156 in the M3.

85 in the accords. haha

 

125 and would not go past that...im thinking speed governor now....hmmm

 

120 but I didn't want to go any faster and this was on a highway where everyone is averaging 90mph

 

My wife and I now live in Edmonton, Alberta. Here's a map of our area. Notice Edmonton and, to the northwest, a city named Grande Prairie.


Before moving to Edmonton 7 years ago, we lived in a town of 5000 called Grande Cache. It is locatedabout 120 milessouth of Grande Prairie on "highway" 40.

To make a short story even shorter, in the mid-90's we often drove from Grande Cache to Grande Prairie to shop for things that we could not buy in Grande Cache, and the only way to get there was to take the paved-for-the-first-time-in-history, two-lanehighway 40.

After about12 miles north of Grande Cache, the road flattens and straightens and the remaining miles to Grande Prairiewere a poor-man's Autobahn paradise- 110 miles of perfect pavement+near perfect visibility+near zerotraffic+zero cops = fantastic drivning conditions, with speed limited only by the straightness of the road at the moment and the bravery (stupidity) of the driver. The one and only real danger was the possibility of an animal on the highway, but visibility into the distance and to the sides of the roadwas very very good, so there was plenty of time to slow down prior to a collision.

I wonder - how manyHAF membershave had the opportunity todrive their vehiclesat over 100 mph for over 1 hour on a public road?

Our car is speed-governed to about 195 kph (about 120 mph). Forover half of the distance to Grande Prairie we were going about 190 kph.

I overhauled our car's suspension and brakeslast year (rotors just recently). Nothing fancy - only OEM ordecent aftermarket parts. I have no doubt whatsoever thatI could take that road again today (if the pavement has well survived our god-awful winters) and drive the same speed for the same time. To me, that's saying something quite remarkable for any pretty much original15-year-old car. Bravo Honda!

 

I've hit 132 on a NJ super-highway, but I don't go that fast anymore. It could probably have done 145.

 

Well I'll be... Someone who actually lives close to me.... If you look at that map Tony you'll see Kalispell down in Montana. We have a lot of people coming down from Calgary now to buy cars.

 

No kidding? Small world.

My wife and I picked up our 84 Yamaha Venture Royale in Great Falls a few years ago. (Even though it was post-9/11, we made it through the Coutts border crossing in under 5 minutes each way - even having the"new"bike on a trailer on the way back and even with the paperwork. We were the first in line both ways.)

If the exchange rate can hold where it is, and Canadian car companies continue their rip-off tradition into the future, I could easily imagine buying our next carin the States.

BTW, we supposedly hit freezing this morning, so winter's definitely on the way, Southerners.

 

My car governs out at 115, but I've been trying to take care of that via the ECU. Tony1M, if you Google the border of Minnesota and Iowa you'll I-35 running down the middle. I usually go around 100-110 most of the way from home in St. Paul, MN to school in Ames, IA.

 

I feel like the car gets kinda squirrely over 95-100 in my 96 accord lx coupe. I topped out on the route from Los Angeles to Vegas, there's a straight downhill stretch of road that I hit the governer at around 120. Scared the heck out of me.
I wouldn't do that again. The car just doesn't feel like it was built to go that fast.

 

LOL ..... with my setup, the car doesn't feel like it likes to go less than 80! Get some H, V, Y or Z rated tires and a set of swaybars to help stabilize the car.