Your fastest high speed pass

[BOURRET]

Originally Posted by Clois Harlan

I have told this before but I hit 159 at Texas Motor Speedway several years ago in my Cobra coming out of Nascar turn 4.....I had replaced my rev limiter from a 6200 chip to 7000 RPM chip. As I crossed the start finish line my enigine went completely silent after a shutter and a bang. I pushed in the clutch and all I could hear was the wind. I would never do that again because of the cost to repair 427 FE. Now I keep my 6000 Rev limiter ship in place and seldom bump up against it (unless I need to clean the dirt off my tires in the country).

Clois

Reving a FE too high can be costly. I had a bad experience with that in 2009 at the dragstrip. The cost in dollars was almost equal to the number of RPM.

[GRUF78]

1091 knots over the ground in an F-18A+ at altitude (14,000ft). That is 1254.6 MPH and about 1.75 times the speed of sound.

670 knots (770 MPH) at the Naval Air Station, FT Worth airshow in 2006 at 100 feet altitude. About 5 MPH of breaking the sound barrier over the crowd.

Cars?....about 147 on the main drag in front of the Cecil Field Naval Air station in Jacksonville , FL in my then new 1994 Corvette.

Cobra?...I don't know yet...should be on the road in Feb.

GRUFF

[mwagner01]

Originally Posted by GRUF78

1091 knots over the ground in an F-18A+ at altitude (14,000ft). That is 1254.6 MPH and about 1.75 times the speed of sound.

670 knots (770 MPH) at the Naval Air Station, FT Worth airshow in 2006 at 100 feet altitude. About 5 MPH of breaking the sound barrier over the crowd.

Cars?....about 147 on the main drag in front of the Cecil Field Naval Air station in Jacksonville , FL in my then new 1994 Corvette.

Cobra?...I don't know yet...should be on the road in Feb.

GRUFF

Gruff, you are insane. Dont let me down when you come in later this month.. I'm holding my breath I don't wanna see you in some Cesna

Will be interesting to see what the 427 will do. I think I mentioned earlier in this thread, I did 160 in a 427 we built around MIS in the early 2000's. I'm sure that didn't have 3/4's of the motor your car will have in it.

[Rottie]

Car 07 Corvette Z06 181mph
Bike 2001 GSXR-1000 188mph

[GRUF78]

Gents,

Not me with the SR-71. Only 3 were flying after 1989, all flown by "other" agencies.

Mike,

No big deal....I know my self preservation instinct has ramped up in the past few years....maybe no more 147 MPH public street runs anytime soon....

GRUFF

[LRobbins]

I came here to show off but I guess I am a total loser over here. In Audi TT I've reached about 130 kmph