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Originally posted by lizard:
hey my rims are for a purpose because i wanted wider tires to handle the twisties better and top speed of a svt is 148 well my car has been above that aready thats why i say top speed and ill race an svt sometime but untill then cant argue
Did you clock yourself with a radar gun?
Your speedo isnt accurate at those speeds, and with those 17's.....
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Originally posted by lizard:
hey my rims are for a purpose because i wanted wider tires to handle the twisties better and top speed of a svt is 148 well my car has been above that aready thats why i say top speed and ill race an svt sometime but untill then cant argue
top spead is limited to 143 not 148...and second, like stated before, speedos are VERY unaccurate at that level of speed. So you are saying that basically with a ypipe and headers you gained more power then a svt with a MUCH better set of cams and higher comp. pistons? Also with wheels being larger as well, you are loosing a little bit at the top end as well because it needs to rotate more mass
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Originally posted by elraido:
Originally posted by lizard:
hey my rims are for a purpose because i wanted wider tires to handle the twisties better and top speed of a svt is 148 well my car has been above that aready thats why i say top speed and ill race an svt sometime but untill then cant argue
... like stated before, speedos are VERY unaccurate at that level of speed.
Agreed, speedometers almost always say you are going faster than reality. I have a JUGS Radar gun that I bought for baseball and it is accurate within a half mph. My friends and I tested many new cars, and the actual speed always showed up slower than the speedometer on every car. Anyways, on SE's like my car, isn't the governor set at 112mph? Because my speedo usually reads between 120-125 mph when it hits the govenor, meaning that my speedo is about 10 mph off at that speed.
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hum i think this thread slip a bit from its main subject 
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He wasn't stating that he COULDN'T do more than 112.. he was pointing out how inaccurate the speedo is at that level.. moreso at higher ones.
And he didn't go faster than 148..
period... ever...
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Originally posted by Ray:
He wasn't stating that he COULDN'T do more than 112.. he was pointing out how inaccurate the speedo is at that level...
If the "he" you are referring to is "me" then you are exactly correct!
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Originally posted by elraido:
he is chipped.
I know, I was talking about the govenor on my se.
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Originally posted by lizard:
hey my rims are for a purpose because i wanted wider tires to handle the twisties better and top speed of a svt is 148 well my car has been above that aready thats why i say top speed and ill race an svt sometime but untill then cant argue
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