that may be so, but the one in the video did not hit 180mph. like i said before, show me any car in the world stopping from 180mph in 450'. maybe a mclaren, not an evo, vette, camaro. is the new twist going to be they had a parachute deployed?

i give up, yep the car did 180mph with a rolling start and it took 30 seconds before impact (180 mile/hour (mph) = 80.467 2 meter/second) and it decelerated to a crawl in 6 seconds with 10 seconds of runway left at the slow speed of what? 20 mph. so if if wasnt for the bird they might have slowed down in time, so the bird saved their lives/car. for this video alone they stretched the white strips on the runway to appear slower for arguements sake. we didnt see the hidden chute open and they folded it up before shooting vid of the windshield from outside the car at the end. they really went thru a lot of trouble making this vid, but hey im wrong. the car was going soooo fast it looked like a rim going backward after a certain speed. it was 180 km/h or even 180mph, it was actually mach 180 and it circled the earth, hit a seagull and circled again and stopped before driving off the runway.

wtf drugs you people on?

 

Exactly how do you know this? I take it you were actually there?
Fascinating the geniuses you find on the interwebz0rz!111

 

http://blogger.rukker.org/2007/02/17...erman-highway/

posted in the lounge. 193mph and look at the differance with the surroundings vs the "180" mph vid.

 

i know this because i know the overseas evos have 180mph speedos because i saw inside of the one that was here in jax and i know he pegged his because the video was on the internet and my best friend was riding shotgun when he did it, it is a Mase tuned evo versus a 600+RWHP supra that is now 700+RWHP after mase tuned that also... did i say that this car in the video hit 180? no... im simply saying thats what those speedos peg at

and if u notice in the video he is in 5th gear at redline... now the speedo read 180mph but we all know speedos arent as accurate that high up but it was still probably about 160mph... dont be ignorant and think that that high of revs in 5th (or 6th if MR) gear is going to net 180kmh

 

The evo stopped (actually slowed, cause he didn't stop really) in 7 seconds....I timed it. No car in the world can come down from 180 in 7 seconds. World record holding Bugatti Veyron takes 6 seconds to stop from 100 mph for God's sake. Do you know how huge the gap is between 100 and 180 mph!? No way this evo was going anywhere near 180. Even if it was doing 180 kph (111 mph) that puts it in the league of the Bugatti and that's tough to buy considering it's a $1m supercar.

This is not to say that properly modded, an Evo couldn't hit 180. But this particular car didn't. Time it and see.

 

ouch

 

That doesn't answer my question. What you've stated is nothing more than your best guess. Nothing factual. What is factual is those strips are 10m long which equates to 32.8 feet. If that car truly reached 180mph that means it would pass over one of those strips, from beginning to end in .177 seconds. Doesn't even come close to that.

 

a couple of thoughts.

if it were in KPH and was at only 111mph that would be impossible... a bone stock EVO at the top of 5th = 160mph+ I've done that myself.

secondly the car did not come to a complete stop and I think he lifted off the throttle before the impact because you can see him react and start to swerve...he saw it coming.

I also have the 2nd video on one of my websites and it's much better quality:

Click here to see Video


the puzzling thing is the overlay that says 30-130, maybe that's the part that was timed for the event and not meant to represent the actual speed they went.

 

here's a bigger pic: clearly it's at 8k rpm's in the top gear and he's exceeded the stock rev limit

 

Hell my Geo Prizm had a speedo that goes to either 110 or 115mph. Must mean it can do it I sure reckon!

 

thank you. at 193mph on the vette video, there was no time to even see or react if a bird got in the way. nothing on the ground was in focus long enough to blink at. so 13mph shouldnt be that differant, but you can see the seagull from a distance, and they swerve, and you see it before they hit.

now copy that segment above, zoom in with picture viewer and tell me what it says under the 100 mark.

again, 180kph is 111mph but i said previously that is was pegged out and can run quicker than that, but its not doing 180mph. if thats 180, my car clearly goes 225mph.

 

It's so simple dude. He wasn't in top gear. Just count the shifts after he exits the turn. 2 shifts! After 2 shifts, he was either in 3rd or 4th (depending whether he was m5 or m6) when the bird hit.

Even if that wasn't the case, the car would still have to have better brakes than an F1 car and be the only evo produced to have right hand drive and an american speedo for it to have been going 180 mph. Give it up. The guy was doing 180 kph.

 

you guys are dense...watch this video again, he starts in 1st, shifts to 2nd, shifts to 3rd and stays in it as he pedals around the corner, winds 3rd out, shift to 4th on the straight, shifts again to 5th

trust me 4th gear is way way shorter than the amount of time he spent there in 5th. If that was KPH he'd be ripping through to 110mph from a standing start in about 12 seconds. Bone stock they run high 12's to low 13's.

he spent 25 seconds alone just in his last gear in this video!

 

My sound sux on my laptop, so I could be wrong about the gear he was in. Let's try something less subjective. After the bird hits, count the white lines that go past on the right side of the car. Even though he's not braking with full force the whole time and he kind of coasts at the end, he only passes 8 white lines between the time the bird hit and the time he got it slowed. Those lines are 32 ft. according to SSR. So including the 10 feet of concrete between each line, we are looking at about 320 feet. Now before you say it's possible, look at this link first:,

http://www.zeckhausen.com/Testing_Brakes.htm

You'll see that some of the best braking cars out there take about 330 feet to stop from 100 mph. The distance goes up exponentially from there. So how in the world could the EVO possibly be going 180 mph when he hit the bird?

 

it wasnt, vid said 130mph, i believe that.