less than a mclaren, lol
must be the scariest shit ever on bike!