FRS stock top speed
 

Your personal number, the one you have seen on your dashboard? Digital or speedo? As I know I didnt bother looking at speedo.

Not mine but another frs owner in Colorado said he got it up to 130. I've only gone 100 in mine but I let off cause I didn't want to risk a cop being further up

i think its 145 mph
ive personally never gotten there just 100 mph

I think there are YouTube vids on it I believe 152 or someshit?

120. Don't have the balls to go any faster than that and the car isn't honestly built for it anyways. It's much more fun to slide around at like 20mph. hahaha

I thought it topped out at 169, because the rev limit was hit in 6th gear.

Edit: And I mean rev limit, fuel cut off.

Yeah, it is mechanically limited to 169. I believe it is aerodynamically limited to about 140. So with some more power it would be possible to hit 169.

It doesn't have enough power to overcome the air resistance. Check some of the videos of the twins with turbos and it'll break 150 easily.

You'd need some loooong downhill roads to discover if it has a rev limit in 6th without using tools or computers(or knowing in advance).

NAWWWWWS

I think its around 120-130. I've never seen any stock fr-s much past that, but I could be wrong.

127 indicated with plenty of pull left, just ran out of straight.

(Closed circuit, trained driver, do not attempt, yada, yada, yada ;) )

143 I beat an ap2 s2k from a 70mph roll.

140 flat all stock ran out of highway

132mph, lol my heart fell through my ass when i saw the american flag's colors flashing around me.. but it was some other unlucky driver lol. and yeah like others said, car's pretty much dead after 130mph, just doesn't pull anymore, i had to put in 5th and take it literally to the last bit of the redline and shift to 6th, and got to 132 and i just slowed down after, pretty sketch..

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this video was veri at 250 km/h
ohh yeah and he was getting a good , well about 10 mpgs at 155 mph... lol... not bad!
a bugatti veyron only gets 1.8 mpgs at its top speed! but then again its 100 more mph...

I'm sure this thread does wonders for enhancing the reputation of this forum and giving a good public impression of its members to the outside world. Please guys, tell us more about how fast you were going on public highways, and how close you came to getting pulled over by the cops, I'm absolutely positive that nothing but good can come of this.

some of us live close to airfields/autobahns/ect

you should check out the TT Lambo forums... "yeah bro i got a longer final drive! i can hit 260 mph now!"

You are correct! :)

Calculated top speed in 6th gear at 7400 rpm = 167.3 mph.

Figure the rev limiter cuts in just a bit above redline and you'd have 169 mph.

It is clearly drag limited in top gear, unable to pull redline.

There's a guy on youtube who pulled 230 km/hr (142.9 mi/hr). Who knows for certain what the conditions were, though. But, I thought I read in some auto mag that it is around 142 mph.

Now this is for the manual transmission. The auto has an impossibly tall 6th gear, hence the superior fuel economy on the highway, but in 5th it would probably pull close to the manual transmission car.

Our MT cars should pull 128.3 mi/hr in 5th gear at 7400 rpm.

On a side note, I would discourage bouncing your engine off the rev limiter. Yeah, I know people do it all the time, but it's still hard on the machinery with all that vibration at such high stress levels, so ... I wouldn't do it. Jackie Stewart doesn't like it, either. When Sir Jackie talks, I listen. ;)

(I watched Jackie Stewart coming up when he was a youngster. Something to think about. LOL! :) )

Here's a pop quiz for you, Shawn. How much is the drag increased by when we double the speed? Speed = 2x, then Drag = ?x :) (roughly)

I never said that all of you don't have legit reasons or excuses for taking the car up to those speeds. But at least 2 or 3 people in this thread have indicated that they were on public highways - inferred by the police presence and their fear of getting caught.

I won't take the moral high ground because I have, in the past, gone a teensy bit over the speed limits. However, this IS a public forum, and these forums DO promote the FR-S and the BRZ, this thread gives the impression that people drive these cars far above posted speed limits. I needn't tell you that perception, however right or wrong, is often a stronger influence than reality.

