Guess its not 130...

[CassiesMan]

Not as much a street racing story, but kinda...

I was driving a freind up to a compund (gun stores are never in regular stores...they are always in compounds...wtf?) to get some black powder for his pistol. The drive is mostly highway, so I decided to have some fun on the way up.

On the way up, we pass a highschool which is located on the highway, so the potential for highschool kids driving slow cars (slower than mine) thinking they are fast is high. We get a bite when I punch by a 97 Mustang V6 (Maybe it was burntrice?)...with a Fart can? Ok, thats just...yeah.

So anyways, I slow down to pace him at about 70, so I know I wont be able to 'talk my car into' downshifting into third in steptronic, so I just put it in 'Sport'. I'm sitting next to him, and he looks over to me, and my buddy just points and laughs. So he punches it, I hear the peppy little V6 'roar' to life with its 'uber performace exhaust modification' and punch it as well. I quickly walk by it and keep it till 85. However, before I could shut down, my buddy told me to keep on it, see how fast we could get moving. So I stay on it in Sport mode, thinking that I'll feel the ever remindfull slugish drain at 130 where I always thought I was governed.

However, I was wrong. I guess in steptronic, I just run out of grunt. At one point my buddy elbows me and says "shit dude, look at that." I'm about to say, yeah yeah I know, 130mph, when I look down. The speedometer is slowly clicking past 135...walking its way towards 140. Ok...thats new. I let off the gas, at 135ish miles per hour, the highway between me and my exit comes up much faster than it does at 70. So I'm guessing the govenor kicks in at 140, not 130. Oh well, one way to find out

[-The Stig-]

Only one way to find out for sure.

[DetroitMuscle15]

nice kill....My Mustang tops out at 110 so yeah that guy didnt have a chance....Although once the limiter is removed the V6 tops out at about 125-130..Its always fun racing better cars even though you know your gonna lose....

[clawhammer]

Is it redline limited, governor limited, gearing limited, or drag limited?

[dampachi]

Things do approach alot quicker at those speeds. I was testing my top speed on this long vacant highway..but at the end of the highway is a turn. So I'm accelerating. I'm at 140ish. And I notice...whoa, shit! the turn is right here! So I gently brake and take it down some..but I managed to take the turn at some 120mph. I'm just very very very lucky it wasn't that sharp of a turn or I'd have been dead meat. I stayed on the outside lane and then cut in on the inside lane and slid some around the turn. Scared the shit out of me. But I made it. I'll never ever do that again. I'll only go like...90ish on a public road now.

[CassiesMan]

govoner limited...

[street_racer_00]

governers suck...I think mine has a governer at 130...because it pulls well until I hit 4th gear at just over 125 and then it dies at about 130...I'm guessing it's either drag limited or it has a governer of some sort, definitely NOT redline limited(it maxes out at about 5100 rpms in 4th, redline is 6600)....although one time I ran just off my buddy's 2002 GT 5 speed's bumper, and he said he hit 135...I dunno, whatever lol.

[TatII]

i'm not sure if the max's limiter is like mine, but when i hit 120mph, the power cuts off the speed drops down to around 115mph before power comes back. its a abrupt stop like bouncing off the rev limiter hard.

streetracer, you say the car feels slower at 125 then completely stops at 130 means that the governor is at 130mph and that your just starting to run out of steam at 125mph.

[street_racer_00]

Am I supposed to feel it when it hits the limiter? Because I sure don't...maybe the max is just drag limited...it has the aerodynamics of a barn door.

[youngvr4]

my moms sport contour is limited to 110mph in the same way tat just described

[youngvr4]

Originally Posted by CassiesMan

We get a bite when I punch by a 97 Mustang V6 (Maybe it was burntrice?)...with a Fart can? Ok, thats just...yeah.

that was the best part of the whole story!

[street_racer_00]

lol...your mom drives a ford contour, you drive a VR4...what's wrong with this picture? haha...it'll be a cold day in hell when I drive a nicer car than either of my parents, probably.

[TatII]

your max is already a pretty nice car, what kind of car does your parents drive?

anyways i think the limiter on the 5th gen max's are 135mph. i would have to confirm with this guy i know who works at nissan. but since you said you don't feel a jerk and lose in power then i'm sure you didn't hit the limiter yet. which means theres only one way to find out. you gotta try to hit 135mph. with yoru mods, you should be able to hit it.

[street_racer_00]

Yeah, unfortunately I'm not as ballsy as I used to be in my younger years (ticket fear moreso than crash fear)...my mom drives an 03 explorer eddie bauer and my dad drives an 04 accord EX V6(sedan, yes I know, ugly)...even though I got the car new and it only seems like yesterday that happened, she's already 5 years old and showing her age...crappy nissan factory paint means there are scratches everywhere...crack in the dash from when I banged the cupholder against it to shake some pennies loose that had stuck to the bottom of it(bad idea)....plus I have a crack in the windshield that I'm too lazy to replace, and it isn't threatening yet(meaning it's still a linear crack, no evidence of "spidering")....from 10 feet away however when it's clean, it still looks new! lol.

[TatII]

damn.