I meet up with a couple of guys last night with some pretty fast rides. There was an 11 sec nova and mustang 5.0 with a built motor and a holley supercharger on top as well. To cars I wouldn't mess with, even with the L. Anyway, there was a dude there that had a yellow 03 Cobra. I was talking to him and eventually led into running him. I wanted to go from a dig but he wanted to go from a roll. He said he wasn't good at lauching the car yet. Even if it is stock. So I gave in. We hit the interstate at at a 40mph roll. My friend in the passenager seat counted on his fingers for the Cobra and out loud for me. I was pretty nervous anyway, but didn't think anything about taking it out of o/d before we started. The dude in the Cobra got a little jump on me because I had to wait for my truck to gear down from 4th to 2nd instead of 3rd to 2nd which I found out is faster on the way home. (Maybe one of you can give me some advice on starting for a roll with a automatic tranny.) I am way better at lauching. Anyway after he got the little jump he pulled me pretty much the whole time. By the time we let out of it at the tip top of 3rd almost 4th he had about 1/2 a car length on me. I'm guessing he would of had a full car length if he didn't have to let off the gas because of the car he caught in front of him. Needless to say I was very disappointed with my part of the race. I wanted to run him again but he had to go. I was real nervous. Worried about cops and the Cobra too. hehe But I felt I could of had a lot better run then then that. I did a poor job of getting off at the count of 3. He was already in 2nd reving, I don't know 3 grand maybe. I was in 4th reving 1500 maybe. lol I should of took o/d off but didn't think about it until it was to late. After I finally got took off I held him for a bit. Then he started pulling again. I couldn't sleep last night after that. I know if we went from a dig I would of killed him. I guess he did too. He was only 19 or so. Bad run! I'm not sayin he wouldn't of got me. I don't care about that. I just could of ran him harder.:bash:
Helix
Still, I learned what not to do. Can Cobras mod more then we can? I want to mod until I can stay with a modded Cobra. This possible on a stock block? Whats your input, feel free. Oh yeah, it was a blast too. :beer:
Helix
Still, I learned what not to do. Can Cobras mod more then we can? I want to mod until I can stay with a modded Cobra. This possible on a stock block? Whats your input, feel free. Oh yeah, it was a blast too. :beer:
. It was a commercial truck. The only thing bad about the L was everyone kept talking about weak rods. Anyhow with a 5 lb pulley and chip my best run with the L was 13.4's with Et streets. My first run with the Cobra and a L upper pulley was 12.3 with the same Et streets. Both runs were in 90 deg. weather. The truck would never hook up at the track with a best 60 foot times in the 1.9's or maybe I could have had better results. My observation would be that the Cobra will out run you unless he breaks a axle :kaboom:
