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Old 03-28-2015, 05:42 PM   #1
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Boogity, boogity, boogity! What's the fastest you have had you Boxster to?

Hit a nice stretch of open highway and got my Boxster up to 151 MPH.

What's the highest speed you've had your Boxster to? In MPH please.

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Old 03-28-2015, 05:46 PM   #2
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130 MPH. It was extremely smooth and planted and didn't feel that fast. There was more there too.
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Old 03-28-2015, 05:48 PM   #3
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Hit a nice stretch of open highway and got my Boxster up to 151 MPH.

What's the highest speed you've had your Boxster to? In MPH please.
Yoiks! That's jail time!
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Old 03-28-2015, 05:57 PM   #4
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130 MPH. It was extremely smooth and planted and didn't feel that fast. There was more there too.
Oh yeah there is more lol. My previous was 132 MPH, different stretch of highway.

I just happened to hit a nice long stretch with no cars for miles, so I blew the dust out of her. Yeah the car felt completely planted the whole time. I could have got more, but had to slow down for my exit.

I've read the top speed of a Boxster S is 164 MPH. Is that governed or just an estimate?
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:04 PM   #5
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Not in the Boxster of course, but I once hit an indicated 170 mph, 3/4 of the way down the 3,500' main straightaway at Miller Motorsports Park. Legally ! Then I had to brake, hard! I was on an MV Agusta F4 1000s (motorcycle). Top speed is supposedly 186 mph (300 kph). The world seems to go by really quickly at that speed, not protected by a cage (car).

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Old 03-28-2015, 06:04 PM   #6
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135mph at Kansas Speedway in the Cayman last Sep. Hope to hit 140 there in Sep. Will be doing a DE at COTA in May. Hope to match the 135 on the back straight.

At least I won't go to jail for my top speed.
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:07 PM   #7
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:14 PM   #8
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260 km/h
That is 161.56 MPH...nice!
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:32 PM   #9
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These threads come up every now and then. I believe there is a time and place for everything. Highways like this are just begging you to test the limit!

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Old 03-28-2015, 06:37 PM   #10
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Looks about like the stretch I was on, except it's two lanes one direction and no beautiful mountain in the background. I wasn't out to due it, was just the right opportunity.
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:42 PM   #11
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110 or so... Only issue. I wasn't planning on it. Was just passing a few trucks late at night on a 6 lane in the wide open far left.

Was just riding in 6th and let the surge or torque pull me past a few trucks. Looked down and I was 110+.

Car was really planted though and felt like the air was perfectly zipping around it.
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Old 03-28-2015, 06:53 PM   #12
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175 in a Carrera S on the German Autobahn. It's nice not to have worry about going to jail.
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Old 03-28-2015, 07:01 PM   #13
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Bought it in Dallas, got on the freeway and ran it up to 110 briefly. Drove all day and night and the next day in Wyoming I ran it up to 145 indicated and held it there for about 5 minutes. Solid as a rock. No real feeling of speed.
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Haven't pushed it too hard in the boxster yet but I have been 150 in a BMW Alpina B7.
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Old 03-28-2015, 07:11 PM   #15
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The 986 is well planted, thank you Porsche. Back in the days of the IROC-Z, I had a couple of them. One of them was geared for the highway and I hit around 168 MPH (not stock) and that car was drifting like it was going to take off lol.

I did the The NASCAR Experience around the Kansas Speedway. Those cars have some major power 186 MPH in the straights in no time. This wasn't the no passing allowed type. Their moto was "If you ain't passing, you ain't racing".
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I thought this was about Boxsters?!

146 and I think it was all she had
I'm not sayin when or where.
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Old 03-28-2015, 07:49 PM   #17
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I thought this was about Boxsters?!

146 and I think it was all she had
I'm not sayin when or where.
You have plenty of places to open her up from St Joe to K.C., although I think your trip to CO might have been when it happened.

I would have needed a lot more room to hit that max 164 MPH spot. Right now I'm pretty happy with the 151 MPH.
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Old 03-29-2015, 12:03 AM   #18
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Sorry to say, but KRAM36 is not fast enough.

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Old 03-29-2015, 04:05 AM   #19
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130. Country road with no driveway entrances. I couldn't believe how fast my wife and I got there. This car is so smooooth ,it was still pulling strong. That was with the top up.
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Old 03-29-2015, 05:47 AM   #20
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Fastest speeds I have with respect to tracks I try not to go above 10 mph over the limit to much on the street but do sometimes.
Pocono Full course Front straight 155 mph on a 3 day DE. IMSA course, South course. Full course 2.5 miles time was 1:16.34
Pocono IMSA Course (2.5 m) counter clockwise 144 mph Long Pond Straight 1:37.06
Wathins Glen Full course Turn 1 to Bus stop 137 Mph best laps 3.4 miles 2:15.41
VIR Full course (3.27 M) this year 138 MPH, Back straight best lap 2:16.21

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