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Old 02-03-2007, 03:43 PM
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Found this article http://www.stangbangers.com/01_Cobra...SS_Article.htm

Said the camaro dynoed 260 HP that seems realy low for a SS Look ar my sig it did 316 with the mods.

What gives. The 1/4 mile time and speed seems good.

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hmm seems like a very sick camaro or a very bad dyno, it shoud have 30 or 40 more horses
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you know whats funny, I have an LE Camaro and my dad has an 01 Cobra
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its on a mustang dyno. those lose bout 5% more then a dynojet. there a bit more acurate though
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who cares what they dyno says check out the trap speed in the quarter mile its over 107 mph which shows ya the SS was running healthy
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ya the trap speed is where you can see it had to be on the dyno .So like said earlier it had to be a mustang dyno they tend to read lower hp numbers but a 107 mph is a good runnign stock camaro .That would probaly translate to anywhere from 290-300 hp on a dynojet which is what most of use if we have the ability to chose
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Read the whole thing about the dyno. Yall didnt read far enough into it.
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i skimed it lol but i did see were they added the percentage and got the hp up but thats why i said mustang dyno for the low numbers they first posted 268 hp
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trap speed is good, but for a magazine driver, I would have expected a better quarter than that...
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i like the fact that the camaro destroyed the mustang in everything but the 0-30 mph, all while getting better gas mileage. i love these cars.
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Originally Posted by GreenBlood
trap speed is good, but for a magazine driver, I would have expected a better quarter than that...
Most of the time these guys arent screaming them off the line. They come off the lights at idle.
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They also have the redline wrong, they say its 5500 (where you start to get those red hash's on the tach) if they were shifting there it might show why their 1/4 was a lil low.
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Originally Posted by Trust
They also have the redline wrong, they say its 5500 (where you start to get those red hash's on the tach) if they were shifting there it might show why their 1/4 was a lil low.
true...
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Good reading. I noticed it's a "mustang" publication, and they state the "correction factor" for the Mustang dyno at 1.2 for the SS, and 1.3 for the Cobra? Why would they have a different "dyno correction" factor? It shows approx. 322 rwhp for the SS, vs. 312 for the Cobra, yet the numbers don't lie. The cars weigh virtually the same, but the SS's trap speed is light-years ahead of the Cobra. It's hard to find articles and test-times that aren't skewed one way or the other.
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i thought that the 322 hp was for flywheel hp correction




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