I think we all know the truth here.......GM was smoking something......just putting guages in where ever they felt like.....lol



Yea it's due to the tires

 

Hey, doing 160MPH on the street is a great way to end up with the FAA investigating the "small plane crash debris" and some guy in a labcoat scooping what's left of your protoplasm into a little beaker.

As a kid, I carved up all kinds of street at 130+, all over Houston in a 500+HP Shelby GT500. Memorial Parkway, I-10, Gulf Freeway, in traffic, even on surface streets.....way over 100MPH. I had no clue. It's God's grace I'm still alive, all these years later.

You twenty-somethings. Don't go there. I've seen what's left of vettes and f-bodys and 'stangs that tried to straighten out a curve or had somebody make a bad move just in front of them when they were doing 130+. You don't want to go there.

You want to be sick? Have a look at a convertible, upside down, with the doors, hood and trunk flat to the road. No sign of windshield or side windows. Or the two teenager's heads. Yup, right in front of my subdivision. It happens. I had seen the two kids, rat-racing on that same street, 2 nights before. Nice, new Mustang GT with killer chrome wheels. I recognized the wheels as soon as I saw the wreck.

Take it to the track.

 

For you guys looking for RPO numbers, if it had

RPO QLC 245/50 Eagle GSCs or

RPO QFZ 245/50 Eagle RSAs

you shouldn't have a limiter, or as mentioned it is set to 165 on late models.