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[MEC-777]

20 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

Subaru also used a 4 speed auto untill like 2013 ... in the Forester

while they had a 5 speed in the Legacy since like 2003

 

All i can say ... from the line it goes quick for being just an FB20 in not that light of a vehicle ... just not the best on the highway ... 

Yeah, gearing makes a huge difference. 

[bcredeur97]

2 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Yeah, gearing makes a huge difference. 

although my (8th gen) corolla was geared pretty well for fuel economy. you couldn't even hit top speed(limited @ 112mph/180kph) in 4th gear, you had to do it in 3rd.

And all the gears in general were really long and took forever to get through.

 

that by far was the biggest downside to the car in terms of autocross though.. thing was so slow off the line lol

 

[MEC-777]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

although my (8th gen) corolla was geared pretty well for fuel economy. you couldn't even hit top speed(limited @ 112mph/180kph) in 4th gear, you had to do it in 3rd.

And all the gears in general were really long and took forever to get through.

 

that by far was the biggest downside to the car in terms of autocross though.. thing was so slow off the line lol

 

My 2013 Elantra is into 3rd gear before 60mph. Flat out, the highest I have been in it is about 200kph. It'll get to 160kph fairly quickly but above that it climbs a bit slower as it's up in 5th gear. It has a bit more in it, I just don't like the idea of losing my license or endangering anyone else. 

 

It'll easily cruise all day at 140-150kph on the highway in 6th at like 2500rpm sipping fuel. It's not that powerful of a car, so it shows how well Hyundai chose their gearing to make it pretty good at acceleration and cruising. 

 

Just as a side note: before anyone freaks out, that was the average speed of the FLOW OF TRAFFIC on the highway last night, no joke. Why the speed limit is still 100kph... I don't know. 

[Cereal5]

5 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

My 2013 Elantra is into 3rd gear before 60mph. Flat out, the highest I have been in it is about 200kph. It'll get to 160kph fairly quickly but above that it climbs a bit slower as it's up in 5th gear. It has a bit more in it, I just don't like the idea of losing my license or endangering anyone else. 

 

It'll easily cruise all day at 140-150kph on the highway in 6th at like 2500rpm sipping fuel. It's not that powerful of a car, so it shows how well Hyundai chose their gearing to make it pretty good at acceleration and cruising. 

 

Just as a side note: before anyone freaks out, that was the average speed of the FLOW OF TRAFFIC on the highway last night, no joke. Why the speed limit is still 100kph... I don't know. 

Yeah that's pretty normal around where I live. Everyone drives like garbage as if they gotta get somewhere. 75-80mph is normal. Maybe not quite 150 kph lol you guys must not have cops

[PandaCopyRight]

3 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Yeah, gearing makes a huge difference. 

IIRC it has around the same top speed as a Legacy with the same or similar power engine 

 

would like to know how would the 5 speed change the fuel economy and acceleration of the forester 

[MEC-777]

39 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Yeah that's pretty normal around where I live. Everyone drives like garbage as if they gotta get somewhere. 75-80mph is normal. Maybe not quite 150 kph lol you guys must not have cops

That's the thing, we do definitely have cops and here in Ontario we have a 50-over law where if you're caught going 50 over the limit, it's an automatic fine and loss of licence. Yet I see people every day driving very close to that limit on all sorts of roads. It's a fairly understood unwritten thing that in most roads and zones with limits above 80kph, cops will not even look at you if you're doing 20 over the limit. More than that and you'll probably get yanked though. Except on the highways where almost everyone does 120-140 on average, the cops included. Why even have the limit then, is my question. A bit rhetorical, but not.  

 

29 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

IIRC it has around the same top speed as a Legacy with the same or similar power engine 

 

would like to know how would the 5 speed change the fuel economy and acceleration of the forester 

Cruising efficiency is probably about the same, but acceleration efficiency will be better with the 5 vs 4 speed. The extra drive-train drag and weight doesn't help though. lol.

[Cereal5]

1 minute ago, MEC-777 said:

cops will not even look at you if you're doing 20 over the limit. More than that and you'll probably get yanked though. Except on the highways where almost everyone does 120-140 on average, the cops included. Why even have the limit then, is my question. A bit rhetorical, but not.  

