Doh! I guess St. Tropez' in France a'ight.

Viva Le France!

Those damn French drive like crazy Brits n e ways.

 

Ahhh..

Still a crazy thing to do (run that speed for those distances) with any type of off road tire. I don't even want to think of the heat they would start to generate after a while at those speeds. After a while of that, sooner or later ones going to fail, more than likely. They were never intended to for that level of performance.

 

Hi, fireman.

I understand your point and partially agree with it.
but,

first of all, where I live we have a lot of highway without speed limit so I am not doing anything against the law,
second speed in itself is NOT dangerous, the way someone drive is, thus when I am driving fast I make sure that I am not endengering anyone else safety,
third I have been lucky enough to own all sort of exotic very fast cars so I am used to drive fast on long distances without loosing my concentration.

last, you Americans are having these very low speed limits for years and are trained to drive in between, let say, 50 and 70 mph, your cars and most of your roads are built with this parameter in mind that's why I partially agree with you.

We, in Europe are used and trained to drive faster and most of our highways and some of our cars are safer driving 120 mph than yours driving 70.

make no mistake, I am not saying that our cars, our highways or our driving are better. The legal and technical approaches are just different.

in any event, one has to adjust his driving to his own hability and to the external factors surrounding his car by doing that you drive safely for you and for the others.

Obviously all the above is pure theory applicable on a case to case basis, limiters are made for the average driver turning 'amok' on a friday evening.... for that reason I am not against limiters.... but really, do you believe that an accident is less serious driving 98 mph instead of 105?

BTW, I am driving since 32 years and never got a speed ticket, let alone a car accident (thanks God!)

 

Ahhh..

Still a crazy thing to do (run that speed for those distances) with any type of off road tire. I don't even want to think of the heat they would start to generate after a while at those speeds. After a while of that, sooner or later ones going to fail, more than likely. They were never intended to for that level of performance.
[/quote]

Wrong !

my tires are labelled 'T' they are built for speed upto 113 mph sustainable for 8 consecutive hours (so the manufacturer - MICHELIN- says).

H3 top speed - without limiter- is 111 mph and I have no intention to drive that fast for 8 consecutive hours, thus I am well below the limits.

you have to keep them at 35 psi or 40 if you're heavily loaded and then NO PROBLEMO

 

I do not agree about the GM speeed limiter, i went 115 in my trailbalzer a few times in AZ

 

Let's put it this way ... 15K miles on it when I sold it ... and already on the 3rd set of rear tires hehehehe .... Those tires definitely fit the screamer comment well ... LOL!

 

This was the engine I had posted with that first post....but the website went away

 

Looks VERY familiar though I didn't have chromed pulleys ... Not quite sure what the bottom pulley on the right side is though ... downside with the SRT-10's, can't work on em or you void the warranty ... no wonder they got away with $2,400 dollar clutch jobs and $700 dollar brake pad changes ... LOL!

In any case that was about as much fun I could have with a truck, was a blast to drive providing it was dry and warm out. Driving it in the rain closely resembled running barefoot in a hockey rink .... Lots of fun like I said but should NEVER be used as a daily driver ... It would beat you to death .. I swear that think had no suspenstion .. I think the A arms were welded in to position and the rear leafs replaced with U channel stainless steel LOL!

 

i was quoted $1500 by the dealer for a brake job on the bus. $700 sounds much better . . . .

 

Bottom right pulley as looking at it, is the AC compressor