How fast does your jeep go?

[rangerdanger]

Ha my CJ tops out at 120 at 4000 or so rpm, anything past that is a deathwish  :'(

[FullMetalJeep]

When I was young and foolish and my XJ was still stock('89 4.0, 5spd), I topped it out at 180km/h.

1989?? so you would have been 37? j/k.

[thumper]

    My Rubi, on boggers, has seen 210 km/hr on hwy 16

[dac]

I'd rather not admit to how fast I've had either jep but the tj goes faster than you'd think it would/should.   

[2grand4u]

i had my parents jeep GC with 4.7 to 210, they it stopped going , it was 2am and the highway was dead no one for miles, i'll never do that again i like the low speed drifts around town now.

[JENSSEN]

Blasphemy has been 160KPH+  on 35" Pitbulls and no swaybars with no issues,...

[The Machinist]

I'm sure this one hits 200kms.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Fast-Jeep-Cherokee-Ran_132254.htm

[dunl]

I got my 1948 CJ2A up to 112km/hr.  

Remember when Scotty is telling the Captain that if he pushes her any farther she'll rip herself apart?

[JOhnnyC]

last time out at waiprous, in the YJ (with no sway bars or track bars) i hit 155 on the speedo going down hill passing someone    


now 155 is roughly 130 haha......... and boy was it smooth

The WJ?  never actually pushed it cause i don't want it to 'stop going' aka blow it apart lol  i've hit 150 in it................ maybe whats more impressive is 140 all the way to Edmonton

[TJ54]

I am sure I could get my Tj past 200km....... I just don't want to have to pay for the reapirs after I drop it out of a plane.

This got me to thinking. What is the terminal velocity of a jeep? I read this on wikipedia, it says a parachuter can hit 195 kph and could hit 320.   Could a jeep hit 200?   Who wants to donate their jeep for a test 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity

But this math is beyond me, maybe someone smarter than me could figure it out

[Immortal]

I'd rather not admit to how fast I've had either jep but the tj goes faster than you'd think it would/should.  

x2

[dunl]

When a Grand drives like a car, I don't think it counts against most sterotypical 2 door jeeps.

[mrjeep4]

using this   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity

and yes... i'm bored at work   lol

this is what i get ... if i did it right ... seems kinda fast

***************************************************************

Vt = terminal velocity,

m = mass of the falling object,     
    = 1978kg    (TJ with I6 and hardtop)

g = acceleration due to gravity,       
   = 9.81m/s²

Cd = drag coefficient,                   
     = .55

p = density of the fluid through which the object is falling, and       
               =  1.2 kg/m³     (at sea level)

A = projected area of the object.
   = 2.963m²            1.750m (height)  * 1.693m (width) = 2.963m²           

 Plug all those in and you end up with 141.19m/s   


141.19m/s is equal to 508.28 k/h

So 508.28 k/h is the terminal velocity of a TJ falling nose down at sea level     

[mrjeep4]

Trevor ... here's a good use for your TJ ...     lets try it

[Tinkerer]

Hmmm... my '04 Rubi computer cut the engine at 140-145KPH.... on a big, steep downhill on a straight stretch of secondary highway.  It didn't seem to be related to engine speed, I've had it at higher RPM's when accelerating through the gears.

Now when *I* was younger, I got clocked by RCMP from the other side of the highway doing 135MPH or 217 KPH in my '72 Cuda, straightish stretch, empty on my side.  Oddly enough, that matched the speedo. Hmm... now that I think of it, the angle would have reduced the clocked speed, so perhaps 220 KPH. No ticket, was on the way to an ambulance call, but he *did* come to look under the hood when I got back to the garage.  Nothing special.. factory 340 4 speed with 3.23 rear end and a Holley carb.