What is the rough top speed of a KE Verada 3.5 Auto with no modifications???

Cause I took it to 180 last night before having to slow for a roundabout and the speed was still climbing reasonably quickly.

it wouldnt be much higher then that, about 200 i would think?? 220 tops, but your a tool for even doing 180, let alone any higher! hope mr speed camera comes along for you...

before having to slow for a roundabout

It's bad enough they anyone would do this on the streets, but at least do it on a freeway or highway / country road rather than where a ROUNDABOUT is?!!?

It's not worth finding out in NSW as its only going to end in tears one way or the other.

mm.. didnt think of that 380, if there was around about it must have been a moderately built up area... bloody idiot

I can see this getting closed :doubt:

Not a good idea posting a thread on your top speed on the streets.

Ok hes had enough. There are round abouts on the highways near Newcastle and a few other places. Sure hes a bloody idiot but I guess hes not the only one to want to know how fast his car can go. Without a hill, tail wind I dont think it would go over 210. Depends what condition its in. If you are stupid enough to do this check everything before you do it especially the tyre pressures(check the rating of your tyres too and the wheel nuts) make sure your bonnet is securely latched and have a full tank of fuel. Just remember if you get caught you will lose you license for years, most likely have criminal charges pressed against you and your car will probably be impunded not to mention the many thousands of dollars of fines that you will have to pay.

Next time us a Simple Question like : What is the Theoretical Topspeed of.......
It clears you of wrong doing as only an Idiot speeds on a public road..

According to my Owners Manual a Stock 3.5 Auto is 210kph...
Capable of doing more as we all know...

i think this guy is jsut full of SH*T, KE verada, tiptronic???

Attaboy champ... post your speed on a public forum, top job.

i think this guy is jsut full of SH*T, KE verada, tiptronic???
check the profile.... its a 3.5 too... :shock:

heres an idea.. you post your top speed on a public streets... how bout you also post your plate also? Cops wont ever bother you then. :nuts:

i think this guy is jsut full of SH*T, KE verada, tiptronic???

The Tiptronic Automatic and the 3.5L in the profile is just the forum default, not everyone changes their profiles you know; let alone know they even have a profile.



check the profile.... its a 3.5 too... :shock:

That'....sort..of....what....all....KE-KL....Veradas.....have....... :P

']check the profile.... its a 3.5 too... :shock:

KE's are 3.5s seafood

KE's are 3.5s seafood
lol i furked up...

*hangs head in shame*

never knew that... thought the TF's were the first 3.5...

learn something every day... thanks guys

3.5 Autos are limited to around 220km/hr. :eh: Give it enough room and she'll get there and then WHAM goes the gas pedal to tell you funs over. But yeah shouldn't do this on public roads. :naughty:

So what at 220Kph the Gas Pedal just immediately sinks to the floor and no more go ??
I thought it might be more like the Rev limiter where you hit it and it just cuts the ignition untill the revs come back down?? so in effect it cuts the engine out till you slow down ??

im not sure how it works, but i remember reading in a motor performance car of the year issue they said that when it kicks in its "very violent"

In theory, the KE verada should be able to reach 220. When I was in perth, I took my ks verada xi
approx 200km north of Perth, in an isolated piece of straight country road with no trees either side
of the road on a sunny windless day. She got up to at least 220km/hr. The speedo went 10 degs
past the 220 mark. The tacho was approx at 5000 rpm.

Id love to goto an airstrip or something and test my top speed. Ive never driven more than about 105km/h on a public highway though, (im on red P's)

Although I am going up the coast in a few days, 3am driving on the pacific highway? hmmmm

lol Nah id be too scared of loosing my licence to break 120km/h (30km over speed limit = insta loss)

Cause I took it to 180 last night before having to slow for a roundabout and the speed was still climbing reasonably quickly.

idiot! :nuts:

idiot! :nuts:


get over it stop bagging him i now it was stupid but everyone does it not everyone but you know

hahaha i get jokes; don't worry guys i've never sped before in my life, rev limiter will stop you at 220km/h, you could make 240km/h without it but thats a very long straight.

