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When to go was my car this evening and i love those new drive-in car washes so quick!!. So on the way home my missus starts to so "You're Going to fast!" i said " i'm just trying dry my car!" Then the down hill run on the way i home i PUSHED IT A BIT, the missus just closed her eyes and held on. So i pushed through the gears and kept my foot flat on the down hill 180 Km/h before i had to brake. This was flying the car was becoming a bit unstable to, which is worrying when doing those speeds!!!
So a question to you all " how fast have you pushed your L-series ?"

i have a '87 rx turbo with just the ea-82t, so come on guys tell us all!!.
P.S i don't condone this type of tomfoolery (but comeon it's heaps of fun!)

my old leone can push a extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeem 135km/h
not that its a great idea to speed in a lifted l series

Before the lift kit the L would do 170 downhill, that's a carby NA EA82 and I wasn't too worried about stability or anything.

I got my old MY wagon up to 180 once and it broke a pushrod, then when I popped the hood to see what happened noticed both CV joint boots had shredded and there was grease everywhere!

i had my old lifted with 14" 27s and a 2" lift kit bullbar up to around 160 and had not long backed off and got done for speeding 119 in a 100 zone, car still felt pretty darn good at that speed!!!

lol when my car was unlifted, on a slightly slightly downhill road, got it up to about 165-170 (used alot of fuel) i was racing an old pulsar...now that its lifted i havent even tryed pushing it that hard! btw...stock ea82

alex

I've had the wagon up to about 170 on the way back from Harvey that day a few weeks back. It wants to go alot faster I think but mabey on a less windy day!

1985 RX Turbo, 3" kit, 14"s & 3.9 diffs.
190km/h in 4th on dirt.

The fastest i've had mine is up to 152kph, and it wanted to go more but the traffic wasn't going fast enough!!! it felt very stable at that speed

Wimps.

I won't say what I've had my old coupe up to for fear of persecution. But someone had better come in with a bigger figure than whats been said :P


ROFL.

169 on a slight downhill with the back full of bikes and camping gear out near Donnybrook. High compression, webered ea81 in an otherwise stock MY wagon. Got pretty fucken scary at that speed, no damage though.

Come on tim, tell us!! 220? More??

I regularly had my old MY upto 185, not quite sure they were ever meant for that sort of speed.

The outback started to get floaty at 195 so I backed off.

Got booked doing 145, thats why I couldn't come to the bbq

Jordan.

Hit speed/fuel cut on my Liberty when i had it.......

TW83: Try 240ish. According to the GTR Skyline that was travelling next to me.

Tim if you can spot 270kmh+ You win if not i kno a certain person who does win :P:D

I remember someone pacing an MY with 'extras' at 242 kph - but that must've been in the NT somewhere .) .)

The RX-7 on the otherhand, well I was going faster than the WRX next to me that was going 220. I can't tell for sure though because my speedo was hard up against the pin and reading 180.

doesn't count tim .. L series try to fly at high speeds .. coupes don't

My EA82T powered RX will see the needle leave the end of the scale but then i have run out of available revs. a new 5th will see it bettered in the future

When I owned my old RX (that Subi Wan Kenobi now owns) and we lived in the NT first time 'round, I had the opportunity to exploit the unrestricted speed zones a few times.

The best I got from the RX was:
185ish with 3 people and a full esky on board; and
160 with the trailer attached (trailer pretty much empty!)

As for other cars I've owned whilst up here:
MY06 Subaru Forester XT - 220;
'94 Mitsubishi Galant, 2.0l V6 - 215;
'91 Mits Pajero 3.0l V6 - 180
'97 Mits Pajero 3.5l V6 - 190 (the fuel gauge was moving faster than the speedo!)
'81 Honda Accord 1.6l - 180
Current EA82T L series - a huge 110!

Passenger in a GTR Skyline with an Autometer Speedo - 245

The bad news up here is that as of January, they are imposing speed restrictions on all our roads. The Highway will get 130 kph limit, which has upset alot of people up here. Alot of petitions have been raised in response to this issue. The oposition have said they will re-introduce un restricted limits if they are voted in, however I don't really believe them. One reason the govt has introduced the new limits was because of pressure from Canberra, who said if we wanted funding for roads, then one condition is to introduce speed limits.

So if you want to explore the limits of your cars legally, you had better come up this way before January 07.

tim_81coupe wrote:TW83: Try 240ish. According to the GTR Skyline that was travelling next to me.

Holy cow! How did the coupe cope with it?