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Old 07-22-2009, 02:40 PM   #51
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Re: how fast have you taken your 3rd gen?

Well as for me, I toped out at 110mph in 3rd gear and i have the 700r4 tranny i wasent even redlining yet then i threw in 4th gear still the same stupid limiter, how can i remove that?

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I make it a point to never exceed the posted speed limit, so with that said 65MPH would have to be the absolute fastest I have taken my car.
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i have gone ludacris speed once
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I make it a point to never exceed the posted speed limit, so with that said 65MPH would have to be the absolute fastest I have taken my car.
There are many highways where the posted speed is 70 MPH.
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The fastest third gen I know of is Kevin White he ran the pony express 50 in 2000 and had a time of 17:06.724 or 180.925mph for the 50 miles he was clocked in the Radar traps at 206mph, 201mph and 201mph on that day.

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There are many highways where the posted speed is 70 MPH.
Well done! I appreciate you taking the time to let us all know that there are 70MPH speed limits on the outskirts of our respective metropolitan areas. You get a gold star for the day!
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There's no speed limit in intersections, right?
So if I'm at a stop light and the sign up ahead says 50, I can be doing 50 when my wheels touch the ground again?
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had my 87 z28 camaro up to 160mph in a 55 mph (stupid hondas and there turbos hahhah) zone said a police mans radar gun. i had it topped out in 5th . sure glad the hood had pins cause it cracked the middle of the fiberglass hood

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u might as well by a honda
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Well as for me, I toped out at 110mph in 3rd gear and i have the 700r4 tranny i wasent even redlining yet then i threw in 4th gear still the same stupid limiter, how can i remove that?

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get a book find ur vss wire (vehicle speed sensor) behind ur dash put a troggle switch on it.. flip the switch when u wanna go faster then the limit and flip it back off to keep the check engine light from comming on. really easy thats how i have mine setup
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well, one of these days i would like to get out to utah and do the silver state challenge. especially with the new motor. i once got a ticket on I-5 near Aneheim at 2 am for 100+ in a 65. (was doing 140) ticket cost 350 but only got 1 point since i took the driver course available. two weeks later got a 79 in a 65 and got 2 points....????? i will keep it under 140 from now on. i like my money in my pocket and my car in my garage.
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Well as for me, I toped out at 110mph in 3rd gear and i have the 700r4 tranny i wasent even redlining yet then i threw in 4th gear still the same stupid limiter, how can i remove that?

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You have to convert it to TPI, as the TPI computer doesnt have that speed limiter thats built into the TBI computer.

Or get a custom chip for your TBI computer.

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You have to convert it to TPI, as the TPI computer doesnt have that speed limiter thats built into the TBI computer.

Or get a custom chip for your TBI computer.
But my car is 1991 Z28 with a 305 TPI? so how would i fix that then?

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Oh, sorry, I didnt read.

Then you have me do a custom chip for your car that removes the speed limiter and gives you more power and better gas mileage.
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Oh, sorry, I didnt read.

Then you have me do a custom chip for your car that removes the speed limiter and gives you more power and better gas mileage.
Do you know of a good area where I could get that done? Cause I was planning on doing something like that in the future and getting the gage cluster that goes up too 145mph would I need to change anything else to accomplish this or i would need to get the prom burn? or what ever is called. So the speed ill be going would be correct on the cluster?

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I can do customs chips. Email me or PM me for details.

You can get a new 140 MPH dash and swap it in. I think its a direct swap.
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84 Firebird - 124 with proof. My advice, dont go seeking proof.

I dunno what I had my 85 TA up to, speedo only went to 85. The 86 the fastest I had it was 130, same day it was doing almost 140 for a friend. Car hates me. Had my brand F to 160+, scary in that rusted bent up POS. The 89 vert I've hit 140, it'll go faster than that but I dont know how much.
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You can get a new 140 MPH dash and swap it in. I think its a direct swap.
YEAH IT SHOULD DIRECTLY FIT IN BUT WHAT MY CONCERN IS WILL MY SPEED BE ACCURATE? FOR THE REASON OF CHANGEING THE SPEEDO?

