Originally Posted by oceancontainer
Had mine at 140 mph and I had quite a bit more pedal had I wanted to stay in it , the Xfire tracked like it was glued to the pavement. Im running Michelin Pilot Sport rubber on Detata polished wheels and the rubber seems to really grip/grab the pavement. I try not to spin my wheels although on occassion it happens when I'm starting from a dead stop and have it in 2nd. or 1st and hard accelerating to get on a heavily traveled State hwy.sometimes they spin but only for a brief second or two. I'm not into high speed, I bought this vehicle cause it is a 2 seater sports car, had I wanted a race car I could of bought one. One problem I'm running in to is every young punk in his 5.0 Mustang wants to race me. Little do they realize this little 6 cyl. can probably smoke the 5.0 V8 Mustang but I'm not going to be the guinnie pig... Had a Ford Escort all dolled up with spoiler and the ground effects roll up beside me the other morning at 5:30 am, he kept racing his motor and challanging him. I turned my interior light on and waved to him my middle finger. This guy really wanted me to run him but I wasnt going to, I didnt want to blow away a 4 cyl. Escort and make him feel like a dumbass instead I waived the middle finger to him and that pissed him off and he took off like spitting and spuddering, his POS even backfired a couple of times....
I wouldnt take the 5.0's so lightly, there is hardly a stock one running around now, even the slow SN95 (94-95) ran about what are cars do stock. And flicking off a guy because he wanted to race? Thats real grown up of you. Congrats. Just a lil' fyi, I have seen n/a escorts well into the 14's. And have seen a 91 turbo GT run in the 12's. And the 2000 Escort ZX2 S/R ran low 15's stock. I don't see how you can talk that much crap consdering you only drive a high 14 low 15 second car.
Anyways, I have gotten the crossfire up to about 130ish. Was pretty stable and all just takes to long to get there. The longer you do it the better chance of getting caught.