200 MPH

[Brummmie]

Ive done it!
202mph At Brunters, i have 532 rear wheel horse power(625bhp crank?) , and i have also ran 10.7/133.48mph on the strip.
I also use it on the road for a bit of repping, and track day it.
Virtually monsters everything in sight to be honest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIVmznL8Nt8

[Decky_Q]

Hayabusa or Blackbird, + such a massive sprocket that acceleration is dead slow+ Vmax day at an oval circuit?

All in about £3.5k, £3k of which you should get back if (you live) sell the bike.

[rigga]

Brummmie said:

Ive done it!
202mph At Brunters, i have 532 rear wheel horse power(625bhp crank?) , and i have also ran 10.7/133.48mph on the strip.
I also use it on the road for a bit of repping, and track day it.
Virtually monsters everything in sight to be honest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIVmznL8Nt8

I did mention this a long time ago .....

[Tallbut Buxomly]

dcb said:

Plenty of videos on Youtube of folks claiming 200 mph on the autobahn,
although for the first three I looked at, they looked to be doing
200 kph, not 200 mph (321 kph).

Also, the Continentals try to reach 300 kph (186mph), which is a
tad easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6kpW3zBeus

[Globs]

dcb said:

Also, the Continentals try to reach 300 kph (186mph), which is a
tad easier.

80% of the power required for 186mph vs 200mph

[mattdaniels]

Mr Gear said:

A dragstrip is too short for 200mph in anything other than dedicated drag racing machines. Even F1 cars would struggle to hit 150mph on a dragstrip.

Button did the 1/4 mile in 9 seconds in his Honda on 5th Gear - thats about 150 mph no?

[GetCarter]

Current F1 car 0-100 in 3.9 - 0-200 in 10.9

[Mr Gear]

mattdaniels said:

Mr Gear said:

A dragstrip is too short for 200mph in anything other than dedicated drag racing machines. Even F1 cars would struggle to hit 150mph on a dragstrip.

Button did the 1/4 mile in 9 seconds in his Honda on 5th Gear - thats about 150 mph no?

Sounds about right. But you'd run out of dragstrip before you run out of revs in an F1 car, and you'd be way off 200mph.

[neil_bolton]

GetCarter said:

Been there... it's not that interesting, just a lot of wind noise (mostly from the passenger).

ETA: Two vids I took that prove it. The corners are much more fun.

599 GTO at 200 - VMax at Brunters

RUF CTR3 to 206 - VMax at Brunters

Edited by neil_bolton on Wednesday 4th January 13:30

[bqf]

£10-£12,000 for a 2004 E55 AMG, have it DMS'd and maybe Stage 1 of the Kleeman upgrades and you should see 200mph. I'd be checking the alloys for cracks and buying a brand new set of tyres first though. Autobahn in early morning seems the likeliest place to achieve it.

Mind you, 155 is fast enough for me - the road and scenery whooshing by is quite scary - like some Matrix-esque slo-mo sequence

[Globs]

bqf said:

Mind you, 155 is fast enough for me - the road and scenery whooshing by is quite scary - like some Matrix-esque slo-mo sequence

Yup, 200mph on land is a bit crap really, no idea why people would want to do that.
For real speed you need a aeroplane, better than a car in so many ways!

[onyx39]

Globs said:

bqf said:

Mind you, 155 is fast enough for me - the road and scenery whooshing by is quite scary - like some Matrix-esque slo-mo sequence

Yup, 200mph on land is a bit crap really, no idea why people would want to do that.
For real speed you need a aeroplane, better than a car in so many ways!

Same here. A mate had an M5 which only went in once, 155 on the A3...... Never again. He sold it for fear of losing his licence/ life!

[RDMcG]

My M6 on the autobahn 2006 after being delineated at Hartge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMKkPxei0I

[007 VXR]

155-200mph is not as scary on a runway as on the road

[Globs]

007 VXR said:

155-200mph is not as scary on a runway as on the road

No, but in a plane you can carry on to 600mph+ safely supported in the smooth soft air by its lovely wings.
True speed freaks fly.

[007 VXR]

Globs said:

007 VXR said:

155-200mph is not as scary on a runway as on the road

No, but in a plane you can carry on to 600mph+ safely supported in the smooth soft air by its lovely wings.
True speed freaks fly.

Ill keep my feet on the ground thanks

[vz-r_dave]

Sunday morning on the A9 from Leipzig to Berlin

No Lorries (Banned from Autobahns on Sundays unless they contain perishable goods), not a great amount of traffic and a nice long straight road. If I can get to 140MPH in a 187HP DC2 I'm certain its easy for the bigger V8's (Assuming they have long enough gearing) to top 200MPH.

[Globs]

vz-r_dave said:

Sunday morning on the A9 from Leipzig to Berlin

No Lorries (Banned from Autobahns on Sundays unless they contain perishable goods), not a great amount of traffic and a nice long straight road. If I can get to 140MPH in a 187HP DC2 I'm certain its easy for the bigger V8's (Assuming they have long enough gearing) to top 200MPH.

The force of the wind is proportional to V^2, power is speed x force = V^3.
So if you can get to 140mph with 187hp you will need 187 x 200^3/140^3 = 545hp with the same aerodynamics.

Of course aerodynamics vary with speed but as a ballpark theoretical you'd need 2.91 x the wheel horsepower you have to do it.
Actually this cube law that stops us getting decent speeds in cars (etc.) is the same law that means wind turbines are all st, as the power drops off with the cube of the windspeed.

[pacman1]

200 mph? FFS, stop messin' around! [/Kenneth Williams]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL77yBUOZhQ

"..coming down to 300, looking for the recovery crew.."

Edited by pacman1 on Wednesday 4th January 22:42

[redvictor]

Mr Gear said:

A dragstrip is too short for 200mph in anything other than dedicated drag racing machines. Even F1 cars would struggle to hit 150mph on a dragstrip.

Not necessarily...
and i did 223mph at brunters a couple of years ago very easily..