Is it a small highway with no traffic to just stop and have a dig race? I'd get rear ended and probably cause a pile up if I tried that here.
stock 2011 5.0 vs 2003 kenne bell cobra
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Is it a small highway with no traffic to just stop and have a dig race? I'd get rear ended and probably cause a pile up if I tried that here.
Everybody is jumping to conclusions thinking because the car makes all this power it should be no contest. driver ability has everything to do with it. We ran almost a 1/4 and he pulled me hard when he finally got it hooked up but by then we had run to our agreed spot. He came around me hard after we hit that spot. The best 1/8 mile time he has run is 7.57 on slicks. I know that everything being equal a 350 horsepower car can't run with a 660 horsepower car but driving a high horsepower 6 speed car on street tires makes things a little different. just saying:shrug:
D.T.R.---I'M hoping to run some 9.90's next month. have to get a new set of slicks (car spun bad in 2nd when i went the 10.20 pass). Going to try out my 2 step for the 1st time. Only had a 1.53 60ft.
As discovered in the other thread driver doesn't matter you just need 4.10s and you win.
Maybe, but i always do the speed limit officer, so don't get any funny ideas lol...:coolman:
I know a guy that had a Whipple Cobra making 545rwhp, could get into the 11's to save his life. The tree would drop and he would smoke his tires 100 feet down the track. I wouldn't want to run a KB Cobra in my bone stock 5.0, traction or not.
You went 10.20 in the 1/4 in a stock gt? And while spinning?
he does own a cobra also, im assuming thats whats running those times
we were talking about my 2003 cobra in another 1 of the post. i wish my 5.0 would run this fast.:banana:
hmmm with or without traction it seems the cobra should of pulled.. my father inlaw has a 67 satallite with a 605 indy wedge the car make 840hp and 850 lbs/tq it runs 10.28 at 128 mph we raced a zr1 on the street and he was pissed! we went from a 30 roll and probably to 115 and he only pulled 1 car on the vette blowing the tires off his car. spinning or not that cobra should of walked. just my opinion.
I can beat a 8000 hp NHRA dragster on a bicycle in the 1/4th if he can't get any traction.
haha did the bike have 4:10s? :lol: just last week i raced a cobra with a shopping cart.. i had groceries in it! kicked his ass he spun everywhere but straight. :beer:
This :rockon:
Very nice bro ...
It wouldn't take much to get it there. Probably less/cheaper then your cobra ;-)
*cobra police* WHEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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most people don't... I'm not sure if going FI in a 5.0 is that much more expensive than it is for a terminator to go with a whole different new FI setup
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I would be very, very careful going FI on a new 5.0. The compression on those engines is already ridiculous from the factory...if you're going to do it right, I can guarantee you will be spending a lot more to FI a 5.0 than you would to do a FI swap on an already-built-for-boost Cobra. Why do you think the 03-04s are so popular? You can supercharge/turbocharge almost anything, but I seriously doubt you would find another car that has been tested with more kits/combinations than the Cobra. The new 5.0 is still exactly that...new.
Whatever you choose, more power to you (literally). But I wouldn't risk it.
It's no more risky to run 6-8psi on a new 5.0 than it is to run 15-17psi on an 03 Cobra. They'll make the same amount of power and the 5.0 will be faster.
Which has the ability to make more power though? There won't be any stock 5.0 engine that will achieve the feat of 1000whp like the stock 03/04 engine did.
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