One thing your wagon has going for is aerodynamics. Should be pretty slick through the air, for a wagon - with the somewhat rounded front end.
Glad to hear you are back out terrorizing the road Fox. My sphincter muscles hurt just thinking about trying that in the old '57. It'd take a day to pick up the parts that shook off. Isn't spring wonderful? We might get some spring weather some day, like maybe when spring comes, but for now we must have dragged something that smells and is ugly home with us from our trip because it sure hasn't been pretty since we got home. Can't take the old girl (no no, I mean the wagon, not the DW) out in this stuff.
Last week son took the 55 Chevy wagon out for a test drive after putting in a 750 Holley and the Dakota digital dash. Has no idea how accurate it is but said he was over 100+ in a few telephone pole lengths. I know when I drive it the front feels like it is ready for lift off over 80! Of course the shape is more like a brick too! I'm afraid to go out on the road and look for parts saf57.
Me too. With all the idiots on the road it is scary. Fox has the right idea - go find a private and unused road and do the fun stuff. Not like some of the folks we saw on the road today "oh, gosh, I missed that corner, I'll just slam on the brakes here in the middle of the block and with three tries do a u-turn = with this 5 ton delivery truck". Good thing we are not allowed to carry guns in Canada:banghead3:
i'll second him. i haven't had the cajones to get TiKi up quite that fast but i had her cruising at 120mph. i was trying to catch up to jenn on the way to work. when i had my f150, 80 mph was about as fast as i wanted to take her. and she wasnt exactly a rocket either. well, jenn and i would leave for work at about the same time. usually me about 5 min before her. well every morning i'd be plodding along at 65-70 and she would whip past me and wave. well...one warm sunny morning i had left the house late and the spirit moved me to take the wagon. i caught jenn, i passed her at 120mph and it still had a lot of pedal. Of course i got the phone call a minute later..."how the hell fast are you going!!"
145mph!! Yahoo! The rev limiter will kick in if/when you get there. But then yours has been reprogrammed, has it not? I think they're set to 150mph. I'd be more worried about blowing a tire than anything else at that speed in a b-body.
Blowing a tire? Just in general or does that happen randomly at high speeds with some cars? A bit of an odd question I'm sure But I am curious nonetheless.
Well a trie guy can tell you better but, All tires are rated for a certain speed, exceed that and you have a risk of tread seperation/blow out. Road condition with speed is a factor, you can have the best speed rated tires but if that one in a million pot hole finds you... Myself, one blow out but thank god at slow speed...I had been jumping from gas station to gas staion filling the tire up to get home in my 83. Tires had magor tread left, no curb damage peroiud, but I'm guessing the age of the tire was the reason. Blowing a tire when driving (this is the most important if you blow a front tire) I used to hold a comercial licence for 5-Ton with air, I was 19 when I took the driver training course. At that time engine governers were in just about every new comercial truck, I remember a vidio warning drivers to never max out in speed, leave a few miles per hour in your gas peddle as a reserve. Reason being when a front tire blows the car, truck, comercial truck will allways and instantle pull hard towards the blow out side. At highway speed this is how and why we still see roll overs as people blow a tire and instantly take there foot off the gas and that just makes the pull worse. Blowing a front tire at speed, you need to give it gas itch will help push the viehicle and then you get your control back and then you can safly limp the pulling viehcle off the road.
