Fastest car you have been in
07-20-2007, 10:45 AM
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Formula Continentals and Formula Fords. Not the fastest cars in the world in a straight line (still fast though), but in a turn simply unbelievable. I have driven through the kink (a really fast turn) at Road America flat footed at around 130 MPH.
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probably my boss's 996TT
07-20-2007, 08:47 PM
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Ridden:
Buddy's 01 Procharged SS making ~600 HP...high 9 second FULL street car. Beat the **** out of a Gixxer 750 w/ NOS was prolly the best kill...still not the fastest car I've seen around though by any means.
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My other friends 05 STi making 650awhp/650awtq + 150 shot.
AWD burnout on launch...spin 2nd...3rd....chirp 4th...
Buddy's 01 Procharged SS making ~600 HP...high 9 second FULL street car. Beat the **** out of a Gixxer 750 w/ NOS was prolly the best kill...still not the fastest car I've seen around though by any means.
OR...
My other friends 05 STi making 650awhp/650awtq + 150 shot.
AWD burnout on launch...spin 2nd...3rd....chirp 4th...
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07-20-2007, 09:31 PM
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passenger: '76 corvette that ran low 10s all motor (street legal, but probably shouldn't have been). A friend bought it, and decided the suspension was crap. He paid an engineering company to design tubular suspension bits, custom springs/dampers and all for road track and autoX use. The thing was absolutely insane.
driver: same. owner - "come on... give it a little juice"
me - "I think you clutch is slipping"
owner - "look in the rear view"
me - "it's wrong that there is that much tire smoke at 140 mph"
After that drive the owner determined it was wise to de-tune the car some... so we limited the carbs (dual 4 barrels) to only 50% open at WOT. The car still ran low 12s with the "governor" we installed.
driver: same. owner - "come on... give it a little juice"
me - "I think you clutch is slipping"
owner - "look in the rear view"
me - "it's wrong that there is that much tire smoke at 140 mph"
After that drive the owner determined it was wise to de-tune the car some... so we limited the carbs (dual 4 barrels) to only 50% open at WOT. The car still ran low 12s with the "governor" we installed.
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07-20-2007, 10:15 PM
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'02 Benz C36.. to the floor all the way to the 155mph limiter, several times... gotta love the Nevada desert.
Ridden:
'02ish Superformance Cobra w/aluminum smallblock. 500whp or so, he said like 2100lbs. Made for interesting onramps. I found as a passenger that my brain and eyes simply could not keep up. He was looking and thinking so far down the freeway where his next move would be that I was terrified the entire ride and don't remember much. It was so loud and brutal I think I might pass if I was ever offered a ride/drive one on the street again... at least at that performance level.
I might have everyone beat here for fastest top speed in a "vehicle" though. I think I may have hit 800kts in a Tomcat over Nevada, but I KNOW I was over 700kts in a Viper... from the backseat of course, where it's safe.
'02 Benz C36.. to the floor all the way to the 155mph limiter, several times... gotta love the Nevada desert.
Ridden:
'02ish Superformance Cobra w/aluminum smallblock. 500whp or so, he said like 2100lbs. Made for interesting onramps. I found as a passenger that my brain and eyes simply could not keep up. He was looking and thinking so far down the freeway where his next move would be that I was terrified the entire ride and don't remember much. It was so loud and brutal I think I might pass if I was ever offered a ride/drive one on the street again... at least at that performance level.
I might have everyone beat here for fastest top speed in a "vehicle" though. I think I may have hit 800kts in a Tomcat over Nevada, but I KNOW I was over 700kts in a Viper... from the backseat of course, where it's safe.
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07-21-2007, 01:44 AM
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fastest passager would be maybe a buddies 1gen AWD DSM laying 4 drags in 2nd gear from a roll.... second would be R32 GTR skyline....the looks that gets you street side... and in South GA its even better
fastest I drove would be my old DSM w/ 300whp or my 02 R6 with a 60 tooth rear sprocket....I could stand 6th gear up from a roll....no top end but one hella stunt bike lol
fastest I drove would be my old DSM w/ 300whp or my 02 R6 with a 60 tooth rear sprocket....I could stand 6th gear up from a roll....no top end but one hella stunt bike lol
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07-21-2007, 02:58 PM
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i'm jealous of a lot of these posts. I have no friends into cars and I'm poor so no fast rides for me. Once though a couple years ago I got a ride in a rousche mustang from an ex-girlfriends brother. Not as fast as some posted here but it was enough to pin me in my seat and have respect for domestic cars after that. At ~160mph on a Florida country road all I could think of was that I was going to die if anything happened.
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