My ts fourth finishes at about 210km/h 240km/h easy dont do it on busy public roads

my skyline only goes to 110kmph :badgrin:

it's really weird, on the open roads in fifth gear with my foot flat i can still only go 110km,
around school zones the automatic braking systems engages and i'm limited to 40km.
next time you speed, try and imagine you little sister,cousin riding a bicycle out from behind a tree and think how good you reflexes are.
pretty hard to live with aye :spam: might look like this

ive gone over 200km/h once; on a highway with a very long road infront of me highbeams blaring, would never do it in a settled area, i am not satan if thats what your infering

my skyline only goes to 110kmph :badgrin:


sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :P :P :P

the KE Veradas were 3.5 but not the TE magnas seafood.... i think :S
then the Tf's were 3.5 maybe....
blah what a useless post

i've had my TJ up to 120 on the open road ... that's in a 110 zone though ... still speeding none the less any faster than that is uncalled for


but in my dreams my magna travells at light speed :D

Mate the stock TR I have can do 180 np and its only a 2.6 Astron. 6g74 stock could do 240 np. Ofcourse 2.5's have a speed limiter at 220, ralliart at 240.

235 and it cuts out from lack of fuel
change the fuel rails u can get bit more but not much

who cares?

lets face it, you only want to know so you can go "maaate i just did 200+km/h the other night, im so fully sick" to your friends/anyone who will listen :nuts:

I have said it before and i will say it again, i would actually like to see all cars from the factory UNABLE to go faster than 160. And if people want to race it legally then perhaps introduce a permit or something to get the limiter removed?

yes i know, impractical and would never happen, but I wish it were the case...

im no angel, and im not saying I have never gone more than 160 (although only very VERY rarely, twice in fact and felt guilty afterwards) but it honestly wouldnt bother me if my car was limited to 160.

I would LOVE to hear a good reason why cars should be capable of 160+, anyone?

I would LOVE to hear a good reason why cars should be capable of 160+, anyone?
occasionally breaking the law reminds me im alive... and makes me value it more

160 is still safe.. can hit that with some left in fourth ;)

no i do NOT condone speed, but its my life, ill end it how & when i choose :D

or someone elses wen u hit them :P

']occasionally breaking the law reminds me im alive... and makes me value it more

160 is still safe.. can hit that with some left in fourth ;)

no i do NOT condone speed, but its my life, ill end it how & when i choose :D

exactly, worst things to happen in this world are political correctness and do-gooders!
just let people chose how they live their 'own' lifes.
If the man wants to hit 200, so be it.

I would LOVE to hear a good reason why cars should be capable of 160+, anyone?


I always think about "What if some dude broke into my house and tried to kill me, then I ran out and jumped in my car and sped away, then he jumped in his car and started chaseing me?"

You dont want to be limited to 160km/h when some crazy dude is shooting at you right?

Or what if some crazy Sh!t happens and you have a real life Ground Hog day and so you want to speed test your car against the cops for the sweet fun of it knowing that if you die you just wake up to do it all again?

See, theres 2 perfectly practicle reasons why someone needs to go over 160 km/h

I have said it before and i will say it again, i would actually like to see all cars from the factory UNABLE to go faster than 160. And if people want to race it legally then perhaps introduce a permit or something to get the limiter removed?

this would be a tops idea if u could just go down to the local cop shop fill in a stat dec, put up ur plates to show ur car can go fast and leave...but the governments will make u sit stupid permit tests, pay heaps and then make it a slow wait will ur form gets 'approved' and that is a violation of my personnal choice as far im concerned =)

Edit: I write my opinion in reference to purely racing needs.

I always think about "What if some dude broke into my house and tried to kill me, then I ran out and jumped in my car and sped away, then he jumped in his car and started chaseing me?"

