Beat a cobra tonight: M6 camaro vs. 03 cobra
12-08-2006, 02:42 AM
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Beat a cobra tonight: M6 camaro vs. 03 cobra well tonight me and my buddy (who drives an srt-4) were leaving a friends house and going to a QT down the street. Well we come up at a light where we have to make a left hand turn and i see a stang sitting at the light in the direction we were turning. I noticed it had a different front end to it and suspected it was a cobra. Anyways, my buddy was in front of me and gave the cobra a rev as he made his turn and i kinda just hung back.
Cobra flipped a bitch to chase my buddy. Well they lined up going about 40 and they raced. My buddy got pulled on pretty hard and it was a murder (SRT-4 has just a few bolt-ons). So we came up to a light and my friend gets behinde the stang to let me line up with him. I gave him a little rev so he knew what was up. He rolled down his window and said at the light i said alright. So the light turns green and i punch it, got side ways a little, straightened her out and jumped about 2 cars on the cobra. We took it to about 100 and i had probably 5 cars on him. So we came up on another light and he asked to go again, so we went and the same thing happened, had him by 2 cars at the start and about 5 lengths by 100. We pull over and chat a little and he tells me he has exhaust, a chip, and injectors, and something else (forgot). He asked to go from a 35 roll and I agreed becauce he obviously couldn't launch his car. So we go from a 35 and i jump 1/2 a car in front, 2nd gear he fell bacl to my bumper, 3rd he stayed at my bumper, 4th he dropped another 1/2. VERY fun race. So we race again from a 35 and it was the same for the 1st 3 gears but then i missed 4th
and he passed me quickly, I put her back in 4th and tried to catch up but I couldn't. I lost that race, over all the guy was really cool and we chatted for a while.
sorry for the life long story...
My mods: FULL bolt-ons and a 230/227 591/571 112lsa Cam
dyno'd 390 rwhp
Cobra flipped a bitch to chase my buddy. Well they lined up going about 40 and they raced. My buddy got pulled on pretty hard and it was a murder (SRT-4 has just a few bolt-ons). So we came up to a light and my friend gets behinde the stang to let me line up with him. I gave him a little rev so he knew what was up. He rolled down his window and said at the light i said alright. So the light turns green and i punch it, got side ways a little, straightened her out and jumped about 2 cars on the cobra. We took it to about 100 and i had probably 5 cars on him. So we came up on another light and he asked to go again, so we went and the same thing happened, had him by 2 cars at the start and about 5 lengths by 100. We pull over and chat a little and he tells me he has exhaust, a chip, and injectors, and something else (forgot). He asked to go from a 35 roll and I agreed becauce he obviously couldn't launch his car. So we go from a 35 and i jump 1/2 a car in front, 2nd gear he fell bacl to my bumper, 3rd he stayed at my bumper, 4th he dropped another 1/2. VERY fun race. So we race again from a 35 and it was the same for the 1st 3 gears but then i missed 4th
and he passed me quickly, I put her back in 4th and tried to catch up but I couldn't. I lost that race, over all the guy was really cool and we chatted for a while.sorry for the life long story...
My mods: FULL bolt-ons and a 230/227 591/571 112lsa Cam
dyno'd 390 rwhp
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12-08-2006, 09:48 AM
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im sure he had some traction problems.. LOL thatz what they always say. is it that hard to launch a 03-04 cobras?? maybe unit can educate me. anyways nice kill. there are few cobras in my town that runs 10s and i dont mess with em no more. they are no joke.
12-08-2006, 10:39 AM
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im sure he had some traction problems.. LOL thatz what they always say. is it that hard to launch a 03-04 cobras?? maybe unit can educate me. anyways nice kill. there are few cobras in my town that runs 10s and i dont mess with em no more. they are no joke.
12-08-2006, 12:40 PM
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The IRS on the 03/04 Cobras make for some really tricky launches. Too little rpms and they bog, too much and they spin, usually resulting in the dreaded wheel hop, and in severe cases, a broken half-shaft! I've been approached by quite a few Cobra owners wanting to trade their IRS rear suspension for my solid axle.
12-08-2006, 01:13 PM
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Nice kill, let me know if you wanna run me behind the wheel of that snake.....i never go to tracks and all my launching techniques are learned on highways past 2 am......im a bad boy lol.
12-08-2006, 01:37 PM
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I had an 03 cobra and it was a really quick car. With just intake, x-pipe and cat back it made 411 to the wheels. But even with a good driver it would not have out ran a 390hp cam'ed ls1 from a stop. From a 40 roll it should have been pretty even if he was a good drive. The cobra's are heavy and need about 40-60 more hp to out run an ls1 car. No flames please as I have owned both.
12-08-2006, 03:16 PM
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I never could beat the SVT Cobra's with my stock Z. I put a set of Pacesetter LT's, 3.73 gears, LS6 manifold and a little Tuning....now I can beat em'. Unless I find one of the sneaky bastards with a pulley, full bolts on and some tuning too. Snakey fu*kers...lol
