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Originally posted by James Smith:
So I take it that you can get to maximum speed? Being 143 m.p.h.

Oh by the way I had one our towns local police officers clock me on a top speed run and I have discovered that my car is speed limited but farther up than other SE's. At what the officer said was around 122. But the speedo was reading above 125.


143 is what the SVT is limited at due to drag and the power puts out. At least that's what Ford claims. Your SE probably couldn't reach that high without producing the power that the SVT makes, everything else being equal.

Your speedo showing 125 is just a result of the calibration being off. The radar was right. SE's and GL's have different limiters, at least the early SE's, because of different stock tires -- the 14" tires that came on the GL weren't rated as high at the GTA's on the SE.

And I still don't believe 22HP on the Zetec. Not for one second. Show me a picture of before and after dyno plots and I'll believe, but not until then.

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