96 cobra vs ls1 questions
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ok here we go. I know a guy I call mustang Roger. He has a 96 mystic cobra, it sounds like a cobra with flowmasters. I think he might have headers but i would seriously doubt a tune. This is the type of guy that thinks his car is made by the hand of god basically annoying. I have an 2002 ta a4. I have a slp cat back, lid, free mods and I am pretty sure a converter because i have yanked some cars that i shouldnt have. He wants to race and I used to be a 5.0 guy before i bought my ta. I know that the 5.0 cobra are awfully slow. How was the 96 cobra? Should I be worried? I will more then likely be sporting some new drag radials by then. He wants to race from a digg and a 25 roll. I tried to tell him my car feels brutal from 25. I used to out a notch back with a 306 and trickflow heads and yada yada and it didnt hit as hard from 25
I know this car had the non pi heads but what if he does by some chance have some pi heads? how will the outcome be?
I know this car had the non pi heads but what if he does by some chance have some pi heads? how will the outcome be?
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First of all he doesn't have PI heads. That is the 99-04 GT your thinking of.
As for the race, if all he has is a flowmaster and headers he's really not too far from stock. Cat-backs do very little for the 96-98 Cobra's, and header gains on a mostly stock car are minimal as well. I don't know why anyone would do headers before a mid pipe on a N/A Cobra.
So yeah your gonna blow his doors!
As for the race, if all he has is a flowmaster and headers he's really not too far from stock. Cat-backs do very little for the 96-98 Cobra's, and header gains on a mostly stock car are minimal as well. I don't know why anyone would do headers before a mid pipe on a N/A Cobra.
So yeah your gonna blow his doors!
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I used to have a very good running 97 Cobra and only raced two F bodies during the time I had it, but I got a 99 SS from a dig by about 1.5-2 cars and a 6 speed T/A I raped by about 4 cars, that being said I was on an uncharacteristally sticky road and sticky nittos and can drive a manual, the F bods were on street tires with green drivers. I also ran a 3.23 geared auto Trans Am after I had my 4.30's in from a 45 roll and he put about a car on me but didn't pull much. When I ran the two F bodies from a dig I had 3.27 gears, Flowmaster cat back, Anderson Ford Powerpipe, Cone, and MAF, and Nittos When i rolled with the T/A I had the same + 4.30's and M/T drag radials. If he has no tires it won't even be close, if he does have tires and he can drive it might be a bit interesting from a dig. With stock gears they feel like **** down low but they pull hard past 3200 rpms when those IMRC's open up
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I used to have a very good running 97 Cobra and only raced two F bodies during the time I had it, but I got a 99 SS from a dig by about 1.5-2 cars and a 6 speed T/A I raped by about 4 cars, that being said I was on an uncharacteristally sticky road and sticky nittos and can drive a manual, the F bods were on street tires with green drivers. I also ran a 3.23 geared auto Trans Am after I had my 4.30's in from a 45 roll and he put about a car on me but didn't pull much. When I ran the two F bodies from a dig I had 3.27 gears, Flowmaster cat back, Anderson Ford Powerpipe, Cone, and MAF, and Nittos When i rolled with the T/A I had the same + 4.30's and M/T drag radials. If he has no tires it won't even be close, if he does have tires and he can drive it might be a bit interesting from a dig. With stock gears they feel like **** down low but they pull hard past 3200 rpms when those IMRC's open up
You only won because of driver mod. The auto t/a was probably weak against you because of the 40ish roll being a bad spot. My friends 96 cobra got absolutely annihalated by my 02 with just a lid/catback.
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You should have him pretty easily if you don't launch in reverse. With his mods he might be lucky to cough out 270rwhp. I have a lightly modded 99 cobra which is a bit quicker than a 96-98 and I think I could probably just barely take a stock LS1 out of the hole with 4.10s and DR's, IRS hopping like a bunny.