chilipeppermaniac
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160 MPH or KPH?
310.8mph Street Legal Ford GT:
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SG John
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KPH, as it is relevant to my previous sentence regarding the cars being regulated to stay under 200 KPH.
chilipeppermaniac
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My 2006 Mustang feels like 80mph at 140mph. Although not a super powerful car (320 horsepower 4.6 V8) the 4.30 gears and race tune make it feel faster than it really is.
I am typically the one going the slowest on the freeway, and i almost always use cruise control, because if you are not really watching your speed closely, the car will creep up to 100mph and stay there, and you won't notice the speed climbing up.
It's lowered 2.5 inches from stock on Ford Racing Gymkana suspension. I'm runni g 275/35/20in the rear with 255/35/20 up front. The handling is beyond anything i can describe with no "bad habits."
Now keep in mind that i drove competitively from an early age and would go on to teach driving for several sports car sactioning bodies.
There's two huge curves i drive everyday for the past 7 years. One connects the 215 to the 210 and the other connects the 210 to the 215.
Over the years, i have figured out what my maximum entry/exit speeds can be for given road and weather conditions.
I've had two BMW M cars - one a 3 and the other a 5 - kiss the concrete retaining wall by trying to match my line and speed through those corners.
They just cannot stay with me, despite having more straight-line power.
The BMW tendency for snap oversteer gets them everytime.
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We have had a Ryobi Electric Blower for several years, but the battery doesn't last long enough and the cfm isn't high enough for the really big jobs.
chilipeppermaniac
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I have one of these too. Our daughter bought a 20V or bigger Kobalt Blower. IT will blow harder and longer than the smaller Ryobi. I often use both. I also have a handheld Echo gas one, and a Backback Echo, both of these need work on the fuel systems since I got them used for practically free if not free.
Of course, I have about 6-8 Echo, John Deere, Stihl string trimmers I got the same way. Around here, I am too poor to buy tools new, and I prefer AND would rather buy used units that are needing maintenance over High priced disposable newer models. The OLDER stuff was built to last when maintained properly. My circa 1994 Echo String Trimmer made it almost 30 years of my weed whacking my yards and yards of friends I used to cut. I count myself lucky to still be able to pick up the cast off's that local folk give away or sell for $20 to keep my collection running till I was hoping to use the rest of my life without ever spending another $200+ on a "NEW" one with all the awkward safety mechanisms and EPA crap.
No Thanks.
Sadly I think LIFE in the late 20th, and early 21st centuries are strategically attempting to outlaw resourcefulness, thrifty living, and keeping affordable to maintain cars, tools, machinery, and equipment in service through forceable destruction of all of these due to OUTLAWING their use and ownership and legislating the future use of more expensive and complicated junk.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
@Inspector #20,
If I could, I would still be driving my first car. My 1972 Datsun 510 that would have been an awesome time capsule to still have if our Eastern winters didn't require road salt in the winter which rusts out even couple-year-old cars. The day I had to call the junkyard to haul it off was one of the worst days and decisions I ever made. I am fortunate enough that I did not make that same mistake with my 1977 F100 Pickup. Done up right, this will be my OLD GAL of my collection. After that is my other baby that the Government will try to make too costly and too 'Politically incorrect" to continue to drive. At close to $4 per gallon, 12 MPG from an F250 4x4 takes a ton of appeal and joy out of going far in it on any semblance of a regular basis. Sad, because, I made it to nearly 340K miles while gas was under $2.00. Since the days of " Cash For Clunkers" Gov't wasting of my tax dollars and $4 gas, I have had to leave her and her $1 replacement truck sit totally or driven as little as possible. My $200 Honda Wagon acted as my tools and small materials hauler until it blew a head gasket. To have to relegate the use of trucks to an absolute minimum, and only use them to haul heavy and long lumber, sheetrock, masonry products, and pulling trailers should not be a burden just to keep good and reliable vehicles till I can no longer safely drive. My angst and hatred for forced obsolescence and treating good stuff as if it were worthless junk that many GREEN folk feel needs to die in a car crusher or melted down. Frustratingly all this "Electric =good, Fossil Fuels=Bad" does nothing but cost me money and make it hard to save up for the future.
If I could, I would still be driving my first car. My 1972 Datsun 510 that would have been an awesome time capsule to still have if our Eastern winters didn't require road salt in the winter which rusts out even couple-year-old cars. The day I had to call the junkyard to haul it off was one of the worst days and decisions I ever made. I am fortunate enough that I did not make that same mistake with my 1977 F100 Pickup. Done up right, this will be my OLD GAL of my collection. After that is my other baby that the Government will try to make too costly and too 'Politically incorrect" to continue to drive. At close to $4 per gallon, 12 MPG from an F250 4x4 takes a ton of appeal and joy out of going far in it on any semblance of a regular basis. Sad, because, I made it to nearly 340K miles while gas was under $2.00. Since the days of " Cash For Clunkers" Gov't wasting of my tax dollars and $4 gas, I have had to leave her and her $1 replacement truck sit totally or driven as little as possible. My $200 Honda Wagon acted as my tools and small materials hauler until it blew a head gasket. To have to relegate the use of trucks to an absolute minimum, and only use them to haul heavy and long lumber, sheetrock, masonry products, and pulling trailers should not be a burden just to keep good and reliable vehicles till I can no longer safely drive. My angst and hatred for forced obsolescence and treating good stuff as if it were worthless junk that many GREEN folk feel needs to die in a car crusher or melted down. Frustratingly all this "Electric =good, Fossil Fuels=Bad" does nothing but cost me money and make it hard to save up for the future.
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I'm pretty happy with my Mustang....
Maybe not the fastest or the slowest, but the loudest & the lowest....
Maybe not the fastest or the slowest, but the loudest & the lowest....
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Huh?
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Around here in the East, LOW is not a good way to keep one's " Undercarriage" all in one piece and the nose and rocker panels scrape free.
Too many Speed Humps the size of Mt Ranier and potholes as deep as the Grand Canyon.
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chilipeppermaniac
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Dang @SG John,. Back in 87-88, I was in an Audi Porsche service dept. Audis back then were super nice on the roads but terrible in the frequency of failed expensive parts. Too many to name. And this was on cars a few years old.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
Many of you have heard my tales of all my Olddddd vehicles. My 77 F100 is now almost 46 years old and somewhere around 250k. My 88 F250 is my mileage king at an oil change shy of 340k and my current 1994 F150 is at about 196k and may hit 200k in a month or so. Gotta get my Toyota Camry back out there sipping gas this week. Just some belts, exhaust and steering to work on. Then it's good. Can't wait for Spring so I don't freeze my fingers, feet n more just keeping the wheels turning.
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