You dont want to be limited to 160km/h when some crazy dude is shooting at you right?

Or what if some crazy Sh!t happens and you have a real life Ground Hog day and so you want to speed test your car against the cops for the sweet fun of it knowing that if you die you just wake up to do it all again?

See, theres 2 perfectly practicle reasons why someone needs to go over 160 km/h
LOL... errr. :bowrofl:

This whole topic blows.

people who speed cause accidents and it's usually the person or family they hit in the other car that gets hurt or killed and the speeding person survives ... all through stupidity



this thread is a waste of space

people who speed cause accidents and it's usually the person or family they hit in the other car that gets hurt or killed and the speeding person survives ... all through stupidity


exactly.

I see peoples point when they say that they only do crazy speeds in the middle of nowhere with only themselves at risk, etc, etc (even thats debatable but i wont go into that).

But you see it a lot that there are idiots who speed recklessly, putting others at danger and invariably crash and burn and take others down with them. Teenagers pack into a car and speed like maniacs and hit trees and die. It happens. Putting a blanket speed limit on ALL cars stops these idiots from doing this (to the same extent anyway).

The "downside" to this is that poor hoons who only speed when only themselves are at risk miss out on the opportunity for the thrill of going 200+. Boo f*cking hoo! You are a pretty selfish person if you think this outweighs my point in the previous paragraph :nuts:

YOu could argue that thats not fair as its effectively a minority ruining it for the majority. Well thats life, bad luck.

Damn you guys are against speeding aren't you?!!? personally i love to give the magna a spanking, wont go over 20km/h over the limit in built up areas (even then that's rare but only in built up areas) but on the highway if there's no-one around i love to stretch it out and see what i can get out of the gears and i know 'm gonna cop a flogging for this but if cars weren't built for that sort of thing then why can they go that fast, i say use them for what they were meant for. Fun.

We have only excessively speeded once, It was to escape a fire front in the Bushfires back in 1986 near Canberra. It Jumped from behind and In front and the only choice was to hammer the Crap out of our VB SLX (4.2litre) and get out of there.. We lived on a Country estate and our 27 Acre Property was in line of the fire front so we had to go and rescue the Dog...

needless to say the fire front changed Directions and moved away from out house but nearly cut us off.. so yeah Speed can save your life...

I took my car to 200km/h then engine management or some **** took over and made me play sensible. It felt like it had more in it from a power standpoint, but the rest of the car didn’t like it. Even thou the road was as smooth as roads get, the suspension was making a meal of keeping the car flat over the small raises and falls in the road surface. And the back got dangerously light, and you could feel that at any moment the back might just let go.

I know A TJ VRX That went right off the speedo well over 220 or 40 what ever they go upto (ive never looked at what mine goes upto). and no it wasnt mine. so lets just say that they can go alright.

I know A TJ VRX That went right off the speedo well over 220 or 40 what ever they go upto (ive never looked at what mine goes upto). and no it wasnt mine. so lets just say that they can go alright.
i have heard of a ralliart that does the same... witnesses & all ;)

ok, time to clear this up....

I only did such a speed to experience what it was like and to see what the car had. I only got it on friday and there was pretty much nothing on the road (3:30am).

The reason I asked was because of a discussion at work regarding top speeds of my car and the boss's. 3.5L KE Verada v 2.8L BMW 528i, not for any sort of bragging right or anything, I in no way ever intend to wind the Verada up that fast ever again

Probably about 220, tell yer boss that... His BMW wouldn't do much more i'd imagine...

u have a magna/verada course its faster :P

id go even close to say a 3L would pull close to that wouldnt it>?

As for the issue regarding the speed limiter, the gas pedal kicks back hard and suddenly when you hit the limiter.

my old 97 KE verada hit the limiter at either 210 or 215, its hard to tell when you are watching the road.

id go even close to say a 3L would pull close to that wouldnt it>?

