cause i hit 150 mph......well maybe not. i have 16/245/50's in the back so that would alter my speedo by 5 or so mph i guess. so lets say 145 mph.

well i dunno if im right with this speedo crap, anyone know how much does bigger tires on stock TII rims throw off your speedo?????????

 

How do yu read your speed ?

 

From memory (usually right, but could be wrong), the top speeds for stock turbo RX-7s are:
88 TII 147 MPH
93 FD 159 MPH

I've only had my car up to 140 on the track (front straight at Willow Springs). It feels pretty reasonable at that speed, as I have to squeeze the brakes hard at that point and I am not worried about going out of control or anything. I am too chicken to go for a really high speed run on the street. It would be fun to rent a runway or do the Silver State Classic or something and open it up.

Don't take this as evidence that crashing at high speeds won't kill you, but there was a "big list" member who had his AST pop at 150 MPH and he spun and ended up in a fence without hurting himself or the car all that much. I guess the morals of this story is that this guy was a lucky bastard and that any problem at these speeds are likely to be big problems.

We've also lost some great people to high speed runs in the RX-7 community.

-Max

 

i got to 160 with my AUTO!!!....yah i was TRYING to race a ferrari 360 modena..guess what i lost

anyways..steve khan has got his car upto 180, but stopped because he heard his veilside body kit start to crack

 

I wonder how much faster it would be without the bodykit on to wreck the aerodynamics...

 

Wow.. lot of people responded..
My best was 155 in my 3rd gen.. could go for more but it was scary..


KEep on posting
lol

 

Crash is an understatement

 

160 in a 65 in my minorly modded '93 3rd gen rex on Central Expressway

 

150 in my 93 rx while smoking the **** out of an integra type-r and lexus is300, hehe

 

Yea that will happen thats why i had bracing put in to prevent that from happening, i have the same body kit and have gone just as fast, but i did lose the front inner plastic in the wheel well that broke off the dinky plastic push pins and rubbed against my tires from going warp speed(at least i get go air flow around my tires and brakes now )
Wow this post is still going)

 

155mph on my R1 with both windows down on san mateo bridge with a drunk white chick sit right next to me.... couldn't go faster cause the stock ecu back then....

 

with the windows down? Damn, How was it?
I bet it was great for aerodynamics
Like a ghetto airbrake

 

Dude... at 110mph with the windows open in my '80 on the back straight at Nelson, the rear carpet whipped forward and smacked me in the back of the head and tried to tangle my arms/shoulders!

Ever since that day my rear carpet has been safely rolled up and tucked behind the back seats

Also in that car, with the sunroof out, at over ~85mph the little wind deflector flap loses its battle with the headwind and it flips down and smacks my hat Funnily enough you can feel the difference the little 3"x24" flap makes in wind resistance, the car seems to surge forward after the flap smacks down. It doesn't go back up again until you nearly stop Also it's true that if you drive over 60mph in the rain, you don't need a roof! You do need side windows though

 

Actually it wasn't that bad. just hella noisy.... I love the design of FD~! =D
The white chick was still sleep like a big when I did that....

 

Did 130 on an NC highway againt a Firebird that was taunting me since the ramp. Would have gone faster but my exit was coming up. Oh yeah, kinda got scared too about getting license revoked cause I didn't have my radar detector that night.

 

OH yeah, It was in a stock 93 FD.

 

I hit 155 in my 88 TII. No one on the highway. when i gutted the converter, somehow the wastegate line snapped and boost went up to 19psi before it blew up








HKS intake
HKS BOV
HKS downpipe
HKS FCD
GREDDY POWER EXTREME EXHAUST
APEXi Boost controller(not totally hooked up)
NO CONVERTER

 

My personal land speed records:

1993 RX-7, MBM, Touring (old car): 130mph, Hwy.5 going to Cache Creek. (bone stock at time of record)

1993 RX-7, SSM, Base (new car): 135mph, Hwy.280, double decker fwy. heading north towards PacBell Park. Also 140mph, stretch of Hwy.5 heading south towards LA. (bone stock at time of record)

1994 Ford Tempo (backup car): 120mph, same stretch of Hwy.5 somewhere in CA's Central Valley.

 

I did 150 a couple weeks ago, I was at about 6400 rpms so I could have squeezed some more to about 7000, but I ran out of road...

 

19 psi on stock gtr turbo

poor little turbo it went out

though, lol!

 

Huh?

 

I've hit the 205 Km/H in my old 1985 gsl running with 6K RPM

I've never had my 1981 12 A RX7 Turbo I (Elford) to the max , but I only ran it this far to 170 Km/H with only running 4K RPM! The speedometer is adjusted so it can point to the 240 Km/H but I'm not sure if this is done because it a first gen. 12 A Turbo.

Anyway I will find out this summer when I will be off to Austria to the European Mazda Festival (to kill off some 13B Turbo II's who never heard of a 12 A Turbo (which weighs only 1050 Kg's but has 185 Bhp))
Will be fun! :-)))

(there where only 500 12a RX-7's fitted with a Turbo, done in the UK with Mazda warrenty!)

 

150 in a 95 vette (sorry, didnt get the 7 till recently) with my prom date in the passenger seat on the main street of my town

 

160 km/h =P...and not in any Mazda either! hehe