Is your an AUTO or stick, last week I hit 122 mph easily on the highway for the hell of it, and I could of went alot faster, but I slowed down...From what I hear the car top speed is like 138.6 or something like that, correct me if Im wrong....

 

Top speed is about 150 for 5spd and 152 for 6spd. Something is wrong if you were struggling to pull from 115-120.

 

Is your an AUTO or stick, last week I hit 122 mph easily on the highway for the hell of it, and I could of went alot faster, but I slowed down...From what I hear the car top speed is like 138.6 or something like that, correct me if Im wrong....

If it is 138 stock that would take like a 10 mile stretch to get to it because our car stock gets to about 110 115 good but then u can sit there and watch the speedometer cause it doesnt look like its rising...i have a 5spd by the way...


and by the way i have never gone that fast before... :3_headsha

 

wrong. there's nothing wrong with ur car.

once u pass 110mph, esp. on a stock car....even worse with an auto...but once u pass 110, ur tib will pull slowly. it'll take much longer to go only slightly faster.

ofcourse, with the more mods u get, the less time it takes.

 

I know where you are talking about I was there last summer with my rented TL

My car hits 120 without any delay and I have a 4 cyl.

 

I hit 125 once, auto I4 with CAI. The fact the interstate was going slightly downhill helped, but I didn't have a lot of trouble getting there. Not something I plan on doing again though, not exactly safe

 

Is your an AUTO or stick, last week I hit 122 mph easily on the highway for the hell of it, and I could of went alot faster, but I slowed down...From what I hear the car top speed is like 138.6 or something like that, correct me if Im wrong....

well, i have a stock v6 6-speed, and got it up to 150mph, no joke.....i have a lil story in general discussion under "first ticket in my tib" if ur interested

 

yeah 125's a little much in our cars. I would try to top it out but only on the track

 

my beta2 5spd elantra maxes out at 115 courtesy of the computer limiter...

i still have lots of rpms left in it when the computer stops me from revving any higher ! LOL

 

I was on the highway and hit 126 with no Problem in my 5 spd on a flat road and nothing helping, maybe you got scared and just kind of started letting off without meaning to. :2_eek:

 

I've hit 135 3 different times in my SE. It didn't seem to have any trouble anywhere except when there were three of us in the car and I hit it, you could definately tell there was extra weight in it.

 

Holy crap you were going 110+ in 30 MPH gust crosswinds? Damn you have some big balls man.

 

I cruise to work doing 95-105 every morning on the capitol beltway... i've had cops pass me because they drive worse than i do. So far I've taken the car to 142 right here in front of college park and no it doesn't take 10 miles. If it takes a quareter mile and 15 seconds to get to 89mph, I know it took me no where near 10 to get to 142. All i've got are an intake/exhaust/mafterburner...

But this is all hypothetically speaking...right, insurance company?! :3_got-hoo

 

Did 115 the other day passing I think eight cars on a straightaway in front of the looney bin on Ortega Highway.... heh...

 

Holy crap you were going 110+ in 30 MPH gust crosswinds? Damn you have some big balls man.

haha, I didn't know it at the time. I found out when I got home, that's what it was gusting to. I was only like 15-20mph steady winds. It wasn't like I was dragging in a hurricane or anything.

Anyways, I have the '03 6-speed. Once I got up to 115 and the speedo just seemed to sit there, I only mashed the gas for about 10 seconds after that. I didn't so much chicken out as I didn't want the odd observer (read: cops) to see me blowing by the occasional traffic like they were standing still.

So anyway, I guess it's time to start modding. Hmm... need cash....

 

Quick noob-ish question, but the other day I decided to take a nice little drive out to El Centro, about 2 hours east of San Diego. Once you get through the mountains, there are plenty of places to let it all out, which I did a couple of times. I got up to about 110 easily enough, but then had to fight and claw my way up to 115, and I couldn't seem to get any higher than that.

I know our cars aren't the most aerodynamic in the world, but I thought a v6 in could easily push past 120mph. Does the fact that there was a mean crosswind (gusting 25-35mph according to the local weather) have anything to do with it, or have I simply reached the limit of what a bone-stock GTV6 can do?

Thanks in advance.

Well I 've gotten it up to 137 :3_loveit: with an auto v6. For a while though my car would not top 125, then I got an intake and well, its a coicidence I guess, but nonetheless weird.

 

**** ive got up to 145 in an auto

 

strange... I have hit 125 in my 1.6 turbo with K&N CAI and SuperChip.

And as for our cars not having the best aerodynamics...I am unable to find the article again now (sorry), but I do recall reading a published article in either Car Magazine, AutoExpress, TopGear or Evo, which listed the drag efficiency of all cars on sale in the UK. The Tiburon beat the Audi TT, Chrysler Crossfire and 350z. The only similar shaped vehicle (not class just shape) was the Porsche 911 and Porsche Boxster.

 

woa it had better drag effiency or it beat those cars in the 1/4 miles?????

 

hey wallytiburon, you went 142 on which road in front of college park? i have a tib too and go to CP, but not sure where you could have gone 142 near cp besides 95.. but yea if you did, much props to you .. ^_^ v

 

I have had my GTV6 03 6 speed tib to 135 a few times but it will not go any faster and i have exhaust and i might as well had an intake.

 

ive had my i4 at 131 before and passed a cop ...who was actually a friend who i had run radar

 

Tiburon (GK chassis) drag coefficient: .34
Audi TT drag coefficient: .34
Subaru WRX STI Sedan: .31
Celica drag coefficient: .32
MR2 Spyder coefficient: .35

 

I do have a few mods but I can easily hit 120+ in my auto v6.

 

I've hit 148, of course I got there faster then you would, but it's an auto and thats the limit.