:D :dancin:

i've had my car to about 223 or so, i stopped paying attention. It will go faster, i have an exhaust, timing change, k&N, CAI.

My Mate has a property that use to be an old Hydro worksite which he purchased.
There is a lot of sealed road there. And cos it's his propert now and the road has a gate so we can speed all we like on it. There is a stretch of road that is about 20 or so kms long that is nice and straight, we have fun there.

funny thing is i have a VFR800, modded to **** and it will do 289 before the injectros die, and it only has 800cc, got to love bikes.

TO ALL THOSE WHO WILL FLAME ME, yess i do speed and like it but i never do it on open roads, i have a cams licence and participate in local race meets and hill climbs all the time. I also race bikes on weekends so i have some experience.

You may think "Oh if i do it on some quiet street im only harming myself"
But thats wrong for a couple of reasons.

Think about your family? How do you think they are going to feel when you die? Your stupidity would cause alot of greif amoungst people you love

Think about the poor sap that has to clean up your mess. Ie your corpse. Sound like a fun job?

Think about how it affects others? People add your death to the statistic pool and use that as further evidence to force harsher restrictions against sensible drivers

goddam!..id be scared to even touch the brakes on a standard magna @ 220 :P

goddam!..id be scared to even touch the brakes on a standard magna @ 220 :P

ACTUALLY it's not that bad, not the best, but the ABS does it's best to keep the car stable and in a strainght line. I have green pads, from whatsaname, they have a bit more bite

You may think "Oh if i do it on some quiet street im only harming myself"
But thats wrong for a couple of reasons.

Think about your family? How do you think they are going to feel when you die? Your stupidity would cause alot of greif amoungst people you love

Think about the poor sap that has to clean up your mess. Ie your corpse. Sound like a fun job?

Think about how it affects others? People add your death to the statistic pool and use that as further evidence to force harsher restrictions against sensible drivers


I say let them wipe themselves out.. More space on the road for other users...

my 96 altera cuts out at 215. i dont see the problem with speeding, although i mainly drive at night. i dont think there has been a day since i've had the car that i haven't gone over 180 on the highway. i dont see the problem, i live near it, its unused at night and i trust the car and my driving abilities. when the car cuts out its a loud bang and just no power at all, lift foot, put foot back down. and off i go again. fair scared me the first time it happened though.

oh yeah, and that was before i got new rims and tyres, 3 retreads, 2 pretty bald tyres, and two alloys with cracks through a spoke on each rim. lucky me eh.

idiot! :nuts:

coming from you??? haha thats rich, why dont you go blow up some more people mail boxes ya little **** head

goddam!..id be scared to even touch the brakes on a standard magna @ 220 :P

slowing down from only 150km/h at the drags is a very unenjoyable experience! And i have DBA slotted rotors on the front!

Words cannot describe how much i hate magna brakes (excluding AWD/Ralliart) :rant:

my te hits speed limiter at 225 at about 6500 rpm....very enjoyable experince ie smooth ride good steering untill i hit the brakes.....let the whole experince down...anyway would like to pointout that i did this in a very "safe" enviroment on a back road down south...and with the speedway experince i have i would recomend running a few spanners over your car before such an atempt.....good to read some storys but

btw i have sports exaust and a pod filter....cant wait to try with extractors

Jack the car up, chuck it in drive and see how it goes! just do it somewhere safe. Or spend the money on a dyno!

at 220kph the fuel cuts off BUT you should be doing that kind of speed,

In theory, the KE verada should be able to reach 220. When I was in perth, I took my ks verada xi
approx 200km north of Perth, in an isolated piece of straight country road with no trees either side
of the road on a sunny windless day. She got up to at least 220km/hr. The speedo went 10 degs
past the 220 mark. The tacho was approx at 5000 rpm.

arent they speed limited tho? and the ks isn't? well I know it isn't ;)

my te hits speed limiter at 225 at about 6500 rpm....very enjoyable experince ie smooth ride good steering untill i hit the brakes.....let the whole experince down...anyway would like to pointout that i did this in a very "safe" enviroment on a back road down south...and with the speedway experince i have i would recomend running a few spanners over your car before such an atempt.....good to read some storys but

btw i have sports exaust and a pod filter....cant wait to try with extractors

i think you will find nothing different will happen, your car might be louder, yes, but putting on extractors wont change the programme in your ecu that cuts the fuel at 218 i beleive it is, just a question to all those that have been to the limit, did your cars do the biggest backfire from hell when it cut out then back in?

nope
it just slowed down.

then kicked back in and accelerated again.

