I know someone who is a "wingless wonder" and he's had his to 165+ - don't think it's a problem.

Funny how a wingless car is so common in the US, but it's so rare to get a car out of Japan thats never had a wing.

If you've never had your car to the buzzer in 5th gear then you've never really opened it up properly if you ask me. I've not quite had mine there.. at 165mph on the speedo there is still plenty of room for more. I have got a pic of the dash @ 165mph somewhere that I got a mate to take hehe.

One of my tyres is almost bald so I'm not pushing it over 150mph at the moment. What's the fastest anyone has ever done in the wet? I did 140mph in pouring rain once and normally I don't like going fast in the wet 'cos the back-end gets so twitchy, but at 140mph it was cornering on sharp corners without trouble, though I was scaring myself sh*tless!

> Chaz <

 

ive only hit 155, i was racing 3 bikes that thought there rides where the ****, showed them who was boss. I wouldve went faster but i was coming up on some traffic, so i slowed a bit. that was fun, i hit 140 at least once a week now. i would like to go faster then 155 but i just need the opportunity
adam

 

I have hit
7375.5 cm/sec
14520 ft/min
242.055 ft/sec
4425.3 meters/min
guess it would have been easier to say
165 mph
but where is the fun in that

 

Sir, you either have a death wish or you are really, really stupid. Seriously.

 

178 mph 14psi new york highway and had a passenger

 

Like rynberg said, you are either a complete moron, or you are lying out of your ***. Sharp cornering at 140mph on wet roads??? You sure you don't mean 140kph?

 

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but is a stock FD even capable of redlining in 5th gear? I thought the top speed was somewhere around 160.

 

I'd like to see this picture. I would post how fast I've been...but I'm smarter than that...this is the internet come on now people

 

I don't know the guage only reads up to 180km/h It was pointing somewhere in the trip meter and the tacho was at 6500 in 5th and still pulling very nicely

-pete

 

Under the Patriot Act, you're all under arrest for terrorizing SUV drivers on the highway!!

 

I do believe the car will do the 180mph.I had mine up to 140 or so tonight and it was still pulling hard.I ran out of road.The car is bone stock.With a fresh mazda reman in it.I have about 500 miles on the reman.The car feels so smooth at that speed i was so amazed.My mx6 at 150 feels like its going to take off from the road.I know my mx6 would go faster but its gear limited to 151mph.Dont ask for my list of mods on my mx6, its extremely long.All i can say is its the fastest mx6 in the midwest.You wont see another one like it.Which is how I want my rx7 to be.

 

With a cop as a passenger I took it up to 165mph as we ran out of road.

 

Isn't the break-in period for a rebuild 1000 miles? Don't they say keep it under 3000 RPM and under 70 MPH!? Hmm, that 140 looks like a redline in 4th gear. Maybe remans are different. I know when my Pettit Rebuild was around 500 miles I was granny driving that beehatch around town...maybe it's just me

Jack

 

I went 205 in a buddies Z, he had a 200 mph speedo. His car make 550 @ the wheels, but we were pushing redline in 5th. Plus it was like 3 AM no cars in sight, fun times. But in my car the fastest I have been was 130ish.

 

Dude, you beat me to it. Some break in period policies are even longer than 500 miles as well.
Someone here has actually hit the 200 mark? That's insane. There isn't a road long enough in a straight line to get going much faster than I did.
I don't even know what to say about that guy's comments about driving like that in the rain.

 

May I ask why you were doing 140mph in the rain?

 

For some real idea of what it is like to be passed by another FD while you are doing 120 go to this site and click on flybye.

http://www.stlrx7club.com/rx7revolution/videos.htm

 

Killer flybye on that link. That's fast. What was he doing? Like 160?

 

By all accounts he was doing 160+

There were 7 3rd gens and a 2nd gen in a convoy to Indy for the Revolution. We had a ball.

 

I got to 160 twice... once racing a TT Supra and the other time a TT 300Z...WON both times..

 

162 mph in my bone stock 93 R1 on a straight, empty stretch of California state highway. Could have gotten a little more out of her if some oncoming traffic hadn't popped up on the horizon.

 

155 today after I got out of Houston traffic, and onto the nether regions of TX.

 

4th gear, about redline, almost 140. I started running out of road, but the FD still felt glued to the road. You gotta' love the sound of apexi duals at 7500 RPM!
Just so you know, I was late for my tee time First three holes I was so amped up still I think I bogeyed the first three holes.

Frank

 

Later on this day I hit the famed 180mph. The pic below was in a tunnel in northern Italy, heading to Austria, then Germany for a conference in Ramstein. I was on a 4-lane north of Stuttgart and it was all open so I punched it. Didn't get a picture of the 180...I'm not stupid or crazy! She was handling it well but the hood started to shake a bit so I shut her down to a normal autobahn cruising speed of 120mph.

God I miss Europe

 

160 ++++ just glanced down really quick... i wonder how many feet i traveled when i glanced down...my girlfriend shat her pants i am sure my palms sweated..not as scary as going 160+++++ on my prev ported gsxr-750 with goodies. kevin