Your 300's top speed/0-60

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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by theo2468 » 10 Sep 2011 04:32 pm

Dont know why the video starts at twenty because on my phone its from 0 anyway theres a standard b14 with loads of HORSEYSSSS ha
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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by 13431 » 12 Sep 2011 10:47 pm

Nice! quicker than my 1.4 ever was lol

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Ready.........

0-60 : just under 15 seconds

Reasons: really heavy rain, on an open diff, cheap tires, greasy country lane... it just wheel spun through till 4th lol.

I'll do a proper test in the dry on a better road lol. sm6

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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by Evoman » 13 Sep 2011 03:15 pm

B200, very standard!

0-60: 8.5 secs. Could have got better i reckon with better lauchs

Top end: 105 but some nob in a jag got it in the way one time, the other time a cop was on the carriage way.
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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by SteveP » 15 Sep 2011 11:21 am

Evoman wrote:B200, very standard!

0-60: 8.5 secs. Could have got better i reckon with better lauchs.
Seriously? Is this to the speedo because it wont be a 'true' 60mph. My S70 wouldn't even do it in 8.5 and it was quite a fair bit quicker than a 360 GLT. From memory you can't get 60mph in 2nd either in a GLT.
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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by jtbo » 15 Sep 2011 01:09 pm

Even with GL one would need bigger radius tyres to get into 60mph.

Standard 360GL that does 0-60 under 9 seconds is daydreams, imo.

But anything is possible when you have enough big downhill and wind from behind :D

Remember power to weight ratio too, 170hp might be nothing if it is in large enough boat :lol:
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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by SteveP » 15 Sep 2011 01:14 pm

jtbo wrote:Remember power to weight ratio too, 170hp might be nothing if it is in large enough boat :lol:
True, but the S70 still has about 20-25bhp per/ton advantage
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Re: Your 300's top speed/0-60

Post by Evoman » 15 Sep 2011 01:24 pm

It was on the speedo. We ran up down the same bit of flatish road, and took the average. It did have a modified air flow meter from adam on it then aswell i think. But ive taken that off now
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