Yeah true. Most highway speed limits around me are 55-65 mph, and like I said people cruise at 80. Technically 20 over is reckless, or 80 mph. Whichever comes first. It's not the most enforced traffic law though. But there are definitely some places that don't need a normal speed limit, I know what you mean

[bcredeur97]

49 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Yeah true. Most highway speed limits around me are 55-65 mph, and like I said people cruise at 80. Technically 20 over is reckless, or 80 mph. Whichever comes first. It's not the most enforced traffic law though. But there are definitely some places that don't need a normal speed limit, I know what you mean

it does seem people around here are starting to care a bit less about general traffic speeding tho. and afaik there hasn't really been any additional incidents compared to normal.

Shows how dumb speedlimits are on highways sometimes *shrug*

 

 

[FuzzyYellow]

I've had the accord for 2 1/2 years now, and I haven't seen it's top speed yet. I need to fix that.

 

 

On a racetrack. Or in Mexico?

 

 

Racetrack. Yeah, racetrack.

[bcredeur97]

19 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

I've had the accord for 2 1/2 years now, and I haven't seen it's top speed yet. I need to fix that.

 

 

On a racetrack. Or in Mexico?

 

 

Racetrack. Yeah, racetrack.

pretty much the only place is to do it is do what koenigsegg did and get permission from the local govt. to do it in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert

 

or make it out to the salt flats the one time a year the surface is good enough for that

 

none of our racetracks really have a straight long enough? Shame..

[MEC-777]

14 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

I've had the accord for 2 1/2 years now, and I haven't seen it's top speed yet. I need to fix that.

 

 

On a racetrack. Or in Mexico?

 

 

Racetrack. Yeah, racetrack.

When I was much younger (and dumber) I sought out to hit the top speed of my 2000 Civic SiR one day (and never quite topped it out). Hit 225kph and what caught me off-guard the most was how quickly I came up behind a guy in a pickup truck waaaaay ahead in the distance.  

 

Race track is definitely the smart place to top out any car. 

 

The piece of road I hit 200 in the Elantra on is a farm road near where I live. It's straight, about 2 kms long, no houses or hidden driveways and you can see the whole stretch which has open fields on both sides. That's the only place I'll do something like that and ONLY if there's no other traffic on the stretch. It's not quite long enough to wind-out the Elantra, but long enough to get into plenty of trouble, lol.   

[MEC-777]

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

pretty much the only place is to do it is do what koenigsegg did and get permission from the local govt. to do it in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert

 

or make it out to the salt flats the one time a year the surface is good enough for that

 

none of our racetracks really have a straight long enough? Shame..

Yeah, that's the other problem is finding a race track with a long enough straight...

[Bananasplit_00]

9 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

When I was much younger (and dumber) I sought out to hit the top speed of my 2000 Civic SiR one day (and never quite topped it out). Hit 225kph and what caught me off-guard the most was how quickly I came up behind a guy in a pickup truck waaaaay ahead in the distance.  

 

Race track is definitely the smart place to top out any car. 

 

The piece of road I hit 200 in the Elantra on is a farm road near where I live. It's straight, about 2 kms long, no houses or hidden driveways and you can see the whole stretch which has open fields on both sides. That's the only place I'll do something like that and ONLY if there's no other traffic on the stretch. It's not quite long enough to wind-out the Elantra, but long enough to get into plenty of trouble, lol.   

Topped my bike out(pretty much at least, probably a little left in it) in the middle of the forest but that's way different as it has much better hp/kg and accelerates much faster than a not so powerful car

[Guest]

2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

although my (8th gen) corolla was geared pretty well for fuel economy. you couldn't even hit top speed(limited @ 112mph/180kph) in 4th gear, you had to do it in 3rd.

And all the gears in general were really long and took forever to get through.

 

that by far was the biggest downside to the car in terms of autocross though.. thing was so slow off the line lol

 

Had to turn off overdrive if I remember to get that echo to go 170. They aren’t too bad though tbh for what you get. Used to be only 40 a week to top up too.

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, MEC-777 said:

When I was much younger (and dumber) I sought out to hit the top speed of my 2000 Civic SiR one day (and never quite topped it out). Hit 225kph and what caught me off-guard the most was how quickly I came up behind a guy in a pickup truck waaaaay ahead in the distance.  

