King of the Hill

[marnepup]

Just wanted to see if anyone out there has taken his SRT8 as high as me...Mine's been up to 14,110 feet, or 4301 meters. World's Highest?

[CUEBALL]

Good thing you had your space suit with you, but sure does look like you need some more skin.





Highest I've been with the c is nowhere near your record. I doubt many will match it.

[joey]

Wow, that is high elevation. How did the car preform at that elevation?
I bet the car had to huff and puff to get up there due to lack of oxygen.

I once hiked to the top of 14000ft Mt. Shasta in Northern California and the air is super thin at that elevation.

[BAG-63D]

any pics of the car actually up there?

[IESRT8]

Originally Posted by BAG-63D

any pics of the car actually up there?

Someone got called out!

[GoofyTimL]

Our '94 T&C AWD van made it up there a couple of times over the 11 years we had it. I know the SRT8 made it up there just fine... and it's a beautiful curvy drive also. I think it is supposed to be paved all the way now... is it?

[bruno]

Great photo from Pike's Peak. You just might own the claim of having your SRT8 at the highest point ever.

I can definitely claim that I've been higher than you but it was through strenuous backpacking rather than a vehicle. Not many folks in the lower 48 can claim they have made it to the top of the highest peak! That would be Mt. Whitney, located in the Central Cal Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
14,496 ft. / 4,418 m.

Certain type of mountain ranges prevent roads from being built to get to the top. Thanks for sharing the pic.

bruno

[YoungMedic23]

I doubt there is any road that goes that high up.

Pics will prove me wrong.

[marnepup]

~sigh~

Great call, Bruno, that is indeed taken at the top of Pike's Peak...I suppose that the various doubters' next problem will be that there's no altimeter in the picture with a scanned in certificate of calibration that was signed 5 minutes before the picture was taken. I guess I could go back up and take a picture of the car with the Forest Service's sign behind the car...it's only about 30 miles from the house.

As for how the car performed on the trip, LIKE A CHAMP! Engine temp (a huge concern, there are signs all over warning you to stay in 1st gear to keep fan speed up...signs that I ignored) never went above 226. On the way down, there is a checkpoint where they hit your rotors with a laser thermometer, and temporarily detain you if your brakes are hot enough to fail. The guy did mine twice because he didn't believe the reading he got...Well, they're friggin HUGE track brakes, duh! Riding them on a downhill slope for 19 miles is not a huge deal. It's the pink prius with the walnut-sized calipers that will have issues, not my baby!

As for whether there are roads that go that high...google "pike's peak hill climb"...there's a friggin road race where the finish line is that high...it's a 19 mile highway that starts somewhere above 8,000 feet...the record is under 11 minutes...can you imagine that? 11 minutes to go 19 miles...that's an average speed of around 100MPH...UP A MOUNTAIN, with thousand foot dropoffs...crazy!

Tim, I see you also correctly identified the location, though you didn't name it. No, they pave a little more each year, but it's still about 25% dirt.


/edit/

Forget googling. Go to ppihc.com. Here's a pic from this year's race:



Actually, the record was broken, badly, this year, it now stands at 10 minutes, one second, and change, done in a suzuki XL7...that's an average of 114 MPH uphill in the twisties at high altitude. But, for that matter, a 2005 Ford Exploder did it in a little over 11 minutes.

[300C_Chris]

this is a car forum and you post a pic of an awesome landscape like that and no SRT in the picture, go back and put some muscle in that picture. LOL

Oh and post the timeslip to the top, just to appease the gods of HP.