200mph club??

one of my goals is to join the 200mph club and was wondering has any1 done 200mph in a car or whats the closest you've been to it and what in??

closest ive been is just shy of a 180mph in my jag s-type r (private road of course)

155 in my scoob but when i get my zed 180 lol what you going to buy trev ?

I hit 156mph when I had my integra type r, boarderline 170mph in an mr2 turbo, 186mph on the a69 which ill never forget due to some daft mare pulling straight out in front of me, ive never gripped anything so hard as the brake lever that day! lol that was on my gsxr 1000 so I suppose it doesn't count lol

Mark_Type-R wrote:

155 in my scoob but when i get my zed 180 lol what you going to buy trev ?

Sure I've done more than that in your car lol

yeh dont doubt it for a minute lol

179 on my r1 and just short of 160 in an old sti prodrive racing with a focus rs. It was still pulling as well but ran out of road. All done on private roads though of course. My mate reckons his bussa will show 185 on the clock in 4th gear, not sure if there 5 or 6 speed, but must do over the 200 if roads allows it.

187 mph on a zx9r

and a passenger in a skyline r34 gtr (700+ bhp) just over 180mph, he was going for 200 but someone pulled out in front ov us on a private track

180+ in my TVR Cerbera and it was still pulling strong.

That was after leaving a tuned Audi S3 for dead when he was trying to race me. I use race in loosest possible sense as he was being clever on the bends as I had the back end stepping out and he was managing to keep up, poor little fooker disappeared to a tiny red spec withing 10 seconds as soon as I was able to unleash some power

fook me that car could really shift and not just compared to cars either, I had a few days of playing with bikes on the road to Heartside. Later speaking to the rider who commented that the car was quicker than they anticipated.

I'm sure the engine was a blueprinted Red Rose engine, circa 400bhp in a car that weighed a-decent-sized-shit more than a tonne. I really miss that car, but I'd take a Scoob over it any day if I could only have one good car. If I could have two, it would be a Scoob and a Cerb. There's no bigger sense of occasion than in a TVR.



But this is what happens when you don't respect them




Oh and the reason I don't know exactly how fast I was going is because at that sort of speed, I found it a little more important to watch where the car was pointing and not the clocks.

been on the back of my pals fireblade turbo on the way to NEC hit 192mph passing cars on the rumble strip in the outside lane ..absolutely shitmyself he used to build GARY ROTHWELLS bikes for west coast salvage
his boss had a lotus carlton did 186mph in that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REEIl6rV7aw

been a passenger in a porsche 959 which had been fettled a bit more that hit 199mph

lovely tvr that mind:-)

170 on my R1. On a road very similar to the Military road (Clearly in the IOM). Front end lifting a bit at the top of the inclines. Gerat fun

155 in my Orion ghia si was great fun, was a quick car but didn't stop very well lol

Mark_Type-R wrote:

lovely tvr that mind:-)

I'd have another tomorrow if I could afford to run two good cars.

Around 160 in a RS6, was sooo smooth and felt like 100mph.

The wagon shud do close to 190-95 flat out with the hawk box & a 8500rpm limit

drew@drewsautos wrote:

The wagon shud do close to 190-95 flat out with the hawk box & a 8500rpm limit

..Nice to have those AP racing brakes to stop as well mate

Yip but I don't rate the ds2500 pads they shite looking at changing them for a set of Pagid rs range

I've had my type r showing 180 on the speedo twice but it was probably about 170mph as most speedo's over read

Didnt realise the 6 speed would do 190 drew now you gave me food for thought lol, also cairns do you have the standard 5 speed box in your type r? or a 6 speed lol

There's being gears up and being able to do it. The Impreza isn't exactly streamlined

I can't remember exactly how it works, but you need something like 3 to 4 times the power to get to 200 than you need to get to 150 due to the various drag exerted on the car. Aero, rolling etc.

So if you need 200bhp to get to 150mph, you would need in region of 600 - 800bhp to hit 200mph.

Mark_Type-R wrote:

Didnt realise the 6 speed would do 190 drew now you gave me food for thought lol, also cairns do you have the standard 5 speed box in your type r? or a 6 speed lol

6 speed hawk box geared to about 194 at 8200rpm

sure i was doing about 600 mph once.... in a plane going on holiday

145 in my scoob, and 176 on my zx9r side by side with my mate on his r1 ( digi clocks ) as i wasnt looking at my clocks.... just the road

was in my mates tvr tuscan once, WOW it was quick. not sure how fast .. very.

makes sense then lol, didnt realise these 6 speeds do so high speed:-)

atwrx wrote:

Mark_Type-R wrote:

lovely tvr that mind:-)

I'd have another tomorrow if I could afford to run two good cars.

got a soft spot for tvrs myself been close to buying 2 and bottled it at the last min lol one being a 4.5 cerbra and the other was a t350

ac_autocolour on here had one, think he had nothing but bother with his.