My car likes to go that fast as well, in fact, it gets unhappy with me if
we are under 70mph.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT with no sills
'63 Buick 215 eyeing another rolling chassis
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, DENNIS COX wrote:
> Wow... I was over 5k on the tach on 101 today.. That's equates to over
> 90!!!! And I could put my foot in it and it would accelerate!!! I
> prolly shouldn't be going that fast on a month old engine. Oh.. I
> passed an A on the shoulder with it's hood up. I was to many lanes over
> and going to fast to stop. :-( I turned around and by the time I got
> back it was gone. So it must not have been to serious.
>
> James Nazarian Jr wrote:
> >
> > According to the manual on my '71, a non-overdrive car goes 18mph per 1k
> > RPM in top gear. This is assuming that tire diameters are close to
> > original etc. This number may have changed on later cars, but I don't
> > know.
> >
> > James Nazarian
> > '71 B roadster
> > '74 BGT with no sills
> > '63 Buick 215 eyeing another rolling chassis
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, DENNIS COX wrote:
> >
> > > My spedo isn't working to good... It reads fast. Typically in top gear
> > > (4th), haw fast are you going at different rpm's? Say at 3k, 4k, and at
> > > 5k.
> > >
>
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