flat out

[obiwonkeyblokey]

Just out of interest, what sort of verified top speeds have people seen from the various cars, 4.2, 4.5 and S6?

Curious more than anything else, and its always a good subject to start a lively debate

[Extra 300 Driver]

I have seen 175mph on my car and it was still going up!

My bottle ran out

4.2

>> Edited by Extra 300 Driver on Thursday 30th June 13:51

[carl_w]

175 verified (e.g. by GPS)? Or on the speedo?

Perhaps in the absence of a GPS or independent timing advice, posting the rpm in top gear (and the wheel/tyre size) might enable more accurate comparison. Anyone hit the shift up buzzer in top gear?

[NJW 77]

The 4.5s do 195mph. Must be true, TVR say so

Ive driven a couple of cars at 150mph (on private roads, of course) and that was enough to make me poop myself. Heaven knows what 175mph and above must do to your bowels!

[blue 4.5]

On a "track" last weekend had an interesting meeting with a couple of bikes. I started to pull away after 60 and saw an indicated 72 I had to break though or I would have missed the pits/turning off to the house plus the wife had woke up! Does get pretty noisy in these cars after 40 but it felt pretty steady.

[Extra 300 Driver]

carl_w said:

175 verified (e.g. by GPS)? Or on the speedo?

Good point, speedo.

[jasonben]

On the speedo, it was over 180, probably 181/182. But i got a GPS thingy and it was showing 174.

4.5

[carl_w]

blue 4.5 said:

On a "track" last weekend had an interesting meeting with a couple of bikes. I started to pull away after 60 and saw an indicated 72 I had to break though or I would have missed the pits/turning off to the house plus the wife had woke up! Does get pretty noisy in these cars after 40 but it felt pretty steady.

Aren't you missing some "1"s?

[nelly1]

Mine still pulls like a train at 1.6 s.u. (speed units). This is the speedo reading, but I don't think it's too far out.

I saw 1.7 s.u. with the madman on the test drive before I bought it. ENOUGH methinks

Like to get it on a runway with GPS, and see who sh*ts out first!!

{Tuscan 'S'}

[Eddie 4.2]

Eddie 4.2

165 scarey

[c3rba]

had my 4.5 reading 192mph on the speedo passenger s**t himself and said slow down for f**k sake

cheers

campbell

[BCA]

Our speedo seems to be quite accurate compared with the GPS... not had it up to silly speeds, but from the gearing/ rolling road data/ gps - it looks like 195mph is possible (gearing wise)if it has the power to keep pushing then. That said, if there really isnt a rev limiter (there seems to be on ours?) then more is possible.

I wouldnt be suprised if a chipped/ RR'd one would do some astonishingly good speeds (190mph+ REAL) as a pretty average one in my experience is good for 180+mph

[clemstar]

That any help ?

[VYT]

clemstar said:

That any help ?

And just how do you take that photo @172. Think I might be a bit busy

[olly]

You get your passenger to take the pic for you....

That pic was actually taken al Elvington in 2002 (a fellow Ratpac members car), so he only had a 2 mile runway to play with.

I recon all Cerbera's will do 170, good 4.2's probably 180, and good 4.5's 190+

[b6uch]

I recently had an hour on the 2 mile runway at Bruntingthorpe and managed 170 (speedo) on 4 occassions and it was still rising before i had to slow for the fast approaching end!

[cerber450]

c3rba said:

had my 4.5 reading 192mph on the speedo passenger s**t himself and said slow down for f**k sake cheers campbell

How is your beast?

[c3rba]

Hi its a bit sad at the moment clutch needs doing and the brakes the car has been idle for about 2 years and im trying to get it ready for tv2005 i did email you last week about the seats you had for sale

cheers campbell

[pkjk]

I have only done 140mph, (past a 911 ). Anyone know where I can go higher - legally? Perhaps a day out for a few of us?

[ceejay]

Seen 192mph indicated on my speedo, car feels quite planted at this speed, in fact better than about 150ish oddly.

Ceejay