I'm aware of a rev limiter on our cars, but do they also have a speed limiter? If so, what's the max speed?

I guess I could risk my license and figure it out for myself, but I assume there's plenty of people on this board who've WOT their cars to top speed....

Dirk Diggler.
'79 Tangerine Corvette
11.6 ET @ 121mph, 11.6"...uhhhh, forget it.

 

Statistics say that the car tops out at 149 mph. I saw on here that some people reached 130s. As far as a limit, as in all US cars (I'm not too sure about this), the gov't limit is 155 mph

 

A guy who is banned from this site hit the 155 mark...he took a pic of it too.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but you can calculate the max theoretical speed of your car knowing max RPM, the ratio of highest gear, final gearing and tire size.

The TL has no speed limiter; you are limited by RPM and other inefficiencies.

 

I thought the TL-S had a governer limiting it to 143. I believe that's the stock tire limit. TL-P I not sure.

 

TL-S has a governer limiting the car to 149mph... same with the CL-S... not sure about the Premiums as they have less power and lower speed ratings on their tires.....

You may be able to get the speedometer to say you're going higher, but the car is limited at 149mph. Keep in mind that the speedometer has a % that it is off by, and the faster you go, the more incorrect it is. At 149 mph it can be off by as much as 3-4%..... so it will say you're doing 150 something, but you're only doing high 140's......

 

Juniorbean, correct me if I am wrong but I thought the TL/CL and TL-S/CL-S have the same limiter up to 149 mph.

As for myself, I have reached 147 mph racing a volvo s60.

 

wow :wow: where can u do that? i wanna go drive there

 

You could be right... I am not sure about the regular CL and TL..... I guess it's possible, but it would just take longer to get that high!! I'm not sure though b/c the tires are smaller and aren't rated as high speed-wise as the Type-S tires...

 

I had my TL-P up to 147 also on I59 at 4am. A cars top speed is not only determined by the max RPM combined with gear ratios. If that were the case you could theoretically build a childs tricycle with the correct gearing so that your 5yr old could break the sound barrier . What you forgot to mention is that a HUGE HUGE HUGE player in the "non-restricted" top speed factor is resistance and drag. The more resistance or the more drag, less speed. Yours cars horsepower is overridden as a certain speed (which is far lower than the vaccum-theory speed of max RPM + top gear ratio) by the resistance/drag's "added weight" to the car. No longer can your car fully utilize those roughly 225+ horses for all out accelaration anymore, they're being slaughtered trying to compensate for all that physics-induced "weight". But to stay on subject, the TL/CL TL-S/CL-S all have the same "149mph" restriction. Depending on your tires size, you could in reality limit yourself before or free yourself to go faster than that. Just thought a little physics could be thrown into that

 

Darn, if you had waited a little more than 1 week, you could have replied to an exactly 4 year old thread.

 

lol

 

Since when can a Volvo do 147mph?

 

he didnt say a volvo could go that fast, he said he got going that fast racing one.

 

Volvo s60R top speed = 155mph

What a sweet car!

 

my next car might be that new c70................i love the idea of a hard top convertable.....anyone know if they are fast/powerful cars??

 

Got my stock tl-p up to 132, and then the check engine light came on...

 

I've seen 140 in a TL-P (in someone's avatar)

 

i am pretty sure that i can take it to 150MPH. The highest I have gone is like 118 and that was on a small little bridge conecting northan blvd to queens blvd here in nyc. i was trying to make a light and went fast and decided to to see how fast i could go.

 

 

i tried to top it out and only got to like 123mph

 

123? wow...our cars can easily surpass that any day.

+3points to me for jumpstarting a "4 year old thread"

 

lil air coming through the window made me noticed that i was going 125, i didint even noticed maybe i will try it next time to go a lil faster

 

143 mph here, ran out of room, she was still pullin.

 

unless you're modded, or going downhill, or with the wind, or some divine power was assisting you...then you couldn't have been pulling much, just a little haha

 

no, it wasn't laying me back in my seat pullin, but if i had more room, it would have kept getting faster

 

fastest was 140 ran out of road, but the limiter is 148,... in 4th gear at 120 my vtec still doesnt open... at 140 i was still in vtec in 4th.....

 

It tops out at 155mph around 6k rpm in 4th gear if I remember correctly. I only did it once and never got there again. The closes I got back up there was around 145mph or so.

 

I had one before this TL, its pretty nice man. And trust me that thing can hit well into the 140's but then again so can this TL *whistle*

 

I know this is old. but i got my 03 TL-S up to alittle over 240KM's when the limiter kicked in and yes it was still pulling. i know it can go faster.

 

such a sick car, a kid has a modded s60r around here, its got a sick body kit on it aswell, nice ass car

 

my buddy went 135 with 5 people total in the car. Stock NBP 2001 TL-P.

 

145ish in my TL-P w/CAI. I also cut vents into the foglight cover to open it up a little better at high speed. Ran out of road/got nervous cause I needed new tires on the front. Pretty friggin sweet though.

 

ive gotten mine ot 152...i had to slow down though...she was still pullin though

 

fastest ive gone was around 130 last summer when i was stock and with a car full of drunks coulda gone more but the road wasnt strait and didnt wanna loose control

 

 

the volvos might look good outside but at the autoshow i sat in the s40 i think..... (and a 335 and the A4 and a whole bunch other cars) and i just didnt get the feeling that i get with the 2nd gen TL something about hte way our dash wraps around u and flows so nicely... the adjustable arm rest is amazing also.. the stupid volvo has a tiny one so u cant have ur hand on the stick and on the arm rest at the same time really pissed me off lol

 

About a month ago I got up to a bit over 145 on the speedo before the limiter kicked in. '02 TL-P.

 

148 :/

 

147 with 3 ppl in the car...police trap forced me to slow down