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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 08:05 PM |
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Thing to remember is stock engines were designed to run flat bickey
Even 36 years later if your tinwares all in check and timing and carb are tuned right it will crank along at 4000rpm all day long,
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This is so true, straight from the owners manual...'maximum and cruising speed 75mph'...
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I tried this on my way home from work this morning.
She could only manage 65MPH flat out 
That's about 112km/h in my car 
Might be time for a tune up.
That's not to say that it didn't run well like that. Sang along like a bird, if anything it got a little cooler, and didn't sound like pistons were
jumping out through the block.
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Bare in mind you car deviates quite dramatically to stock.
Big wide back tyres like yours place alot more load on the driveline not to mention the fact theyre taller than stock as well which is throwing off
the gearing
Yes your car has less wieght with fibreglass kit and no rear bodywork but has extra weight in bigger tyre/wheels, front and rear bar work etc.
I imgaine aerodynamics would be affected somewhat on a baja too
A 5th gear in a vw is fine if you travel big KMs on dead flat motorway, but it would only take the slightest incline before the engine would start
cracking a sweat
Like Daimo and others have said most modern 4 cylinder cars are doing 2800-3000rpm at 100km/h in 5th anyway
Its the big lazy 6s that can do less
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I tried again on the way to work this afternoon and got 75MPH 
Beats me what was going on the morning. I though it had more than 110km/h in it.
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 08:33 PM |
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I wasn't recommending this behaviour
What Joel was saying is right, your car and almost everyone else's is no longer original or new, so I wouldn't recomend wot for sustained periods
without components in top order and on a race track, speed limit is 110km/h if your lucky : :
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 08:56 PM |
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I wasn't recommending this behaviour
What Joel was saying is right, your car and almost everyone else's is no longer original or new, so I wouldn't recomend wot for sustained periods
without components in top order and on a race track, speed limit is 110km/h if your lucky ::
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I don't normally drive her fast, just wanted to see what she had in her. The engine chugs along great down low and has plenty of pull for slow
offroading. Which is what I prefer anyway.
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 09:09 PM |
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Has anyone ever done 90? That is with an accurate speedo.
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 09:26 PM |
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Has anyone ever done 90? That is with an accurate speedo.
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My little maroon Semi-auto in my avatar has. When I bought the car it was supercharged, one day on the way home from work I wound it off the end of
the speedo. That was a little scary, I didn't think the car had it in it.
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 09:49 PM |
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Has anyone ever done 90? That is with an accurate speedo.
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Pfffft 90
Aww c'mon oficer, it's only an old dak dak
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 09:51 PM |
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Even a mild well built 1600 will see gen speed.....
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| posted on September 17th, 2010 at 09:53 PM |
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Did in my old squareback going down a 15o hill with a good run up prior to going down it.
lol reving of its tits all the way
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 09:14 AM |
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I only ever got to about 80mph in my old beetle with a stock spec 1640, then the car felt like it was going to lift off the road... of course this was
all closed road testing...
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 03:28 PM |
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of course this was all closed road testing...
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I think that goes without saying.
I stop in at the test track on my way to work.
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 04:28 PM |
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Like dead roads behind acres of sugar cane fields ... those were the
days....
(ô_!_/ô) (ô_!_/ô)
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 08:21 PM |
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Yup, my "private test track" used to regularly see me hitting 100mph
bog stock 1600 too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWu_2XEBiY
having a supercharger and 0.82 4th was completely beside the point....
On a serious note Ive managed 90mph from a couple of my superbugs, takes a good tail wind and run up but VWs top speed listing was always on the
conservative side, even my mates 70 bug with a 1600sp managed 90mph
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 09:21 PM |
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that is seriously impressive. just as well they have all those "closed roads" up your way to test on. I should also say, the suspension on the car
is a credit to you too. It looked very stable at that speed.
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 09:35 PM |
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Doesnt take much to make a superbeetle stick like shit to a blanket
That was just some dodgy old camera phone footage
This one giving the subi some shit up windy mountain "race track" is much better quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf62EUiyfc&feature=related
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 09:41 PM |
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Gee thanks Joel. That was some real exciting stuff, those supers are real super, eh?
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| posted on September 18th, 2010 at 09:49 PM |
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well I'll agree with the purist nazis they dont have the looks of the early bugs so they gotta make up for it in handling
now ummm 5 speeds werent we talking about??
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