top speed of 1300 4 speed????

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:01 pm

just wondered if anyone knows what vw quoted for top speed on a 1300 4 speed/?

just been nipping along in mine and it feels like it would go off its 100mph clock....prob blow up though

great little cars

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:38 pm

Well, someone had a 1.0 4 speed off the clock the other day, so I should think the 1300 would manage it easily.. the question is how accurate the clock is

Quoted top speed for a 1.05 4 speed is 88mph, so I'd hazard a guess at around 95 for the 1.3

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:56 pm

iv seen a 1.3 4 speed off the clock.... gets there easy too!!

(on a privet road)

lol

k4lps · Post by **k4lps** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:52 pm

1.3 goes of the clock (needle goes past 100mph) with full throttle and about 5-10mins

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:08 pm

u got it!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:26 pm

I think the answer is "as fast as you dare to take it" .... the 1 litre is a little under geared, and that's on the same box with only a slightly more frantic final drive (4.27 vs 4.06).. the 1.3 definately so which is why the 8P is the box of choice (regular 4spd but +20% overdrive 5th).

You'll quite readily come out of the top of the power band in 4th and then it's just a matter of how deep into the red zone you can go before either hitting equilibrium (power falls enough that it wont accelerate) or you chicken out for the sake of the motor

(apparently you come out of the top end of power so easy, that for once the O/D 5th actually gives you more speed, even though you can't pull to peak revs in it so easily.. you'd get there about 105mph)

If you had a 6500rpm rev limiter fitted to it, then you'd bang up against that somewhere around 115-120mph (110 if you have the 1.0 diff) depending on tyres - VW recco max sustained revs is 6300.