Maximum Avensis Performance

[b1nda]

Hi,

I was just wandering...have any of you avensis owners taken ur avensis to the engines maximum limit..i.e. Speed, Red line(on the rev counter)?

just a thought i ask....

[Steve84]

hi

i've takin my dads avensis x reg 1.8 vvti upto 125 and the engine was doin 5000rpm in 5th now if that limits at 5500rpm even tho both cars have a red line of 6200rpm in 5th like my corolla 1.4 vvt-i does i should think it will do about 130ish.

The car felt happy enough doin that spped the engine never felt or sounded stressed did put a dent in the mpg tho went down to 31mpg from 40mpg.

[dawesy]

ask ken on here think he took the original 7A-FE beyond its limits

[Ken]

ask ken on here think he took the original 7A-FE beyond its limits

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Bouncing of the redline i got the 7a-fe to 144mph on the speedo but only as a guess it was more like 132 in reality

Millway sports could have got me 220bhp for 6K but i deciced to go for the 3s-gte conversion as i have bigger plan's ;)

[Mackers]

i had 137 outta me 1.8vvti last week, still had room for some more

[Desmond22]

Forgive my asking, but where do you folks find a road long enough to find out these speeds? Round here any long straight is crawling with cameras and jam butty men. :)

[Mackers]

it's called the A55 in N.Wales fella, 9 miles of flat road, (next the the sea) and no camera's :D

[Avensis116]

Well im going to talk in KM/h but my D4D SW did 205 KM/h on a straight line @4200 rpm +-

And 220 KM/h downhill @4500 rpm +-

[Avensis116]

Here there are very few cameras but there are subarus impresas WRX and BMW 330 d and Audi A4 turbo an so on.

[Smart Jims Toy]

I put mine above 110 mph briefly the other week as I came down the M3 - you know how it is, a few 'slow' drivers block your path, clear road in front, right foot suddenly gets very heavy :D

Absolutely no problems from the car - felt like it could keep on climbing up to the red line, and handling was good. Turned off the the consumption information as it started to drop fast!!

Jim

[cal]

My maximum is 125mph running on LPG. The rev counter showed around 5500 rpm. It is a 3S-FE so called non-VVTi 2.0 engine Avensis but I found the gear ratio quite high. It could do with 6 speed or lower ratio on 5th. Perhaps these things have changed on current models.

[Mackers]

****UPDATE****

Got 146 outta my 1.8vvti "X" reg last night, coming back for the England Vs Wales Cruise in Chester, still had a bit more i recon, i didn't look down too much at that speed, LOL

[b1nda]

146mph.........you got any engine mods on your avensis or is it just standard?

[Mackers]

jus a panel filter, thats all, it's jus been serviced too, 45,000mile one, so new plugs, oil, etc.

[cal]

1ZZ-FE seems a lot livelier engine than 3S-FE which I got on mine. Mine was struggling at 125mph.

I had 1ZZ-FE Avensis GS once as a hire car and that was very pleasant to drive. My current 3S-FE is OK but I suppose VVTi makes it more responsive.