Horsepower To Weight

[Tim Brewer]

No, Fred you have it backwards. The Cobra has 4.73 hp per pound and the Viper has 5.23 hp per pound. The Viper has the advantage.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Tim Brewer

No, Fred you have it backwards. The Cobra has 4.73 hp per pound and the Viper has 5.23 hp per pound. The Viper has the advantage.

Then the cobra should have about ( 4.73 hp/lb x 2400 lbs ) 11,000 hp. What a ride.

The viper would have (5.23 hp/lb x 3400 lbs ) 18,000 hp, even a wilder ride.

The viper would be faster.

[Silverback51]

Sure glad some of you guys are not engineers.

[RICK LAKE]

sparks Forget the 600HP. It's about torque.... This is what moves the car. My cobra is 2705 lbs without a 200+ me inside it. 368 HP and 448ft of torque. With pilot tires of the 335/35 17 size my car runs a 12.59 at 110 mph. The motor is all done at 5,700 rpm. It's built for torque not HP. The viper makes a ton of torque down low in the rpm range. It also has traction control. The Viper cut through the air alot better than the cobra. To the best of my knowledge at Run&Gun not cobra has run on just motor a 9.99 second run. We have a 9.86 at 138 mph with a blue bottle and 3.07 gears. Cobra has a shorter wheel base than the Viper. The weight if transfered will only hurt it by .3-.5 in a 1/4 mile. A Viper should have a higher mph than the flying barn door. If both cars have the same torque and HP numbers, the viper should edge out the cobra in the lights. You have a big opening in the front of a cobra and a windshield than acts like a sail at high speeds. Remove the windshield the cobra would win. Rick L.