I hit an indicated 163mph on a flat level freeway during the day with very little wind. This was completely bone stock. The car just would not go further. In fact it danced between 162-163.

 

Factory freak!

 

Yeah maybe?? who knows. But I think other people have gotten near that 162mph mark. when we're talking maybe 5hp differences between cars I can see why some may not do as well as others.

 

well while everyone else is off topic I'll chime in to say that I have done 145 in the S and it was still pulling...I had plenty of space left but I didn't feel like going any faster...

admitedly those who stop at the 142-143 mark (right after shifting into 6th gear) are stopping because the pulling does slow dramatically there...however if you hold it for a little while, get closer to your peak hp...its going to pull more so you just have to have a lot of space and keep the pedal down for a while before it will "pick up" slightly near the 145-146 range where I got to, I could tell the mph were going up slightly faster than at 142.

For me it was about 50 degrees outside at 1000ft above MSL

 

Highest I've gone is 149 pacing some bikes and messing with a 350z (at the same time), but let off because I knew that if there was a cop, he'd go for me and the 350z and not the bikes. It was still pulling rather nicely

 

Hey Wisconsin S2k, I'm moving out to Madison this may. Maybe you can show me how to get those 13.6 sec quarter-miles. Because right now, I'm probably doing about 20 secs (j/k).

No, but I've never had it to the track and am not up on all the performance driving techniques, so if you ever want a buddy at the track let me know; I'd love to get into that scene seeing as I have an S2K and all.

 

We have quite a collection going of local owners, so I'd be glad to welcome you to the state. We have get togethers every so often. Check out the Upper Midwest Forum if you haven't already.

When you move out here let me know!

 

Wow, 5.2 in Motor Trend, I stand corrected!

Good find Wisc, I had not seen that test.

I will have to agree to disagree with you on G-Tech's. They are little more than toys compared to the equipment employed by most major automotive publications. You don't honestly believe that publications like C&D, R&T, MT, EVO, Car, etc are running around with g-techs do you.

Check out the this months C&D. It is the only comprehensive test of this (and other like products) that I have seen and it showed the the G-Tech to be off by multiple 10th's not 100th's. Worse still when calibrated it seemed to be especially optimistic (vs. timing lights).

Once again good find on the Motor Trend test.

 

umm why are there alwasy threads of the same stuff and it gets to 4 pages or something ahhh!!

Ok MY00 5.2 0-60 tested in RT in 2000.

 

haha yeh I gues someone posted the RT one already beat me to it but yeh this was in the thread a few weeeks ago.