TJ Sports limited to 225......That was found out on long stretch of road in the middle of no where.

Ralliart does 200 in 4th @ 6k rpm with the air con on.

These things are NOT engineered to be doing that sort of speed....aside from the fact that any public road is far from what could be considered a controlled environment. Your in a situation where you are driving a car on the absolute limit of its capabilities, in a environment where essentially anything could happen.....i dont care what the top speed of my magna is, so good luck to you all. Perhaps if I owned a F 355 spider id be tempted to see what it can do, but as I said I have no desire to test the limits of a vehicle that is essentially not designed to be even driven over 120.

If they aren't engineered for 200+ why are they allowed to go that fast? Surely mitsu would limit it even further to say around 120 like you said if the car couldn't take it.

i know this is about the ke verada but i noticed a few other cars put in there numbers, my tf 5spd manual magna,aircon anda lead foot does 240 all day no problems, tested multiple times in the nt, if you dont like to go fast dont, some of us however like to know what we got to play with, if the roads straight,your car is in good condition and the tires are rated to the speed there is no trouble, i do it with tires rated to over 300km/h

I used to have an EF 5 speed that hit the limiter just shy of 180 and it was a scary experience - you get engine compression braking, the whole car shudders and the live rear axle aims to throw you into oblivion. Thank **** I was on an old airport strip and not a public road with bends.

My KE Xi V-rad on the same strip topped 200 easy, as did my mate's KE Ei.

wow old thread

everyone should know the factory setting is speed limited to 210km/h anything more is perhaps speedo inaccuracy.. yes old thread... and many of us have found that limiter too

lol thread mine. on my own private racetrack, 215 kph speed limiter, with cruise on havent tried since been manual...

I got my KF to 220, no problems. Was a little to fast for me though. I'd checked everything was ok before i did. Got a mate who's dad is a copper he found us a safe and suitable road.

Dang this thread be old.

Should have been laid to rest a long time ago.

Dang this thread be old.

Should have been laid to rest a long time ago.

hint hint
[/thread] tim ;)

****, didnt I get on my soap box in this thread 2 years ago lol

honest to go the fastest my cressida has gone is 120, dont needa go faster than that (it probably doesnt go faster than that :P)

I have two excerpts here that come from the manual of my KF Verada:
First:
CAUTION:
Even the A.B.S. cannot prevent the natural laws of physics from acting on the vehicle. It cannot for instance avoid accidents that may result from excessive speed.

And also a lovely little paragraph and table:
In order to avoid damage to the engine from excessively high RPM, do not exceed the possible driving speed when the selector level is set to L, 2, 3 or D.

<table><tr><td>Gear selection</td><td>2.4L</td><td>3.0L</td><td>3.5L</tr></tr>
<tr><td>L</td>55kph</td><td>60kph</td><td>70kph</td>
<tr><td>2</td>110kph</td><td>120kph</td><td>135kph</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td>170kph</td><td>180kph</td><td>200kph</td></tr></tr>

That is to say they *recommend* that you don't exceed 200kph in 3rd. LOL.
But yeah; don't speed, if you're lucky enough not to kill someone then there's still that really good chance of getting fined a lot of money and losing your license. (... been there, done that)

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The way i see it is on a road thats long, flat and
in the middle of no where, and just you in the car!!!
Go as fast as you want because if you crash..... and die.
you are not take anyone with you. That is the main thing.
I have lost 7 good friends in car crashes that were all from speeding
and drinking:nuts: .......3 of that 7 were driving. so the other 4 are
dead because of a f**kwite that thort he was cool and was showing of.:rant:
I will say i have done it..... ran my TL of the clock and i will
never do it again........i have to much to live for.

wow old thread


is your name gav?

lol

ban time :P

Hey! I do not threadmine that often!lol

For the record, 182km/h, on an airstrip. It was still accelerating, albeit very slowly, just not enough room.

