Fastest 182/172

[jamieswales]

Whats the fastest you have been in your 182/172? book time says about 140 mph, any1 had it faster than that.

 

[Ady182]

Gonna b deleted but just over 140 (on a track obviously)

 

[Little Newms]

Never trust the speedo at those speeds it will be wrong

 

[Ben j]

id say the most youll get is about wat the book says as your speedo will be well off

 

[Matt16v]

Apparently once over 100 mph most speedos go pear shaped?

Wonder if this inlcudes the old Vaux digi dashs?

 

[y0z2a]

Roamer got 150 odd and it still had more to come - it did have throttle bodies tho...

/y0z

 

[Lee]

Quote: Originally posted by y0z2a on 14 May 2005
Roamer got 150 odd and it still had more to come - it did have throttle bodies tho...

/y0z


As he passed me. I was maxed out at 140mph on the clock and he was still going strong.....very strong.

 

[Danny P]

Ive had a GPS 135 MPH, still had some left in her. But a truck had got lost and driven onto my private road.

 

[MAC30L]

140 on the speedo is 133 on my road angel.

Hit the rev limiter in 5th at 7000rpm which was I think 141/142mph gps - slight downhill though. Top speed of 137 is about right on the flat - speedo reading over 140

 

[theduck]

speedos read about 10% up all of the time, so when ur speedo reads 33 your actually doing 30, therefore at 110 on your clocks your doing 100.

 

[Big Iain]

I have hit the limiter in 5th too

 

[Chris n nic]

Im sure someone did a test on his 172 with GPS and @ 100mph the gps was about 2mph off...not too bad really but as the speeds increase so does the speedo/gps difference.

Chris

 

[MAC30L]

Quote: Originally posted by theduckeatspork on 14 May 2005

speedos read about 10% up all of the time, so when ur speedo reads 33 your actually doing 30, therefore at 110 on your clocks your doing 100.

not quite right fella.

I have always thought this until I got gps. 30 on the speedo is 27 on the gps, 70 is 66, 100 is 95/96 and 140 is 133. This is in a 172 Cup.

I have found my run around car (P reg 1.0L Polo ), to be even more accurate, only differing by about 1 or 2mph to the gps up to 70mph.

 

[rory182]

140 on speedo on slight downhill not flat out

 

[eves]

135 on speedo

 

[MAC30L]

Quote: Originally posted by MAC30L on 14 May 2005


140 on the speedo is 133 on my road angel.

Hit the rev limiter in 5th at 7000rpm which was I think 141/142mph gps - slight downhill though. Top speed of 137 is about right on the flat - speedo reading over 140

Back to the topic subject, seen about 147ish mph on the speedo on a slight downhill then flat which was 141/142 gps. Cup is standard apart from full magnex and eibach pros. mailto:14.6@96mph">14.6@96mph, so it is fairly quick as well

 

[Leeshez]

My corsa was 5mph out on my gps ie 30 in car 25 on gps. I think the clio is about the same.

 

[Roamer]

Quote: Originally posted by Lee on 14 May 2005
Quote: Originally posted by y0z2a on 14 May 2005Roamer got 150 odd and it still had more to come - it did have throttle bodies tho...

/y0z


As he passed me. I was maxed out at 140mph on the clock and he was still going strong.....very strong.


Yup, 148mph gps verified with fred and loads of crap in the car and it was still pulling like mad, the same when I passed Lee - it was fast, and its sadly missed :-( <sniff>

 

[McBunny]

mines acurate but it dont matter as its not a clio

 

[jph172]

Ive had 137mph out of mine!

 

[Willliams]

I had 145 out of mine on the clock... not on public road.

 

[Mitchy]

The 10% rule only really applies up until around 40mph. After that it decreases quite a bit.

I had 160 on clock and 152 on GPS so its no-where near a 10% error, more like 5% at higher speeds and 10% at slower speeds.

100mph would be 90mph for instance which is a lot of rubbish, no speedo over reads by this amount. Mines is 96mph @ 100 on speedo.

120mph was 115mph GPS which if you went by the 10% rule it would only be 108mph. Again a lot of rubbish!

But the 10% does work in the lower ranges, ie 40 =36mph etc

 

[Day]

137mph indicated by GPS.

 

[Mondial172]

On them speed trap things - the red led signs my Cup speedo is virual bang on - where as my VTRs speedo was well out.

.......and Mitchy you dont have a 172 either. Knowones interested in youre jabbad beast!

 

[Dash]

I recall doing 143 in my MK1 172 more than it said in the brochure, but I guess not an accurate reading.

Obviously I cant mention the V6 as this is not the topic.

 

[Mitchy]

Quote: Originally posted by Adamf on 14 May 2005


.......and Mitchy you dont have a 172 either. Knowones interested in youre jabbad beast!

Maybe not mate but Macs post suggests exactly the same thing with the clio.

Its a general rule for all speedos but it clearly is a lot of rubbish

 

[theduck]

It varies from car to car, as the above results show, only way to get true readings is to get a properly set up digital speedo.

 

[badinvincible]

70MPH

 

[eo52vug]

ive had almost 150 on the clock following my brother in the tt and evo fq330, dont know what actual speed this was but felt like i should be slowing down

 

[Munson]

Surely if were talking UberAccuracy, then tyre pressure and wear have an effect, since the rolling radius differs?

For the record, Ive never been above 120 Clicks in my Cup (not tried), but I know a downhill runway where I saw an indicated 150+ behind the wheel of a Civic TypeR - before I bottled it - so Im guessing I should dial-in around 145 on the same r...unway.

 

[Ali]

Nutters, i dont have the bottle to drive fast on the road anymore!

 

[Munson]

I said runway