I'm sure there will be a way to disable the governor at some point.
New GT500 Limited to 180 MPH
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If you have a blow out at 180+ do you wake up from that?
Tires are kinda important at that speed.
Tires are kinda important at that speed.
you will probably be eating breakfast with Jesus....
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Chill-ren in Africa can only go 75-80 to stay away from the cheetahs smh
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If this aint the pot calling the kettle black lol
No
A stock 13/14 GT500 has never made it to 200mph.
SVTP peeps would be eating breakfast in Vallhalla.
Arguing top speed is a waste of time.
My old supercharged '00 GT was an absolute monster on the street and had a top theoretical speed of 153, limited by gearing. My GT500 is 2xxmph capable, but I would be too afraid of body panels launching off to ever attempt such a stupid feat, even on an enclosed, legal environment.
Top speed is a somewhat useless metric. What does it tell you? The calculations required to relate power output and coefficient of air resistance are too complicated for any average Joe to pull relevant data. 1/4 mile trap speed tells you far more with far less involvement. It's still a "fuzzy" metric, but you can get relativistic figures based on known data much easier.
Top speed : Cars is about the same as Bullet Travel : Firearms.
At the end of the day, MOA and kinetic energy are more important to me than how far the damn bullet travels. And anyone who is testing out how far a bullet travels is probably going to get raided by the ATF at some point.
My old supercharged '00 GT was an absolute monster on the street and had a top theoretical speed of 153, limited by gearing. My GT500 is 2xxmph capable, but I would be too afraid of body panels launching off to ever attempt such a stupid feat, even on an enclosed, legal environment.
Top speed is a somewhat useless metric. What does it tell you? The calculations required to relate power output and coefficient of air resistance are too complicated for any average Joe to pull relevant data. 1/4 mile trap speed tells you far more with far less involvement. It's still a "fuzzy" metric, but you can get relativistic figures based on known data much easier.
Top speed : Cars is about the same as Bullet Travel : Firearms.
At the end of the day, MOA and kinetic energy are more important to me than how far the damn bullet travels. And anyone who is testing out how far a bullet travels is probably going to get raided by the ATF at some point.
Arguing top speed is a waste of time.
My old supercharged '00 GT was an absolute monster on the street and had a top theoretical speed of 153, limited by gearing. My GT500 is 2xxmph capable, but I would be too afraid of body panels launching off to ever attempt such a stupid feat, even on an enclosed, legal environment.
Top speed is a somewhat useless metric. What does it tell you? The calculations required to relate power output and coefficient of air resistance are too complicated for any average Joe to pull relevant data. 1/4 mile trap speed tells you far more with far less involvement. It's still a "fuzzy" metric, but you can get relativistic figures based on known data much easier.
Top speed : Cars is about the same as Bullet Travel : Firearms.
At the end of the day, MOA and kinetic energy are more important to me than how far the damn bullet travels. And anyone who is testing out how far a bullet travels is probably going to get raided by the ATF at some point.
So you're saying you are more interested in knowing how hard the new GT500 can impact a person... in say... a crowd of people?
Back in the 80’s and 90’s pops and his buddies were hitting 160 on the straight at road Atlanta. It would be a site to see.
Pick your poison.
Only the most appropriate of performance metrics:
CVPHPP
Crowd victims per horsepower per pound.
20' starting distance.
It weights everything into consideration- tires, suspension, torque output, driver incompetence, body shape, hell even the crowd demographic comes into play. I bet Challenger of Freedom guy would have mowed down more Antifa lemmings had they not been composed of Tumblrinas weighing in at 300+lbs each.
Try a original 66 at 147mph, let me know when you need toilet paper, it will be before 150.. 2020 180mph is tits. she'll stay planted. no butt pucker factor. Want to feel 200mph, take off the spoilers..
Actually, it's really not. A few simple coast down tests, and some acceleration data will do it just fine, if you know how to do an integral. I wrote an SAE paper on it. It wasn't 17 pages, but still....
did you just combine relatively realistic into one word? Typo or not, I love it!
That's flat out moving at Road Atlanta on the back straight! Although, in the 80s and 90s the back straight did not have the chicane...but that's still impressive. I was hitting low 130s in a stock 2014 gt.
track up to late 90s:
track now (turn 10 is the chicane):
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You and I, sure. Average Joe doesn't know what an integral is, and I'm willing to be most people would confuse it with "integer." Haha
There's a statistics term that I'm trying to remember, and can't... Basically easy intrinsic data vs confounding data by introducing too many factors. I forget the term.
It's a real word, but I sort of butchered the use of it. I like your interpretation better, so uh, yeah I made it up
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Jebus Christo, that damn 17 pager again....
If I was in the market for a 2020 GT-500 (which I'm not), top speed would not even enter into my decision making process. Unless it was under 135, and that's only if I intended to visit the 1/4 mile. There are so many other more important things that would influence my decision to buy or not buy.
I believe the new GT-500 is going to be overall one hell of a car. One hell of a beast! Yeah, Ford has been slow in feeding us information about the GT-500, but in the end I believe the majority of Ford fans, and even some from the other side, will be thrilled with it. IMO a 180 mph limit is not going to ruin the party, except for a small minority who will nitpick things that really don't matter in the bigger picture. For them, they'll choose another car and hopefully will be happy with their choice.
I believe the new GT-500 is going to be overall one hell of a car. One hell of a beast! Yeah, Ford has been slow in feeding us information about the GT-500, but in the end I believe the majority of Ford fans, and even some from the other side, will be thrilled with it. IMO a 180 mph limit is not going to ruin the party, except for a small minority who will nitpick things that really don't matter in the bigger picture. For them, they'll choose another car and hopefully will be happy with their choice.
Most people don't know how to find a differential, let alone integrate.
But, now we've opened up nerdly things....
I've been seriously thinking of putting together a white paper about the relationship of acceleration vs. total integrated area of the power curve. Should be about 17 pages when done.
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