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Old 07-31-08, 11:41 PM
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I hope you were racing on a private road/drag strip and not seriously considering driving 160MPH on a public roadway.

Sometimes people need to grow up.

Kill someone going 160MPH and see how fast your jail cell goes 0-60...
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Originally Posted by LSorBS
I hope you were racing on a private road/drag strip and not seriously considering driving 160MPH on a public roadway.

Sometimes people need to grow up.

Kill someone going 160MPH and see how fast your jail cell goes 0-60...
Hit another car at 160mph and replace jail cell with coffin
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Originally Posted by irmichel
Hit another car at 160mph and replace jail cell with coffin
do coffins have speed restrictions? I bet they'll do 160 easy
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Hehehe must be a custom coffin then

@i3leusky: If you really want speed: i've read somewhere that Tom's can do ECU reprogramming. Otherwise you might wanna get your hands on a V-max/rev delimiter module by TTE (toyota team europe).

Some guys in the German LOC forum have them (266 km/h or 166 mph for a 430 LS). Add a break mod to your wishlist then for your own and other peoples sake The germans are complaining about lack of stopping power after a few times breaking from 155 mph to 60
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I've done 125 in my LS on an open stretch of highway without traffic. Got caught, should've gone to jail, but didn't. Got a nice $225 ticket instead. Realized I was a DOUCHE for trying such a thing in a car not really meant for this. Realized I was an even bigger DOUCHE for trying this on a public road.

It's criminal activity that puts lives in danger. It is NOT acceptable and I am sorry I ever did it.

If you want to do this:

a.) get a car that was designed for this
b.) go to a track where you can show off to a whole lot more people than on some road in town and not put yourself and others in such danger
Old 08-26-08, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by GeorgeT
No auto manufacturer will allow a car to go so fast the tires could come apart (it's a "John Edwards" ambulance chaser thing).
Don't you mean skirt chaser??
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Originally Posted by lexxuss
Here is a 192 mph trip example. Enjoy what you cannot do with a slow Lexus where the doors would open automatically at 150:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ideoID=9844773
That S8 is strong. Keeps at 300/km all day long. Don't know how he can see that far ahead without crashing on a curve or another car
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raced with an sLs benz the other day neck to neck but he beat me by a fender due to i forgot to pull gear from 3 to 4 for about a second but yea speed stop at around 135 for both of us, every car i drive i like to see what it can do beside only in open road where few car are around cant race in traffic anyway, need for speed thats all.
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Originally Posted by irmichel
Hehehe must be a custom coffin then

@i3leusky: If you really want speed: i've read somewhere that Tom's can do ECU reprogramming. Otherwise you might wanna get your hands on a V-max/rev delimiter module by TTE (toyota team europe).

Some guys in the German LOC forum have them (266 km/h or 166 mph for a 430 LS). Add a break mod to your wishlist then for your own and other peoples sake The germans are complaining about lack of stopping power after a few times breaking from 155 mph to 60
where can i get this? how much? and is it hard to install? this v-max/rev of your will it effect any other component or electricals in the car?
Old 08-28-08, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by i3leusky
where can i get this? how much? and is it hard to install? this v-max/rev of your will it effect any other component or electricals in the car?
I think they got it here:

http://www.tte.de/

You might wanne mail these guys if they got any units left (the de-limiters are not on the site anymore). Far as i've read is that it only removes the rev limiter in top gear.
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