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Old 03-30-2007, 06:21 AM
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Default Re: H1 Alpha top speed

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Originally Posted by BlueHUMMERH2
Technically speaking, with stock Wrangler GSA's, you're limited to 99MPH because of a "Q" sidewall rating. And personally, with about 8,000 pounds of metal and 12" rotors, I don't think I'd want to go all that fast.

Nah, it'd be just fine even with a blowout. Todays tires are so much better than what I used to drive on. I'd take the stock tires on the H1 to over 120mph any day, after all, I used to go that fast on bias plys in my old Ford Galaxie! Seriously, the H1's so wide and stable that at 100mph a blowout wouldn't be a huge problem. Quite unlike the movies where vehicles go cartwheeling down the street when a tire gets shot out, the H1 would steer well and just be pulled over to the side. It might be ugly in the fender well, but shouldn't be any big freakout deal.
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