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Old 04-03-2004, 09:25 AM
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Speedo?

Radar?

Old hat - GPS is the thing. And the GPS set said 163. I can't personally give the accuracy specs for GPS groundspeed read-out, but I understand the military are quite happy with it.
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Wilf, now THAT'S what I'm talkin about...GPS would be the way to go!
BTW, my ancient escapades were calculated from tach readings 'cause...even in the 60's and 70's everyone knew the speedos weren't reliable. FWIW, the speedo reading was within 5 mph of the calculated speed on all three...hey, I was an engineering geek, whadaya expect?!?
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Old 04-03-2004, 09:46 AM
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mrmustang-

The problem really is that you felt it necessary to correct EVERYONE based on your lack of balls to push YOUR car past a certain speed.

It is quite possible that there are a few posts on this thread that aren't accurate - so what?

Who the heck elected you hall monitor? And how do you KNOW that what they are saying is bs?

I don't have any particular problem with you - I basically ignore you. But it seems that fairly regularly you decide to impart some of your "wisdom" as though everyone else is a child and that is just plain irritating.

I still remember the crap you pulled with Hal Copple - maybe you should post less and think more.

This is a friendly "Club" where a lot of people go to learn or be entertained - not to be called out about what they said or talked down to like they don't know anything..
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Estimated Position Error (EPE) and Error Sources

EPE (1-sigma) = HDOP * UERE (1-sigma) (1)



Multiplying the HDOP * UERE * 2 gives EPE (2drms) and is commonly taken as the 95% limit for the magnitude of the horizontal error. The probability of horizontal error is within an ellipse of radius 2drms ranges between 0.95 and 0.98 depending on the ratio of the ellipse semi-axes. User Equivalent Range Error (UERE) is computed in the tables lower on this page.

EPE (2drms) = 2 * HDOP * SQRT [URE^2 + UEE^2] (2)
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Old 04-03-2004, 09:52 AM
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mrmustang-

The problem really is that you felt it necessary to correct EVERYONE based on your lack of balls to push YOUR car past a certain speed.

It is quite possible that there are a few posts on this thread that aren't accurate - so what?

Who the heck elected you hall monitor? And how do you KNOW that what they are saying is bs?

I don't have any particular problem with you - I basically ignore you. But it seems that fairly regularly you decide to impart some of your "wisdom" as though everyone else is a child and that is just plain irritating.

I still remember the crap you pulled with Hal Copple - maybe you should post less and think more.

This is a friendly "Club" where a lot of people go to learn or be entertained - not to be called out about what they said or talked down to like they don't know anything..
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Pat, Bravo!!!
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You've contradicted everything I've stated for months with personal attacks or name calling, again, I don't know what I ever did to you personally, but it must have been something your not willing to share with this group.. As for posting, I will continue to post my opinion, as I am entitled to it, just like you are entitled to post yours, and everyone else is entitled to post theirs.............Let's leave it as I don't have to agree with everything you say, and you don't have to agree with everything I say.....You don't like what I'm posting, don't read it, as that is your right and your privilege....But don't knock me for voicing my opinion in a public forum such as this, as I do not knock yours..............


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Old 04-03-2004, 10:24 AM
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Boys...

Let's keep this discussion limited to felony speeding, and not let it sink to a spitting contest.

Turk... one more attempt at high-order math and I'll close the thread.

This conversation is about slamming your foot to the floorboard and drooling at speed.
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I am still waiting for the "art thou holy crowd" to lecture me about having un-married sex without a condom last week, however I would rather just hear the lecture form my pastor on Sunday and get back to talking about MEGA horsepowered Cobra's that were built to run "free" once in a while. Mabey this crowd should quit thinking about car chases in Starsky And Hutch or Gone In 60 Seconds every time one of us says we "got on it alittle".
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Let's keep this discussion limited to felony speeding, and not let it sink to a spitting contest.

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Well now I'd rather hear about the sex...
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Paul G,

I remember those trips....

Good thing Betsy was not driving.

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ABOUT FIVE WEEKS AGO I PICKED UP MY FRIEND FOR A RIDE AROUND TOWN. ONE OF THOSE WARM SUNNY FRIDAY THAT WE GET HERE IN NORTH ALABAM DURING THE WINTER. I PASSED BY A COUNTY ROAD WITH A BRIDGE OUT SIGN. DID A U-TURH. THE ROAD WAS A 15 MILES TO A DEAD END. DROVE ABOUT 6 MILES AND TURNED AROUND. NO TAFFIC AND A VERY LONG STRAIGHT AWAY. GOT UP TO 5800 IN 4TH GEAR. ABOUT 124 MPH. + -
WAS STILL PULLING STRONG.
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Tree 1, Car 0

Advantages of driving in Germany:
1. Overall, the cars are in much better condition because of tough inspections
2. Licenses are much harder to get, with better driving training
3. The autobahn speed limit is "whatever's safe" up to 155 mph

Disadvantages of driving in Germany:

