44-Year-old Cobra Wins Street Car Challenge

[Ron61]

They finally showed it here a couple of days ago and it was great to watch. In the Hot Rod Magazine article they said some people were complaining about the Cobra being to loud, not having enough after market parts, and about anything else they could think of. But I enjoyed seeing him drive it like that.

Ron

[lovehamr]

Originally Posted by Ron61

In the Hot Rod Magazine article they said some people were complaining about the Cobra being to loud, not having enough after market parts, and about anything else they could think of.

P***ys!

[Snakebit]

Watched it on Sunday after the 24hr Daytona race. It was great to see a 44 year old car kick ass. He had some mean slicks to make that beast stick to the pavement!

[Wayne Maybury]

I watched the entire show and just loved the outcome. I was somewhat worried about the 0-60-0 as the car did not have ABS nor did it have traction control. It still obliterated everything else that was supposed to be competing with it.

Several people have mentioned that the Cobra was modified. This was part of SEMA and of course the Cobra was modified as only modified cars were allowed to compete. The reason it did not do better in the show competition is because the car's appearance has not really been changed. Every car in that competition was very heavily modified, engines, drive trains, suspensions, exterior and interior designs, etc.

I thought that the Can-Am Boss 302 would do better than it did.

Wayne

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by Wayne Maybury

I watched the entire show and just loved the outcome. I was somewhat worried about the 0-60-0 as the car did not have ABS nor did it have traction control. It still obliterated everything else that was supposed to be competing with it.

Several people have mentioned that the Cobra was modified. This was part of SEMA and of course the Cobra was modified as only modified cars were allowed to compete. The reason it did not do better in the show competition is because the car's appearance has not really been changed. Every car in that competition was very heavily modified, engines, drive trains, suspensions, exterior and interior designs, etc.

I thought that the Can-Am Boss 302 would do better than it did.

Wayne

I did notice the benefit of ABS: Those with them finished going in a straight line. The Cobra and several others fishtailed, and the Cobra did so quite a bit. Still stopped pretty fast though!

[Cobra #3170]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

I did notice the benefit of ABS: Those with them finished going in a straight line. The Cobra and several others fishtailed, and the Cobra did so quite a bit. Still stopped pretty fast though!

The Cobra fish tailed because it had a touch too much rear Bias. I set it up like that because we use left foot braking on the autox course and with power on, if it didn't have rear bias it would lock the fronts too soon. During the 0-60-0 I kept increasing the front bias on each run so that the last one is almost a straight stop. I plan on putting 315x30x18's on the front which should improve the stop quite a bit. You are right though, we made all our time in accelerating 0-60.
The Boss Mustang had some pretty bad tires on it (bias ply race tires that were very hard) he would have been much faster on modern tires.

[csx4910]

I would love to know what suspension mods and what engine you are running? I saw a referrence to it not being the original engine but no details as to what is in there now. An absolutely gorgeous car!!