Can a Cobra hang with Z06, GTR, GT3 on Track?

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by SimonSays

Here's my buddy Phil in his Cobra at Spa Francorchamps. Will beat Z06es with one hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZrZw74rkC4
Near the end you can see him use a handle near the gearlever, that's a lockout to prevent shifting down into the wrong gear

And just to show the car is street legal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPD1yCzO5lM





At Spa, they run an open exhaust... It's errrrr loud

If that seat was back any further, he'd be in the trunk (or boot for those on the other side of the pond).

[Ant]

This is an interesting topic as when I first built my FE390 cobra 20 years ago I thought I was going to beat almost everyone and what a pig this car was it didnt handle due to the flex in the ladder frame chassis, it cooked the brakes and I was p***ed off, so I went and purchased the car now owned by Bevan Wright (NZ) which is an Almac New Zealand produced car with hilborn injected LS7 454, Seanz race box, 9" IRS Locked which was not nice, this car was made of Kevlar and weighed 1100kg wet would keep up with most cars in a straight line, it was a brutal motor car but twisted axles really needed a good LSD instead of the spooled diff.

With the benefit of experience I have sort of done it again and built what I think is going to be a very quick track car, but I am under no illusion that this car will take sorting to make it quick and that involves hard work time and money.
If I was going to just do track driving and wanted a car that was great to drive and real quick Lotus have just built a car called the (eleven) with 250bhp apparently this car is fantastic to drive at around £40,000 this car would see off most road cars on some tracks and be a real joy to drive with race car handling already built in.

Also if I lunched the Yates engine I would seriously look at what Scott has done and fit a modern LS7 505BHP engine and have probably almost as good lap times with a possible 30mpg on the road.