I have a 2018 Toyota Tacoma SR5 V6 4x4 and the governor kicks at 116 mph. Would it be wrong if the governor has been removed and reach all the way to 140 mph or even more? I'm curious to see what's the highest top speed can my truck possibly go if the speed governor has been removed.
I'm curious to see what's the highest top speed can my truck possibly go
Seriously, this is a terrible idea and extremely dangerous.
There are cheaper and easier ways to commit suicide.
Well they have a governor because it's a truck and it can flip over easily. So it's up to you what you want to do. It's never good to drive any vehicle at top speed for extremely length periods Of time though
If you want speeding, get a sports cars like Mustang or Camaro.
and take it to a private track where I don't have to pay to scrape his brains off the road.
To be specific: the Tacoma is made to have good ground clearance. But at speed that allows air to flow under the body, creating lift. That will reduce front grip and make the truck uncontrollable. Starts to be a factor over 60 mph, a significant factor over 80-85, and unrecoverable probably at 116, which is why they set the limited there.
Look it up on Taco forums, someone's probably done it already. 116 Is plenty fast for a pickup.
Do you genuinely think this is a good idea? If so get off the road where families are driving.
Do you have a death wish? What on Earth would cause you to want to hurl your soft fleshy body through space at such lethal speeds ... in a pickup truck meant for hauling no less. At that speed it's impossible to react to anything that suddenly appears on the road. A crash at that speed is pretty near instant death to you and people around you.
Not to mention risk blowing your engine ....
the governor kicks at 116 mph
correct, the rated speed of your tires. Beyond that they start to heat up and fail.
My 1999 Ford Ranger is governed at 85 MPH. It's suicidal in a pickup truck. I took the governor off of my 2017 Mustang via coding, but I still drive like a sane person. Messing around with a governor, especially in a pickup truck is literally a disaster waiting to happen. I drove at 55 MPH once, in blinding rain on the Interstate. That blinding rain people turn their 4-ways on, for. A box with a shelf that I had in the bed didn't get a single drop. I was only going 55. Imagine what going over 100 MPH, the drag would be astronomical. The drag when going 110 mph is 4x as great as it was going 55. It's a big, heavy truck with no aerodynamics, going that fast is nothing but suicidal. Engineers did what they did for a reason.
I've seen a Ram truck goes 140+ mph without the governor and it seems handle well for a big truck at that speed. Should I do this in my Tacoma? It has custom rims and I'm getting a tires that has higher speed rating.
Should I do this in my Tacoma?
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Should I do this in my Tacoma?
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