Basically, if you have gone to those speeds, at least qualify it with the statement that it was done on a track or airstrip, or autobahn, or as we call it up here in Canada, a "closed track in Mexico".

I'm not Shawn but whatevs.

4x roughly. It's a square function in many cases. Or is it cubic? Can't really remember.

i agree and threads like these should be shut down because it does sully the image of the owners when a few speak out for the many thousands who own the car. depends on the scenarios too, here in texas you can find yourself on the toll ways doing 90 and traffic still seems to pass you easily at times... ive been to 95-100 mph just keeping up with traffic. In the texas handbook we are allowed to speed up if we are getting in the way off traffic and there is no cap on it...

in the middle of the night there are a few car clubs that move about the empty toll ways in pretty decent packs (30-100 cars) going about 100-120 and have been doing it for a few years, the cops dont do anything about it and none of us have been in accidents, and keep proper distance in-case someone were to blow a tire,ect

BUUUUT that is a scenario where the people involved aren't trying to hit top speed, we just sit comfortably there going from place to place, going from a meet to a bar, then we part our separate ways at law abiding speeds on the way home.

i mention the highways here because the cops are very well aware that we do it... lol but none of us drive that way (well for the most part) drive like hoons around public traffic
in fact... our midnight hoons, keep most of us from speeding during our 9-5 work week, track time hones our skills. A car enthusiast that is comfortable at speed, and has some track safety training who knows the limits of their car, are more likely to avoid an accident. Most of the car groups that do highway runs here, also own $25,000 + cars and not $2k beater civics, we love our cars... we do drive enthusiastically, in fact most of the accidents reported in the DFW area concerning car enthusiasts are, well being rear-ended... lol

but as a serious final note, if you are doing this on the highway, please be it on a remote highway in Mexico, THANKS!

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On a closed road off a military base.. Used when they filmed a Lamborghini commercial .. At that time I used my bike

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lol, what i think when i read your post was: when people see our cars for the first time and think "wow, theres a guy that likes going the speed limit" and we dont want to sully that by going fast
:burnrubber:

But on substance i agree with you. However the op asked about top speed and i wanted to post and didnt want to lie or be hypocritical so i just told my story. im not telling anybody else to speed, its just i was in that situation and thats how it went down for me.

Fastest I've gone was 185 on an airstrip. Kilo

"Well, I suppose if you had a straight stretch of track with a level grade, and you weren't haulin' no cars behind you, and if you can get the fire hot enough, and I'm talkin' about hotter than the blazes of hell and damnation itself... then yes, it might be possible to get her up that fast."

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134 MPH.

That was before all the tickets, never again...

WOW!

Look at the fuel gauge....

187. :-D. :burnrubber:


Oh right. That's kph. But still.


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Me too, plenty to go at about 125 for me but I had to throttle down.

I am pretty sure that if you take it past 88mph you will end up in 1985.

If you read between the lines of my posts on this topic, you'll see that I'm no shining paragon of virtue, and certainly I don't expect people to look at someone driving an FR-S or BRZ and think that person must go exactly at the speed limit all day, everyday. It's just like I said, this IS a public Internet forum open to anybody to browse....

But my mama taught me now to lie

Seriously, I just nearly choked to death on Granola!!


Good motto to live by: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body...but rather to skid in sideways, cigarette in one hand - beer in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO~HOO - What a Ride!"

:thumbsup:


...AND besides...its wasn't me driving, it was the monkey! Stupid monkey :-/

In a controlled environment I opened up my AT FR-S and I will echo what others have said about the tall gearing. Basically, don't bother hitting 6th if your car is stock or has only minor bolt-ons.

Scott

141

Gear limited top speed and actual top speed will be very different due to wind resistance. It's worth reposting that every few replies to remind people.

6th gear with MT on closed course. Final readings were 134mph @ 4,300+ ft elevation with a 5-15 mph cross wind.

Lol nice. Then you could by an 86 corrola and stick it in storage for when u get back to the future.
:).


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88 mph..... :rolleyes:

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