10,000 RPM

[David Cooley]

At 09:54 AM 6/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Previously, you (David Cooley) wrote:
> > At 08:28 AM 6/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > >doesn't Vermont use Saab 9000 SPGs as hiway cars, I find it hard to 
> believe
> > >that a heavy car like the Caprice would keep up to the saab ( I worked at
> > >a Saab
> > >dealer and got to test drive the SPGs)
> >
> > The caprice cop car in 96 had a 275HP LT1 that made 330 or 350 lb/ft 
> torque
> > (Can't remember which) and I believe it had a 3.42 (or close to it) rear
> > gear... 0-60 was in the 7 second range... it was a bit faster than the
> > Impala SS.
>
>cool, what was the usefull top speed ( not the tail wind, downhill
>10 mile straight speed)


I believe (And could be wrong...) it was somewhere between 135 and 140. 
(Speed limiter was set to 255).
I drove a 96 caprice for a month and it only had the 4300 V8... I had it up 
to 125 and it was still pulling on flat ground, so the LT1 would have been 
a bit higher.

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