P5 at 118!
October-24th-2001, 01:28 PM
#1
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P5 at 118!
Welp, I bought my p5 Sat. It's red! Pictures are coming! 1st task. Yellow calipers. Cheap enough. I read in the owners manual that there was no break in period. I'm still keeping the car under 4 grand RPM...except for yesterday! I was coming home at 2am and this old infinity drove up next to me. I've got 550 miles on my car now...we sat there for a while, then starting creeping up on speed! P5 was at 118!!!!!!!!!! STOCK! Sweet. Seemed fairly stable too! What a fun car! 
L8r,
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L8r,
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October-25th-2001, 08:59 PM
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Theres' no speed limiter!
Cut off is at 132 mph, it's redline in 5th gear. So it's rather rev-limiter, than actual speed limiter
I run it on dyno, so this info is 100% accurate.
If it can't go faster than 120 mph on the road is due to drag and lack of power.
Alex
BTW, it's canadian version.
I run it on dyno, so this info is 100% accurate.
If it can't go faster than 120 mph on the road is due to drag and lack of power.
Alex
BTW, it's canadian version.
October-25th-2001, 09:14 PM
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drag limited...
when I was doing the research looking for my P5 I saw in a couple of the articles that the top end was at 118mph. In cases when this is due to a governor they state that, in the cases that they do not it is due to drag limiting.
That's just what the stock car will do.
That's just what the stock car will do.
October-25th-2001, 09:25 PM
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Back to the break in..I think you should drive your car the way you intend on driving it for the rest of its life. If you drive in the higher RPMs, drive in those RMPS, now. Just drive it the way you intend to drive it all the time.
October-26th-2001, 09:34 AM
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drive it like ya stole it!
Preach on Mitch!! I've got the extended 6 year warranty so ya know...if it's gonna break, I'd rather it be now.
I'm driving about 3 hours out to W.V this weekend which should put me over the 1000 mile mark. I'll let ya know what it can do when I get back. The suspension and lack of body roll kicks a$$. You can do that without going over 3000 RPM!!
I'm driving about 3 hours out to W.V this weekend which should put me over the 1000 mile mark. I'll let ya know what it can do when I get back. The suspension and lack of body roll kicks a$$. You can do that without going over 3000 RPM!!
October-29th-2001, 12:37 PM
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is it normal ???
got my P5 almost 3 month ago... factory standard, no modifications (yet), automatic (they screwed up my order but ofered a decent deal to get this one)... anyways, is it normal not to be able to go over 190km/h ??? I was expecting at least 210 out of this one... I'm a bit dissapointed.
