How fast have you gone in your Festiva?

[SimonTuffGuy]

The best is, out here in california it is legal to split lanes, motorcycle people dont like it much, but thats what they do to us? eye for an eye

Split a lane with me and my bike once... You won't like the outcome.

[Aroihkin]

Split a lane with me and my bike once... You won't like the outcome.

Same goes for me. I tend to be extremely vindictive when people try to kill me, for some strange reason.

As for my speed in Jack: 130mph over the pass between Spokane and Seattle, WA in the middle of the night back in 2003. I know this because we were keeping up with my then-best friend's mother who was going that fast in her car... Jack's needle of course was stuck at 85. We got her to slow down after the first few rest-stops, but only down to 100ish.

EDIT: That was with a stock engine that never missed an oil change or tune up.

[quaddawg]

Same goes for me. I tend to be extremely vindictive when people try to kill me, for some strange reason.

As for my speed in Jack: 130mph over the pass between Spokane and Seattle, WA in the middle of the night back in 2003. I know this because we were keeping up with my then-best friend's mother who was going that fast in her car... Jack's needle of course was stuck at 85. We got her to slow down after the first few rest-stops, but only down to 100ish.

EDIT: That was with a stock engine that never missed an oil change or tune up.

That is physically impossible and didn't happen. You might have THOUGHT it happened, but a stock 5 speed 1.3 festy will NOT do a true 130 mph.. keep dreaming

[r34king]

I did 115 in my first festiva, and that was a 3 spd auto, and i still had more rpms to go, i had to get off the highway, my exit was coming up fast. And that was before i knew anything about festiva tuning, so thats a good indication that it was stock. So as for going 130 in a stock 5 spd... i believe it, all day long.

[neanderpaul]

That is physically impossible and didn't happen. You might have THOUGHT it happened, but a stock 5 speed 1.3 festy will NOT do a true 130 mph.. keep dreaming

That's what I'm saying. 113 is it for a stock festiva. And for a 3 speed auto maybe 100 mph.

[elcamino1]

No way you go 130mph with a stock b3.
No way you pull redline in 5th,for those who said they had rpms left.

[Unicornasaurus]

You could probably get going 130mph if you were going downhill with a tornado-strength tailwind.

[ch33z3x]

lol. When i first got frankenstiva, on the way home i got clocked by my cousin in his wave at 150 kph. I MAY have hit a little over 160 one day runnin downhill. It was a steep hill. And how my poor stock b3 cried...

[batstiva]

Let's see, in the Batstiva, had her buried+ when I first got her, so atleast 90 mph. Fastest I've ever gone in any car- Buried the 160mph speedo in a 77 Roadrunner....with one gear left.

But, in my defense, the owner of the car I was test driving said I could.

[FB71]

not sure how fast I've been in a Festy, speedo only goes to 85. But the officer said I was clocked at 92, and that was after I hit the brakes. Fastest I've been in a car? 125+/-, 1996 Mustang Cobra, demo unit for the dealer owner when I was a dealer tech. He asked me to fix a vibration that occured above 100mph. I told him I'd look at it, but I couldn't road test it at that speed legally. His response? "Just don't get caught..."

[batstiva]

One wonders how he knew there was a vibration at 100+mph. Guess he didn't get caught either. lol.

[FB71]

knowing Stanley, that poor Cobra did over 100mph on a regular basis...

[speezyfestiva93]

166mph in the jaguar! 420 horses and supercharger was screaming. southbound I5 around midnight. my festy got squirly anything faster then 55 lol. alignment was waaaay off.

[Mazda_Power]

In my Festiva? I don't know. The speedo only goes it 85 though... as fast as a new WRX... however fast that is.

[sam.1956]

Anybody have access to a C-130 or a Skyvan? If one pushed the car off the ramp at Angels-20, and could keep it in a nose-down attitude, you'd have bragging rights to have the first Festiva to break 200 mph... errrr, for a few seconds anyways.

Sam