427 or coyote?

[bobcowan]

Mileage, sound, intended use, cost, resale value. Who cares???

This isn't really about any of those things. This is a Cobra, your dream car. Those are not the questions you should be asking.

Which one takes your breath away? Which one makes you smile just looking at it? Which one calls to you from the garage, "Drive me"? Which one gives you a woody?

Get that one.

[toddl]

Amen to that!

Todd

[jhv48]

Maybe it's just me, but I have a 2011 Shelby GT 500 Mustang with plenty of power (550 hp) and a nice fuel injected engine with 100,000 mile reliability. The wife drives it to work every day.

I bought the cobra to assault my senses! I want it to be raw, powerful, smelly, cantankerous, uncomfortable, a gas guzzler. I don't want the best fuel economy. I don't want yards and yards of electrical connections in my engine compartment. I don't want a muffled exhaust note so I can talk to my passenger. I want low end torque. I want simplicity, not complexity. Every time I start it up, I want to wonder what is going to go wrong this time. I want my balls to feel the firing pulses when it does start. I want to have to feather the throttle to keep it running because I have no choke to smooth things out. I want to be completely involved in the actual driving experience not just going through the motions. I want to feel the tires start to slip as I corner just a hair above their limit. I want to catch the rear end before it decides to become the front end. I want to be deafened by the sidepipes when I do put my foot into the carburetor. I want to arrive at my destination alive and all tingly with excitement. I want to be able to tinker with the engine, adjust the carburetor, set the timing, change the sparkplugs just for the heck of it.

Basically, my cobra takes me back to a time when cars were simple and raw, and it took all your skill and attention to drive and control them. There were no electrical nannies to make sure you didn't overstep your ability. If you got too enthusiastic, you paid for it either with a learning experience or a trip to the body shop.

That's why I will never put a Coyote engine under the hood of my cobra!

If I want to be bored, I drive the wife's car!

But, that's just me!

[Cashburn]

Originally Posted by jhv48

Maybe it's just me, but I have a 2011 Shelby GT 500 Mustang with plenty of power (550 hp) and a nice fuel injected engine with 100,000 mile reliability. The wife drives it to work every day.

I bought the cobra to assault my senses! I want it to be raw, powerful, smelly, cantankerous, uncomfortable, a gas guzzler. I don't want the best fuel economy. I don't want yards and yards of electrical connections in my engine compartment. I don't want a muffled exhaust note so I can talk to my passenger. I want low end torque. I want simplicity, not complexity. Every time I start it up, I want to wonder what is going to go wrong this time. I want my balls to feel the firing pulses when it does start. I want to have to feather the throttle to keep it running because I have no choke to smooth things out. I want to be completely involved in the actual driving experience not just going through the motions. I want to feel the tires start to slip as I corner just a hair above their limit. I want to catch the rear end before it decides to become the front end. I want to be deafened by the sidepipes when I do put my foot into the carburetor. I want to arrive at my destination alive and all tingly with excitement. I want to be able to tinker with the engine, adjust the carburetor, set the timing, change the sparkplugs just for the heck of it.

Basically, my cobra takes me back to a time when cars were simple and raw, and it took all your skill and attention to drive and control them. There were no electrical nannies to make sure you didn't overstep your ability. If you got too enthusiastic, you paid for it either with a learning experience or a trip to the body shop.

That's why I will never put a Coyote engine under the hood of my cobra!

If I want to be bored, I drive the wife's car!

But, that's just me!

I can appreciate everything you posted, but why not an FE then?

[AL427SBF]

Originally Posted by jhv48

Maybe it's just me, but I have a 2011 Shelby GT 500 Mustang with plenty of power (550 hp) and a nice fuel injected engine with 100,000 mile reliability. The wife drives it to work every day.

I bought the cobra to assault my senses! I want it to be raw, powerful, smelly, cantankerous, uncomfortable, a gas guzzler. I don't want the best fuel economy. I don't want yards and yards of electrical connections in my engine compartment. I don't want a muffled exhaust note so I can talk to my passenger. I want low end torque. I want simplicity, not complexity. Every time I start it up, I want to wonder what is going to go wrong this time. I want my balls to feel the firing pulses when it does start. I want to have to feather the throttle to keep it running because I have no choke to smooth things out. I want to be completely involved in the actual driving experience not just going through the motions. I want to feel the tires start to slip as I corner just a hair above their limit. I want to catch the rear end before it decides to become the front end. I want to be deafened by the sidepipes when I do put my foot into the carburetor. I want to arrive at my destination alive and all tingly with excitement. I want to be able to tinker with the engine, adjust the carburetor, set the timing, change the sparkplugs just for the heck of it.

Basically, my cobra takes me back to a time when cars were simple and raw, and it took all your skill and attention to drive and control them. There were no electrical nannies to make sure you didn't overstep your ability. If you got too enthusiastic, you paid for it either with a learning experience or a trip to the body shop.

That's why I will never put a Coyote engine under the hood of my cobra!

If I want to be bored, I drive the wife's car!

But, that's just me!

What a silly diatribe about nothing.

[jhv48]

Yet you took the time to read it and reprint it.

You might want to look up the term diatribe before you misuse it again.

Modern definition: noun
1. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:

And diatribes are rarely considered silly. So pick one, can't be both.

[AL427SBF]

Originally Posted by jhv48

Yet you took the time to read it and reprint it.

You might want to look up the term diatribe before you misuse it again.

Modern definition: noun
1. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism:

And diatribes are rarely considered silly. So pick one, can't be both.

Urban Dictionary ...
Diatribe: A neverending flow of words, phrases, sentences, and opinions from a speaker whose agenda was crystal clear in the first ten seconds of speech.

... about sums it up, in your case adolescent should follow neverending.

[jhv48]

So, your statement qualifies.

And now you're resorting to name calling? Really? Adolescent? Am not!

[madmaxx]

"Which one gives you a woody?" No car ever gave me one. I guess I still have my youth and women for that

In the end a $17.00 bottle of Jim Beam and big breast with pink n....s will do it every time over any car, unless you are in the car doing it and a Cobra is to small to really spread them far enough I digress....

Originally Posted by bobcowan

Mileage, sound, intended use, cost, resale value. Who cares???

This isn't really about any of those things. This is a Cobra, your dream car. Those are not the questions you should be asking.

Which one takes your breath away? Which one makes you smile just looking at it? Which one calls to you from the garage, "Drive me"? Which one gives you a woody?

Get that one.