hi people well i have just had 144 mph out of my escort with the pinto turbo in it and got it up to 144 mph.
AND there was plenty of time and road to do a bit more but it was very windy and was a few too many cars on the road for me to puss it a bit more.
But the speedo was off the clock and hitting the trip reset counter plunger so that was no good.
So my uncle is a mathermatition , so i asked him to work out some formula to work out excaktly what i would have been doing.So see below for how i worked it out.
the formula is 0.00595 x rpm x gear ratio x axle ratio x tyre radius
so that means
0.00595
...X....
5500
....X....
1
---
.82
....X....
11
---
34
....X....
11.22
= 4038.89
and
.82
...X...
34
= 27.88
so
4038.89
------------
27.88
equals 144.89 mph.
so am going to give it ago again today some time and will see if i can get the 150 mph barrier.
yeeeeee haaaaaa
cheers dave
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