Author Topic: Fastest car you've driven? (Read 1730 times)

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #60 on:** July 29, 2002, 01:06:54 AM »

Reading through this thread reminds me of fishing stories at the pub.

Keep it up guys... I'm having a good laugh.

AKDejaVu

P.S. I know that a few of these may actually be accurate... but in this thread it doesn't really matter.

icemaw · « **Reply #61 on:** July 29, 2002, 01:39:02 AM »

Fastest car dodge viper driven 3 diff ones one was a gts coupe with cams and it was pretty fast. Didnt get and top speeds but couple stop light blasts. Driven a new 911 non turbo power didnt impress me but handling did. Drove a newer vet not sure year it was couple years old it was fast but not as brutal as the gts.
I work for a car dealership see all kinds of used cars come thu.
Fastest top speed my own 83 5.0 stang 135mph got a full roller motor porter polished heads holly projection 375 ponys built for canyons full cage 4point harness full subframe connects saleen suspension.
Fastest ever on street my 93 katana 1200 150mph man thats fast nuff lines on road form one long line got a speed wiggle at bout 145 hairy stuff. Not as bad as the sporster got at 110 tho that one bout pitched me off.

wulfie · « **Reply #62 on:** July 29, 2002, 01:40:57 AM »

hblair,

My Dad had an authentic 930 RUF for a couple of years. At the time (mid '80s) they were one of the fastest cars in North America. I think the HP was well over 400, 500+ with the twin turbo if memory serves.

The fastest I've ever driven in that car was ~140 MPH for a short period of time. I wasn't tracking the speedometer too closely - I was on a straightaway at a race track in that car with an instructor in the car with me (My Dad said the only way I'd every be allowed to drive the car was if I went to a couple of driving schools with him and the car - people who have experience with rear engine/rear drive cars know why this is so important).

It was a wise move on my Dad's part. I learned about why high speed anywhere but a race track is very unwise, and got alot of the 'driving and turning at high speeds' out of my system. After those schools I didn't really drive it that much, and when I did I didn't really 'wind it up'.

There were many many 'fake' 930 RUF cars in the U.S. If memory serves (that was a long time ago) one of the ways to spot the 'real deal' was to look at the intake on the air dam.

It was a cool car though. The only car I ever saw on the road that was faster at the time was a nonlegal 935, in the Cupertino, CA. area in the mid-late '80s.

Mike/wulfie

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #63 on:** July 29, 2002, 04:17:01 AM »

Dad's car for a lil while

I also got a ride in a 1996 blue/white Viper GTS .... priceless.

RRAM · « **Reply #64 on:** July 29, 2002, 08:42:14 AM »

I topped 195km/h in a Bilbao-Sabadell trip, in the first weekend of September '01.

I did it after realizing that I had kept the speed over 180km/h for a lot of time without noticing I was running that fast...

That was my first trip in that car (my previous one was a Suzuki Swift). I thought I was running at no more than 140km/h...so when I looked at the speedometer and saw "180" I thought "WTF, lets see how much can I get"...and that was when I topped 195.

All that in a Opel Astra of 1997...speed readings all are indicated.

lazs2 · « **Reply #65 on:** July 29, 2002, 08:54:01 AM »

durr.... that hemi you are talking about would top out nicely with 2.75 gears. My RT had 2.75's and a 440 big blocks make big holes in the air. The steering/suspension needs work tho on the 60"s cars... realeasy stuff these days. My el camino is all hotchkiss boxed control arms and bilstien shocks with a 6 speed trans. it drives well with about 3 degrees of positive castor.

Acceleration.. probly the willy's.... a 10 second car in the right hands. My Healey will run low 12's with street tires and closed exhaust.. it pulls pretty well. I will be glad to give deja a ride in it if he comes by. starts right up and is is street legal.. sorta.
lazs

wulfie · « **Reply #66 on:** July 29, 2002, 09:18:53 AM »

Hey lazs,

Can you post a picture of your Healey?

Mike/wulfie

lazs2 · « **Reply #67 on:** July 29, 2002, 11:32:15 AM »

woofie... I don't know how to post a pic but hooli posted one of my car in the "BMW=garbage" threads. It is the clapped out, primered car with magnesium (yeah, i know they are dangerous and illegal) wheels.
lazs

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #68 on:** July 29, 2002, 11:44:51 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
durr.... that hemi you are talking about would top out nicely with 2.75 gears. My RT had 2.75's and a 440 big blocks make big holes in the air. The steering/suspension needs work tho on the 60"s cars... realeasy stuff these days. My el camino is all hotchkiss boxed control arms and bilstien shocks with a 6 speed trans. it drives well with about 3 degrees of positive castor.

