Seriously Now? Legend Cars?

[foamy]

175 MPH.
The top speed at Infineon Raceway the last time they hosted the Road Race Nationals.
That's pretty fast for 130 rwhp.

 

[Tim5636sc]

This is how a legend body should be used.

I say HELLZ YEAH TO THIS ONE KEV!

 

[sdwarf36]

175 MPH.
The top speed at Infineon Raceway the last time they hosted the Road Race Nationals.
That's pretty fast for 130 rwhp.

Not a chance in hell they were going that fast. Its not physiclly possibly with the gearing you can get for the car. With a 2:50 rear (thet highest made and pretty rare), on paper that works out to 139 at 10,500. Thats on paper-I dont think you could get them near that fast at Bonneville-and I wouldn't think about going that fast on a 73
inch wheelbase.

 

[foamy]

Not a chance in hell they were going that fast. Its not physiclly possibly with the gearing you can get for the car. With a 2:50 rear (thet highest made and pretty rare), on paper that works out to 139 at 10,500. Thats on paper-I dont think you could get them near that fast at Bonneville-and I wouldn't think about going that fast on a 73
inch wheelbase.

I was told this by several people that did it, but I wasn't there.

I did see myself 180 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on the big track. The car was on slicks and was one of the older mild steel frames. I grant you this, if it crashed, it would have been ugly. A local (Vegas) bike hopup shop had different ignition boxes with higher rpm rev limiters. We always ran legal, but I guess half the field ran them, tech was rather lax. The car I worked on won the Nevada/Arizona Pro Championship the one year we tried for it.

 

[sdwarf36]

Your gonna have to show me a radar reading --or show me the math for that. A few hundred extra rpm ain't gonna do it. I didn't have any mandated rpm limit when i ran Yammies in my car-nature has it own way of finding limits.

 

[Nick Name]

A legend car would not run 9s. The FJ Yamaha that the motor comes out of would be hard pressed to run a 9, and it weighs almost half what the car does.

175 mph. Not a chance. Take the rev limiter clear out and it wouldn't get close.

The legend car was a rip off of the dwarf car.with fenders added and a spec stock Yamaha FJ1200 engine.

Dwarf cars are faster because they can have modified engines, depending on the sanctions.

I don't think any of these cars were designed to get upside down at 100+ on pavement.

 

[merc49]

I drove one of those Legends cars at Charlotte a few years back, on a 1/5 mile oval, behind the Speedway. That's 10 laps of adventure anyone would enjoy. I think they'd be a hoot for sportsman racing on a drag strip, whether it was ¼ mile, or 1/8th. Wish I could afford one.