MattyB
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Registered: 13th Nov 01
Location: 118.5bhp :D
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris Bingham
Hit the limiter in 5th at 135 in 306 Turbo on a flat road. Twas great.
Petrol turbo conversion yeah?
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sxi16vjoe
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
Location: Kent
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hit the limiter in my mk2 fiesta.
dunno how fast cos was way off the clocks which stopped at 120mph.
not quite hit it in the corsa.
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Lucky B
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Registered: 7th Apr 02
Location: Lunatic asylum. Drives: Hard & Fast.
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I think my 106 Rallye will hit the limiter in 5th now its tweaked up a bit, but bear in mind they're quite low geared.
About 4.1k @ 80mph indicated and rev limit @ 7200rpm.
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wayne hiscock
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Registered: 20th Jan 01
Location: wiltshire, trowbridge
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nearly in old audi
limit of 6.6k or summin
i got 140mph @ 6k
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FoMoCo
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Norway
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quote:
Originally posted by MattyB
LOL @ hitting redline in 6th on F28!!
If its a standard box, then this is near impossible.
On the F28 (as standard), 6th was a long ratio cruising gear. I rmemeber tho, RDS off migweb once calculated, that you would be travelling at 192mph @ redline in 6th on F28 on 17" wheels.
But there aint many, IF ANY, vaux engines out there (even stage 3 c20lets) that could pull this.
Besides, you REALLY WOULDNT want to do anything over 150mph in anything but a high performance sports car that is designed for that sorta speed, especially not a Calibra or Cavalier  i think bits might start to fly off.
However, i think most tuned 2.0 Turbo Novas/corsa etc can hit red line in 5th on the F28, which is bout 145-ish. I know of a couple of people off MIG, who had their 6th gear altered, so that the red line IS achieveable (bout 160mph), but why you'd want to do this, i dont know.
Matt
hehe, yup when u go beyond the range of the speedo in a corsa its problaby time to do some aerodynamic change of the corsa exterior or finding another car.... :-), letz face it, the corsa is not a rocket lol:
when the temperature and air density is at the right reading I might reach 100 mph ..(1.4 8v standard) (dont coment the bad spelling...):
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Drew
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Registered: 24th Nov 01
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i cant even get to the limitter in 4th 
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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Id ned a run way
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally posted by DC
No chance of hitting it ma 1.2 8v. It barely pulls to 4000rpm in 5th
Thats because the 5th gear is an overdrive gear 
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I calculated that with my F15, i could reach 132-133mph, but the most i have had is an indicated 120mph.
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
Location: Dartford Kent Drives: 330cd
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quote:
Originally posted by sxi16vjoe
hit the limiter in my mk2 fiesta.
dunno how fast cos was way off the clocks which stopped at 120mph.
not quite hit it in the corsa.
you almost did it in mine the first time i let you have a go in it
Very close to hitting the limiter in 5th running a f16 box car was screaming but strangley still pulling  was well off the clocks
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