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VL Commodore
VL 3 Litre Top Speed
Started by Holden_Man · 1 July 2004 · 126 repliesPreserved from CalaisTurbo (partial recovery). Original authors and dates are shown; archived members are not current Holdcom accounts.
15-07-04, 17:13 GMT+10#102
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Originally Posted by PSHHHT
LOL my baby NSR used to go 185km/h, downhill hahaha
2002 NSR 150SP 2-Stroke, Thai edition. 6 speed.
..... while slipstreaming a truck
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31-07-04, 20:31 GMT+10#104
another reason not to speed with sum1 else in the car is if u crash ur reisking their life aswell and thats a really greedy thing to do, no matter how much they would egg u on.
i still would speed on roads even if i agree on all that safety shyte but i'de do it safely, a long straight, smoothe road without many cars on it is acceptable to me and i've done 140 on one of those b4 and i would go faster if i go back on my own cause i know its fairly safe and if i crash and hurt myself bad its my own stupid fault and i'de face it cos i know the risks, the only real stupid speeders r people who take other with them or unexperienced people cos there is more risk and more 2 b lost
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31-07-04, 23:29 GMT+10#105
hi all im on my l's and i just rebuilt the motor and i v only had it at 140km easy wont go any faster ????
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01-08-04, 14:28 GMT+10#106
You won't drive it any faster or it wouldn't go any faster?
Nice reminder was on the news yesterday, two 16 year olds in a Commodore, under the influence and speeding, straight into a tree and folded the car in the half.
Poor familes
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01-08-04, 20:01 GMT+10#107
ive got the need, the need for speed. my vl is a auto with cat back exhuast pod and advanced timing and i constantly clock the speedo so they go quicker than 200
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01-08-04, 20:19 GMT+10#108
u tool, constantly????!!! those mods woudlnt do **** for top end performace, ur still gonna loose control just as easily and DIEEEEEE. lol...
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02-08-04, 17:34 GMT+10#109
well bro i do it just about every nite. i aint gunna die i mite get seriously maimed but its all good. and could youtell me why im gunna loose control?
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02-08-04, 18:56 GMT+10#110
cause your car will sway all over the shop and all you gotta do is make the sligtest little mistake or hit the slightest little bump and ur screwed bro... why the *** u think there are speed limits
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02-08-04, 19:03 GMT+10#111
LOL.. so u think that if u crash at 200+KMH , u wont die?... just seriously maimed?!.. im guessing your car has some serious reinforcing!
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02-08-04, 19:04 GMT+10#112
i sits on the road perfectly. they have speed limits so people who dont know how to drive travel at a safe speed. i dont do this through a set of s's i do this on a long straight highway.
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02-08-04, 19:26 GMT+10#113
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Originally Posted by extroana
i sits on the road perfectly. they have speed limits so people who dont know how to drive travel at a safe speed. i dont do this through a set of s's i do this on a long straight highway.
put u around the track u won't think ur so crash hot. I hate people like u u think ur ****ing top **** and u won't crash. Now how old is at VL?? Nearly 20 years and now what do u think the suspension is like in a car that old. U have factory brakes well here comes brake failure if u have to try and stop. Ohh the crumple zones in VLs are so ****ing fantastic they keep people alive at 80km/h in accidents. No they don't and u reckon u would be alive after hitting something at that speed?? It isn't a ****in racecar. Nor are there sandtraps on the side of the road. U hit something u r ****ed. U do it along a nice straight highway. HA. Our highways are ****ed, who knows where there are going to be bumps or where that truck has dropped his retrad and u hit that. Say goodbye to mummy and daddy as ur not comming home tonight. Ur an idiot i hope u learn and don't kill anyone innocent
****wit
Ha u got the need for speed. Do u know how much of a wanker u sound like. I feel like getting one of Petros' abortion bats and doing the common good a favour and make sure u can't drive again.
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02-08-04, 20:14 GMT+10#114
Extroana, have a think about a few things for a minute, will ya?
VL Commodores do not have most of the active and passive safety features of new cars. They don't have airbags, seatbelt pre-tensioners, side impact protection, anti-lock brakes, boron reinforcing in the firewall and pillars, break-away front suspension and engine mountings and their bodies don't absorb or transfer crash energy away from the occupants anything like new cars. They don't steer, corner or brake as well and there's no way in the World they're safe at that sort of speed.
At least that's what they were like brand new, 18 years ago. After 18 years of wear and tear and rust and metal fatigue and repairs (some good, some bad, as you'd know) and hundreds of thousands of kilometres, it's a bloody miracle they're still allowed on the road - In many countries, they wouldn't be.
Don't get me wrong, I love mine, but unless I had every inch totally checked and tested by an automotive engineer, there's no way I'd drive it on the road at that speed.
You might reckon you can control the car, but if you think you can control ANYTHING in the environment you're driving through, you're kidding yourself. At 200 k/h, if something appears in your headlights, you wouldn't even have time to get your foot to the brake pedal before you hit it.
If you want to die in the middle of no-where surrounded by emergency service guys who don't really give a f**k about you while you scream you lungs out from the agony of your broken legs and slowly fill the floorpan with blood, then go for it, but don't go spreading the idea around on the Internet, ha?
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02-08-04, 21:05 GMT+10#115
- Sits on the road perfectly, the re-treads stick to the tarmac, the chopped springs allow for perfect travel, and the lowness of the car allows for perfect aero dynamics. lol.
even if you don't have re-treads or chopped springs they still don't handle that well. Not many cars do at that..Oh well, you got shot down so.. Deal with it.
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02-08-04, 21:39 GMT+10#116
hmmm.. i thikn there are a lot of us out there who are crazy!!
Well i might be one fo them!! but i no when to stop!
Some people just will never learn.. who the **** drives home drunk anyway?
Dumbwits!
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03-08-04, 18:45 GMT+10#117
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Originally Posted by extroana
i sits on the road perfectly. they have speed limits so people who dont know how to drive travel at a safe speed. i dont do this through a set of s's i do this on a long straight highway.
mate you think you are a good driver but think nothing can go
wrong.
a good driver nose that everything can go wrong at any time
think about it
maybe you are good at driving a car fast any one can do that
its noing what to do when somthing goes wrong that will stuff you up..
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03-08-04, 20:52 GMT+10#118
well when I was younger and stupid my old ladies would only do 198klm/hr
it just would not click onto the 200. it probably needed air in the tyres or maybe a tuneup or something.
anyway I tested quite a few times until one night I did it a bit too early in the night and had to move over to miss a car and ended up in some loose dirt/sand on the side and fish tailed it up the road and finally hit a power pole backwards and stuffed the car and myself for a while
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06-08-04, 03:02 GMT+10#120
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You won't drive it any faster or it wouldn't go any faster?
i wouldn't go any faster
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