When driving over 100 mph...
 

make sure your turn signal lights are in snug. They may just rip themselves out and scare the bejeezus out of you!:o

I had fun in northern Maine the other day. It was the first time I got it up to that speed, it felt great. Only did it for a few minutes when the road was empty before I lost my nerve. Got it to about 110 when there was a smash and I see something flying by on my right. I thought I hit a bird or something!

Will probably be years before I can do that again.

LOL. Parts start peeling off at high speed? :D :D My dad lost a light like that before too...the threads in the plastic nut were appearantly stripped....(it was laying inside there)....light was gone. :D On a W124 it is a clip system....probably wasn't snapped in all the way. :eek:

I made that mistake twice.I had bought new turn signals but both were missing a tumbwheel.I had one on each.

Come on fix that, what is it a VW.:D That W124 is good to 160mph+ with the right motor.:cool:

137mph on the level with a stock 603.960, ... not that I'd admit that for legal reasons.

Only thing I've ever had fly off at high speed was Christmas ornaments...:silly:

My new power antenna is a bit bent now... and it's not been through an automatic car wash :eek:

-J

Hitting flying objects is hard on antenna masts.

How is the OM603 W124 good to 137 but the M103 W124 is only rated to 138mph....seems that the extra 25-35hp that the M103 has over the 603 would give it more than 1 extra mph of top speed.... :confused:

Can't tell you why, just that it does. The brochure said 128 (with trap-ox), I wanted to see what mine did, ... did just fine.

The 300E M103 is supposed to be good for 140. With 3.07 gears (vs the OM603 or M104 with 2.65:1), does make the M103 spin a little more for the speed though.

The M103 has a redline of 1,200 rpm higher than the 603......I'm not going to find out what mine can do on public roads, maybe on a private runway or something. :eek:

I've taken it as high as 127....and it was climbing fast. No doubt 140 would have been reached easily. But, remembering I was essentially qualified to go to prison at that speed, I promptly slowed way down. :eek:

Grattan isn't big enough.

Was that on the speedo or on a GPS? At those speeds my speedo would probably be 6 mph off :eek:

-J

The driver of this Porsche knows for sure.......scheisse would be the term to use if it happened to you..
Cheers,
Ingmar

WOW :D this sucks