You can reach a semi-happy medium. Mine handles fairly well (still needs SFCs), and the ride doesn't beat you up too bad. It's not C5 smooth, but I'm not bouncing all over the place. And I don't "love Mustangs," for the record. I like certain ones.

 

Well I love all Mustangs, pretty much my blood runs blue. However I am realistic. My 5.0 handles better than a C5 but rides 5 times worse than a 67 Fastback.

To me a great if not best example of an all around great car would be a 997 Turbo Porsche. It would be hard to top that car.

 

Yep, definitely one of the best cars out there, period.

 

One pretty good way to check if it's even a real Cobra is to look at the front brake calipers. They should say 'Cobra', and it shouldn't be handwritten in White-Out (which I did see once).

Jim

 

The best way would be to look at the tail lights since this was a 01 or so.

 

Wouldn't the best thing to do be to look at the rear bumper? '99 says "Mustang" and '01 says "Cobra," right?

 

My '99 says SALEEN

 

there was a sweet sleeper at new england dyno last fall. 03 GT 650rwhp it was dirty it had all factory gt exterior right down to the bullet wheels. it looked like a stock lowered gt with pipes on it. and the cam lope in it wasnt radical. thats my kinda ride

 

well look at what i started i wouldnt mind picking up a 03 cobra if i had money laying around. wouldnt sell my T/A thou but i guess thats the white trash in me thou

 

 

Heres a couple pix of mine...




At first I didnt like the inserts. I liked the fact that especially with black that someone really had to look at it to know it was a Cobra (lol so much for that)

 

A lot. Mine put down 367 rwhp stock. That makes it well over the 390 flywheel hp that is advertised. You didn't run a 03-04 because it would have been ugly for you. Good kill though.

Lance

 

Its amazing what a pulley does to those cars.... I hate that!!!!

 

Yep I have had people tell me mine wasn't a real Cobra, got a good laugh out of that!

And IMO I thought mine had a pretty good ride/handling balance with the IRS.

 

^ Lol, I had one guy say mine was a V6 As for the IRS, yeah its not bad, but mine will be gone soon, hard to beat a built solid rear.

 

Mine was 386rwhp stock.

 

You have a strong car, I think mine was either 370 or 372, dont remember.

 

I would figure yours to be one of the more potent ones. Some more, some less; just like any vehicle. That's why I said ish to leave room for the higher and lower ones. When they first came out I read a dyno test in Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords, it put down 372. I read a couple years later in the same magazine where they put a meth kit on one to test, it's baseline was 342. Just an estimate, not bad for a GM guy!

 

That looks 10x better in my opinion. There is a black Termi in town with the red overlays that looks pretty good. Definitely one of the first appeance mods needed on those cars.

I like the tag in the second pick also

 

Ha,ha,ha,.....lol..you gotta be kiddin' me? Some Assclown actually hand written....with white out...."Cobra" on the claiper?

Man, it never ceases to amaze me how people will just do stupid ****!

ha,ha,ha....that's a classic.