fastest you've been in your 300??

Post by **redline** » 18 Jul 2005 03:59 pm

held 115 mph on M6 this morning at 7.15 between junction 1 and 2

Post by **V6 Man** » 18 Jul 2005 04:08 pm

Ah, you mean on that long downhill stretch just after Jnc 1.........?

Post by **redline** » 18 Jul 2005 04:09 pm

haha , yes thats the one

Post by **Duvel78** » 18 Jul 2005 04:20 pm

No speed cameras in UK?

Post by **redline** » 18 Jul 2005 04:26 pm

plenty but the cameras computer mother board fries when a 300 passes them at speed and the screen shows
volvo 300 at over 100mph
this cannot be
this does not compute ,
this does not compute ,
then it gos blank and smoke pours out of the back and wipes its memory, so we get away with it

Post by **d3k4y0** » 18 Jul 2005 04:37 pm

Hardly any (if any at all) on the motorways anymore unless there is a restriction (for roadworks and stuff), and then they are usually SPECS, which take an average over a distance

there are plenty of overhead CCTV cameras tho, so if someone is obviously trying to set a lap record they'll have a pursuit car pull them over for a "chat"

The main enforcment on motorways is done by unmarked police cars, usually in V70 T5s Or Flawed Mondeo ST220s or something along those lines.
W mids has recently got a Jag X Type, probably the 3 Litre V6, to replace it's S60 (or so my sources tell me!)

Edit: I prefer Foggy's explanation!

Post by **SteveP** » 18 Jul 2005 05:51 pm

bodejodel wrote:That looks like you went off the scale!
130mph = 210km/h... very nice!

A standard 360 carb or injection should go off the clock with enough space and maybe some downhill help :p

Post by **bodejodel** » 18 Jul 2005 05:57 pm

Factory spec is 190km/h, the scale goes as far as 200... Even if it points at 200 you will still be going not much faster then 190km/h...

Post by **SteveP** » 18 Jul 2005 06:34 pm

Ofcourse... that is true. I am saying that a 360 will still read 120mph+ on the speedometer...

Post by **5lab** » 18 Jul 2005 06:36 pm

i had my 1.4 up to 117.. on the BIG hill on the m40 thou - could only do 65 the other way

Post by **foggyjames** » 18 Jul 2005 07:22 pm

I said further up the thread that I got the stock B200K to 125. I'd not like to guess what it'll do now, but it wasn't done at ~130.

cheers

James

Post by **redline** » 18 Jul 2005 11:40 pm

by the way got followed down M1 by a striped up scooby wrx impreza last Friday , shit myself when he put two's and blues on but thankfully he drove straight by and pulled the beemer 5 series I was following LOL

Post by **Chris_C** » 18 Jul 2005 11:45 pm

I had that last week, coming back from Cornwall with g/f. I was going some, as was bike behind. Marked car behind that, I pulled over, bike went in front of me (marked car had been behind bike for a mile or so, about 400 yards behind) and I did miss a beat or two seeing if he was gonna pull behind me or bike. Luckily he went past me, sat behind the bike, but did nothing, then say a layby up ahead, and flashed the bike!

Post by **redline** » 18 Jul 2005 11:49 pm

must admit most plod I know dont bother so much about speed ( as long as road is clear ) as they do about dangerous driving , go fast just drive safely and dont sit on anyones back bumper

Post by **D.J. Jonny Long** » 19 Jul 2005 04:34 am

I did reach 185 kph (briefly) in my 360GLT on the long flat stretch of road between here and Bundaberg. Haven't done too much to the car yet but that'll change soon. 240ish is my goal!