What's The Highest Speed You've Had From Your 205?

[tomcolinjones 26]

iirc, not pushing the drive shaft seals all the way into the casing.

[welshpug 1,666]

no

 

fitting a 205 diff.

[Tom Fenton 1,547]

& swap gear selector lever and usually convert clutch arm to push type.

[Mikey S 29 1 Cars]

A GPS verified 125mph. Mi16 on a 1.9 box. Got scared and backed off.....

 

My Saab will pull far past that without breaking a sweat.....

[huxley309 0]

Didn't dare to look, speedo cracked 145 after that i refused to look at the thing as the car was a bit twitchy.

[jrj 1 1 Cars]

just browsing so thought I'd reply!... 127mph on the M4 over a decade ago - totally standard '93 1.9 - It gets a bit sketchy from about 95-105 and then it just hunkered down and begged for more... even got a bit quieter 120+ - You couldn't pay me enough to do that in it now on a p road! without a cage and a helmet!

[Leon 24]

I've found that 205 speedos are by and large normally pretty accurate providing that you're using the correct speedo drive gears.

 

I think all of mine have been within 1-2mph at 70mph when compared against a GPS.

My experience is the same.

 

My C plate phase 1 1.6 would do something like 125 indicated. Interestingly at 115 it always felt like it literally had bags still in the tank

My F plate 1.6 was slower and would run out of steam at 110 and crawl to about 115 indicated

My F plate 1.6 that I got from steve@cornwall sits in the middle. It's significantly more spritely in the mid range than my old F plate but doesn't quite have the 70+ pull that the C plate had. Will do 120 indicated

 

My 309 GTI would run off the clock all day. That was a damn quick standard-ish car (Magnex manifold and exhaust)

Edited March 19, 2017 by Leon

[AlexRS2782 136 1 Cars]

A few years ago I tried pushed mine just past 100 - I decided to stop pretty quickly after realising the noise & drone from the OMP exhaust was getting a bit deafening inside the car so decided to drop back to 75 and save my hearing

[allye 530 3 Cars]

The gearbox I've put together for my van will take it up to low 160's on my 14' wheels (can't remember tyre size but I worked it out) the ~250bhp should take it to the limiter happily. Not sure if I will be happy to though!

[jeremy 71]

Hmm 954cc Junior back in the early 90s saw 110mph on a very down hill section of road, couldn't possibly say where sounds like douth bound n25 junction hive.