 

Race track is definitely the smart place to top out any car. 

 

The piece of road I hit 200 in the Elantra on is a farm road near where I live. It's straight, about 2 kms long, no houses or hidden driveways and you can see the whole stretch which has open fields on both sides. That's the only place I'll do something like that and ONLY if there's no other traffic on the stretch. It's not quite long enough to wind-out the Elantra, but long enough to get into plenty of trouble, lol.   

Since I work in kind of a remoteish area, the road going to it has a nice ~2 mile straight with no intersections and little traffic I can do whatever I want on so long as there is no one in front of me(and I prefer no oncoming as well.. which is usually the case as the road goes to 1 place). Have been almost late to work and allegedly hit the JDM limiter(the JDM ecu has more horsepower but has a 180kph limiter, the USDM ecu has less power and no limiter.. go figure)  in the miata a few times... lol

 

the fastest I allegedly got the miata up to on the US ecu a long time ago was about 125 (201kph). I kinda wish the JDM ecu didn't have the limiter as it'd probably get to 130-135 maybe. (maybe not.. the drag on a miata is pretty high)

 

the JDM limiter would be a problem @ the new orleans track nearby tho. If I ever do a track day that'd force me to go standalone just because of that. would hurt time a good bit.

49 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

Had to turn off overdrive if I remember to get that echo to go 170. They aren’t too bad though tbh for what you get. Used to be only 40 a week to top up too.

basically any car can do 170-180kph really. Couple exceptions are usually just artificially limited to 160kph or something like that.

[Bananasplit_00]

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

basically any car can do 170-180kph really. Couple exceptions are usually just artificially limited to 160kph or something like that.

i really doubt my Mondeo is going to go 170km/h tbh

[bcredeur97]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

i really doubt my Mondeo is going to go 170km/h tbh

whats it got?

[Real_PhillBert]

I'm helping a guy on another forum with building an anvil from a chunk of rail road.

 

I lasered out a top plate for him out of 3/4" AR500. KInd of an odd material that I dont use a whole lot, but one of our laser vendors had it on hand.

 

 

*Please ignore my very dirty trunk*

[terrytek]

4 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

My 2013 Elantra is into 3rd gear before 60mph. Flat out, the highest I have been in it is about 200kph. It'll get to 160kph fairly quickly but above that it climbs a bit slower as it's up in 5th gear. It has a bit more in it, I just don't like the idea of losing my license or endangering anyone else. 

 

It'll easily cruise all day at 140-150kph on the highway in 6th at like 2500rpm sipping fuel. It's not that powerful of a car, so it shows how well Hyundai chose their gearing to make it pretty good at acceleration and cruising. 

 

Just as a side note: before anyone freaks out, that was the average speed of the FLOW OF TRAFFIC on the highway last night, no joke. Why the speed limit is still 100kph... I don't know. 

what kinda traffic is that to travelling THAT fucking fast? sheesh.

4 hours ago, Cereal5 said:

Yeah that's pretty normal around where I live. Everyone drives like garbage as if they gotta get somewhere. 75-80mph is normal. Maybe not quite 150 kph lol you guys must not have cops

here the flow of traffic has the balls to travel 95 in the slow lane. yet semi trucks are going 70. so it's a recipe for disaster really.

[chaozbandit]

@warmmilk Methinks Canada is getting another fast subaru!

 

 

 

 

Edit: dug up this gem from a while back

 

 

This is what Chris' old competition car looked like

 

 

[chaozbandit]

3 hours ago, terrytek said:

what kinda traffic is that to travelling THAT fucking fast? sheesh.

here the flow of traffic has the balls to travel 95 in the slow lane. yet semi trucks are going 70. so it's a recipe for disaster really.

 

It's called living in the countryside lol

[warmmilk]

10 minutes ago, chaozbandit said:

@warmmilk Methinks Canada is getting another fast subaru!

 

 

 

 

Edit: dug up this gem from a while back

 

 

This is what Chris' old competition car looked like

 

 

I want Andrew Brilliant to get into Supra's again... a fast time attack supra would be awesome!

[bcredeur97]

@warmmilk any winter racecar projects this year?

[chaozbandit]

WHAT IS THIS MAGIC

 

 

[Bananasplit_00]

11 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

whats it got?

130hp or 150hp don't remember