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Real Speeds
I just rode in a dodge dakota sport 1500 3.9 liter at 118 mph and he had room to go. I'm not a dodge fan at heart but you gotta admit thats impressive especially considering it powered the whole way through. Whats the real time speeds you guys have had your trucks at? Try to make this a no b/s thing. Should be interesting
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From: Lamesa,Texas
1997 F-250 HD powerstroke CC. Ive had it at 120+. the gearing equations say it should do about 125 but i just hate pushing the tach that high. pretty fast in 8000+ lbs. but all that weight sure does make for a smooth ride.
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From: Houston, TEXAS
Originally Posted by gotdiesel
1997 F-250 HD powerstroke CC. Ive had it at 120+. the gearing equations say it should do about 125 but i just hate pushing the tach that high. pretty fast in 8000+ lbs. but all that weight sure does make for a smooth ride.
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From: Florida
101 in a 65, on 9/20/97. $265 payable within 30 days. This was in my '94 Ranger 4.0 about a month after I bought it. As measured by Orange County radar #5-31. Can't read the officer's name but his badge number is 1098. 
As mentioned in another thread, I had a '78 F250 with a '77 Lincoln 460 in it. Wrapped the speedometer all the way around and back up to 27 once. Backed off because the front end was scary loose. Although it handled much better after I changed the tie rod ends. I got lots of receipts from that truck.
As mentioned in another thread, I had a '78 F250 with a '77 Lincoln 460 in it. Wrapped the speedometer all the way around and back up to 27 once. Backed off because the front end was scary loose. Although it handled much better after I changed the tie rod ends. I got lots of receipts from that truck.
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From: Lamesa,Texas
havnt had a ticket yet. where i live there are miles and miles of long straight black top without a house or another person for miles. when you drive as many miles as i do i the middle of no where you sometimes feel like pushing the envelope a little bit. i would never do it anywhere that i felt i would endanger anyone else. a busy highway in a populated area is just not the place to drive outside the lines.
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i completely agree with you gotdiesel. I'm the same way. i'll go out to my grandparent house and theirs a few roads like this and i'll do the same because it's desserted/no one for miles. never in town though. I went 118 in a 96 Dodge Dually Cummins Auto. that was starting to get hairy and the guy backed it off to about 100 and we cruised.
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In Italy, in a Peugeot 605 3-litre turbo diesel: Rome to Milan in ~three hours, with sustained peaks of 240 km/hr (150 mph). Smooth as glass.
In France, Nancy to Marseille in 5 hours, in a Peugeot 306, most of the trip at ~160km/hr (100 mph).
In France, Nancy to Marseille in 5 hours, in a Peugeot 306, most of the trip at ~160km/hr (100 mph).
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Out here the roads are wide- and flat and barely traveled. According to the speedo in Digital mode, 167 in my 99 (see sig) and just 97 in my p-stroke, had the 110mph speedo in my V-8 pete pegged comin down a big hill when the trans. came into nuetral on its own, that was hairy. Fast enough considering no safety equipment(cage, harnesses, helmet, neck-brace) I have no desire to go fast in a pickup honestly, the tire situation as well as the fact they aren't exactly safe and capable of handling any situation at that speed.
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16 years old, my mom's dodge caravan. 95mph and we hit the biggest coon I have ever seen. Good thing the 7 people in the van gave us enough weight that it didn't knock us off the road.
at 18 I was riding with my friend in a F250 who decided to gun it down hill with a goose neck on the back becusae we had just dropped off a tractor. My friend that was driving knew what was comming up but I didn't. We went across a covered bridge at the bottom of the hill, well not really the bottom, there was a 8' drop at about 20 degrees on the other side of the bridge. I know the truck was airborn, I'm guessing the trailer was too because we made a heck of a lot of noise when we landed, also almost jackknifed but somehow my friend pulled us out of it.
at 18 I was riding with my friend in a F250 who decided to gun it down hill with a goose neck on the back becusae we had just dropped off a tractor. My friend that was driving knew what was comming up but I didn't. We went across a covered bridge at the bottom of the hill, well not really the bottom, there was a 8' drop at about 20 degrees on the other side of the bridge. I know the truck was airborn, I'm guessing the trailer was too because we made a heck of a lot of noise when we landed, also almost jackknifed but somehow my friend pulled us out of it.
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I would never go that fast with that many people in the car! I've done a couple stupid things, but they were both with me alone in the vehicle. One was myself hitting 110 in my '02 neon back in '02, and the other was myself riding with a couple other guys who had sportbikes. I tried to keep up, until my speedometer hit 100, then I backed off.
I consider both to be the stupidest things I've ever done in a car and on a motorcycle. I didn't get cought, but I'll never do it again, it's just not worth it. Back to a previous post, I can't understand risking not only your life, but the lives of 6 or 7 of your friends in the car for one stupid incident. What if you freaked when you hit the coon? There wouldn't be enough left of you, or any of the other 6 in the car, to fill a shoe box.
I consider both to be the stupidest things I've ever done in a car and on a motorcycle. I didn't get cought, but I'll never do it again, it's just not worth it. Back to a previous post, I can't understand risking not only your life, but the lives of 6 or 7 of your friends in the car for one stupid incident. What if you freaked when you hit the coon? There wouldn't be enough left of you, or any of the other 6 in the car, to fill a shoe box.