That's exactly what he meant, try to pay attention next time...

 

hell guys, my 150HP deutschcamaro will do 140...with your amount of HP it could do 175

 

158 in House Springs, Mo on highway MM

 

Anyone hit redline or near it in 6th? And have a pic?

Just asking

Highest I have heard of is a 996 hitting 327 km/hr (203 mph) on a youtube vid

 

Was that after it fell off a cliff or was it uber modified?

 

Ooops the vid is a 996 turbo in kuwait. I knew that was too fast. Time for more coffee

 

155 in 993 on highway between Annapolis and Baltimore with the top down which was a panic.....and 160 with C4S on Route 11 scenic Cherokee Foothills highway in the straights between Georgia and NC in SC...........regularly drive 90-100 around the perimeter in Atlanta where I live now....have to for the flow traffic.....crazy fast drivers in Atlanta....

 

Hi! Folks.

166 MPH on a highway near Madrid, Spain.

The car went absolutely stable and he could have gone beyond but the driver went a little frightened...

 

1. 250 km/h on 930 Turbo Ruf BTR 1983
2. 275 km/h on 996 Carrera 1999
3. 265 km/h on 993 TT 1997
4. 300+ km/h on 993 Ruf Turbo R

 

Not the fastest @ 125'ish but I bet the scariest...

The gentleman painting my vintage Mustang is a pretty good friend (we will refer to him as Jay Jr.). His 70 year old father (Jay Sr.) had just returned home from a stay in the hospital following a moderately serious heart attack. Jr. explains how Sr. had once worked for a gentleman who owned a P-car and that he had always wanted to drive one. I felt obligated to grant a life long wish for a man in his twi-light years.

Jay Sr. is a life-long old school hot rodder. He has built many a Ford small block V8 screamer (8000 rpm 300+ ci iron blocks) with power curves that felt like moon launches. I picked Jay Sr. up and putted around his neighborhood for a while and eventually swapped seats with him. I stupidly suggested he "put her on the highway" (I-675 SE Atlanta). Just after merging into the 70-80'ish flow a very red Corvette with a very loud open exhaust booms by...

Jay Sr. punches it! 90...100...110...120... His clutch work was club-footed at best and his steering inputs were vague. Evening Rush hour traffic was just getting warmed up (in Atlanta it starts around lunch time) and he seemed to be using the tires on the lane markers as a type of automotive braille to determine if he was actually in the lane. The Corvette driver either notice the sloppiness or the look of shear terror on the face of the P-car's passenger (that being my face) because he backed off and moved over to let us by. I mouthed thank you to him as we passed for I was certain Jay Sr. would follow suit. Actually, it wasn't until he decided that he really needed to consume the tablet in his shirt pocket and that it would be difficult to do at triple digit speeds so he backed out of it. A near death experience if ever there was one.

I've polited a race bike to 180+ on a public but deserted road and I know how irresponsible that was. I've done it many times but less and less as time goes by. I've sky dived, shot guns and made love to fast women. No death-bed full of regrets for me... I guess that's what was going through Jay Sr.'s mind, too.

Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

 

Great story! I'm glad you lived to tell it!

 

Don't have a pic, but I've redlined 6th several (15-20) times in my MY99 996. It is supercharged, so it gets there quickly enough. Redline is set to 6800 rpm. Digitally indicated 183 MPH (GPS shows my speedo is 5 mph fast across the range, so I guess I was only going 178 MPH). I understand the risks and I do see others' point in calling my actions "ill-advised;" however, my suspension is heavily modified, my aero package is effective, I do have significant track time and high-speed training, we have at least two 12 mile stretches of concrete barrier divided 4 lane concrete highway here in Arkansas on which to play, and I do not do so with other traffic present, so it is just my *** and my car on the line (heck, I don't even have a wife or kids). Flame if you will, I do not mind (else I would not have posted).

I do very much doubt the 203 mph unless the transmission gearing had been changed or the rev limiter moved on that car, as there is simply no way my MY99 will go any faster with its stock 6th gear and rev limiter at 6800 rpm.

 

OK,

So I was out on a Wyoming Interstate on my own, and I could see about 3 miles ahead, and I planted my right foot. I saw just under 170 MPH on the speedo before I backed off. There was at least a bit more left in the car, but I couldn't take it any more. I sure hope that my rear wing deployed! For sure that was the fastest I've ever gone on land. The previous record was on my 1993 CBR 900RR at a mere 145 MPH. Those were the days!

 

155MPH in an unmodified '02 996 C2, front felt very unstable. After installing front lip spoiler very easy reached to 165 MPH, felt very stable like it could go higher, but didn't try it.

 

I was at about 4500 ft doing 70!
who was "higher" than that!

ahhaha...(when we got down the hill we did slow err down)