Top speed?

[Scott Forman]

My 82 FC now sports a 225 hp turbo, but to the best of my knowledge it
still has the tall NA gearing in the diff.

I can get maybe 68 mph out of my bird flat out. I believe my speedo to
be pretty accurate as I have compared it to a pace car. Does this seem
normal? I am not really interested in running that fast anyway, but I
see a lot of folks talk about getting better than 70mph out of their
FC's and mine wouldn't do that downhill with a tail wind. I have seen
the charts on vintagebirds, but didn't know if they would be accurate
for me since I have the engine swap-out.

Thanks
Scott Forman
82 FC35RB
Memphis

[davidkerryedwards]

I've got a 210hp presumably with the 5.29(?) gears and I can get about
69 on the speedo before the governor cuts in. At what rpm is the
225hp governed?

Kerry

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Forman" <sforman@...>
wrote:
>
> My 82 FC now sports a 225 hp turbo, but to the best of my knowledge it
> still has the tall NA gearing in the diff.
>
> I can get maybe 68 mph out of my bird flat out. I believe my speedo to
> be pretty accurate as I have compared it to a pace car. Does this seem
> normal? I am not really interested in running that fast anyway, but I
> see a lot of folks talk about getting better than 70mph out of their
> FC's and mine wouldn't do that downhill with a tail wind. I have seen
> the charts on vintagebirds, but didn't know if they would be accurate
> for me since I have the engine swap-out.
>
> Thanks
> Scott Forman
> 82 FC35RB
> Memphis
>