top speed is reached in 5th, but there isn't an electronic governor on the 6mt, and your link contradicts your claim. it says "drag limited" next to the top speeds

 

I've gotten mine in perfect conditions to 167 at night. slight downhill, slight tailwind.. cold 2am at night. straight line. 5th topped out at 154 . after 140+ it was crawling.. maybe 1 mph per 2-3 seconds... now figure you are going 200-250 feet a second. it took nearly a mile to go from 150 to 160.

 

I did 159, but on the long stretch of unpopulated highway. some tailights up in the distance was coming up really fast so I started backing down from my climb. when I started to creap up to those rear lights at around 75 mph, crap, to my surprise it was a Tx.state trooper but what really shocked my world (and he had to have seen me coming up on him mighty fast)was he was tailing another vehicle,I presume for some distance back. anyways ,he popped on his lights to pull that person over as I casually came on around them . Gave them some distance an punched my 8 back to life......but 159 is going to be that,I figure why try to top that,hell I never been 159 and to go beyond that, even when the friggin tach said "HEY BUD,WE AIN'T THERE YET" seems pointless. all I know was when they say the road in front starts to close in from the sides, they were not lying

 

speed on the cruiser will vary with the equipment of your local law enforcement,

the radios all go 186,000 miles/sec, though....

 

Who says there's no governor? I've read many road tests that state the top speed of the 6-speed MT is limited to 148 MPH by an "electronic governor." And just because the governor is there doesn't necessarily mean the car will go that fast, as evidenced by Car & Drivers experience, but they got very close. 146 was it?. Heck the altitude and temperature of the day could've accounted for the 2 MPH shortfall.

And please note, I didn't claim the MT RX-8 would go 148 MPH; I just stated that it was electronically limited to 148 MPH.

1.3L

 

Well, Interceptor Camaros are electronically limited to 159mph. But they'll get there significantly faster than the 8

 

Alright, I am prepared for the replies that tell me to shut up and what not, but here goes.

Those of you who are doing 150 on ANY public road, no matter the time or the condtions are putting other peoples lives at risk. No better than driving drunk at 60 mph. Find a track day and have some fun that way.

Just one driver's opinion.

 

I'm not quite following your logic here.

If a solo driver decides to go warp snot in their 8 on a desolate road with no one around for miles, one can conclude that no one else's lives are being placed at risk.

 

If you are doing 150 even on a straight highway, you can creep up on other cars a lot quicker than you might think. Day or night. And other cars or pedestrians aren't usually on the lookout for a car going more than double the speed limit.

 

lets' say this... back in my sales days we blew by a trooper going 127 ( in a 55... ) in a expedition that was tricked out.. by the time he even turned on the lights we were a good mile up the road.. by the time he pulled out we couldn't see him anymore.. We talked the driver into just pulling over, since we knew he was going to either eventually catch us or radio up ahead. it took a good 3 minutes for him to come blowing right past us and he almost went out of sight before he realized he had past us. He would never have caught us if we had kept speed. He had to go well over 130 mph just to catch up... ( if he went 130 he'd be miles behind us forever ). The diffrence is there's always a road block for you, they have lights and sirens and people usually tend to get out of the way.. although here that's not always the case.

On a good side the cop walked up to the window, said "slow down andretti" and walked back to his car and left.. best traffic stop i've ever experienced....

 

Ah, I think I get it now. Let me paraphrase...

 

anything over 120 is scary... especially at night. have any idea what any kind of critter will do to a car at 100 mph++? you can see the cars you are coming up on, it's what you don't see that bites you in the ***.

 

Are you mocking the Bert? You don't want him to get even more angry.

 

There you go.

 

Here is classic "mocking the Bert":

 

20-25 liters for 100km. In US terms that's 9,5-11,7 mpg. If you take the german fuel price of approx. 1,30 € per liter (that's roughly $6 per gallon) into account, this means you can burn something like $78 in one hour.

 

Those of you who've had their RX-8's up to 140-150mph on the road, how did the car handle at those speeds? Was it stable? Did it feel light? I know a lot depends on road surface and presence of side winds etc., but I'm just curious to hear generally how well the (stock version) car handles those speeds.

 

Odd way to say that. 100 mph++ is 100 mph, with the understanding that the next time it will be 101.

 

I have a new Theory. I shall name it the Top Speed Moral Morph Theory or TSMMT.

A thread will morph into a lecture on the evils of going fast iff (if and only if) the thread has "Top Speed" in the thread title.

Do a search. in every top speed thread is somebodys Moms educating us that speed is bad.

 

It handles very good. Pretty much glued to the road by downforce at top speed, but side winds can get scary. You can basically say that the cars roadhold improves at higher speed.

Hard braking can be a bit taxing above 130 mph, since the car has quite a tendency to tramline and at that point almost pulls the wheel out of your hands if the road isn't perfect.

 

What do you mean by 'tramline'?

 

The effect that the car (strongly) pulls in a certain direction under certain conditions, especially when braking.

 

I'm not acting like somebody's mom, I'm acting like a responsible adult. So let's leave the insults out of it.

 

No insult, just a good, colorful descriptor. I am just re-jacking the thread by making a truthful observation.

 

We can probably find common ground here in everyone agreeing that 120+ driving is far more risky than driving the speed limit.

It could be good to have a thread where we hear from those who have gone really fast in the 8 and experienced problems. (Assuming they survived to tell about it.)