What's the maximum speed without any mods? I think the highest we got it up to was 87 or 88, seemed strange to me, but then it probably gets less stable with more speed in an SUV.
What's the Max Speed on these Durangos?
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Yeah I've also read about the key trick? :mrgreen: haven't attempted it myself though. :naughty:
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Do I sense a bit of 5.9L jealousy? Yeppers! :mrgreen:FSTDANGO3 said:
JOE :!: Doing that in your Ram secretly I see. I didn't think you had it in you. :cheesy:Silver Ghost said:
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Been to 105 but it felt a bit soft so I backed off. Those crappy badyears are still 2001 vintage rubber, so I'll go again when new shocks and tires are fitted. With the increased lift, it just doesn't feel stable though. Maybe I need a Hotchkis. The D behaves very unlike my Accord? somehow less precise. Hmmmm. Did get the Lexus up to 126 on a lonley drive to Atlanta. Thay little puppy feels better with speed.
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Been to 105 but it felt a bit soft so I backed off. Those crappy badyears are still 2001 vintage rubber, so I'll go again when new shocks and tires are fitted. With the increased lift, it just doesn't feel stable though. Maybe I need a Hotchkis. The D behaves very unlike my Accord? somehow less precise. Hmmmm. Did get the Lexus up to 126 on a lonley drive to Atlanta. Thay little puppy feels better with speed.
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Last time we were in Tennessee near Chattanooga, going down those mountains, the D got to 110 easily. However, in that area, 110 can get you KILLED. For those that have never been out there, fortunately they provide runoff, uphill, pea gravel emergency strips just in case you or the truckers (usually the truckers) would ever need to use them.
On a related story, coming down the mountain from the top of the incline once, I lost my brand new brakes? all the way to the floor as they were rolling stinky smoke? once. Thank God we were pulling into the entrance of Ruby Falls at the time. I had smoked them completely. Learned the "use the transmission" lesson on that day for sure.
My other latest flat out speed drives were on the forsaken I-10 strip in the Florida panhandle. Gosh there's NOTHING out there!
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On a related story, coming down the mountain from the top of the incline once, I lost my brand new brakes? all the way to the floor as they were rolling stinky smoke? once. Thank God we were pulling into the entrance of Ruby Falls at the time. I had smoked them completely. Learned the "use the transmission" lesson on that day for sure.
My other latest flat out speed drives were on the forsaken I-10 strip in the Florida panhandle. Gosh there's NOTHING out there!
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In 2001 when my D was new, I got into a convoy of cars doing 115 on the turnpike north of Orlando. and did this for about an hour. The D was very stable at that speed and had no hint of the engine cutting out. Felt like it had plenty of power to spare and engine temp never rose. The overhead was reading 4 MPG the whole time.
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Correction, it was getting 2 MPG @ 115 MPH, it gets 4 MPG @ 100.
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