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lee m

Original Poster:

137 posts

262 months

Saturday 25th September 2004
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Can anyone tell me what a realistic top speed is on a 98 4.5 Cerbera

and where you would test it?

cerbagriff

342 posts

264 months

Saturday 25th September 2004
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Realistically, I am informed the top speed isn't far off whats quoted, some claim to have seen more!!
I've personally still been accelerating past 150mph on the speedo (say real speed 130-140) easily in my 2000 4.5. As to where to do this, Bruntingthorpe or similar where they have a two mile straight - time to get both up and down safely and no distractions, things happen fast at these speeds!!

>> Edited by cerbagriff on Saturday 25th September 16:16

SXS 

2,068 posts

263 months

Saturday 25th September 2004
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At 150, your speedo wont be out by much, shouldnt be no more than max of 5.... at 165 upwards it gets a little silly... but in my first one I took her way past normal quotes.... of course that was fitted with a racelogic setup... but what really stops you from trying out how high it goes is the length of straightish line tarmac, and the heavy vibrations... and the wipers standing up vertically looking like they're gonna take off, and then the nuclear reactor engine sound at that speed!!!

Tripps

5,814 posts

295 months

Monday 27th September 2004
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Pikey has a picture of his GPS-indicated 200 MPH+here, although I'd imagine prevailing conditions helped somewhat...

dannylt

1,906 posts

307 months

Monday 27th September 2004
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That's Pikey's idea of a joke!

Tripps

5,814 posts

295 months

Monday 27th September 2004
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dannylt said:
That's Pikey's idea of a joke!
Probably does seem a bit wild...

Probably done in his old CTR!!!