Re: Actual Top Speed of an R/T (sixer doing 135)

From: HEMI@charter.net
Date: Mon Mar 29 1999 - 10:56:52 EST


What size and brand of tire are you running anyway ?

At 10:30 AM 3/29/1999 EST, you wrote:
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>It's totally possible....I got my truck up to a little over 130 once when i
>was racing a toyota supra (non-turbo of course). The only reason I got it
that
>high was the tires were larger than the computer was programmed for....I was
>doing 130 and the computer THOUGHT I was doing 115, and then it shut me down
>:->
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>When I pulled off to the side of the road (by the way, I beat him by about
>half a hood length) I had to ask him how fast we were going because of course
>my speedo was way off. That's when he told me 132MPH, then added the comment
>"Trucks just shouldn't be this fast!!"
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>Long live the Dakota!!
>
>-Austin
>Vipertruck
>
>

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