Cobra Safety and HP

[meat]

Originally posted by BANDIT 1 As far as myself, if I am cruising on a two lane hiway in the middle of nowhere and there are no cars around. Damn right I'll take her from 70 - 100 mph for several car lengths and then back off, so what?

Using an original Cobra as a baseline, it can go 0-100 in 10.4 seconds. So you, accelerating from 60 to 100, should take about 6 seconds. During that time, you've going from traveling 5,280 feet in a minute to traveling 8,800 feet in a minute. During those six seconds you're going to cover a pretty good distance. A child with a ball, a deer, a rabbit, or any number of things could jump out in front of your public exhibition of speed during your non-professional driver on open road stunt. You could hit a rock, take a nail, have a blow out or any other thing that doesn't occur on a racetrack.

That's cool.

A Cobra goes 0-100-0 in 15 seconds. That's on a closed course, with a driver who knows that he's going to be stopping from 0, so he's ready for it.

You aren't that good. The instant that you think you are, Mr. "Everyone Is Stalking Me," you're dead, and we get to start a thread up about you...I won't be one of the people who include the word "condolence" in my post.

Your pal,
Meat.