Sahin wrote:destinationtoby wrote:So you guys are saying it won't go past 190k ?
I've been beside a friend on his road bike and he said his speedo read 210 so it can't be limited to 190 :/
Bikes speedos are so innacurate lol
Correct.
The fairly obvious example, if it's not a digital speedo, the needle starts bouncing after you cross 150-160 km/h...only way to measure velocity after that is a very accurate expensive gps or speedgun. 90% of the commercially available gps are not accurate either. Try going at 100 km/h...and sudden brake.... the gps will take few seconds to determine your current velocity after braking. They are not fast enough to detect sudden changes of velocity.
@Tash are you talking about drags or track days?
Drags= you need very fast acceleration more than your top speed. while you maintain grip of your vehicle. So all your mods should focus on these two factors.
Racing around a circuit. You need a combination of different factors: grip, acceleration, maneuverability, and top speed. So you need to modify a lot of different components and often improving one factor might negatively affect another. Trick is to find a balance between all these factors while you choose your mods.
If you are talking about competitive drags, you will need turbo and nos. Don't think either are legal for P plates. Nos is not even road legal. Plus both forms of competition needs body weight reduction of your car. My track bike in Melbourne had very light fibreglass body kit, no mirrors or any kind of lights (headlight, tail light, indicators, etc etc) pillion seats, footrests etc removed, ran distilled water as my coolant, different set of tyres and new brake pads for almost every/alternate race. It was a pain in the ass to change these over every time there was a track day, and put the normal fittings back when I want to ride on the road. So like many, I had a specific track vehicle which I could not use on the road. I would guess it's similar for cars as well.
Once you are done preparing the vehicle, it comes down to driver training. Track days/Drags are not as simple as just twisting the right wrist on a motorbike or flooring the accelerator in the car. It involves a lot of theoretical knowledge, patience, practice and most important, perseverance.
Don't take it as a negative/discouraging post. Just giving you some info to prep you, because thinking about doing track/drags involves a lot more details and responsibilities than just thinking about the vehicle's top speed. And we would love to see one of our members representing our FTO on the tracks!
So I assume if you're delimited and have enough power you could reach those speeds (probably not 270, but the 180-210). Hell, I did 180 in my 4cyl 1.8L 323. On a slight decline. And it probably took a kilometre or two. But that's just guesstimates on my behalf, so you'll likely have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to chime in!
