In 2001, driving from Portland to Scottsdale by way of Moab, I stumbled across the Bonneville Salt Flats, the day before the official start of Speed Week, about 2PM. On the strength of relationships with some of the guys there for time trials, I persuaded the guys setting up the timing gear to let me make a one-way run down the salt.

With two people and all the crap you'd need for two weeks in Moab, my '99 Disco II clocked the flying mile at 117mph... OME suspension, BFG Mud Terrains, ARB bumper with Warn 9000, Rovertym sliders and diff guards, Pull-pal, Hi-Lift, two 5 gal jerry cans, the works.

I've gone way faster than that -- I've had a couple dozen Porsches, and have raced in SCCA and IMSA before slowing down to just vintage racing.

My highest speed highway adventure, I was driving an '81 911SC, Euro spec, with a full Max Moritz stage 3 motor, probably making about 320 HP. Heading down I-10 between Ft Stockton and Sonora in the middle of West Texas at about 110. I see this black dot in the rear view, then it's a bigger dot, then it's a blob, then holy **** it's on my bumper and then it passes me like I'm sitting still. Have no idea what it was, so I drop a gear and wind it up to catch this guy. At 150, I gave up. He was only barely moving faster than me, but I never narrowed the gap to less than a mile or so.

I dropped back to about 100 and kept motoring. About twenty minutes later, I see flashing lights, so I slowed way down. As I drove past at a more leisurely pace, I saw a black with full blackout treatment Mercedes 300C AMG "Hammer" with California plates, and a guy being handcuffed over the back of the trunk. I have NO idea how fast he was going, had to be over 160. Bad news for some dude from LA to be caught doing that in the middle-of-nowhere Texas!

 

usually 10 under speed limit ahahha

 

had my stage 2 audi b5 s4 up to 168 mph on a closed air strip

 

I like my FNFAL with my 7.62x51

And thats 2600 fps

 

Ive gotten my disco 1 up to 110... Scary Scary! stuff shakes, The clutch slips... Needless to say, I keep her at a cool 60 most of the time on highways.

 

In fact, it's not just that the manufacturers slow you down that the speedo reads high.

There are 2 reasons:

1) If it's going to be off anyway, they'd rather it be off in the direction whereby they don't end up getting hauled into court a lot as an accessory to unlawful speed, and more to the point,

2) I'm told that for cars sold in Germany, TUV will absolutely *hammer* the manufacturer if they find so much as one factory-dress car whose speedo reads as much as 1% *low* (I heard this from Bimmer people when complaining that my 635's speedo was *10%* high).

 

Ok I had an XK8 and on the Jag msg board they said that it was governed. The reason was that the engine was capable of higher speed but the tranny and diff would fall apart. So be careful with your Disco's

 

95mph racing a Grand Cherokee. I obviously gave in early, but the 1000lb heavier d1 held it's own.

I've had my 95' BMW M3 up to 145, and had cruise set at 130 for about five miles down a back road once.

145 in the bimmer feels better than 55 in the disco

 

i feel better sitting in my parked rover then i do in a bmw goin 145