i was reading a post yesterday and some guy wanted to know how to get to a 100 as fast as possible,and some guy said he took his car to 150 but my car tops out at 120....does everyones top out at 120 or is my tl wierd like that....if he did get to 150 how did he do that?

 

you sure? it's probably how you drive your car. if you use ss, and shift always at red line, you should be able to get past 120 easily. on the other hand if you just use d5 you can still get there but it could take a while.

i tried it on my tls, using ss and shift when redline, i got to 120 with 3rd no problem, and it was fast. after tht it's 4th gear and it accelerates much slower coz' our 4th and 5th are overdrive.

even with a normal tl you should be able to get up to 110 using ss at 3rd, so passing 120 is definitely no problem

and btw, our car is limited to 149mph i believe.

 

120? You should be able to do 140+. 4th and 5th gear are overdrive gears like what rominl said, so it will take awhile to get up there in speed. If you can find a deserted highway or something try again and just stay on it. You will eventually get there.

 

post a picture of your PT, i mean TLS...Shyne

 

does it matter if i had the vsa on or the cruise control on...i mean im gonna try it again but i dont why it stopped at 120

 

okay, if you have a TLS what probably happened is you were in SS and never shifted from 3rd gear...that would cause the car to hit the rev limiter and it would not gain speed...that is the only damn way it would have stopped at 120, other wise it should have been smooth sailing...Shyne

 

Its gotta be obvious if you are hitting the rev limiter. You can't just hit the rev limiter in 3rd gear and not think to upshift. I think he just got into 4th gear and the car was accelerating so slowly that he thought he hit the top speed of the car and gave up.

 

yeah thats what happend...i was in 4th already and i guess it was just accelerating slow as hell so i guess thats what the problem was well at the time i had the car for about a month so i didnt want to overdo it yet

 

well as long as you got about 1000 miles on your car it should be ok. i have done over 120 two times and man, make sure you HAVE enough distance to brake. our cars do not have the best braking mechanism at high speed.

yup, dont' expect the same kind of acceleration in 4th and 5th, they are not good. one thing you could do is to go over the redline in 3rd (before it hits the rev limiter), and so when you shift to 4th, you have a bit higher rpm. once you hit vtec again in 4th you will roll again

 

Sh!t to 4th?

 

HAHHAA...... damn.... i typed too much.

sorry about that SoundSpeed, been corrected

 

I thought it was funny as hell. One of the better mistypes.

 

yup, it took a lot of creativity

 

Find a highway or a long strip going downhill. You will be in 147+ mph in no time.

 

got to an indicated 158 on an empty bridge. i am sure there was some decent speedo error working in my advantage. wouldn't reccomend it, though. brakes dont appreciate it.

 

teh max i went up to was 135-140 .. a very long stretch of road... was racing my friend in his M3...he blew by me doing 150 and kept on pulling... but i blew by a golf ..( i think it was a golf)

 

yahh, i hit 135 on 280 racing my friends dinan 3

 

Check the sig.....

 

Interesting that some can do 150mph+ and others are struggling with 130. Perhaps the motor was not brocken in properly? Perhaps you kept that first oil in for over 5K? SUCKERS!!! he he he

 

Perhaps we all can't be as cool as you.

 

Damn, and I thought my 147 mph speed was fast...

Time to find a secluded spot (preferably downhill) to try getting past 150+ mph.

 

Not saying that was my top speed. I'm saying thats how fast i got it up to

 

i got up to 105 in the holland tunnel but ran out of road, i mean there was a car infront of me .. need to go back to jones beach:p ...

 

*Ahem*.....you raaaang???

 

hey......me too.