Fastest Car/Truck you have Owned

[Don Mega]

Just now, kannot said:

not  on mine

 

 

 

What was your's (escort or sierra ) and what top end speed was it capable of ?

[seancbk]

No Lambos, Ferraris or proper super cars?




 

[transam]

1 minute ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

to get significantly above 100 mph surgery was needed

 

as I probably said above, the surgery kits available some 40+ years ago were extremely comprehensive,

and they were not costly

How did you fit a 5 bearing crank in a 3 bearing block....?

To add 30mph you needed a rocket.......

[kannot]

Just now, Don Mega said:

 

 

What was your's (escort or sierra ) and what top end speed was it capable of ?

Sorry Im talking about the fridge  with wheels not the cosworths

[transam]

Just now, seancbk said:

No Lambos, Ferraris or proper super cars?

 

I could beat both of those over the quarter in my 2 ton dinosaur...



 

 

[melvinmelvin]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

How did you fit a 5 bearing crank in a 3 bearing block....?

To add 30mph you needed a rocket.......

 

I never did that, 5-bearing crank thing, but such surgery kits were advertised in the magazines.

 

No, no rocket.

Fairly plain brushing up.

 

Increasing compression through slicing down the cylinder head.

Increasing cylinder volume/bore through honing/drilling.

Lighter weight rods and pistons.

Rebuild of carbs and intake manifold stuff

More square camshafts and stone hard springs and pushrods to go (+valves to go) (or go all the way to OHC)

ignition stuff to go

 

this gets you a long long way

 

[taotoo]

But who's done the highest speed per horsepower?

 

I did 120mph (130 on the speedo) in a 110hp 1.6 litre MGF.

[seancbk]

12 minutes ago, transam said:

14 minutes ago, seancbk said:

No Lambos, Ferraris or proper super cars?

 

I could beat both of those over the quarter in my 2 ton dinosaur...

 

 

Maybe, except your dinosaur probably didn't look as nice :-)
 

Or be suitable for a nice drive down to Cannes for the film festival.

 

[bimmerbob]

On 22/11/2016 at 1:59 PM, melvinmelvin said:

ages ago, had lots of Minis, 970s, 998s and 1275s

 

all of them were good for 210 + km/hour - that was GREAT FUN,

 

this about 40+ years ago

 

(Europe was flooded with fairly advanced tuning kits for Minis, for a wee charge)

 

BS

[transam]

3 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

 

Maybe, except your dinosaur probably didn't look as nice :-)
 

Or be suitable for a nice drive down to Cannes for the film festival.

 

You may be surprised at what folk may think is interesting and not looking at what a ride cost the owner....My car won quite a few trophy's in the "Public's Choice" castigatory, l was pleased about that as it was not a show car or an out and out race car....

 

[Garry]

Toyota Supra 2007 turbo auto, 130mph on the Warwick bypass. Whee...!

I was checking out 2JZ transplants the other day and came across one that had been shoe-horned into a WRX STi. Not sure if it was converted to a 2WD, but I bet it hauled arse.



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[chiang mai]

Just now, Garry said:

 

I was checking out 2JZ transplants the other day and came across one that had been shoe-horned into a WRX STi. Not sure if it was converted to a 2WD, but I bet it hauled arse.



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Mmm, Purr, ..........come to daddy.

[Rdrokit]

20 minutes ago, seancbk said:

No Lambos, Ferraris or proper super cars?




 

I had this for awhile but not as fast as my other cars. Though the chicks did love it.

[212Roger]

On 11/22/2016 at 10:25 PM, transam said:

The OP wants the fastest, not the quickest...

The fastest I've gone is 145 M.P.H. in my Infiniti Q45.  P. S.  The car no longer exists.

[transam]

4 minutes ago, bimmerbob said:

BS

I tend to agree as I cut my teeth on the things......