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Ok, ok... I must admit I haven’t been completely honest with everyone. I may have been up around 70 once or twice.
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THANKS. TONY.
Please dont type in all caps.

Yes swapping the dash speedo will be fine. The speedo will still be accurate because its the plastic gears in the trans that affect it.
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Yes swapping the dash speedo will be fine. The speedo will still be accurate because its the plastic gears in the trans that affect it.
ok i thought like say ill be going 50mph in my normal speedo and if i put the one i want it will say ill be going 80mph or so. that was my concern about doing that swap, and which 3rd gens came with that speedo was it the 1990 irocs? not sure but some info will help though.

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Umm...I am not going to lie but I have 2.74 gears 355ci engine and I tried to push it hard. I got to 105 yesterday I think, speedometer is only 85mph. Didn't want to push it any harder than that, my engine only has 7k miles and tranny has 17k. But it seemed like the engine didn't want to keep pulling, or I didn't want it to haha. But then I started to smell something, idk what it was though. Anyway I would like to at least hit 110 without feeling like an idiot.
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http://www.austinthirdgen.org/index.php?pid=7

go to that link and it'll describe how to bypass the vss and it shows a diagram of what to look for. planning on doing this to mine when i get it back.
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115 stupid limiter kicked in.
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I strapped 2 JATO rockets to mine and got up to 215 mph.
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ok i thought like say ill be going 50mph in my normal speedo and if i put the one i want it will say ill be going 80mph or so. that was my concern about doing that swap, and which 3rd gens came with that speedo was it the 1990 irocs? not sure but some info will help though.

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You can find 145 MPH speedos for a 1991 Camaro in all 1990-1992 IROC's or Z28's that came with either the 350 TPI engine, or the 305 5-speed G92 engine. Basically its all the ones that came with the dual cat exhaust.
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I've gotten mine to 115mph a few times and then hit the limiter. That should be taken care of when I get my EBL . In my 20's one night I took my mom's 86 vette up to 130mph. Probably one the stupider things I've done when I was younger. It was at night on an empty two lane road and at that speed by the time you see what the light is shining on you are already past it. All it would have taken was an animal running out in front or a pothole and I would have probably wiped it out.
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You can find 145 MPH speedos for a 1991 Camaro in all 1990-1992 IROC's or Z28's that came with either the 350 TPI engine, or the 305 5-speed G92 engine. Basically its all the ones that came with the dual cat exhaust.
Yea I picked up mine off ebay for $200. Its expensive but I feel my car is more complete.
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I will factually say you are full of sh*t .

I had the most modified 2.8 V6 car seen (were talking COMPLETERLY MODIFIED EVERYTHING) and it would only reach 138 downhill with the wind behind it. I had 30k invested into this car. You are not going to do over 120 even downhill.


The spring after my buddy got his 89 RS 2.8V6 T5 we had it on the highway at midnight. We had the needle pointing straight down and plenty left in her. Speedo stopped at 125 in that car. I'll admit we were going down hill, but it was a gentle hill. Of course we got nailed for it. We slowed down to make the turn coming up and that's when a car came flying up behind us and the lights came on. When the cop came up to the window, the first words out of his mouth were "If you hadn't slowed down, I never woulda caught you."

We also used that Camaro to test the rev limiter in my mom's 94 Lumina Sedan. That car topped out at 115 - not too shabby for a family car.

My 92 RS with the 3.1 and T5 I hit 100 in last summer, but let off cause it started shaking pretty good. With the new engine and front suspension, I plan on trying again this summer.

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You can find 145 MPH speedos for a 1991 Camaro in all 1990-1992 IROC's or Z28's that came with either the 350 TPI engine, or the 305 5-speed G92 engine. Basically its all the ones that came with the dual cat exhaust.
Nice, that would be tight just like how TheGooseMan said my car will feel more complete. And Kevin91Z sorry about typing in all caps usually i'll wirte a lot of the post here at work and the systems only accept in all caps letters and sometimes i forget to change that. I'll probobly look in ebay or craig's list or my local junkyards to find that cluster if you guys come across any please feel free to let me know.

