it all depends on the gearing
but if you have a 6MT and your last gear is allowing your car to run at 75 at a lower RPM than the 5th gear of a 5MT then of course it will save you cruising gas...

but it also may allow you to have the same final gear and have an extra gear in there, making the gear difference smaller and therefore allowing you to accelerate faster...

 

actually ur 6th gen got stopped by wind resistance. when i put on my 16" auto-x rims i hit 140mph before hitting the speed limiter. On my 18's i can max out 4th gear (which calculated speed is about 135mph) but 5th gear doesn't have the pull to get to 140mph per speedo which would be almost 150mph.

Anyways the governer will only kick in in 5th gear when ur speedo reaches 140mph. Unfortunatly unless ur going downhill with tail wind it probably won't ever happen on stock tire size. My 16's did it because the actuall speed was slower and the gears had much more pull.

 

damn, I don't think I would want to go 150, not even on a track. F that. 130 is high enough for me, and I don't even remember the last time that I took my car that far. Recently the fastest I've gone is around 110. Guess I'm growing out of it.

 

86 honda accord 2dr hatchback frankenstien sleeper.no nos, no turbo, homemade cold air intake, swapped injectors, performance fuel pump, dying suspension,track tested (friends 1/2 mi long blacktop driveway in country ) 146MPH It took a modded prom with rpm limiter removed to do that. same vs an 88 camero irocz(no mods) neck and neck most of the way initial is where I lookd bad.(I had 2 friends onhand with medical trainig and several fire extinguishers present)
However people streetracing ARE taking more than their own lives in their hands. A prerequisite for having a fast car should be seeing thier kids or some other loved one almost get smashd by a reckless driver sometime.
RACING IS FOR TRACKS OR OTHER CONTROLLED SITUATIONS NOT STREETS WHERE INNOCENT BYSTANDERS GET HURT!

 

WRONG... turboocrgers and superchargers were first invented for use on gasoline internal combustion engines beginning aroudn 1910 and into WWI as a solution to high altitude performance. By 1930 they were widely used on race cars and offered on some german production models. Use on trucks and utility vehicles didn't begin until around 1938. The first broad production car application was in 1962. Supercharging has traditionally been much more popular, and gained it greatest fame in piston aircraft engines during WWII that gave many aircraft their classic hig hpistch sound above het road of a big V12 such as the Rolls Royce Merlin engine in the P-52 Mustang.

An Accord with correct wheel balance, godo alignemnt, and tires and suspension in good conditon, will be very stable at only 115 mph. Although a skilled driver and soem common sense is needed to use good judgement on manuvering and avoiding accidents at higher speeds.

115mph for exampel is nothing on a motorcyle. I don't even have ot get into a tuck at that speed. On my bike I' mstill in 3rd gear... on newer 1000cc bikes, only 2nd gear at 115!!! I can go from 0-120-0 on my bike faster than a 4 cylinder Accord can get to 0-70-0... and in a shorter distance.

 

what part of Miami?

Im in Fort Lauderdale...Wanna Race

 

You said it right there, "skilled driver" and "good condition". A lot of people like to think they can handle the speed, but have very little time behind the wheel at those speeds, or experience at making evasive maneuvers at 100+ mph. Also, an accident at that speed doesn't usually have the outcome of just a wrecked car, but a catastrophic outcome which neccessitates scraping someone off the tarmac with a putty knife, many times an innocent person and/or the driver himself.

I'd bet that many street racers never pay attention to their tire pressure, condition and balance before going 100+. I also bet that many of them do it with so-so brakes and leaking shocks, too. I've seen some piles of junk haulin' A down the highway. I saw a guy just yesterday in an old muscle car with his rear sway bar hanging loose on one end almost scraping the ground.

 

^-is right

my 95 ex i reached at 130 and after that i was like **** that, enough is enough lol

 

No one bothered to mention on inaccurate speedos are at those speeds. Sometimes off up to 15 mph.

 

No one also bothered to mention that I feel my Accord is stable at any speed.

Yesterday I visited 125MPH land. No problems.

Last winter I visited 135MPH land beating some damn BMW with HIDs. No problems.

I have one front TOYO Proxie tire and some Capital Negosiator shit on the other tire. The back two are TOYO Proxies.

I used to ride on 17" wheels with Kumho 711. I had two of the 711s blow up on me, including one at 100MPH. Riding back on stock 15" alloys for now.