The old late 60's TransAm racers claimed their Mustangs seemed to "hit a brick wall" around 150mph on the long straights. IIRC it was Parnelli Jones who said that. If you look into the modifications those cars had you'll get some ideas that will get you up that far. To go over 150mph you're looking at doing a lot more, assuming Parnelli knew what he was taliking about. Pretty sure he did.
You never did state WHERE you wanted to go 180mph. I'm suprised nobody mentioned the "Silver State Challenge". People drive at speeds above 180mph there on a regular basis. Along that line you might want to research Gottlieb's "Big Red Camaro". A '69 that entered one year and took all comers for the win. Keep mind the field included any number of high dollar european imports and even few actual race cars. I've never cared for Camaros but this one came, saw, and kicked ass at an AVERAGE speed of like 192mph (IIRC). Keep in mind this body style is the same one campaigned against the Boss Mustangs in the old TransAm race series and back then they had about the same aerodynamic problems as the Mustangs. Even though it's one of the other brand cars I believe there's a lot to be learned from this particular car if want want to be able to go REALLY fast. I haven't looked lately, but I believe there is website for the Big Red Camaro. I know there are pics online from when it was featured a couple of times in Car Craft magazine.
Speaking of the SS Challenge, a Fox body Mustang won one year back in the 80's. At the time the owner had the best brakes he could find fitted to the car, a four wheel disk set from an SVO. As he crossed the finish line and tried to slow down he literally set fire to all four brakes. Does you little good to go fast if you can't slow down.
My personal goal is to have my car "being capable of" 150mph. On very very rare occasions I imagine. The only time it will ever see a dragstrip is on "test and tune" nights. Speeds through the quarter mile don't really interest me, using the dragstrip to work out bugs and see what might break does.
You never did state WHERE you wanted to go 180mph. I'm suprised nobody mentioned the "Silver State Challenge". People drive at speeds above 180mph there on a regular basis. Along that line you might want to research Gottlieb's "Big Red Camaro". A '69 that entered one year and took all comers for the win. Keep mind the field included any number of high dollar european imports and even few actual race cars. I've never cared for Camaros but this one came, saw, and kicked ass at an AVERAGE speed of like 192mph (IIRC). Keep in mind this body style is the same one campaigned against the Boss Mustangs in the old TransAm race series and back then they had about the same aerodynamic problems as the Mustangs. Even though it's one of the other brand cars I believe there's a lot to be learned from this particular car if want want to be able to go REALLY fast. I haven't looked lately, but I believe there is website for the Big Red Camaro. I know there are pics online from when it was featured a couple of times in Car Craft magazine.
Speaking of the SS Challenge, a Fox body Mustang won one year back in the 80's. At the time the owner had the best brakes he could find fitted to the car, a four wheel disk set from an SVO. As he crossed the finish line and tried to slow down he literally set fire to all four brakes. Does you little good to go fast if you can't slow down.
My personal goal is to have my car "being capable of" 150mph. On very very rare occasions I imagine.
The only time it will ever see a dragstrip is on "test and tune" nights. Speeds through the quarter mile don't really interest me, using the dragstrip to work out bugs and see what might break does.
