Darksun

Cause people are scared. That sums it up. I can't believe that out of all the cobalts on this site I'm the only one who tried to peg the speedo and top the car out . The fuel cut feels the same like it would in all the other gears but it happens when the guage is at 160+ vs being at redline. Honestly i was only a little surprised when i bounced off it. They all said the stock cobalt was drag limited because it was for the amount of horse power it had stock. Doesn't mean there wasn't an actual limiter still in place. Just the stock cobalt didn't have enough power to hit it. IT's really not that far fetched people.

BLKSS

Wow I shouldnt have wasted my time reading this. This thread is ghey. I have never driven my cobalt over the speed limit nor will I ever. Btw the car dosent go that fast. Ive seen how far it goes.. In my dreams ofcourse

retrop

Then why did you waste even more time posting something pointless....

Darksun

I don't know whats harder to believe That you've never in your life went over the speed limit even once or that I hit 160 mph in my cobalt.

BlkDragon SS

Drksun Dude iI hit 257 km/h on the 407 in Markham with ease. Ppl flaming you is just them being ignorant end fo story. Heck i ahve only a K&N CAI Intake and i hit that and could've gone a bit more but i Pussied out lol. Serioulsy for all those who believe everything they read in a mag you must be the same ppl who believe everything they watch on CNN. But thats a whole different story. The only way you will know your cars own limits is to test it out if you wish to, not saying that you necessarilly have to. However if you own the car instead of saying it cannot be done why not try it out. If you are scared to for obvious reasons that sort of speeding is dangerous and against the law. But if you wanna call BS guess what, the only way you can is by doing it sorry to say but thats all you can do. By the way sun your crazy for doing it again lol but be safe if you do.

c7015

I dont see why anyone who frequents this site would be calling BS on Darksun (a member who has shown to be very honest and impartial)

What’s so hard to believe

CSS stock drag limited does not have enough power to overcome resistance at a higher speed


Darksun NOT STOCK has more power to overcome more resistance resulting in a higher top speed than stock ..in this case 160MPH roughly 13 mph higher then another documented stock top speed run UNDER COMPLETELY DIFFERENT circumstances/conditions

cvenom2122

i have a saturn ion redline (are speedo's go up to 140) and i was atleast 10 mph over that



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Darksun

Thanks for that. You've sumed it up better than i was able too. But I can't blame people for not believeing me, this is the e-net and proof is everthing. I was hoping more people would believe with out me having to do it again but I was also prepared to have to prove my self, no biggie. When I do 160 with a passenger on film that will end all the bs claims and quench the non believers.

alleycat58

His numbers make sense. Given our gear ratios, in 5th gear at 6000 RPMs you'd be right at 160mph. Do you have stock tires on or are they a different size?

tube

You honestly think your spedometer is acurrate at 150 mph?

selfinfliction

it took 30 full seconds to go from 110-147

it took 19 of those seconds to go from 135-147

you know at 147 you are travelling at 2.45 miles per minute? at 160 2.66~ it would take a good 5+ mile perfectly level stretch to get to 160 IF it was possible, and IF you came onto the road going a pretty good speed. That's going almost 1/2 mile every ten seconds.

there's no way on god's green earth you are running 160 in this car. it's not happening. you don't need someone else to go with you to record it, just put the camera in your shifting hand and go for it.

and fyi, starting out in 5th gear would not help the top end any at all, the only thing it will do is cause you to use up more road to get up to speed. ALOT more road.

Darksun

differnt. MY new tire setup weighs in at 25 pounds with tires vs my old stock setup which was 45 pounds. The size i have on the front right now is 205/50/16 and 205/55/16 in the back. The front sizes is like .08 sumthing close to the original diamiter of the stock tire the back ones are off more but it gives me a steped effect and helps with launching and wheel hop.

skechmn

I don't see why everyone dogs on him since he said he'd prove it. Why don't you wait and see. And everything in the media isn't true. I know I fit into the high school street racing crowd but when the news puts on stories about us racing, its mostly about what they think happened not what really happened. I've seen tapes on the news of our cars and they could even tell the real model it was. Most news is only partially true. It sounds very possible to hit 160. I've ridden with friends that go to local oval tracks and can do upwards of 180 in street legal cars, somewhat like NASCAR, and yes they were modded 4 cyls. that put out around 225 hp to the wheels. I would like to know where you did this at though.

Darksun

ha at that speed i didn't want to take my hand off the wheel at all when i got in to the 100s hence why i started in 5th gear and went from 40 all the way up. No shifts means less room for human error. And yes the car will do 160 and i exspect you to be humble once i prove that fact. I'm not mad at you in anyway so don't take it that way. In fact its the haters that keep me going.

Darksun

I know its not fully accurate thats why i had to hold 160mph for 3-4 seconds than i hit the fuel cut. at most my speedo is 5mph off which i accounted for. But its not like my speedo says 160 when im only doing 100. And if i can't trust the speedo what should i trust? People have a negitive for everything on the net. Don't trust the speedo, don't trust the boost guage, don't trust the fuel guage. People are paranoid.

selfinfliction

this explains everything perfectly.

stock = 215/45/18

yours = 205/50/16

this means that your tire setup is reading exactly 6.0% too fast.

60mph on your speedometer is actually 56.4mph

160mph on your speedo = 150.4mph, which is very attainable, and believable.

<even with a 205/55/16 front tire, your speedo differential will be 2.9% too fast>


well now that we've solved that issue, i guess acording to the undersized tire you are very well hitting 160mph on the speedo, but in now way are you actually traveling that fast

M62SS

hahaha..nice...i'm from canada and my car reach 235km/h and there no way he can go higher stock...

Darksun

Nice try 63.8 on my speed do is 60 mph in real life and just cause your riding so hard i swaped the 205/55/16's in the back to the front. That puts me at 2.979 difference which means now when speedo says I'm doing 61.7 I'm really doing 60. And after you watch the vid you'll knowtice it'll hold 160 for some seconds than hit the fuel cut which leads me to believe that when the car actually hits 160 the fuel cut kicks in not when the speedo say so. Nice try you almost discredited my claims. I'll make sure to post the vid up later. BYE

selfinfliction

yeah whatever guy, first you post that you have a smaller tire size on your car, then not even a couple hours later you claim you are running bigger tires.

Why don't you run outside and get a video of the tire/wheel size and leave the camera running while you take it on a run?

Darksun

If you would read i said that i have 205/50/16's on the front and had 205/55/16's on the back. was nothing for me to switch them around. And F-all that i could just throw back on my stockers if i felt but i couldn't dig them out the attic at 12 am this morning befroe i made my run.