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Originally Posted by twobjshelbys
I guess you're faced with a Ferris Bueller's Day Off scenario. I think if I had a Cobra, where every time I sat in the front seat the car whispered "I'm going to kill you" and I instructed the kids that they were NOT to ever touch it, and I didn't feel I could trust them to heed that order, then maybe I've got a bigger problem than a rev limiter should be expected to fix. I'd be certain that anyone that can figure out how to get the car out of the garage will figure out how to turn the switch for the limiter. It might be useful for a valet (and that is precisely what some valet keys do) but not much value otherwise.
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The problem is you never know where the actual limit of accerator pedal travel is in a 500hp Cobra in 2nd gear. As Brian Angliss of Autokraft said “The 427 allows you to think that you’ve tamed it, but in reality you never can”
In a split second one can lose all control and by the time you realise it, your future is a matter of good or bad luck. 4 people in Germany died recently in two separate Cobra accidents, doing exactly that. I’m just trying to prevent that possibility. There’s a whole generation of kids that have never had to regain control of an out of shape and the Cobra sure isn’t the car to learn that on. It’s nothing to do with not trusting my kids, it’s to help protect them as we can’t tell them at what point the fun will stop.