1. When you fly off the road at 155 mph, you find out why oak was used as armor on ships



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In my younger daze, I had a '66 Corvette 327/350hp. One Sunday morning my brother and I were on our way to 'church' when he asked "what'll it do?" The car was about 3 months old and we decided it was broken in so I nailed it. We were on I-190 near Buffalo and I could only see one car up ahead. The speedo reached 140 mph and stayed there. We flew by that car, a Rambler, and I had to look in the rear view mirror to make sure he wasn't spinning around like you see in the cartoons. LOL
I also had my '73 911E up to 135 a couple of times.
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Old 04-03-2004, 02:58 PM
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Errrrrr,

Someone I know went 135 in his Cobra. But this guy likes the acceleration more than high speed, so 0-80 or 100 is more fun for me,......I meant "him".

I worry the most about the things NOT within my control. Like sand or gravel on the road, or another deer. So I might smoke the tires in lieu of going over 100.

Good thread!

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So, years ago (34 to be exact) I bought my first new car. A 1970 Plymouth Hemi-Cuda. 4.10 gears coupled to an automatic. The car was as much a high then as my Cobra is today. Anyway, here I am parked at the local White Front store late at night on a Saturday watchin' the cars cruise on by, when a kid my age at the time taps on my window and wants to know if I'll race the guy over there in a Boss 429 Mustang. I said sure, as long as he's stock.

Well off goes the caravan of 5 cars to the local Chevron station to load up on premium before heading out to Sycamore Valley Road in the days when it was a deserted country road. The guy pumping gas was surrounded by way cool muscle cars of the day, my Hemi, the Boss 429, a 6 pack Challenger and a 427 Malibu. Since everone wanted to see or know who was going to win, the gas jockey says "I'll give you 10 times stamps if you come back and tell me which of the two cars, mine and the Boss, wins."

Midnight on Sycamoe Valley Road, everyone gets out of their cars to watch. I do a burnout, and back up for the Mustang to ready. No burn out for him, but he gets out of his car and pops the trunk. I'm thinkin' he's got some kind of traction liquid to use or is gonna bolt on a blower real quick. Well, he backs away from the trunk and puts on his nylon Ford Racing jacket!!! Now I'm really intimidated.

So we line up with a guy in the middle of the road to get us started. Off we go in a cloud of smoke and I'm thinkin', since I don't know this Mustang at all that he's going to have me for lunch. I keep hearing tire scratch in each gear from him but I don't see him along side. As I look in the mirror he's gotta be 10 cars BEHIND me. At the end, he says he got a bad jump and wanted race from a role. I said ok. Off we went again with the same result. Got his weenie toasted again. This was starting to be fun now. Anyway, we hurried back to the Chevron station for the Blue Chip stamps award. I told the gas kid I had pounded him, and he was so glad. As he peeled off a 20 foot role of stamps he commented that this Boss 429 kid, who was all of 17-18, was not going to take this defeat easy with his peer group at school. Gotta say, that was the most fun I had for a night in my Hemi Cuda in the summer of 1970.

Hell, I thought my Hemi was hot in 1970 running 13.4 at 106 at the drags in street tires through the muffs. Now I have this Cobra that'll turn high 11's at 120. Still haven't had an opportunity to run the car past 120 in other than a spurt.


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Y'all are all a bunch of pansies.

While attending The University of Wyoming, my roomate and I hitched a ride with a 76 year old lady up to Buffalo, Wy. from Laramie. She let us drive, and once she fell asleep on the deserted highways of Wyoming I had that old lady's beater Chrysler K-car up to approx. 95 (speedo read 110, but I know that's impossible for a car with like, 65hp and as areodynamically sculpted as my TV set)! Windows rattling, hood shaking, wheels wobbling, car veering five feet to the left and right, now THAT's fearless. You can take your roll-cage equipped, race-tuned suspension runs at 170, but for sheer adrenaline go out and buy yourself an early 80's Reliant and do your best. I like to think of myself as an "extreme" speeder.

And, oh yeah, the WYO state police got me outside of Laramie doing 74 in a 65 on that trip. So consider my story verfied by the authorities. And you thought those cars couldn't top 55. HA! Considering my reckless actions earlier, I thought I got off pretty sweet.

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Enough about speeding.

When I was younger going to school in Oklahoma, one afternoon I went out on a date with the Pastors daughter, came back to the dorm picked up the Deacon's daughter, brught her back in one piece and went out on a blind date the same night later on.

I still wasn't done, it was still pulling stong and I had traction. I finally shifted to fourth on May Avenue and said hello to babe who thught my three tone green 54 Chevy was the coolest thing she had seen.

We went over to Edmond and found us a back road, no traffic and absolutely safe. I nailed it! Put the hammer down, and I shot up like a rocket. All this in a 54 Chevy. I was fast.

Yup, I can just see someone coming in here and questioning my speed on that night. What do you guys want? Photographs?

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No Turk, I think we'll pass

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