How much drag do the pop up headlights produce?

160mph in a 35+ year old car! You’re a brave man!! I haven’t taken mine anywhere near that!

 

the other way to look at it is that they are Air Brakes ! very ahead of their time.

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You can safely do 145mph in a 308 so 160 in a TR is even safer.

120mph is cruising. On a race track of course.

 

you live in the US? so where you try to go so fast there???

the 160 mph is about 260 km/h - there I put in my TR koenig competition the 5th gear

 

Don't believe the hype. The current German autobuh ahn is a permanent construction zone with mostly 80kmph speed limits, suicidal eco drivers,
and near 3rd world road surfacing.

 

also here in germany a lot of autobahn already limited

 

Headlights up or down the car will struggle a bit accelerate faster than 160mph, the claimed top speed was 180mph and the car is now a 40 years old model.
I’ve taken mine to 163mph using a GPS speedometer and the headlights were down, I think I would be able to reach it with more free road.



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My car was extremely stable at 160+, I do not have cats either and a sport exhaust but I don’t think it would make much difference, my only issue was slowing down, I pressed the brakes to slow down faster just to find out they would be useless if I had to brake in an emergency. Car still accelerates but it doesn’t really brake that well at such speeds.


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It's a feature.


BAD BRAKES
One customer personally complained to Ettore Bugatti, claiming that the brakes in his race car were of poor quality. In a rather ironic letter,
Bugatti replied that his cars were made for driving and not for braking. In fact, there was nothing wrong with the cars' brakes.

 

Of course there is a hit but you drive that fast at night? Even with modern headlamps on a public road? Who cares about the drag , that’s insanity… you don’t have animals that nose around at night where you live? You want to risk hitting something at that speed? I don’t know the answer to your question but I think it’s pointless, how many people and why, would drive at night at those speeds?



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Something to with freedom of choice and individual autonomy I think.

 

I only can drive faster than 300 km/h with my competition in the night on the german autobahn - but if there would be an animal what I will see before I hit it or not I not care at that speed. only keep the steering

 

The drag exerted by the lights on the car should be easy enough to calculate. I was performing similar calculations back 35+ years ago in the one or two AE classes I had to take (Mechanical Engineer by trade). There should be one or two AEs around here.

 

Someone here who lives in Italy takes a route regularly in Northern Italy that is commonly used for top speed runs. It has a flat straight that is very long. He says by a GPS he has had his up to 186 a number of times. I do think the headlights would be a considerable hit.

Have to agree, not something I'd do at night. Deer do a lot of damage at high speed. In a TR they would come right over the hood.

 

Car is well known for that. The design spent a lot of time in Ferraris new wind tunnel. The BB had a terrible reputation for high speed stability and Ferrari did not want to repeat that.

 

Well sure, but so is drink driving, drugged driving, etc. and it’s all great until either you hit somebody else who isn’t expecting you or seeing you going so fast at night or you hit an animal and kill yourself. I rather thing about self preservation but to each their own…. The place to drive that fast is on a track, not out with all the crazies on the road…but that’s just my opinion.

 

We have a lot of wild boar active at night. Hit a 150 kg boar at night at those speeds and believe me, you will care…… or an elk…… but to each their own… interesting question on what the drag does of course….. ( theoretically)

 

mostly on the german autobahn we have guard rails ( no boar jump over this ), and also have no elks here.
but: no risk - no fun
hopefully if I would hit a large animal at that speed I will be dead after the crash. but until now nothing not even like equal ever happened to me
also you know: never drive faster than your Guardian Angel can fly

 

On the german auto-buh-ban you're more likely to hit a suicidal eco-driver than a wild animal.

And the road surface is mostly 3rd world.

 

Hitting an animal is a scary concept on the autobahn! I lost my Fiat X1/9, which I had owned for 16 + years, to a deer.

It was a rainy night, and I was climbing a windy road on the way to the freeway when I saw Bambi on the hillside. I was driving maybe 45MPH. In an instant, I thought stay-stay-STAY! In that same instant, it ran down the hillside in front of me. I got on the brakes and dove down toward the passenger side, thinking it was coming through the windshield. The car scooped the large animal up and it slid right over the entire car making a mess and the horns puncturing panels on its travels. I got up and looked immediately through the rearview mirror and the animal was still tumbling on the road! I was able to see this because headlights from a small truck going down the road lit up its pathway. The deer quickly got up and continued across the road getting struck by the small truck. The animal further tumbled on the roadway, quickly got up, and finished its eventful trip across the road, running up the hillside on the other side and into the woods.

If I were traveling 100, 150, or?? and came across this situation, I hope my guardian angel was riding a sweet Ducati!

 

if you would have been faster you not hit the deer because this one has been to slow to get hit from you