Yeah i know its unsafe and all but I tested my Accords top speed. I was unhappy when i wasnt able to get her past 119 Should a 6th gen EX go faster? I was in 4th gear not even redlined and it simply would not go any faster. What is limiting me here? The speedo goes up to 160 so I should at least be able to do 135ish. Any ideas???? What has everyone else hit?

 

The speedo can say what it wants....my '93 POS Mazda 323 has a 140 mph speedo...I've only done 120.....wait...oh..ummm ha thats funny.
















:rick::chuckles:

 

there is a thing called a governor, it restricts the max speed of car by cutting off the fuel to the engine to stay safe.

you would probably be have to do some ECU modifications to go higher.

but the real purpose is to get to 100 not to stay there, because from there, power means nothing.

 

2003 accord lx 125mph stops

 

I've done 115 in for sustained amounts of time, in my 6th gen I4...I still had several thousand RPMs till redline...still had power to do more..

 

i'm gonna go ahead and say :werd: on that one. I've gotten to 120 in mine and it was still goin...how much farther i could have gotten, i dunno....

 

98 EX 4spd AT Coupe:

Stock: Not tested
Helix: 120MPH, would not shutoff, just didn't go any further. (Something like another 1750K until redline, 2000K to estimated fuel cut off)
AEM CAI + DC Header + Helix: 133MPH, I let off because my exit was coming up. (About 5K RPM, woohoo VTEC in 4th?)

Disclaimer: Very late at night, highway with no opposing traffic, "test run", blah blah blah. No one was around me, we all speed, it's a fact of life.

 

Max speed, I don't know but I brought the needle all the way around

 

i've got my 94 ex up to 125 and it was still climbing, i just ran out of freeway....

 

115 w/ my 90 lx and then it just didn't go anymore.... i had a 94 protege before and i got up to 135 but it was only on a down hill.....