100mph

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Thu May 13, 2004 9:17 am

You own an IS200?? :blink: Very nice!! Any pictures? We can't get the IS200 in North America; only the IS300.

We are happy to have you here - it's good having an international forum.

takza · Post by **takza** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:15 pm

Guest wrote:Hello!

If I've taken 190 M/h in a big hill it's because a think that european tercel have au shorter gearbox.
To have this speed, you must accelerat a max in 4th in the hill, and put in 5th. I was at 4800TR/M a 180 (my counter stop a 180). My wife was with my IS200, and she tell my that have mange to go to 190 ( at the lexus counter). What a noisy car at this speed! :unsure: :huh: :blink:

bey! ( and thanks to accep french tercel owner )

Hey guy from France....

I tend to be fascinated by this page:

<a href='http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/' target='_blank'>http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/</a>

I'm wondering what you think of the translating ability of this software?

I actually took French in college for maybe 1 semester...but I didn't do so well...and it was a long time ago. Don't really speak any other languages...typical for some Americans I guess.

Here is the French translation:

HÃƒÂ© type de France....

Je tends ÃƒÂ ÃƒÂªtre fascinÃƒÂ© par cette page :

<a href='http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/' target='_blank'>http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/</a>

Se demander d'I'm ce que vous pensez aux capacitÃƒÂ©s de traduction de ce logiciel ?

J'ai pris rÃƒÂ©ellement des FranÃƒÂ§ais dans l'universitÃƒÂ© pour peut-ÃƒÂªtre 1 semestre... mais I didn't jaillissent ainsi... et c'ÃƒÂ©tait il y a un long temps. Don't parlent vraiment toutes les autres langues... typiques pour quelques AmÃƒÂ©ricains que je devine.

Voici la traduction franÃƒÂ§aise :

Does that make any sense? :blink:

Est-ce que cela semble un raisonnable ? :blink:

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:19 pm

Babelfish rocks! I use it for Japanese sites all the time. You can use it to convert an entire website.

icE · Post by **icE** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:36 pm

i like lexus

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:40 pm

hello!

The IS200 is my wife car. I have a lexus GS430.

The 200 is a 6 gear manual and it's verry good formy wife.

somme pisture (sorry but it was indoor) :

I'll put some pisture of my GS430 if you want.

Your traductor is quite good. There's some mistaks but it's good.
and I don't spaek english good enough to critick you traductor.

Even if I have somme verry fast and luxury car, I prefer my tercel to my lexus. I don't know why.
I' have bought it in 1986 and it has only 130 000 Km. I give it to toyota every 10 000km.

Vincent

Juando · Post by **Juando** » Fri May 28, 2004 3:49 pm

I guess my 135 going down hill does take the cake...barely over 100 mph on flat ground...got up to 95 fast but after that it took a little bit to crawl up to that last bit. the 135 was fast because it was downhill and I think it would have gone more if I had had more road (its a 84 sr5)

icE · Post by **icE** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:42 pm

very nice lexus - how the heck do u pay for those things...lol

warbstrd · Post by **warbstrd** » Sat May 29, 2004 6:39 pm

hearing you guys talk about speed i think that weber carb i put on did better than i thought it did. i can hit 65 on the onramp no problem and cruise at 75-80 on 295 in richmond va. with plenty of pedal left...hmmmm now i wish i had tried a top speed before taking the engine out. i know the hp is less than 90 because my cabrio has 90hp and can hit 75mph on the same onramp before merging.

20vtercel · Post by **20vtercel** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:51 pm

I hit 150mph (on gps, the speedo only goes to 110) and was still climbing. I have a 8550 rpm redline tho!!!!

all hail the 20v!!!

GTSSportCoupe · Post by **GTSSportCoupe** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:32 am

I buried the speedo on my 86 tercel last night going down a slight decline on the highway. The car felt stable and smooth at that speed (for a 4wd vehicle). I didn't look at my tach, but my speed was 180km/h + (110mph+). I feel the car could have gone faster if was on a longer stretch of highway. Pretty impressive for 62hp!!

Guest_vincentercel · Post by **Guest_vincentercel** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:22 pm

hello.

So your american Tercel only have 62 HP? ours, have 70, in europa.
it's not verry much more but it's a good help sometime.

bey!

Vincentercel.

Gasoline Fumes · Post by **Gasoline Fumes** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:00 pm

Guest_vincentercel wrote: hello.

So your american Tercel only have 62 HP? ours, have 70, in europa.
it's not verry much more but it's a good help sometime.

bey!

Vincentercel.

When cars are shipped to the US, some horsepower always seems to get lost on the way.

Are you talking about DIN or SAE HP? That makes a bit of a difference too.

Retroloc1 · Post by **Retroloc1** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:26 am

L'auto-journal chronoed it in 1985 at 156kph (97mph) in 4th but just 144kph (89mph) in 5th.

The trans is obviously too tall as the engine even can't reach the max power speed in 4th.

Trans too tall or engine too weak ?

I prefer add 30% of power...

Retroloc1 · Post by **Retroloc1** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 11:34 am

Gasoline Fumes wrote:
When cars are shipped to the US, some horsepower always seems to get lost on the way.
Are you talking about DIN or SAE HP? That makes a bit of a difference too.

The first french Tercel had 70 ISO/CEE/DIN hp at 5600rpm and 110 Nm at 3800rpm with 9.3:1 CR
The last ones had 71 hp and the max torque at 2400rpm with 9.5:1 CR.

No emission control in that years. No EGR, no cat' , no OÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â² sond, no electronic ignition.
The just had to stay under 4,5%CO at idle till 1986 and under 3.5% after that date.

Basic and/but nice to wrench !

Baldy · Post by **Baldy** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:35 pm

I have an '86 that will still do 100mph on the flat. I appreciate that the american spec motors need all sorts of power sapping systems like catalytic converters etc for emmision control. Maybe that's another reason yours are a little slower?