173mph Elise...
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Must be one of the new supercharging kits lol !
slatess1 said:
Stu_00 said:
Must be one of the new supercharging kits lol !
Apparantly not modified slatess1 said:
Silent1 said:
There's no way that an elise would do 173, a vx220 n/a with a 2.2 will only do 140
Im guessing it was some sort of honda, audi or similar and he sold it very quickly afterwards to a foreign owner to hide the fact...Edited to say: Escaped with a guilty plea of 105mph, £5000 fine and 2year ban, 173mph would have been 2years in jail so a very lucky outcome for him indeed!!
Edited by slatess1 on Friday 20th March 18:12
its the same car that he was caught in that was standard ....the 173mph thing was the Police mistake I think, combined with some media hype
yes a 330bhp Honda will do 173mph or thereabouts ...it will quite easily pull to that and bounce off the limiter...even with the roof off, ive done that on the continent a few times in my old car
yes a 330bhp Honda will do 173mph or thereabouts ...it will quite easily pull to that and bounce off the limiter...even with the roof off, ive done that on the continent a few times in my old car
bogie said:
its the same car that he was caught in that was standard ....the 173mph thing was the Police mistake I think, combined with some media hype
yes a 330bhp Honda will do 173mph or thereabouts ...it will quite easily pull to that and bounce off the limiter...even with the roof off, ive done that on the continent a few times in my old car
Surely your not suggesting that the police might have actually made a mistake and their not admitting it yes a 330bhp Honda will do 173mph or thereabouts ...it will quite easily pull to that and bounce off the limiter...even with the roof off, ive done that on the continent a few times in my old car
slatess1 said:
Silent1 said:
There's no way that an elise would do 173, a vx220 n/a with a 2.2 will only do 140
Im guessing it was some sort of honda, audi or similar and he sold it very quickly afterwards to a foreign owner to hide the fact...Edited to say: Escaped with a guilty plea of 105mph, £5000 fine and 2year ban, 173mph would have been 2years in jail so a very lucky outcome for him indeed!!
Absolute bulls
t.
When I was a kid (19) I was stopped and my licence taken (for 2 weeks) for doing 101.4 mph. I know and I would sware on a stack of bibles that I was doing 86. Bored coppers can be a vindictive lot. They know you cant defend yourself against thier claims so they take liberties. FACT. No video evidence? No laser evidence? 173? I feel like I am down wind of a herd of cows.
t.When I was a kid (19) I was stopped and my licence taken (for 2 weeks) for doing 101.4 mph. I know and I would sware on a stack of bibles that I was doing 86. Bored coppers can be a vindictive lot. They know you cant defend yourself against thier claims so they take liberties. FACT. No video evidence? No laser evidence? 173? I feel like I am down wind of a herd of cows.
slatess1 said:
Silent1 said:
There's no way that an elise would do 173, a vx220 n/a with a 2.2 will only do 140
Im guessing it was some sort of honda, audi or similar and he sold it very quickly afterwards to a foreign owner to hide the fact...Edited to say: Escaped with a guilty plea of 105mph, £5000 fine and 2year ban, 173mph would have been 2years in jail so a very lucky outcome for him indeed!!
Edited by slatess1 on Friday 20th March 18:12
If a copper had stopped the car at the time of the "offence" then a visual check would have been done, for a 173 mph, they probably would have arested him there and then.
More fool the guy who admitted doing over 100 at the time.
We have an id10t who could not tell when he had made an error operating a simple bit of kit and thought a court would swallow a outrageous claim of 173!
Mr_C said:
Herman Toothrot said:
If they think people speed to that extent; 3 or 4 times the limit why on earth is it a 50 limit?
it didn't used to be, it was NSL till recently.My Exige does something around 162-168mph - or just blipping 175 indicated by the speedo - around which would also reflect the upper limit of what's possible with the standard Yota gearbox. There's no way a standard one would achieve that though. What's the gearbox limit on a honda'd car?
Even so, speed cameras have an error margin above a certain speed of up to 5 to 10% if I'm not mistaken, depending on the type and distance of messurement.
Even so, speed cameras have an error margin above a certain speed of up to 5 to 10% if I'm not mistaken, depending on the type and distance of messurement.
Edited by Phil-CH on Tuesday 24th March 08:18
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