Top speed of my car?

J

Jimbo

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I ask because I've not yet run into any "governor" type ceiling (and I think I've been fast enough to trip one if it exists), and I'm not about to rip up the highway at WOT until I stop accelerating.

All I can find are Car & Driver drag-limited figures of 145mph for a sedan, and I've got a wagon.

So - if anyone actually knows (we'll all assume it's not from firsthand experience) what the top speed of a 2007 WRX wagon is, please let me know!

 
Oh, and I should mention that the only performance mod is an STI intake (and a tow hitch - that's gotta be like fifteen extra ponies right there).

 
I dont know about your car, but my 04 wrx wagon the ECU had fuel cut at 158 mph.

I can probably grab a stock ECU Rom of your car and if what fuel cut is set at.

 
i've heard that oddly enough the wagons have a fuel cut but the sedans dont. but that was back in the bugeye days.

wagons :
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OK, here's a way to win a pizza or beer or whatever.....

how fast could a WRX wagon go if you drove it off the loading ramp of a C-130 at 25,000 feet?

a: 447 mph

b: 94 mph

c: 137 mph

aka, how fast would it be going when it cratered into somebody's back yard? >
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Hint: 32 feet per sec/per sec until it reached....____________?

 
got to love old Mr. Isaac

well if u really wanted to look up the weight of a WRX wagon, then do some math and you could get the speed minus the wind drag.

to get that you'd need to find the drag coefficient of a wrx wagon, ASSUMING that it fell straight down you'd take that and subtract that from the first number and then you'd have your speed.

but i agree with rally guy. it's would be more fun to just push one out of a plane and clock it.

if i had to guess i'd say it would be somewhere around the 137 mph mark. cause isn't a humans terminal velocity around 90 something?

Christ this just turned into a CMC thread hahahahah
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(writing from Bangor this evening)

Threatened wifey with a top speed attempt coming up 95 tonight...she gently vetoed the suggestion.

That's an idea, Ralli - I'll hunt around for an open-source ROM and see if I can tell what the stock fuel cut is.

As for the difference on wagon vs. sedan cutoffs, might the folks at Subaru know that their wagons will get squirrely at high speed easier than their sedans will? Joel - do you have any high-speed wagon experience? Maybe I should get a waist spoiler, too
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it wouldnt surprise me if the high speed lift is the reason they cut it on the wagon.

 
Coincidently I've jumped from a few C-130s.

They slow down to about 140-200mph before they open any doors.

Wheres Erik. He know terminal velocity.

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it wouldnt surprise me if the high speed lift is the reason they cut it on the wagon.
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Ya at 115 mph my wagon feels like the front wants to come off the ground. The stearing becomes real light.

What can be done to help with this? Front lip? Dropping the front a little with RCE camber plates? or just keep it under 100. It felt this way with the stock springs, WRX Wagon springs and the STI springs she's on now.

 
I wager it's around 140 for any stockish WRX. Maybe like 150 under extremely perfect conditions on the salt flats. The STi probably gets like 10mph on top of that.

What's the hurry
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Heh, no hurry - just want to know my equipment well. (kinda left the door open there, didn't I?)

So - we've got a wagon at 142? Interesting. No speed-based cutoff, then? [wrings hands] Excellent. [/wrings hands]

 
I know an old friend of mine has buried the needle at the 160 mark in his STi multiple times...

So we know how fast it SAYS it's going, but how fast does wind resistance say?

 
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