Congratulations on your 186MPH run. I have seen these "BOONIES" you speak of. We have some of those here in Oklahoma, but, unfortunately, a rare species of ground-dwellers called "potholes" have already claimed the real estate.

 

A question to your guys with the SRT6.
How fast does the speedometer read on the dash?
The non SRT6 shows top speed of 160 MPH

 

200 mph top speed...

 

I figured it must be higher than mine for you guys to have known your speed higher than 160.
Wow that's pretty cool to hit speeds that fast.
I was impressed with my 150MPH sprint on a couple of occasions.

 

I don't remember where I found this picture - Maybe Google

 

Did anyone else notice the phenomenal gas mileage?

 

hehehe That just means he dosent know how to reset the trip meter.

MikeR

 

I to was surprized of how solid the car felt at that speed. When I done the 186 mph I started at about 60 mph with about 1 1/2 to 2 mile's of road ahead of me. My car sit's real low, I can't even get a floor jack under it behind the front wheel without lifting it up at the front fender well. That may help me cut through the air a little better. It will be about another month before I get my little blue monster out of it's hibernation for the winter. I'm still looking for somewhere to try the 200 mark leagally, but if I don't I'll take a camera with me next time I make a top speed attempt.

 

Oh please..............don't try to play the pothole card...........I guarantee I have you beat.

O.K.....I wasn't going to say anything about this, as it might get me laughed off the forum, but here goes.....Last week I was on my way over to a buddies place, I had to take a stretch of road to get the expressway. This piece of "road", if you want to all it that, was soo full of GIANT holes that it was all I could do to stay on the road. Here I am just creeping down a 50 MPH road at about 30. Cop pulls up and hits the light, I pull over thinking WTF? He comes up to the window and I'm ready with the license, registration, and insurance. Cop asks if I know why I'm being stopped, to which I answer "I have no idea". He says I was going TOO SLOW, and was a danger to traffic as nobody would be expecting me to be travelling so slow on that stretch of road! I didn't get a ticket.....just a warning.

I reeeeaaallly felt like telling him if he was so worried about the public safety he'd pick up a damn shovel and start filling in the craters in the road, but I just bit my lip and kept quiet!

Any of you michiganders in the area.....avoid Van Dyke road north of 16 mile. You'll spend more time avoiding holes than looking at the idiots driving around you! If you ever wanted to know what it's like driving in a shelled out town....try Sterling Heights!

 

hahaha

 

www.texasmile.com/ Road trip !!!

Just my Dos Centavos !

 

Deer, the ultimate evil......don't let their soft, brown exterior fool you. They are out to destroy Western Civilization! I own 3 cars, 2 of which have been hit by deer. Only the SRT remains unscathed (& almost had an "incident" on the way home tonight. These brakes are the most awesome things I've ever stomped on. Talk about a car stopping on a dime!). Please also note that the deer hit me, not the opposite.
Had mine to 163 before it just stopped pulling........weird feeling, that limiter. A nice long straightaway with mucho visibility on both sides. No crossroads for miles as this particular highway crosses a river & its extensive bottomlands. Only a deer.........

 

Sterling Heights, MI..........the new Beirut!
Apkano, I salute your intestinal fortitude in somehow managing to keep your mouth disengaged. It's galling too 'cause know they're just waiting for the spring.
Yeah, they'll pull over the Xfire driver but ignore the gray hairs in the Buick.

 

LOL....yea, I've tried the speaking-my-mind bit before......It never ended up good! Usually it ends with a nice set of jewelry for my wrists and a free tour of the city in one of their finest vehicles!

 

Insssssssssssssssssssssssssssssane my man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Funny... I haven't seen a deer in SO CAL in a long - long time.
If it can eat a crop.. it's been killed to extinction.

I think we should all (SRT6 and other) post our "top speed" stories.

I would love to hit 190MPH and have a video for the archive....

 

Road trip would be putting it mildly. That's probably a 20 to 25 hour drive from where I'm at. I called a retired State Policeman that lives a few house's down from me last night and asked him if he knew of any place I guy can open up a car legally. I told him I thought he might know from training in some of the unmarked Camaro's & Mustangs he drove the last 10 years he was working. He said they took them to the Brickyard to get their training and really didn't think there was anywhere in Indiana to do such a thing. I told him how fast I had had the car and where I did it, he laughed and said he use to drag race there in his younger day's, I knew he grew up just a couple mile's from there. His advice was to do it in the same place, he said that's about the safest place to do such a thing. Early on a Sunday morning when there is no traffic. I guess next step is to call a good friend that has a step son that is a State Trooper and see if he could talk his step son into coming over and meet me there, clock me & block any traffic that may start coming my way .

 

Hey Brian, did you happen to notice what your tach was reading at 170 mph and are you running the stock size tire's on the rear? I know it's kind of hard to take your eye's off the road at that speed for more than a glance . I was just wondering what the difference was in the tach readings between a stock size tire & a 285 witch is about an inch taller.

 

These darn deer infest this part of the state......like roaches. I drive like an old woman around here at night because they're all over the place including smack in the middle of a town I drive through between work & home. You can't even let your guard down in the middle of a well-lit burg 'cause they're hanging out in people's front yards! Over 500,000 were killed in '07 & they're STILL everywhere.
Sorry about getting waaaaay off subject here but had to rant a bit......
Problem with getting a video of the drive would be attempting to peel both hands off of the wheel while doing 150+!

 

No I didn't - or did I glance at the boost gauge. Next time I'll take the camera. Soon - very soon. I am going to scope out a new (old) road close to home tomorrow for future reference. Is been closed for some time so I need to measure the distance and conditions.