Max top speed

pol · Post by **pol** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:49 am

Well when mine was running better, I had the speedo reading 140 (twas down hill, but fun) it's hardly eventful for the 480. Doesn't feel unsafe or like it shouldn't be going that fast. Unlike pushing my old 1.1 fiesta to 120 down the same stretch.... That's scary!

pol

Roo · Post by **Roo** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:05 am

pol wrote:Well when mine was running better, I had the speedo reading 140 (twas down hill, but fun) it's hardly eventful for the 480. Doesn't feel unsafe or like it shouldn't be going that fast. Unlike pushing my old 1.1 fiesta to 120 down the same stretch.... That's scary!

pol

That reminds me of my first car, a Fiesta 1.0l. I had it doing 100 but it felt like 200 and was about to self destruct!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:55 pm

what should the maf read?
B18EP engine, but catted!?

Erm, you don't have a MAF mate. The N/A engines run using MAP (Manifold Absolute Pressure) thats what the vacuum thingy on the bulkhead is for.

The little blue thing in your air inlet, which i'm guessing you mis-took for a MAF? is the air temp sensor. I really don't think that would make that much difference. In fact i accidentally left one off for a while and never noticed any change!

robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:14 pm

yeah...i think i had it hanging off for a bit (the blue thing)
what do you think is the most likely thing to cause the treacle effect?

rgrds
rob

sr480t · Post by **sr480t** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:22 pm

Quits! Martin thats cool, I am sorry too we can start again, take it easy chat to ya soon. Shamir

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:04 pm

Good stuff,

Swe480T · Post by **Swe480T** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 8:54 pm

I could take my 88-480T with a 175hp chip right up to the rev.limit @6200rpm on the fifthgear.
Theoretical topspeed ~240Km/h.

levin · Post by **levin** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:19 pm

Swe480T wrote:I could take my 88-480T with a 175hp chip right up to the rev.limit @6200rpm on the fifthgear.
Theoretical topspeed ~240Km/h.

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but from what i've seen in the SPEEDOMETER, 220km/h = 5400rpm

Therefore, at 6200rpm you should be going at 252km/h ((6200*220)/5400) (I'm only talking about the SPEEDOMETER, not the real speed).

Regards,

yo84 · Post by **yo84** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:51 pm

When RPM at 5400 your speed is 185,76Kmh

Swe480T · Post by **Swe480T** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:59 pm

yo84 wrote:When RPM at 5400 your speed is 185,76Kmh

37,5km/h@1000rpm*5,4=202,5km/h(M59-373E)

My servicemanual said 38,4km/h@1000rpm, 38,4*6,2~238km/h(M54)

levin · Post by **levin** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:00 pm

yo84 wrote:When RPM at 5400 your speed is 185,76Kmh

Damn...

Anyway, if the turbo at 5400 goes at 185, what kind of 480 is this one?

Regards

bbf · Post by **bbf** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:48 pm

what wheel sizes do you all have? maybe different?

tobi480turbo · Post by **tobi480turbo** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:18 pm

IÂ´m rolling on 185/65/14 with orignal Volvo rims

greets

Tobi

JayTee · Post by **JayTee** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:14 pm

levin wrote:
yo84 wrote:When RPM at 5400 your speed is 185,76Kmh
Damn...

Anyway, if the turbo at 5400 goes at 185, what kind of 480 is this one?

Regards

like that

bbf · Post by **bbf** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:54 am

change the bulb, levin

levin · Post by **levin** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:17 pm

Not my car

Just wanted to know what kind of 480 was that

Cheers

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:52 pm

I've been in one reading that high, was still pulling on too!! He jad to back off, the traffic in front comes up rather quickly going at that speed!

It wasn't like my old ES where pulled up to 100, then slowed down the accelleration gradually up to the max of 122, this one just kept on accellerating at pretty much the same rate, till ran out of safe road at 135mph.

Rpruen has had his off the scale.

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:56 pm

I have hit the rev limiter in 5th..

Surely someone has the necessary info to work out how fast this is on standard wheel stock? Saddly my haynes is at home.

rpruen · Post by **rpruen** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:51 pm

About 154 MPH at 6250 rpm for a turbo.

132 MPH (140 indicated) at 5400 rpm

It all depends on how close to spec / worn your tyres are though

Richard

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:57 pm

wow, didn't think it was that fast.

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