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Old 07-31-2009, 03:33 PM   #86
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lol ludicrous speed. My girl coming home one night on the 105 pegged the speedo at 85. The CHP told her she was doing 100 plus, but i guess seeing as how the CHP was a woman she gave my girl a ticket for doing 80 plus. yeah i try that and i get screwed lol.
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this morning 120+ mph passing a MTA bus in Commerce , The speed limit was 50 for that road. Its been a while since I drove this car and for got this baby picks up QUICK compared to TBI.

I need to slow down.
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Well,
I don't live in SoCal anymore, but when I did, I made it from San Francisco to Lomita, in 5 and a half hours, stopping at the gas station for 10 minutes, stopping at Micky Ds for 20 minutes, and dropping off the old girlfriend in Lawndale, then going home.
Uh, I did race a 300ZX twin turbo, and walked away from him.
Not bad for a little six banger, huh?
I don't want to post how fast I was going, as I don't want anything coming back to me.

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ok i thought like say ill be going 50mph in my normal speedo and if i put the one i want it will say ill be going 80mph or so. that was my concern about doing that swap, and which 3rd gens came with that speedo was it the 1990 irocs? not sure but some info will help though.

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I have seen a 165 speedo on a 1987 Z28 H.O. at GM performance junk yard. It looked legit not aftermarket. The car was missing the engine only had the T-5
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That's lame, why the hell did they even put 85 mph speedos on some of these cars?
It was a federal law for a while in this country that you couldn't install a speedometer that read beyond 85 mph. That's why the old Mustang SVO had a 160 mph speedo, but the numbers stopped at 85. The hash marks and all were there for the rest of the speeds, they just weren't numbered. It was a fun way to take advantage of a loop hole in the law (they didn't specifically prohibit that, so it worked for Ford).
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I just remembered this sad time. In 1985 I was stationed on an icebreaker in Halifax Nova Scotia when my older brother passed away. Halifax was almost exactly 1000 miles from home. When I got the news I packed my stuff and headed home in my 1984 Z28 (305 auto). 13 and a half hours later I was home. Taking only a couple fuel stops I think I averaged about 75 MPH. Avg speed limit at the time was 50 mph. Quickest portion of the ride was from Quebec City to Montreal when I got behind a Porsche 944 Turbo along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River where we cruised at about 100 steady most of the way.

A couple of years later I was stationed in Thunder Bay Ontario. A couple of times I took the IROC up there (we worked month on month off). One trip home I took the northern route home (Hwy 11) and got two speeding tickets in the same day about 50 miles apart. The second cop knew I was coming. His radio travelled faster than my IROC. The speed limit was 80 KPH (50 MPH) and first stop was 125 KPH in an 80 but he let me off with a minimum ticket, think it was about $100 and the second was about 115 in an 80. Same fine. Had to go for an interview and tell this pencil neck bureaucrat why I deserved to keep my license!
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i hit 105 on the freeway after work 1 night
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Ok, ok... I must admit I haven’t been completely honest with everyone. I may have been up around 70 once or twice.
You are a perfect driver who follow every law...
http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/so...encounter.html (2009 Nissan GTR Encounter)
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Gp 130 then ran into traffic. Sat on the 101,
there was a witness.
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Sounds like me but rather a more flat of a road and minus the crap and all the figures. And next time don't for get the ratings of the tires. =) BigDavesIroc
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I just got new tires put on today and I hit 90M in an empty 45 zone in an industrial area.
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I have an 87 mech. dash in my 91 body. w/ 3.42 gear I buried the speedo at 145 in 3rd gear at 6300rpm.
With 3.73 hit 135 in 3rd over 6000 rpm and had to slow down, it's got more. Took out a Z06 vette on Power tour uphill passed him at 125 in 3rd.I love these cars.....
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154... 6800rpm 3rd gear the funny part is that the honda i was racing though he was fast...LMAO!!!
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Hahaha good find Bullydog. Too funny. Good story tho. As for me, im stuck with the 85 spedo but a friend i was racing said 125. Not too bad
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