[transam]

4 minutes ago, Rdrokit said:

I had this for awhile but not as fast as my other cars. Though the chicks did love it.

My chum has just sold his one...Must be the worse car l have ever driven...Daytona..

[DavisH]

On 11/23/2016 at 10:24 AM, transam said:

Think they did not have that sort of top speed...

I cracked the ton in my mini...just once. Scary as hell with your butt 6 inches from the ground. That was a 1275 bored to 1310 with a 297 life cam, headers and short skirt pistons. Not the fastest, but much more enjoyable than my swift...with a similar top speed, 40 years later..

[luk AJ]

I drive a BMW M5 S 85 I don't really drive fast but the acceleration and sound is fenomenal. This is a V10 engine with 540 HP at the engine. It makes 5.7km per liter and maintenance cost is insane but it's just pure love for a car.


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[Anthony5]

Fastest I've ever owned ( not the one in the picture because at that time they didn't have phones with cameras yet), and right away also the worst I've ever owned.

 

 

 

[luk AJ]

I was checking out 2JZ transplants the other day and came across one that had been shoe-horned into a WRX STi. Not sure if it was converted to a 2WD, but I bet it hauled arse.



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So this is not stock engine?


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[sgtsabai]

TA, about damn time you started showing the real stuff! Holding back for the right opportunity were you? Now explain to the audience what that monster would do, oh yea!

[JAFO]

 Fast and quick are a bit different. I had a SCCA 1969 Camaro Z/28 that ran incredibly quick lap times. The pic below is my 67 Nova SS that ran high 7's at 200 MPH in the 1/4 mile on a 12.5 ET street tire. It was street legal and I drove it on and off to the stores and weekends. It was a 331ci all aluminum SBC with a 91mm turbo.

 

[JAFO]

Here is a pic at Las Vegas. Guy in the 57 Redlight big time. He was a BBC nitrous car and knew I could run him down with a turbo and tried to cut a big light.

 

[JAFO]

Pic of motor. My friend Brian is a insane fabricator. All that was custom made to fit the car. It took us hours and hours to fab all this stuff. Lots of nights sleeping in the garage while building it. Worth every minute of it going as fast as we did

 

[melvinmelvin]

very clean, neat and spacious eng. compartment, lots of space for more horses there

 

[sgtsabai]

Now the guns come out. Beautiful cars, the redlight '57 also. I ran across a true original factory injected '57 on a used car lot once in my home town. They could barely get it to run, didn't understand, Duntov solid lifter cam. Somebody with enough money and brains came along and snatched a real bargain.

[madhav]

26 minutes ago, JAFO said:

 Fast and quick are a bit different. I had a SCCA 1969 Camaro Z/28 that ran incredibly quick lap times. The pic below is my 67 Nova SS that ran high 7's at 200 MPH in the 1/4 mile on a 12.5 ET street tire. It was street legal and I drove it on and off to the stores and weekends. It was a 331ci all aluminum SBC with a 91mm turbo.

 

200mph trap speed is insanely quick. What sort of hp did it have? 91mm turbo is huge! 

[JAFO]

4 minutes ago, madhav said:

200mph trap speed is insanely quick. What sort of hp did it have? 91mm turbo is huge! 

 

Dyno HP was 1487HP at 28 pounds boost, Chassis Dyno was 1228 RWHP at 32 lbs and 1137 Ft Lbs tq. Car 60 ft at about 1.32 to 1.35. Best we could do with a street tire. It was a handful to drive and launch. Burned up quite a few trannies staging it. We could not use all the power. If we tuned it up too much it just blew the tires off. 

[madhav]

On 11/22/2016 at 7:11 PM, chiang mai said:

Toyota Supra 2007 turbo auto, 130mph on the Warwick bypass. Whee...!

 

As far as I understand the last of the supras rolled off the assembly line in 2002 and there hasn't been any more since then?

[sgtsabai]

Where have I seen Nevarez Racing before? Damn what a car!