I'd be more worried about the deer than the cops. A cop might write you a ticket, impound your car, suspend your license and put you in jail, but a deer would kill you. Game over.

 

172 mph gauge

140 mph averaged over 118 miles in West Texas open road race

===== Target Speed 140.000 (50:34.286 +/-.011)============================================= ===

POS
#
DRIVER, HOMETOWN
NAVIGATOR
MAKE
MPH Score (Delta time)
Leg 1 = 59 Miles Leg 2 = 59 Miles
7
37
Julian Bowes, Longview, TX
Fred Langley
95 Mazda RX-7
0.041 +mph(0:00.884-t)
25:38.471 @ 138.059
24:54.931 @ 142.080

 

I-75 december 3am comming from a friends house. saw no one in front or behind me & punched it from 3rd gear @ 80. was going for about 2 minutes & then i popped one of the spark plugs (thinking i blew the motor) Speedo was at 193mph. Thats with A T78 @14lbs making about 442hp.

i know things will be different now that i have a massive street port with a gt4202r on a 1.28 housing.

heres the thread

https://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php...&postcount=572

 

where did you get 193 from?

 

100mph

 

171 ~ It didn't feel that fast, then again it was 7 lanes wide and 3 am

 

when the speedometer was tilted at a 6oclock position

 

160

 

Have been 170-180ish a bunch of times. These cars are capable of it and handle very well at speed. But the stock brakes aren't... Give your self sum room....

Just as a side note, high speed accidents are survivable. 2 weeks ago I had two friends go air born at 120mph or so in a Acura Integra. One was ejected when the car hit a telephone pole, the other was wearing his seat belt. The passenger wearing his seat belt suffered worse injuries and need medical attention. The ejected drive walked away with cuts and bruises. Just weird the way things happen. Both should have died and are luck they didn't kill any one else.

 

that would be like 220mph +..

 

fountain where do you see 160? thats in the 140-150s and i do hope that it was the passenger that took that picture

 

Yeah there are those stories and then there are the stories like the one that happened over in DE where a husband and his wife slid off the road in a pickup at about 50. Both weren't wearing seat-belts and were ejected (one only partially) from the truck only to get crushed by it when it rolled over them. The kid that was strapped in his car-seat in the back row was fine, except didn't have parents anymore.

Take it easy on the streets, remember there are worse things then killing yourself. Oh, and don't listen to those stories about freak occurrences when seat-belts did more harm then good. Wear your seat-belt you are better protected in the car than out of it.

 

150mph (track only)

 

Yes in my pics the last one is like 158 but it was at a tick over 160 when i had to slow for a up coming turn :-0 and yes the passenger did take the pics!! SHEESH

 

155mph on my current FD setup.
140 Stock FD setup

145 in friends SRT-4.

 

this is now an accident thread!

A (18yo) friend of my cousin was driving his new-to-him eclipse spyder with 3 friends. Him and the front pass were using the seatbelts, the rear passengers weren't. Long story short, he crashed and the 2 rear passengers flew out and died...

 

i only paid attention once the 2 spark plugs popped

 

barried the needle on a private highway

 

What final drive do you have ?

 

topped out 5th at 250 km/h

******* drag gears.

bitch blows thru the revs in 5th too like im in 3rd.

 

I did 150 ish on the interstate and ran through a radar trap so then i decided to go to 178 according to the gps. he gave up and i took a later exit and parked the car in a school parking lot and took a very nervous walk. not one of my better ideas.

 

Not as wild as some of you but still scary. At 100, the loose interior parts start to rattle, then above 100, everything smooths out

 

Somewhere around 175mph (speedo indicated) on my old setup, would have gone faster but I had to slow down to traffic.

I passed a few cars at that speed, I really wish I could have seen what they saw. lol

The car felt inspiring stable at that speed, and when I slowed down I felt like I was crawling at 120mph.

 

Buncha James Dean fans here... I guess there are still a few alive.

 

172 mph as indicated by the speedo.