pete mcrash

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now then Escos owners....whats the top speed u've had in ur car (private road before u all start)....he's a bit pissed at his....top speed and the power the car has/had...cheers

Red16

whats he managed to get Pete?

IIRC standard figures from Ford were 140mph with whale tail and 144mph without.

pete mcrash

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about that with greens, t34 etc.... pretty shite really....

Dicko&Vacant

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pete did you show him what a real 4x4 cossie goes like when you both left here the other day lol

pete mcrash

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also people...with fin or without.....ta

pete mcrash

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....nup...damp got in somewhere....just poped n banged like fook....

Alps Pacino

Cheers for the help pete your are my hero

Alps Pacino

TBF i said it does 140 flat out i didnt hold it flat out for long BUT it seemed to slow right down at 140 and didnt look like there was much in it maybe 150 if i was feeling brave about the life of my engine

Dannn

177mph with, power wise that day can't remember, guess at 450+Bhp - had more it in but the driver did not like the though of being someones jail bitch.

Dicko&Vacant

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out come the excuses

Mike Rainbird

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166mph with wing - 400bhp with T34 0.55 a/r light blues, standard intercooler (with charge-cooler seperation kit), 18" wheels 225/40 tyres.

Alps Pacino

Mike Rainbird

So you recon 145 150 is about right for a escos 18" greens standard cooler etc runing about 1.4 bar at the top end

Stu.H

Good speed, No RS500 cooler?

EIL132

"standard intercooler (with charge-cooler seperation kit)"

Mike Rainbird

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I think Bill's did just over 150mph at Brunter's in 330bhp spec...

Lee Reynolds

I had a supposed 330 conv on my old white one. I did a SPEEDO 155 on the private part of the 64 york road with 5 in...

How far out are speedos tho?? I was on std rims and tyres too

Alps Pacino

Mike Rainbird

Righty o i might get mine booked into msd the next time i'm home just to give it the once over, cause i dont know if its just me expecting to much from it or if the car is supposed to perform as it is

Alps Pacino

Lee Reynolds

Thats a point will 18's make it read over or under???????????

Lee Reynolds

not sure myself alps. When i fitted 18's it was at a time i stopped using the car so much and never pushed it to see what differnce was.

Red16

speedo will under read with 18's

Alps Pacino

Red16

So when my speedo is reading 140mph with the 18" it would probably be reading 150 ish with standard wheels, thus pulling the speedo a bit more into reality

Billabong

Mike, it was just under, and I have my excuses (they're good ones though ) Speedo was showing about 2-3 mph more than the Datron gear @ that point. Me and Chris also went past a cop car at highly illegal speeds, but don't think they can do much @ Brunters

Wheels size doesn't matter so much as the overall diameter/circumference of the tyre.

Dicko&Vacant

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alps just stop making excuses and sell the fooker like you said and buy a saph

Alps Pacino

Dicko&Sarah

Next time i'm home i'm going to see about getting the small bubbles sorted on the boot lid and tidy a few ver minor issues out ie a few plastic trims etc then its getting a good clean and its going up for sale. I'm going back to the teg for a bit then thats going and the hun will be on for a good spec 3 door i think or even a 500

Mike Rainbird

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Regarding the speedo reading, it depends on how far it OVER reads in the first place (as it varies from car to car), but sometimes it can make the speedo 100% accurate, others it can make it under-read . Only way to tell is with timing gear or GPS .

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Mine did 168 mph reading on Garmin GPS unit with 426 bhp.

Only did it once and it scare dthe shit out of me

Alps Pacino

SECS

was that with the spoiler??????????????

kjc300

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Mine did over 155 gps @ stage 3

Alps Pacino

Looks like i'm just going to have to let rip full bore in 5th then and hope for the best

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Alps Pacino,

Yes it was.

Mike Rainbird

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Hope you've got money set aside for a rebuild . No. 3..... BANG .

Alps Pacino

Mike Rainbird

I'll just have to pop out in the back garden and plucj the money tree

Dicko&Vacant

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hes not joking either

Alps Pacino

Red16

Alps Pacino as Mike said you cant say how much its made it under read unless you start doing maths etc. but basically it under reads because the car travels a little bit further for every revolution of the larger wheels than it did with the small wheels, because they have a larger circumference.

Gregs

had 151 on GPS with the wing on, and stage 3 with std wheels, was still pulling well, but i chickened out lol speedo was reeding 160

Rolls

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I really don't see what the great big fuss is about top speed and chasing numbers (ie BHP) the whole time on here...
Surely you'd much rather have an awesome overal set-up that you can use and abuse on a regular basis than have say 450 BHP on a boggo box / diff's etc.. that you wouldn't use properly for fear of the g/box /(insert other random part here) shiting itself and putting the car off the road?

If you can afford to spend 5k on a box, and half sensible diff's, then fair enough, but IMO a well rounded package is the way to go rather than on just the engine?

Redkop

Speedo was spot on with GPS with 18's for me. With 17's speedo was
5-6mph out