310.8mph Street Legal Ford GT:

chilipeppermaniac said:
Well in my case, Speed is speed and those who seek it out of man's brain to metal and rubber still amaze me. Straight line speed or round n round or flying thru the air or even tractor pulling power n speed.
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Going 500 miles at 7,000 to 8,000 rpm is far more intensive and interesting to me than 3 seconds of the NHRA mandated 8,771 rev-limited rpm...an engine you rebuild every few runs.

If you dig it, thats cool...

My old high school chum is crew chief on the Jailbreak Funny Car.
 
Inspector #20 said:
Koenigsegg used Ford 4.6 4-Valves for years before designing their own engine, which looks like a 4.6 Ford.

The cam advance system works great, but its not needed in their application, IMHO.

I really like how it works....
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I don't , just extra crap to fail. The first thing I want to do is a mod kit for the cams. https://www.freedomracing.com/locke...zyjQ2GiKBLMkWQlOocvlR2CrwwymGEVMaAmxCEALw_wcB

I doubt any drag racers would use it.
The car is using some of the same technology with traction control.
What a problem to have. No traction !
 
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bea said:
Not quite as fast, but those days on a public highway (close to FRA airport):

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July 1938 - German race car driver Bernd Rosemeyer drives his Auto Union streamliner to the unheard-of speed of 268.432 mph!!!!!

Brumm R107!!!!!
 
... and crashed to death due to a strong wind gust from the west (the highway is running north/south
BTW: this happened exactly here - note the airport in the north-west edge of the map: bikerouter.de
There is a small monument remembering him.
Rosemeyer could have survived if he hat listened to the warning regarding the windy weather conditions by his main competitor Rudi Carraciola (and shifted the record attempt)

BTW: not quite as fast but a crash of a bike at 70 mph (actually, i find that kind of bike more interesting than those ultrafast cars)
The next day he nearly reached 80 mph with that bike.

 
If we're on it. Some guy going 370 kph on a german highway. Filming himself with one hand and thus driving that fast with only one hand. Because of doing it that way i consider that guy a braindead idiot risking the lives of the few others on the highway (just yesterday i saw the rests of a Porsche upside down on a different highway)

 
A slighty less lunatic approach doing that - but he took his hands off the steering wheel after the attempt.
And now imagine someone with a not untypical speed of 150-200 kph on the middle or left track in front of such a lunatic.


BTW: that guy was not from Germany but from some eastern european country (Romania?). To me it is not acceptable that such people use our highways just for such "tests".
 
I have to admit though , really to blame is the people who set the non speed limit for the Autobahn, having a no speed limit is utterly nonsense in my opinion.
 
Currently the problem is our minister of finance who has a license to drive races.
But anyway, even a high limit of 150 or 160 kph controlled by randomly positioned points of measurement would effectively disable that kind of abuse.

BTW we actually do have a recommended max speed of 130 kph. If You are faster and something happens You can be partially guilty

 
bea said:
A slighty less lunatic approach doing that - but he took his hands off the steering wheel after the attempt.
And now imagine someone with a not untypical speed of 150-200 kph on the middle or left track in front of such a lunatic.


BTW: that guy was not from Germany but from some eastern european country (Romania?). To me it is not acceptable that such people use our highways just for such "tests".
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He couldn't even keep the car in the lanes. No control whatsoever. While I was in Pfronten for training in October and November, the other Americans in my group could not wait to get their rental cars out on the Autobahn to see how fast they could go. Fortunately, the cars all were regulated to stay under 200KPH. The RS6 Avant I had was not, but driving in Germany for me is second nature. I also rarely drive over 160. I'm more afraid of the other person than my own skills.
 
SG John said:
I'm more afraid of the other person than my own skills.
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And that was actually the formal cause of the tragic accident with the Lambo - another car went to the left without giving a sign. The problem is that in that situation that driver would not have had any chance to notice those fast cars in time even if he had driven correctly - independent on the driving style their speed was way beyond adequate for that traffic situation.
 
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