Acceleration.. probly the willy's.... a 10 second car in the right hands. My Healey will run low 12's with street tires and closed exhaust.. it pulls pretty well. I will be glad to give deja a ride in it if he comes by. starts right up and is is street legal.. sorta.
lazs

lazs, ya got a Healy? What, a Sprite with a Ford 289? (jest guessin) I used to have a 1963 AH 3000. Paid 700 dollars for it, rebuilt the motor and used it for my daily driver for years. Not very fast, but alot of fun to drive, and that big six had a ton of torque. Sold it to liquidate assets before my second marriage ended in a divorce.

hblair, thanks for a good reading thread. You may be skewed politically, your boat is as impractial as it gets and frankly you're ugly, but you have the cleanest body shop I've ever seen. <~~> for that alone.~~

hblair · « **Reply #69 on:** July 29, 2002, 11:49:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Elfenwolf

hblair, thanks for a good reading thread. You may be skewed politically, your boat is as impractial as it gets and frankly you're ugly, but you have the cleanest body shop I've ever seen. <~~> for that alone.~~

lol, Don't know if that's a cutdown or a compliment, or a setup for a troll.

hmmm..

thanks?

lazs2 · « **Reply #70 on:** July 29, 2002, 12:17:59 PM »

elf... u live in Sac? Come by and I will sign you up in the Robert Conrad fan club and show you the shrine.

The healey is a '55 100 4 with a 327 in it. Come by and I will give you a ride.
lazs

Elfenwolf · « **Reply #71 on:** July 29, 2002, 01:11:18 PM »

K Laz, I'd like to check it out. The hot setup back in The Day was a Sprite with a 289 in it because it was practically a bolt-in swap for the stock 4 cylinder motor-mount wise. Of course you still had to weld on the cross member and rear mounts, but it was a relatively easy swap and man o man those little Sprites were quick. Well, for The Day, anyway.

I don't know about fastest accelerating but the scariest accelerating I ever did was while backing down an extremely long and crowded launching ramp at Lake Oroville and having my breaks go soft on me. I was in a 74 Scout, manual transmission, and I was pumping that brake pedal like a hillbilly fiddle player on Meth while trying to jam it into any forward gear I could find. Got stopped right at the last moment, but had to endure the dirty looks from the other boaters who thought I'd backed down the ramp that fast on purpose.

Hblair, no troll, just sayin. You jogged the ol memory of cruising El Camino Blvd. back in The Day. The hot rods in 1967 might not have been as fast as the Hondas and Acuras are today, but they certainly looked and sounded faster, plus had more character.

nuchpatrick · « **Reply #72 on:** July 29, 2002, 01:31:26 PM »

Fastest I've gone.. 120 (speed limited) in a 2001 1.8 Turbo Beetle.. New 2002 Mazda Miata.. got to wait to brake her in before I do the speed trial..But it sure doesn't like to go slow...60 feels like 30!!

lazs2 · « **Reply #73 on:** July 29, 2002, 02:47:35 PM »

elf... trust me on this... putting a 289/302 in a sprite is MAJOR surgery.. nothing from the sprite drivetrain can be used. You better be a good fabricator and a welder and have a good imagination... It is not impossible... far from it.. friend of mine has a bug eye sprite with all late model vette suspension and a 468 injected crate HEMI in and it looks pretty stock except for the narrowed vette wheels. As to the old muscle cars..... things have changed with the muscle cars....

today...unless one of the old muscle cars is just some pristene resto job... they all are better than they were. Suspension and drivetrain components have made huge leaps and the aftermarket caters to a group of "Gmachine" hot rodders that have very deceptive muscle cars.... All the good stuff from the sixties, sound, looks torque etc. but..... with new car handling and top end.. for instance... My SS el camino was a 350 hp 396 4 speed car... A wicked cool car in it's day but.... you can't even rebuild a 396 anymore without stumbling onto 400+ DYNO hp these days... more is easy... The six speed I put in it means that the first 4 gears are like having a 400+ hp car with 4.56 gears and then... shift to 5th and have 3.31's 6th makes the car have about a 2.75 final drive. 2 1/2 exhaust make it sound better than when new... radial tires, bilstein shocks, high rate roll bars and springs... adjustabel, boxed control arms, fast ratio steering.... It looks like 1969 but...

for rip... in the 396.. followed a bmw going to fort bragg. lot of tight turns but... they were uphill.. I could corner with him but he couldn't accelerate uphill with me. He was working a lot harder than me plus..... i looked cooler doing it and didn't make all them funny noises.
lazs

wulfie · « **Reply #74 on:** July 29, 2002, 07:20:44 PM »

Be careful up there around Ft. Bragg...it's not too far from where I grew up and no small # of people have blown a turn and gone over the edge of those cliffs...all the way down to the Pacific.

lazs, do you like abalone?

Mike/wulfie