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04-20-2020, 12:07 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Gilroy,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2291, Whipple Blown & Injected 4V ModMotor
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As vehicle owners / builders, in many cases, we all recognize our car's potential to easily get out of control without warning. The idea of using a TCS is not about trying to optimize the performance of the vehicle. It is all about safety and allowing us to drive the vehicle without having to pay continuous attention to the road surface / conditions to prevent a crash or worse.
The fact that the TCS is an all on 100% of the time traction control safety allows us to enjoy the car w/o the continual need to be sensing if we have pushed s bit too far. People can get tired, fatigued or just complacent with the vehicle and its handling proclivities. A computer will not — although it can breakdown. It's breakdowns will occur less frequently than our human misjudgments.
In the end this is about optimizing safety, you, me, the car and innocent bystanders — nothing more.
Ed
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Help them do what they would have done if they had known what they could do.
Last edited by eschaider; 04-20-2020 at 12:11 AM..
Reason: Spelling & Grammar
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04-20-2020, 01:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Adelaide,
SA
Cobra Make, Engine: AP 289FIA 'English' spec.
Posts: 13,152
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I don't know, I must be too 'mature' to understand this.
I have never been able to understand why, if you're building a replica, you would want to build mega-horsepower into your 289 replica or 427 replica. The originals got by with those displacements, so why do some of us chase so much displacement and horsepower that our cars become dangerous?
Were there 400+ cid Windsors and 500+ cid FEs available in the '60s? No. So why put them in now?
As Ed said above....
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Originally Posted by eschaider
.....In the end this is about optimizing safety, you, me, the car and innocent bystanders....
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For varied reasons....stay safe!
Cheers,
Glen
Last edited by xb-60; 04-20-2020 at 01:39 AM..
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04-20-2020, 08:43 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Chilliwack,BC,
BC
Cobra Make, Engine: F5 Roadster
Posts: 1,422
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Don't blink
Before you step on gas remember to put your medical card in your wallet.
Perry
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F5 cobra Mark 4 roadster, **SOLD** Ruby Wine Red with pearl,
dual 2" roll bars, warmed up 302, Edelbrock AVS carb and heads, E Street aluminum Heads, Comp cam and roller rockers, AOD, 4.10 Eaton Posi, Power Baer/disc brakes, block hugger headers, 2 1/2" under car exhaust, F500 18" black spoke wheels.
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04-20-2020, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
Posts: 22,025
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HighPlainsDrifter
Before you step on gas remember to put your medical card in your wallet.
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And an organ donor card for both you and your car. That way, when someone is looking at the pile of rubble and says "dang, I could really use that intake manifold..." you've already put the machinery in place for him to get it. |
04-20-2020, 09:27 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Las Vegas,
NV
Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby CSX4005LA, Roush 427IR
Posts: 5,629
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Originally Posted by xb-60
I don't know, I must be too 'mature' to understand this.
I have never been able to understand why, if you're building a replica, you would want to build mega-horsepower into your 289 replica or 427 replica. The originals got by with those displacements, so why do some of us chase so much displacement and horsepower that our cars become dangerous?
Were there 400+ cid Windsors and 500+ cid FEs available in the '60s? No. So why put them in now?
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Bragging rights.
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Cheers,
Tony
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04-20-2020, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: St. Augustine,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: E-M / Power Performance / 521 stroker / Holley HP EFI
Posts: 1,935
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mega-horsepower == dyno queen
It makes no difference whether the grenade pin snags on something and is pulled out, or whether you pull it out yourself.
You're still catapulted into the next world...
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Wells's law of engine size: If it matters what gear you're in, the engine's too small!
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04-20-2020, 10:48 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: St. Augustine,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: E-M Cobra - RCR GT40
Posts: 500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Wells
mega-horsepower == dyno queen
It makes no difference whether the grenade pin snags on something and is pulled out, or whether you pull it out yourself.
You're still catapulted into the next world...
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Says the man with the 517 c.i. big block and the tell-tale sig line...  |
04-20-2020, 12:03 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: St. Augustine,
FL
Cobra Make, Engine: E-M / Power Performance / 521 stroker / Holley HP EFI
Posts: 1,935
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike I
Says the man with the 517 c.i. big block and the tell-tale sig line... |
And 40K miles.
And only one DUD ( driving upside down) incident...
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Wells's law of engine size: If it matters what gear you're in, the engine's too small!
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04-21-2020, 04:54 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Shasta Lake,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine:
Posts: 26,615
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I have never had an accident but I have pushed the limits on some of our backwoods mountain roads in the past. And as one member said the cars get up to speed very quickly. My Coupe will be at 100 MPH in a heartbeat it seems and as I have gotten older I tend to drive more cautiously and stay off the freeways and main roads.
Ron
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