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From: iddibhai@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:35:02 -0800
H rated tires in US spec (stock, sport got the W rated?), so if not  
130, then 128. The engine would do it close to redline in top gear  
tho. My new ride is electronically limited to 155. No way I'm ever  
getting anywhere near that.

On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:42 AM, AG Schnozz wrote:

>
>> speed limit during the day! Was very tempted to see if the top end
>> of my car was at 128, 130 or 144 and how smooth the ECU would hold
>> that limit. Prolly 128. Will never know.
>
> My Audi has a cutoff about 130mph too.  The USA version has it
> because they didn't deliver with the ultra-highspeed tires.  If you
> put the racing tires on the car, you can easily override that limit.
>
> I suspect, however, that the engine in mine would run out of steam
> before it could push much past 135.  Probably the revised redline
> would force a cutoff at 145.  All of the above speeds are really
> beyond my own comfort zone anyway.
>
> One of these days I will get another RX7, a third-gen with all the
> mods to take it up around 400hp and the suspension/aero mods to keep
> the greesy side down.
>

the last year of those were very pretty.
> AG
>
>
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