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Originally Posted by brAnd7onX
I'm confused. How can that guy say he was going 186 when the camaro only goes up to 180mph?? Or am I mistaken?
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Look closer at the speedo, I don't know about your car, but mine with the IOM interior has orange on the guages and there is one line above 180. That mark is 185. But that doesn't mean the car will only go that fast. The DIC kept reading all the way to 186.
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Originally Posted by pumpkinrancho
Still breaking mine mine in however it will go over 100 in 4th. By the way the gas station in wagonmound has some great beef jerky. Also the highway there is about as straight and flat as anywhere in the country, I only wish when I was driving to ALbq. i was driving my camaro instead of my Ram. Look forward to seeing your car this summer.  |
That's why I did it there, I was just cruising along at 80, at 6:30 am and hit that stretch. I could see for 10 miles, not a car in sight, the temp outside was around 25 degrees, so I knew the tires weren't hot. I just dropped to 4th and hammered it. It went to 160, I shifted to 5th and in about a mile from when I hammered it at 80 I was doing 186. I always wanted to see If I could bury the speedo on this car and I did it. I wish now I would have run to redline. I was taching about 6300, so calculating it out I probably could have done about 193 at redline. While doing 180, I shifted to 6th to see If it would hold the speed, but it is .50 overdrive, and it wouldn't hold, and slowly started to drop off. The Vettes are the same way, they will only do their top speed in 5th. 6th is too high geared.
Pumpkin, look forward to meeting all the new camaro owners this spring.
If the job doesn't have me clear across the country by then.