land speed record?
 

i was just wondering if anybody knows wat the fasted land speed record is and wat car it belongs to ( not jet cars that are mach 1 ) just legal cars like supras.
i heard about a ford focus and a supra and the lingenfelter but i wanna hear wat u guys have heard cuz im quite interested in findin the truth ! :retard:

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found this :
http://www.landracing.com/events/spe...mmentary01.htm
n this:
http://www.superstreetonline.com/fea...ehicles/74362/

A couple of years ago there was a civic featured in scc that was making an attempt at the gas record. I don't know what issue it was, but I'm sure someone can find it.

civic
 

yeah, i saw that civic article as well. I think it was a 2.0 liter Methanol Class, and the civic went 184 I think.

According to Super Street Magazine December 2004 , page 124, there was a saturn ion that broke that civic's record with a 212mph (official time). There was also a chev cobalt that later ran a 243 mph in that class as well but it was an unofficial time.

Not sure what the other class records are tho.

yeah I don't know either. I'm to busy turning to try with my car.LOL

That's no near land record. Maclaren F1 and Bugatti Veron are at 240 mph at PRODUCTION STAGE. I do not know the record, but I bet it would be around 500-600 km/h max for internal combustion engine. After that jet engine must be mounted.

I am pretty sure that the piston engine record is in the 400mph + range. Multiple engines in a streamlined body.

mk3 jetta has gone 194mph(gps) on c16

different class
 

Those cars are very fast but they would be in a different class for obvious reasons . Different classed have different requirments. You cant compare a 2 liter cobalt or civic to a Maclaren F1. You are probably right tho , the land speed record for ANY piston driven car would probably be in the 500-600 range. I was giving the record for the 2.0 liter methanol class. Thats why I said I was not sure about the other classes because I didn't have any info on them.

Jetta
 

Damn, whose jetta was that? That's probably the record in it's class too.

the koeniggsegg is the fastest production car now isnt it ? it beat the top speed of the mcclaren not too long ago

Turning
 

Are you a Nascar fan? I am guessing by the flaming "8" your a fan of Jr's? I was at Michigan International yesterday for the race. It was pretty good. there were 26 qualifiers that beat out last years track record in qualifying!

Chris Green. The car put down 700whp a few days ago. The 194mph was back when he was puttng down 620whp.

BrianB yeah I'm a NASCAR fan, so is my wife. I would have loved to go to Michigan. It would have been a hell of alot better than that bullshit F1 race. But Junior still only finished 18th. He's not gonna make the cut this year, unless he gets his together soon.

8
 

Yeah , we have gone every year for the last 3 years. My cuz always gets the same 3 tickets. He wants me to tag along to taledega later this year but i don't i will be going. The funny thing about this year we were having a hard time finding a third person that wanted to go . We lucked out that the guy we went with last year got the time off work and was good to go.

You and my cousin would get along great he loves Jr. We rolled into the race with big ass "8" flag through his sunroof of his car with a US flag on one side and a Canadian flag on the other side. It was kinda cool cuz everyone was giving him props for it. This year was alot better than last year too because last year it ended under a caution.

I still can't understand why NASCAR is so popular...