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The E55 AMG can also achieve 300km/h top speed but the speed limiter must be removed...here's the prove ;)

not bad, not to bad at all, pullin a left hand turn at 300+ km/h, hmmmm looks a little fishy to me though, if ya look carefully the left indicator is on. :shifty: :whistle:

-zoot

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I doubt too many road legal GT40's were capable of 200MPH+...

i can tell you now they where because the road legal and the one that where raced at lemans where exactly the same...see here for more details on the new ford GT and the old.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/fordgt/index.asp?bhcp=1

this car was not only the first to reach the 200 mph club but i have seen videos of them doing it today decades later still and they didn't just do it once if thats what your thinking... go look it up im not saying bull.... and if your wondering why ford made such a car ... simple they where looking at buying the red epire but ferrarie wouldn't sell so henry ford being a bit peved at this set out to smash ferarie at the time... this car was decades ahead of its time and still is one of the fastest supercars in the world.

[edit] oh and the new GT is said to do 0-60 mph in 3.8 sec and do a quater mile faster than a dodge viper but still out handels a 360 mondena (specs could change closer to release date) and this is all with a single supercharged 5.4ltr engine[edit]

1) GT40 isn't the same car as the new Ford GT.

2) While the GT40 road cars were similar to the racing ones, they were not exactly the same. I think the road cars were MK III's... and had a 289 engine, not the 427 which was capable of over 200 MPH...

3) The GT40 wasn't even really a Ford design - it was bought from Lola.

4) If you want to include road-modified race cars, the Dauer 962 was capable of over 250MPH...

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When the GT40 went into production in 1965, Ford anticipated that some Wealthy enthusiasts would buy these spectacular cars for highway touring. A road version announced in January 1966, called "the most expensive Ford ever".Normally it was fitted with a detuned version of the Ford 289 cubic inch V8 which gave it a maximum speed of 164 mph.

From the outside the road version of the GT was identical to the racing model. The interior was much more civilised, with a speedometer, tinted door and rear glass, deep door pockets and improved seats. Flanking the transmission at the rear, under the deck lid, were two boxes for luggage.

According to here, confirming that the road going cars were different than the racing versions and "only" did 164... Considerably less than 200MPH...

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A few years back I had a 1992 VW Passat 16Valve 4 banger. I had it up to 200Km/hr on a regular basis. I am sure the Merc could do at least 300Km/hr. That was my first car, I sold it to my neighbor and she tossed it into a ditch :(

Going 200Km/hr down some Alberta highways sure got some horrified looks from the farmers :)

ps: I should also mention that I put a Neuspeed chip, Remus exhaust and two Piper cams. ;)

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wow...200mph

*sigh*

the potholes and construction on the roads around here make even the speed limit a dream....but we don't care ;)

I know what you mean, lol...stupid construction. Anybody coming down our roads here better pray they don't have low profile tires.

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Those big engined Mercedes are all quite comfortable taking it up to around 190MPH, but the engine is electronically limited through an agreement with the German government (thats why pretty much all BMW/Audi/Mercedes cars are limited in their ECU to 155MPH). The SL55 AMG even embarasses most supercars - its something nuts like a supercharged V8 or as in some of their other cars, a biturbo V12.

But its nothing compared to some of the motors that Brabus put together.. Mercedes cars that they work a little magic on. You end up, for example, with a Mercedes SL with nigh on 600BHP and 720lb/ft of torque - and they restrict that torque electronically again just to try and save the cars drive train and rear tyres! Now that car can comfortably take it up to around 190MPH.

The thing you have to remeber (looking at the post at the top of this page by Zombie) is that cars like the Ferarri F50 are racing engineered cars, and use carbon fibre all over the place, lightweight alloys, and all other kinds of gubbins to make them light. The Mercs on the other hands often weigh 2 tonnes or more.. they don't really need any help sticking to the ground at speed because they weigh so damn much!

That's exactly the point I was trying to get across to Zombie :D ....

Brabus & RENNtech Mercedes makes some of the world's fastest Coupe's and Sedans, Classic example of a 2-ton sedan by Brabus ;) ....

Radish?

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OK, 148 mph in a *stock* Mitsubishi Eclipse (1997) with *no* turbos, mods of any kinds, or anything - just a straight 2.0 4 cylinder DOHC engine with NGK plugs and Castrol Syntec, and everything else in the car was OEM.

That Mercedes should easily hit 200 - provided you can find a road straight and flat enough and mar -free to try it.

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When the GT40 went into production in 1965, Ford anticipated that some Wealthy enthusiasts would buy these spectacular cars for highway touring. A road version announced in January 1966, called "the most expensive Ford ever".Normally it was fitted with a detuned version of the Ford 289 cubic inch V8 which gave it a maximum speed of 164 mph.

From the outside the road version of the GT was identical to the racing model. The interior was much more civilised, with a speedometer, tinted door and rear glass, deep door pockets and improved seats. Flanking the transmission at the rear, under the deck lid, were two boxes for luggage.

According to here, confirming that the road going cars were different than the racing versions and "only" did 164... Considerably less than 200MPH...

my point was that after thoughs cars been used in thier racing career they where infact sold and thus if you had enough money you could have brought one and had the first 200mph street legal car in the world produced by a manufacturer as both a race car and a commercially sold vehicle and alot of the GT-40s sold where actually converted up to the race spec not really production but prity close...

since you would have been buying the car off ford i would say it was the 1st ever commercially sold 200mph car and my point was that this was done 40 years ago.

sorry for such a late response i had exams...

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i know this is off topic but

hey Goten, i noticed in your sig you're doing a H22a swap and going f/i. i hope you dont intend to be pushing that much boost on stock internals cuz you wont have an engine very long. what kind of car are you driving?

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i'm running a d17 with upgrades pistons, rings , rods, and a turbonetics turbo, tubonectics waste gate as well . and I am able to push 21 psi safely

the d17 is a SOHC right?

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ummm I've done over 130 MPH with my Oldsmobile Aurora - that's 209 KPH.... if my V8 sedan can do that rather effortlessly, that Mercedes can kick ass. 

Besides, the owner can get it reprogrammed if it is truly limited.

Yeah. I've got to 130MPH in my alero too, and thats only a V6. Takes awhile though.

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yes its SOHC but it is still VTEC :yes: and with the right add ons anything is possible as long as its done right

yea the one honda motor that doesnt boost very well at all is the h22a and the h22a4. :no: altho the integra LS motors love boost.

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:angry:CRAP FOR BRAINS!!!

KEEP IT ON THE TRACK WERE IT BELONGS!!!

No more kids need to loose a mother or father!!!

NUFF SAID!!! :cry:

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:angry:CRAP FOR BRAINS!!!

KEEP IT ON THE TRACK WERE IT BELONGS!!!

No more kids need to loose a mother or father!!!

NUFF SAID!!! :cry:

one reason why i dont street race, but if i do go fast, nobody is in the car w/ me and the highway is empty. i wanna get into auto x next :woot:

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