Re: TAP speed

["J. Stevens" <jstevens@kaiwan.com>]

At 10:28 AM 4/18/97 -0800, you wrote:
>John sez:
>
>>My car goes really, really fast with a TAP chip...as long as it stays 
>>in the glove box.  :)

>I'm curious, what have you done to yours to make it "really really fast"
>- stroked, cam, turbo?

I thought it would be obvious the above statement was dripping with
sarcasm...When I bought my car, it came with a TAP chip in the
glove box, I installed it, was unhappy with it, so I put it back in
the glove box.

>Also, how close to 160 have you been in that thing? Stock, the 20v car
>is only reported to go ~132 mph (C&D test, I believe). Mine (TAP, K&N
>extra set of pedal for the front seat passenger) saw 143 with two other
>people in the car, but I backed off for lack of safe room (approaching
>an overpass/hideout). Other listers have seen 150 in the same car, with
>what mods I don't know. Makes one wonder how accurate these VDO
>speedometers are. 

The highest speed I have seen was an indicated 154.  I figure +/- 5mph
puts it right around 150.  This was coming back from Vegas on the
15 just north of LA.  It's limited to 137, but I believe most, if not
all, chips for this car disable the limiter.  The chip I have in there
now is not the factory chip, but I am unsure of whose it is.  The previous
owner told me it was IA, but I don't thik they make a chip for this car.

Anyhow, it is a tad on the slow side, but the handling more than makes up
for it.  On the street it seems to do pretty well against most cars, and
it is rock solid at high speed.  I also prefer its agility and small size
in comparison to the larger tq cars.  What was your experience with the
K&N filter?

cya,
John
90q20v
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