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Floating VW
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 Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Interesting dashboard. What kind of machine are you running there? Does it still have the autostick?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:20 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| Floating VW wrote: |
Interesting dashboard. What kind of machine are you running there? Does it still have the autostick? |
68 Ghia, manual |
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kingkarmann
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:28 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Just a quick run in Sport Mode
Not quite the top the top end of my GTI.
Oh wait……
Are we talkin air-cooled??
Probably not the smartest thing I've done while quarantined 
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Floating VW
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| QRP wrote: |
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Manual? I saw the ATF in the speedo and assumed it was for Automatic Transmission Fluid. Did you convert it, or is that a Ghia thing?
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Floating VW
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| kingkarmann wrote: |
| Probably not the smartest thing I've done while quarantined |
What better way to socially distance yourself than to go twice as fast as everyone else around you?
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| kingkarmann wrote: |
Just a quick run in Sport Mode
Not quite the top the top end of my GTI.
Oh wait……
Are we talkin air-cooled??
Probably not the smartest thing I've done while quarantined |
I saw an accident yesterday driving.
really no one on the road, but someone managed to punch someone else into the guard rail.
I work swing shift, so there is usually very few cars on the road late at night.
My New Beetle was supposedly limited to 116, but I was above 120, playing with a GTI on the way home a few months ago.
I figured I'd hit the limiter before I got by him, and that he could smoke me anytime he felt like it.
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oprn
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| Floating VW wrote: |
| QRP wrote: |
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Manual? I saw the ATF in the speedo and assumed it was for Automatic Transmission Fluid. Did you convert it, or is that a Ghia thing? |
I believe all the later speedos have that. The automatics have a bulb in them wired up but the manuals don't have a bulb. |
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Floating VW
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| Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:31 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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That makes sense. Thanks.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:55 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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There you go, road was not very smooth and there was a cross wind but the old 944 was pretty much topped out.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:40 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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WTF? Is a Canadian top-end now only 0.80 of the Top_End??
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Floating VW
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:42 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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220K, that's, what, about 136 mph?
I do believe that's a new record for this thread.
Right on!
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oprn
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| Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:19 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| Floating VW wrote: |
220K, that's, what, about 136 mph?
I do believe that's a new record for this thread.
Right on! |
That's pretty much it. Not too shabby for a 35 year old bone stock $4500 beater eh? |
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Yesterday evening. That damn light came on about 30 seconds before I took the pic.
This is a 67 with a 1679. 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Oooo! Not good!
Does it still run? |
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:22 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Oooo! Not good!
Does it still run? |
Yea. I pulled over to make sure the belt was in play. It's still there. 
I'll have a look at the electrical goodies today and see if I can figure out what the hell is going on.
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Xevin
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:43 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Ok 67rustavenger, Xatie wanted to one up you in her stock bug and do 95mph but cars in front of her wouldn’t move over. It’s like they didn’t want to get passed by a bug. It’s still not top speed 
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Floating VW
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:00 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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| oprn wrote: |
Oooo! Not good!
Does it still run? |
Yea. I pulled over to make sure the belt was in play. It's still there.
I'll have a look at the electrical goodies today and see if I can figure out what the hell is going on. |
You're the second person here to experience an alternator malfunction at speed. I'm beginning to get a little nervous about taking my own machine up to the top now.
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| Ok 67rustavenger, Xatie wanted to one up you in her stock bug and do 95mph but cars in front of her wouldn’t move over. It’s like they didn’t want to get passed by a bug. It’s still not top speed |
That's the spirit!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Alternator speed is engine speed x2?
Fan must be cavitating at that high rpm. Too
Ugly
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| Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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I'm telling ya Xevin. Xatie is a closet racer looking for a track to give it her best effort.
And I5 in Washington state ain't the place. Fn left lane under speed limit assholes!
:fist: They never move over. 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Top-end Speedo Pics |
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Not my fastest- but you'll notice while hurtling down this country road, I'm eating a Hamachi & Sushi box with chopsticks !
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