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Sep 18, 2004, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Madwheel

I'm thinking he may mean the physical limitation of the car, due to the gearing and redline. Assuming the car has 600hp or 2000hp (never happening but...), if the gears are the same, as well as the rev limiter/fuel cut, then it'll still hit the 174 mark.

If you change your final drive, 5th gear, or rev limiter, then your top speed will have a higher LIMIT. But if you don't make the power to over come the drag (IE) then it doesn't matter what gears or rev limit increase you have. My 2 cents..

when looking at mathamatical formula's for topspeed you have to remember that most of these don't account for drag... the faster you go the more drag you will generate which means the more force your exerting forward the more force the air is pushing against your car. If you are going to "calculate" your cars top speed then figure it as zero drag, otherwise you will need to throw the algorithm for drag into the same equation... or jsut go out and do your own test and tuning

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Sep 18, 2004, 10:07 PM

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Here are the speeds at 7000 with stock wheels / tires . . .
40
60
83
113
162

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Sep 18, 2004, 10:08 PM

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yeah im sticking to testing and tuning....ha....also...i have started to do everything i can about drag...vishnu aero undertray is the best thing so far.....im thinking a complete under belly would work...