Thread: Lightest Cobra?
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Old 04-23-2008, 04:32 AM
john chesnut john chesnut is offline
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I agree that a "heavy" Cobra with 450hp can make you crap your pants! I like cars with razor sharp handling (with out race car harshness), steering and braking. My new chassis is an evolution of a chassis that I have been building for Dragon. At run n gun th car proved to be an exceptional performer. With stock 405hp and stock suspension it won the road racing, drag racing, and autocross. I am not a "driver" so the performance is even more impressive. For small block powered cars with street tires, I won the road racing by, I think 5 seconds per lap. I also beat any big block time. There were alot of Cobras in the event. The second place car was a Dragon. As an added bonus my car gets over 30mpg.
I love Cobras of all types. New suspension technology offers many advantages. Some of the design considerations are roll center, scrub radius, anti dive, anti squat, center of gravity, bump steer, camber gain, roll steer, scrub radius, king pin inclination, and there is more! Get it right and the car becomes an extentsion of you. That feeling is majic.
Just being light isn't enough and by itself doen't insure a great car. Every thing else has to be right too!
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