Damn speed limiter...

[Highway Star]

Has anybody managed to disable the speed limiter yet? I'm sure that when the ECU's and chips start coming out, they'll take care of it, but I'd love to hear of a solution for right now instead of next year sometime.

 

[changedman]

what speed have you hit with your car?

 

[Mazdaspeed6S]

There is no way to get around it right now. So, you are stuck @ 120 mph. Also, I have not heard of anything in the works. Just wondering, where do you need to drive that fast at?

That is one thing that sucks about buying a 1st year car, you have to wait for anything good.

 

[Mazdaspeed6S]

what speed have you hit with your car?

120mph is tops on it...

 

[Melvin P Nerdly]

I hit 122 a couple days ago, yeehaw! Um.... so what if it was a little bit downhill.

 

[Highway Star]

what speed have you hit with your car?

I hit 120mph fairly regularly. Hell, I hit 100mph everytime I pull onto the highway, just about. I guess nobody NEEDS to go faster than that, but then again, nobody NEEDS to go faster than 65mph. My feeling is that the car was built to go faster, and it wants to go faster, and so do I. I feel slightly jipped by Mazda because they chose to hamstring the car and not tell anybody, just let them figure it out AFTER they bought it. I'd have still bought the car, but I still feel disillusioned....whatever. The whole problem is that it's fast enough to get you into trouble, but not really fast enough to get you back out. That, and the other cars in it's class are allowed to reach their potential, why not this one? :wtf:

 

[pluto316]

What the HELL are you talking about? Tell me another car in this class that doesn't have a speed limiter. Come on, I dare you.

 

[Highway Star]

What the HELL are you talking about? Tell me another car in this class that doesn't have a speed limiter. Come on, I dare you.

ummmmmmm... ok, let me re-phrase that. AS FAR AS I KNOW, the Altima,the Camry, the Accord, The GS300, the Passat, the BMW 3 series, etc. are all capable of speeds in excess of 120mph. Do they have speed limiters? Maybe, but (and I could be wrong) I don't believe that any of them are limited to such a paltry speed as the 6 is. Please correct me if i'm wrong. For some strange reason, I'm guessing that they all can reach 140 mph or better. Without the limiter, I KNOW that my blue streak could get 140mph and then some.

 

[Micah]

I thought protege's were drag limited.

 

[Highway Star]

I thought protege's were drag limited.

The Protege may be drag limited, I don't know,. Even if the 6 IS drag limited(doubtful), that's fine, but I can't stand being shutdown electronically. The 6 shuts down the fuel delivery @ exactly 120 mph, it feels like you lifted off the throttle even though it's still floored. This isn't even at redline in 4th gear...around 5800-6000 rpm, as I recall. Maybe I'll try it again today so that I can provide a more exact rpm, just in the name of science, of course

 

[Micah]

yeah, you can disable the speed limiter

"UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A"

This will give you 30 extra HP, if you run out of HP you can continue with an additional 30 extra HP.

::grabs spread gun::

 

[Jeph]

Last time i checked, my dads Camry was speed limited at 120 too...

 

[Highway Star]

Uhhhhhhh.... yeah, ok. That one went right over my head :wtf:

 

[Highway Star]

Last time i checked, my dads Camry was speed limited at 120 too...

ok, the Camry is limited @120, any others?. Maybe later I'll check Car & Driver's page or Motor Trend's or something and see what they say. Usually they have a test results page for all the cars they tried out. If all those others are limited @ 120, then I'll certainly feel alot better about it, but until I have proof, I'm still gonna pout (pissed)

 

[Bijou-MP5]

never tried driving at 120mph... it takes forever to reach 100 mph anyway so I gave up... lol

 

[spazspike]

"UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A"

UUDDLRLRBABA Start

That was contra for 30 lives, no?

 

[Jer]

didn't you forget teh select start at the end?

 

[spazspike]

it was select/start...? Hrmph, thought it was just start. Been a long time since I played that game. One of the best 2 player "sleep over" games of its day.

 

[CarJacked]

Ok...to put the thread BACK on topc...

The 6 has tires that are rated for speeds of over 120. I think they are rated to perform at 145 or something up there. It's late and I'm tired right now so I don't have time to go outside and read the labels on the tires, but that being said, the speed limiter should be closer to the tire's rating.

I'm never going to go 120 in this car..maybe 110 max...so I don't really care, but I do agree that the speed limiter is set too low considering the tires can handle more speed.

 

[smithers_0990]

"I need NOS!"