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Originally Posted by JOHNNYMAXXIMA
Finnster,
How did you measure the top speed? My single BL Maxx did 46mph on radar and yours seems to be quite a bit faster than mine. I think if you tried to get top speed on that street in the vid that is not going to be long enough. I think it looks faster than 48mph but that could just be me.
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I did the top speed testing at the initial 5s run a couple weeks ago. I basically had a very long pathway in a park to do it. I ran the car repeatedly in both directions and measured with my radar gun. It was a very consistant 48 (once of 49 ;) .)
I didn't do any radaring in the vid, it gets a bit tough to do, and I have the truck coming right at me. No one wants to see that in a vid :) (unless I managed to run into myself, that could be entertaining.) The initial speed run was with the stock tires, but I switched to 17mm beadlocks with mashers. I actually couldn't get upto fullspeed as the tires would turn into 10" pancakes and swerve badly out of control, that or the front end would pick up. Most of the shots in the vid I let off the throttle as soon as the front end comes up or the wheels balloon too much and it starts getting unstable. This usually occured if I went full throttle, so most of the vid was partial throttle or it would just go flying onto its back.
I think the 48 was a very fair speed, tho I think I could break 50 with lightweight hi-speed tires and a modest diet. All I know is its quite fast enough. :018: