Ive gotten my 88lxi hatch over 130 I think. The speedometer was peged but the tack was still riseing
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Ive gotten my 88lxi hatch over 130 I think. The speedometer was peged but the tack was still riseing
Hmmm how fast can I get my Honda. As fast as it takes for me to run down three flights of stairs and down the parking lot. So I would have to say about 15 to 20 seconds. If you talking speed I have had it up to about 120mph
i can get up to 130 about when my car starts to shake like a fat man
My 88 carb got to 115 mph. I backed off because the car started to shake a little and I didn't have bail money.
well ive got an EFI si with an a20a4, i got my car to 150km/h before the car locked at a little over 4k rpm and dead on 150km/h and it wouldn't give anymore than that even with the foot down the engine just settled down and the ride was comfortable as all hell, but it seems to me that there car has a speed limiter as well as a rev limiter. Which is annoying since I had a shit load of road to work with.....
Im wanting to try and source a gen 2 prelude ecu, apparently the wiring of the australian 3geez should be compatible. That's the theory, since they aus ones from 86-87 are identical to the 88-89 ones, im certain.
Anyone want to supply me with a gen 2 prelude ECU to test it out?
welp i got a 89 dx stock carb. I pushed the sucker too 120 or so with no prob. it didnt shake at all till i began to slow for a stop(i think that is realated to the fact i wrecked it 2 weeks ago, no real damage cept for it's little out of line.) Alls i got to say is since i tooken up the street racin hobby i have smoke a saturn, a neon, a probe, a 86 accord, a 86 crx. I do 90-95 on the highway all the time without thinkin bout it. I must one hell of a car.
TRIUMPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
132-from what it looked like... it kinda stops at 130.. but anyway i did that easily!... and people look at me crosseyed cuz my car's carbed... hmm.. but i did it.. the only mod off of stock it NGK R plugs, Blue THunder wires, and Accel coil.. so maybe that helped :) but im f'n syked!
well guys it looks like the best we have is 130 give or take a few miles... the real question now is... how do we hit a solid 140??? Is it possible on a a20a engine?? and what mods are we looking at here... I think its safe to say that only the efi people can realisticly hit that mark... my personal best was 127mph with a decient amount of mods... I think when my headers come in I'll top just over 130 on my carbed engine... Now if you really have the balls... take a pic or have a buddy in the back seat do it because we can all sit here and talk about breaking 130 but having a pic of it is where it's at... there's nothing like cold hard proof... just dont kill yourself doing it...
A few months ago one of my friends was riding with me and he was playing with his new GPS receiver. One of it's features is that it can tell you your speed to the .0 mi/hr. At any speed, 30, 45, 70, etc my speedometer always ready 10% high. If anything, it should read low since I am on bigger 205-60-14 tires instead of the smaller 195-60-14 that it's calibrated for.
Just to give an idea what that means: let's say my car can go 120 mi/hr (listed top speed for stock 89 lxi). My speedometer would read 133 mi/hr (if it even could read that high).
Unless you know that your speedometer is accurate, it's just an estimate. Try driving past one of the speed limit signs with the radar that tell you your speed on an empty road and see how close yours really is.
No thank you we dont feel like being jailed.
No, I meant drive by it at a legal speed and see how close your speedometer is to the speed that the radar says. It would give you an idea how accurate your speedometer is.
ya a freind actually told me to do that once... I cant seem to find any of those things though... if you get two other cars to drive next to you and you take thier speeds and average them w/ yours you could get a pretty acurate number.
i had my honda up to 135 on I-75 south. back in the day when all had under the hood was an intake, new ngk plugs, and 7mm plug wires.
I-75...?? Do you live in GA ???
Most of you don't belive me, but I have burried the needle past 130mph, after that I lost track of how fast I was goin, I was racin another car on a 10 mile stretch on my vacation, I didn't win. But Neither did he :flip: It was just a guess that I hit 140 since the needle was burried past 130 on the speedometer, I could be mistaken tho.
Hey dudes, well me's new here, hope i'll get all the gr8 help.
Well i tried 2 c how fast my '86 EXi would go. It went like 170 KMH don't know how much that is in MPH. Still had 10% more thrust left, but didn't wanted 2 try nething more, as i was in unfamiliar teritory.
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87AccordsterLx
i live in lexington ky, i was headed for ga.
I've done the same thing. Got past 130, needle went a bit more, and coudn't go anymore. Then it got sorta unstable going around a big gradual turn (body roll is hellacious above 100mph, stock) and I slowed way back down. That was on I-95 north around last December.Quote:
Originally posted by MSIAccord_LXi
Most of you don't belive me, but I have burried the needle past 130mph, after that I lost track of how fast I was goin, I was racin another car on a 10 mile stretch on my vacation, I didn't win. But Neither did he :flip: It was just a guess that I hit 140 since the needle was burried past 130 on the speedometer, I could be mistaken tho.
I've gone 120, slowed down once it seemed to not want to go anymore.
118 for the '89 DX hatch dead stock with the exception of 15's w.205/50's. Not even a flipped lid.
...and dead smooth the whole way there.
I've hit 118 over 30 times with it so far on Rt.8 up here in CT. Car seems like it's governed at that b/c I can't seem to get anymore out of it.
it's becasue you need more air to the engine... flip the lid... mine did the same before I got the cat-back and fliped the lid...
sounds like a plan... ...thanks man.
Hey, don't our cars have a governer on them at like 12Xmph or something?
nope no governer... it does seem like it on some cars depending on what mods are done... I remember before I started on mine it would climb up to 117'ish and just die out... keep at it and you get in the 130's with barely any money into it at all... Intake, headers, and catback exhaust piping and you should do it fairly easily....
Now remember only do it on a closed race course. LOL
oh ya definitly.. any closed course ...aka freeway, highway, interstate... hell do it on the ride home and if you see a cop make sure to turn... smile ... look em dead in the eye ... -> :flip: .. just make sure you have back up :flame: for when he busts out his 9 and goes trigger happy....:badass:
hell throw back a few :beer: and keep on driving :smokin:
hehe... gotta love it :D
