I do not "feel" the speed in my Raptor?

[BC119]

This isn’t an average full size truck suspension professor.

Even further proving my point. Wider track, stiffer suspension. Feels great.

 

[MDJAK]

So I may be a little old in the tooth to have finally had this experience, but last year, at the sour old age of 62, I began to track my Porsche 911. I figure in 45 years of driving I had gone perhaps 120 or so once or twice on a public highway. Yeah, that's right. If you're going to claim you've never done it you are a pansy.

On track 11 times, especially on the straight at Watkins Glen International Raceway I hit about 135. In my instructor's GT3Rs, where I was a pansy passenger, he hit 155.

On track you are obviously wearing a full face helmet, most with plastic shield up. Windows are fully open. If you don't have oem then you better have gotten small wings that attach to the side view mirror where it is on the door to deflect wind away from the window. Small part, works wonders, cheap to buy, easy to install.

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Even at 155, perhaps because of the helmet, you don't really feel the sensation of speed.

When you do feel it is when you are heavy on the brake, scrubbing that speed off in a desperate attempt to not go head-on into the wall, but to be able to dive down into a right hand sweeper. It feels like your stomach is being sucked out by a toilet bowl plunger in reverse. Your eyeballs almost touch your glassed if you are wearing any.

Turns, curves, that's where you feel speed. My grandmother (even though she's been dead for 40 years) could step on the accelerator on the highway and go flat out. Big deal.

 

[Russ103]

I don’t feel the “speed” in my Raptor because it only has a measly 450HP. That’s what I thought this thread was going to be about.

My cruising speed in this truck is 95MPH btw. It feels just fine at 105 MPH as well.

I see we have a lot of grand parents on this board.

 

[rayofsi]

so you went 120-125 on tires rated for 99?

 

[isis]

Even further proving my point. Wider track, stiffer suspension. Feels great.

Stiffer suspension?

 

[jamanrr]

This isn't the '80s anymore guys. Honda accords can cruise at 135 relatively comfortably these days. A full size truck will feel fine up to about 120. If you don't think so, you don't have enough time behind the wheel. Is it as planted as a new S4, no. Will it handle an open highway better than most econoboxes, yes.

I never got the deal with the M3, ever. My 600 HP beast, whatever. It still tops out at 155 mph the same as my STI which only has 305 HP. Yet, everyone talks about it like they are the greatest things ever.

Yeah a M3 is not a GTR or a Mclaren. Just not in the same class.

 

[DFS]

Tire blow out at 125 MPH should be fun

 

[Mister Pinky]

When I try to drive 120-125 in my dodge charger RT, the whole car is shaking and you can feel that you driving fast. No in my Raptor.

Well, there’s your answer.

Because Chrysler products are half engineered, poorly built, ancient rolling chitboxes.

I’ve owned multiple performance vehicles. As long as the road was good, they were smooth as glass up top. Obviously the long travel suspension and dampeners on a Raptor help a lot, but all my cars were tightly sprung machines and they never had a problem.

 

[Mister Pinky]

I don’t feel the “speed” in my Raptor because it only has a measly 450 HP. That’s what I thought this thread was going to be about.

My cruising speed in this truck is 95MPH btw. It feels just fine at 105 MPH as well.

I see we have a lot of grand parents on this board.

 

[Donmatteo]

Tire blow out at 125 MPH should be fun

naw man. he's on 20's.

I'm sure he upgraded the brakes to compensate for increased weight of the wheel and tires...

I mean, He's got to be following the 10 10 10 1 rule since he's rolling 125 on public roads...