daryl,

must be a lot of open road in la. thats a lot of miles in 10 minutes.cant do that in jersey.

ken,
like the quote. kind of like hal holbrook not getting enough in dirty harry movie.
KABLAMM! "MANS GOT TO KNOW HIS LIMITATIONS"

 

Actually it was a long stretch between Victoria Texas and Port Aransas Texas on Hwy 35..It definatly gets your attention.Next time i'm bringing my GPS to tell how fast it really is.

120 mph is 2 miles a minute x10 min=20 miles

 

THATS MOVIN!


parkway south to atlantic city has some open spots. the truck wants to go but i get the tickets, surcharge, jersey insurance crap, etc. etc.
try to be a respectable family man and i go and put headers , tuners, intakes and tb on a v10. go figure. still got the sc in the garage.

 

Yeah in La. they are too many money hungry politicians to speed very often, besides we have too many potholes.

 

potholes in jersey to. unless politicians are laying in them you need bilsteins on the corners and a dual fabtech stabilizer to get around here.

 

Hey John, tried to view your gallery, but no pics?How do you like your intake? Feel any gains?

 

i do a lot of things but like the robot said " i cant compute". someday ill get pics. kind of like having a website and never using it.

intake is nice cause its a 4" radius instead of stock 3.5".( no ruler). then the sctb in line was big time. always thought the stock maf (3.5") is small link in the chain. cool blue perf. is unloading 4" pro m mafs for 300. got me leaning.

 

Go to http://www.pro-flow.com/

These guys are the best as far as mass air sensors.

 

good site.

nice price on the 95 mm bullet but still only 3.5" radius. they show a 117mm for 5 and change. to big too much $. im thinking 101mm (4")

 

For the record I have had the pleasure of taking a F250 460CI Manual 4x4 to Germany and have hours and hours at over 120mph. Several runs down hill at 137mph. DO not do this on American spec large diameter heavy AT or MS tires or with a very heavy load. Multiple tire blow out at high speed is a real adrenalin producing event. (I know )

My 01 would rpm cut at 5600 and was speed limited right at 95mph.

I had one emergency run from centeral texas out to E lPaso cuz wife went in hospital while at the Sergents Major Academy. 714mile trip was going to be faster than waiting for a plane ride. I did most of the 8 hour trip right at max mph. The stock Firestones took the abuse, but my hands were both on the wheel the whole way.

 

Yes it's especially large diameter tires with lots of weight towards the outer edge, like we like to put on our 4X4's, of the tire that get dangerous at high speed. A tire can come apart at ANY time if pushed past it margin of error. It doesn't take a long time, it doesn't take a bunch of heat. If you run a tire rated for 100 mph for any length of time at 120 you are asking for a catastrophe'. People do it without a blowout, or without a tire coming apart. I see guys at the drags with 8 second cars with no roll bars, but there, it is usually only their own life they are risking at a track. I'm nobody's big brother, I aint tellin anyone what to do. I would walk up to a guy who's about to drive over the edge of a cliff and ask him if he's sure he wants to do this, cause maybe he wants to. But if he may take out innocent people in route, I'll try to stop him. In fact we all do this, we elect law makers to write laws, then pay for police officers to enforce that we follow those laws for our own safety as a people.

Which brings up an interesting point; all GM's for the past 6-8 years have 'black boxes' in them, for data retrieval in case, and after an accident. Some Fords have them. Let's say you were flying down the freeway in your truck, with tires rated to 105 mph, and you pile into someone going 125. The data that controls your airbags, and your abs, among other functions will have you dead cold at fault for reckless endangerment, manslaughter or whatever it is you get charged with. And knowing you are exceeding the safe limits of your tires will be only part of the case against you. Nav systems can do the same thing, only more so, because they will be able to record your speeds over whatever distance you've traveled. Scary aint it ?

 

Ken makes a very interesting point and I will shed some additional light.

Most who know me on this site know that I assasinated my Platinum F-250 V10 with a pine tree last May. My insurance company is USAA. I called after all was done on the legal and payout end and talked to my adjuster. She would not release ALL the black box data to me. She did say that the impact was 62mph with brakes locked and the preceeding 5 minutes of driving were between 58-64mph.

My understanding of our Ford PCM, ABS, and SRS subsystems is that they gather a lot of datapoints but are memory limited so have a FIFO (first in first out) memeory scheme. I can't find any definitive data on how long the train of data is. I got a feeling, based on my adjusters response, that it may be only 5 minutes.

 

I wish! Unfortunately, I can't afford both a new SD and an STi, otherwise I'd have one.

Of course, if I had an STi I'd probably have lost my license by now...

LK

 

Yes, the Ford data saved is only 5 minutes or so of the previous happenings prior to a catastrophic event, ie; airbags deplying. The GM system is quite a bit more sophisticated, and it's coming, it's coming to all makes/models. Had you been in gross violation of the law prior to your accident or caused a fatality, that info could have been used against you to let the insurance company deny your claim, or worse yet to help have you convicted of any crime. A famous case where all this came out was when a young, teenaged girl was backing out of her driveway. A guy in a Pontiac ran into her and killed her. It was later found out, through his data acquisition system in his anti-lock brakes that the Pontiac driver was traveling at 103 mph. If it hadn't been for that info, he would have walked away, there was no witnesses, no skid marks, nothing but a severe impact. Ken

 

Actually, you don't need skid marks or the data box. Sometimes, it is enough to know about the vehicles involved. Talk to a crime scene investigator. They deal with deliberate wrecks all the time in which they use the damage to the vehicle to determine the speed and force, because there are no skid marks. This just makes it easier for them.

Bluehawk