Well I did a top speed run today and I was able to hit 144mph (indicated), then I bounced off the rev limiter. I've got the ATS 4.9 final drive witht he stock USDM 5th. I tell you what, it gets there pretty damn quick. Not sure on times, but its a hellav alot better then stock

 

144 with the ATS FD? thats not bad at all..i thought it would be way lower lol.

 

god damn....freeway? sterring is alot more sensitive at higher speeds huh......hahah touch the wheel and fly off the road.

 

is that stock rev limit or higher than stock?

 

That is with the stock limiter... It was on a 5 lane express way (I75) and I was booking down the fast lane, passing about 2 other cars the entire way. This is a completely stock R with ATS FD. Fly and clutch go on this weekend. Car has about 12000 miles on it, motor about 1500 (spun bearing, new motor under warrenty).

As for stearing, handled like a charm, both hands on the wheel and foot on the floor.

 

Cool man.. My road test mag says these cars will only do 145 stock...

What the hell do those guys know anyway

 

The 145 mph top speed may be more accurate than the indicated... If you hit the rev limiter in 5th on a stock USDM R, I think the indicated mark is past 150 mph, somewhere near "premium unleaded only"

 

Before the final drive, I got it up to an indicated 155mph (could not tell, was past 150) coming accross aligator alley. Took for ever to get there too. According to the gear calculator, I should only be able to get around 136 with the ATS, so I think the speedo is off.

Who needs to go that fast anyways, ats is for the turns


[Modified by AssPenny, 12:04 AM 4/23/2002]

 

I wonder how many beers a FD/clutch/flywheel install takes for the ITR-NC/FL crew?

rob- who is starting to think

 

shrug... 5 of us.. i'd say we down 3 cases easy on saturday.....

 

3 cases? Damn, you guys are hardcore...I just hope that tranny works when you put it all back together.

 

Hahaha... yea and that was not including the night before. We would have drank a crap load more that night, but due to some issues that arose, we were not in the mood to drink any more. Tranny worked great after the FD install. Even when everybody had fun mixing up the gears and syncros

Tranny was smooth as butter, to bad the motor thought other wise.

 

With JUST our 4.929 FD,

141.8 MPH mathematically speaking with an 8500 RPM cutoff and stock tire, 23.44in diameter.

Remember that both the Tach and Speedo are off a little. The Tach by as much as 400 RPM at redline and the Speedo as much as 3 MPH which could explain the higher top speed.

A.

 

For the day crowd

 

+1

err i mean, Black R posted in the kills that he hit around 144 with ATS and itr 5th also

-jeff, who is corroborating

 

Does installing the final drive have an effect on the speedo readout at lower speeds. Kind of like how putting huge tires on a truck effects the speedo readout. I was just wondering if it did, and if so, how it is corrected.

 

I guess I should assume that I'm the host? Or was I not invited this time?

 

Don't you think you are just a bit over the speed limit there?

ATS FD is nice, but I think their gear set is even nicer.

 

buttcoin- was this on the stockers or the bling-bling vx-1's?

 

Hahaha... vx1's are Jasons. This was on stockers with stock tires. I was 6mph under doubling the speed limit

 

How did you pay for that FD? Thinking of getting the same one...

 

VX1's r0x0rz!!!

 

Visa

If you ment how much: $750

 

Man, im thinking twice about this whole modding cars ****, appearantly it might lead to alcoholism....

Get a keg, its cheaper

Mike D

 

Yeah I hit the same ~145 indicated with the same setup recently, but as Anton points out it's only 141 or so in reality... Still a lot faster than I have any business driving... But oh so fun!