Ford GT Forum 200 mph Club & Standing Mile Results

[DB4-12K]

Interesting Ted. It's good to know the 3.90's can pull 6th a pretty significant margin with that level of power. A quarter mile when you're already going 195 goes by real fast, so to pick up 6 mph with 730rwhp is pretty good. I would think that at least makes it feasible that something with massive power could pull 6th at a much higher speed.

[THughes]

You have to make sure that you are at the limit of the RPM's in fifth or you will loose some MPH. For example I pulled 6th at 7,000 rpm the run before and only ran 198.

Ted

[DB4-12K]

Yeah, at that speed, you're going to easily lose 10 mph per second if you let the rpms drop. I want to say I looked at my vBox data and letting off at 208.6 the car lost 7 mph in about half a second.

[THughes]

The air is a killer. We need to run in a vacuum.

Ted

[soroush]

Soroush,

My car put down 730 at the rear tires as measured by the man with a big shadow. The problem with the 3:90 gear is that the car tops out at 195 in fifth gear so you have to pull sixth gear just past the 3/4 mile mark. At 195 you want to make sure you get that gear change right. As far as just driving the car on the street the 3:90 gear is the way to go.

Ted

just to give you an idea I went into 5th right passed the 1/2 way mile marker, and crossed the line in fifth(ran 217.9). I can only imagine how it would have ran with the 3.90s

as for your car true that it will run out of gear in fifth at 195 but you also reach 195 a lot quicker and in a shorter distance than the non geared cars, so you have more room to increase your speed before reaching the mile. like I said it would be very difficult for a whipple car to do 200 conditions being normal,

[Shelby#18]

I'm anxious to see what my TT with the 3.90's will do now with the exhaust connected to the collectors. Dennis (GT Guys) just dyno'd it at 900hp to the wheels. At the mile the car only managed 172.9 before the exhaust completely separated from the collectors. The Guys suspect that the low speed was because it was already coming apart. We'll see. I gotta make that list!

[THughes]

Soroush,

You are right about the conditions, I didn't expect to run 200+ but I was very happy to get it.

The right place at the right time, that doesn't happen to me very often.

Ted

[soroush]

I'm anxious to see what my TT with the 3.90's will do now with the exhaust connected to the collectors. Dennis (GT Guys) just dyno'd it at 900hp to the wheels. At the mile the car only managed 172.9 before the exhaust completely separated from the collectors. The Guys suspect that the low speed was because it was already coming apart. We'll see. I gotta make that list!

look forward to your next outing

[soroush]

Soroush,

You are right about the conditions, I didn't expect to run 200+ but I was very happy to get it.

The right place at the right time, that doesn't happen to me very often.

Ted

I think youre car would run 200 even without optimum conditions, due to the gearing, as lont as its not 110 deg

you guys coming down for the next mile in march?, you know now they have side by side roll races going on from 1/4 mile mark to the 3/4 mile mark, its pretty cool they follow you with a truck that has a camera mounted on it and a motorcycle follow just behind(as a judge) to make sure no one jumps the gun

[TEXAS GT]

Now that the calendars are done, any ideas on this project? T-shirts, bumper stickers, static clings? Maybe a die-cut vinyl decal that we could put wherever suits us? Possibly in the shape of a shield that we could put on the fender...

Just some quick thoughts.