How do you guys manage to get a top speed run on an air strip or is this just a cover like the mostly unbelievable 'this was done on a private road' phrase?:) I thought an air strip was only reserved for automotive magazines who I assume pay through the nose to interrupt flight schedules for a chance to top speed test their cars. If it's possible though, I wouldn't mind timing and video recording to see how quick maggie can reach the limiter. It would be good fun I think.

Go check out your local air port, I am sure they will have room to squeeze you in.

Go check out your local air port, I am sure they will have room to squeeze you in.

Really think their insurance would let you?

Go check out your local air port, I am sure they will have room to squeeze you in.

as i post this message (from under gate 10 qantas terminal @ MEL)

im about to go drive around outside... ohh forgot to mention speed limit is 25km/h

i dont think any airports will let you use the strip anymore...

i have also worked at avalon airport, and noe Jetstar have taken it over, the car mags cant test there anymore

best bet is a country airfield where they test the cars now, but even then a crappy magna is going to need more than 2km to reach Vmax and pull up all safely... and goodluck finding a place like that....

or supercharge your magna and i can tell you you will reach 200km/h from rest in under 1000m but only just.. and add another 200m to stop if you hard on the anchors.... 500m if you want to slow wothout killing your brakes... so either way you need atleast 1500m or straight strip in a stocky to get any decent speed...

i dont think there is many airstrips that are tarmac and not dirt/frass that are around... maybe contact the car mags to get some numbers...

or how about we break into lang lang or the you yangs testing grounds!!! damn thatd be fun!

Really think their insurance would let you?
What are you going to break? On a run way if you lost it (in a straight line :nuts:) you'd only end up spinning down the runway until you lost all momentum, unless of course you blow a tyre or something.:redface:

I'll be damned if I can understand why people want to get out on an airstrip anyway....just use the hume lol

you could always just put it on a dyno, much safer and a small price to pay to see what it can do


What are you going to break? On a run way if you lost it (in a straight line :nuts:) you'd only end up spinning down the runway until you lost all momentum, unless of course you blow a tyre or something.
Its not just if you break something, all it could take is a gust of wind or other factors.

I'll be damned if I can understand why people want to get out on an airstrip anyway....just use the hume lol


pffft Hume

any school zone is best for top speed runs :P

you could always just put it on a dyno, much safer and a small price to pay to see what it can do


Its not just if you break something, all it could take is a gust of wind or other factors.


download the original car test!

it is near on 100% accurate with a lil bit of fiddling

it accuratley estimated my pre s/c 1/4 time and post s/c 1/4 time to within less than 1/10th of a sec and the mph were almost spot on

its dos based, and wont work with vista :(

all my cars have been input into it and like i said with a lil fiddliung its pretty good... only negative comment is when you alter diff ratios you dont get the results you would expect in real world...

try it its like a 400kb download and hours of fun!

seriously :D

...why hasnt anyone thought of paying for a lap of philip island circuit.lol

pffft Hume

any school zone is best for top speed runs :P

hell ye i clocked 180 outside a school at 3:10pm if it wasnt for the silly kids crossing id hit 240 with ease bra

Hmmmmm....cant believe the mods are keeping this crap open....2 year thread mine, talk of how fast we can go on "private roads"...top effort people...

Hmmmmm....cant believe the mods are keeping this crap open....2 year thread mine, talk of how fast we can go on "private roads"...top effort people...

lol...i know huh!