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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 02:41 PM
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Had mine up to 120 briefly end of last summer and it was pulling hard. Boy was that a little scary. Front end starts lifting at 90 and contiues from there. Steering gets floaty...etc Still handles better than my fathers '09 F-150 at those speeds. His gets scary over 85 where as mine gets that feeling around 100. Just a big heavy vehicle to go that fast on a continuing basis. Can't steer if something were to happen.

Vibrations..likely from pinion angle. My mustang would do it lightly at 90-100 and get very noticeable above 120.
Pinion angle changes from lifting/.lowering, weight in the bed...etc
Going that fast can lift the front up which pushes the rear down and can cause improper pinion angle.
 
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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by glass3222
Don't be scared or do you think it will scare off anyone who want to race you
Well I really dont quite know to be honest, the speedometer was pegged, speed limiter on my DSP was set to 190mph.... so somewhere in between 120 and 190...

(not on a public road, on an abandonded air strip, about 2miles worth of straight paved road in the middle of the desert)
 

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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 03:59 PM
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DSP doesn't tell you? get a GPS and see if it shows up on there
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 01:04 AM
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you all are bad influences! speed past a cop today going 105 ... ruined a pair of good jeans. how/why i did not get pulled over is beyond me.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 01:37 AM
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About 110, don't really pay much attention to the speedo though. Not at that pace anyway. I'll see what I can hit tomorrow
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 02:13 AM
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A little under 100 passing someone, I try not to go over the speed limit.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 02:37 AM
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118mph and she had nothing left to give
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 02:50 AM
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90 Cruising to Vegas, Felt smooth and responsive the whole way. Nice tail wind on the way there, and this was all before the gear swap so I wont be doing that again (RPM's would EAT up my gas) I think I was at about 1900-2050 rpm with the stock 3.21 gears at 90 too haha.

I'd love to have a WOT run to 100+ but haven't found a spot or reason to do it yet. Won a few Light to Light runs though
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 02:50 AM
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Faster than the two-digit interstate numbers (I’m from the northeastern part of the US, so all the interstates around here are 80’s and 90’s).
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 03:59 AM
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Ok, guys now lets hear how nice a lowered well engineered suspension would have felt at those high speeds.
 
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