Adrian87Camaro

Found a open stretch of road and decided to record my attempt to top my car out. I know the risk, but I have traveled this road many times and it is as safe as I could be on the street (trust me I wish I had a track reasonably closeby, but there isn't one that I know of). Yes, I know it is only a LG4, but its what I got and it makes me smile. Being that I was out in the country my phone lost the GPS signal, thus I do not how fast I ended up going (don't you just love the 85 MPH speedos they put in these cars). I know what it feels like to go 120 in the car and trust me I was well past that, I would hope I broke 130.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=dz0ZvQnQSrE&fmt=18

ChillPhatCat

What kind of RPM's were you turning?

Adrian87Camaro

around 5K, but the engine can't go higher than that in gear.

blyth18md

IBTL?

ChillPhatCat

If you go to the main page and click on "Technical Articles" at the top of that page is a link to "Performance Calculations" You can go there and enter your tire height, gear ratios and RPM to calculate speed. With 2.73 gears and a 700R4, you would have had to be in 3rd gear to spin 5000 RPM at any reasonable speed... that's 138 MPH with 25.5" tires (keep in mind the tach could be off by 500+ RPM or more if the torque converter didn't lock up). If you were in 4th gear at 5000 RPM it would have been about 170 MPH (obviously impossible).

Adrian87Camaro

I know the tach reads around 4200 rpm when I have it floored. the 5K was a guess (a bad one, lol). and if its +/- 500 rpm, due to lockup, then it would equal my speed. being that i have driven this car daily for the last five years i would say I hit 132 mph. that puts me at 3500 RPM, according to the equation.

ChillPhatCat

Sounds reasonable... a lightly modded '87 LG4 should be able to do that. I'd suggest keeping it in 3rd to get to top speed... A lot of cars hit their max speed in the second to last gear available since neither gears can usually be topped out and it makes it easier on the engine.