06-02-2016, 04:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
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Originally Posted by 1795
Ditto,
When I was taking the person who bought my cobra for a test drive and we were doing some hard accelerating I pointed out to him that we were just running on the primaries and that he had better be careful kicking in the secondaries. Rarely ever required the secondaries to pass someone on the highway; just a little blip of the throttle and away you go.
What Mark IV is saying is that, the usable horsepower of your engine will be directly effected by the size of your tire. If you put a rip-snorting engine with 500+ horsepower and torque in a car with skinny tires, every time you step on it you will just spin the tires. If you want a small block with big numbers, you had better consider an FIA instead of a slab side, as you can get wider rubber in the rear. If you are looking for a fun daily driver, then go with the slab side and an engine that the tires can manage. Enjoy your ride.
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Very good write-up and sums it up pretty well. 
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