man have you ever took your Evo to 130? Mine and I would think all Evos is more stable and driveable at 130 than it is 60.

 

Good luck for anybody tryin to hit 200mph. Since the Evo has the aerodynamics of a barn, I don't see it happening any time soon.

 

i have to find the info somewhere but the evo drag coefficient is pretty bad.. something like .32

 

Actually my car is more stable past 130mph, than at lower speeds.

 

I guess that you guys have just not read what Rollaway has written, it can be done. And the Evo is very stable at higher speeds, if you want somewhat unstable then take an older 911, say 85-89 or a 964 which is 89-94, and run one of those above 155-160. Just make sure that you have two lanes to play in when you do it because you may damn well need them. Especially the cars without the tails.

 

yeah whoever says there evo is unstable past 130 must have arthritis (sp?) or something. It was perfectly stable at 145...

 

200 mph will not happen with stock gearing. Don't care what the HP is. No knock to Rollaway, but I think you are lucky you made it thru that run, with a plug in your tire... Whew.

 

i toasted a Lexus GS430 yesterday that was tryin to **** with me on the turnpike at 165-170 i just know it was past 160

 

The car is quite stable at 130 and it was still stable when I did 145. I had a Mustang Cobra in 1993 and the windshield wipers were six inches up the windshield when I did 130. Talk about unstable...

 

Yea, no doubt, I had mine to an indicated 155 the other day and it was VERY stable. It made less noises than my old Supra did at that speed, and tracked very straight, in fact the front end felt quite heavy still.

 

Damn dean be careful

how you liking those cams?
I just bought a pair of 272's

 

I have to agree with eveyone who says the Evo is more stable at higher speeds. I find mine more stable at 90 than at 60. Also, I have broken 140 (indicated) many times and the car feels very steady. As for 160 (indicated). I have been there twice and the car was as solid as a rock. As for 200, that would be cool, but can we do it with our 5 speeds. Mybe the 6 speeds can do it. I don't know their final.
As for the 180 plus with the plug in the tire. Congrats on the speed, and it is good nothing bad happened.

 

Oh know i was very lucky in that run with a plug in the tire... i was also lucky about a month and a half ago when i blew my rear left tire at 100+mph...
Im on my 4th set of stock Advans and love them..i also have less than 20k miles on my car....

BTW a few other evo owners hit 180+mph with their evos too... with 530+BHP its very possible

 

at the guy who says its unstable at 130...

 

Close, but not exactly. Power required grows with the square of the air resistance. In other words, it doesn't take twice as much power to go 200 as 100. It take 4 times as much.

Speed increase Power Increase
----------------- | -------------------
10 % ------------ 21%
20 % ------------ 44%
30 % ------------ 69%
40 % ------------ 96%
50 % ------------ 125%
100% ------------ 300%
200% ------------ 900%

And for the sake of verbosity, I'll point out that it take 10x as much power to go 300 mph as it takes to go 100 mph. And people wonder why there are no street cars that hit go above 250mph.

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