Originally Posted by FredBMOC (Post 1108378)

D111, sorry this post got longer then I thought when I started to write it :eek:...

First, to answer your question from personal experience, BDRs hook up well and "squat" and launch off the line really well. The tires and suspension help a lot in this department and in fact, in the short 6 months of owning my car I have not spun my rear tires once (nor tried) but I have not revved and launched it even once because to me its plenty fast just from a regular start. I also have not timed my car 0-60 nor been to a drag strip so I can't tell you times but my "seat of the pants" meter tells me it's plenty fast :p .

Now for the thread derailing part of my post and very honestly, not trying to preach but simply telling everyone my personal feelings about what a cobra is all about:
I guess we all get our cobras for different reasons and at different stages of our lives, I'm 44 going on 45yo, so still relatively young for this forum :eek::LOL:, with a young child and I have had many modern european sports cars ( Porsches, Lotus, BMWS, etc :D) and to me any Cobra is about the looks, the sounds, the smells, the passion, etc. 0-60 times are ok to talk about, and cobras are generally great at that, same for 1/4 mile times, but IMO at the end of the day all cobra makes replicate an old 1960s technology, with all of it's goods and bads, and in the real world most will lose real races to powerful modern cars. Cobra's (all of them) frames flex a lot more than modern cars; carburated engines are beautiful but if you drive them to a different location, different season ( hotter/colder, more air pressure or less), the car won't make the same power as where it was originally tuned; cobras require considerably more care and a whole lot more seat time to learn how to drive well because of their inherent characteristics of narrow and short wheelbases and because they have no electronic safety features and there is nothing wrong with that in fact that is exactly what these cars are all about: raw, unrefined, technology free: no AC, no ABS, no DSP, PSP, PPG, PTSD :confused:. I think we can all bench race our BDRs against your friends ZR1 or Ferrari 458s ( from the other thread ) about 0-60 times but in a real world race we'd very likely lose and there would be no shame in that at all. Did you see the video of the car show where the SPF Daytona Coupe goes against the Viper? On paper the Daytona should win but in the real world, modern technology has a big advantage plain and simple and the Viper won.
I think you are going to find when you get your car that you enjoy a cobra all the time, even when you stand next to it and drool over its beautiful classic and aggressive lines; the way people young and old stop next to you at every light and eye your car and open their windows to ask what it is, what year it is, is it fast, what rear end you have ( I got asked that question by a kid on a brand new Shelby Super Snake at the stop light yesterday, his car sounded mean ! and I think he wanted to see if he could take me if we raced :LOL:), and on and on. How many people are going to look at a ZR1 and be able to tell it's any different from all of the hundreds of thousands of other vettes in town? or marvel over its lines; it's a vette, an awesome vette, but there are a lot of them and there will always be.
IMO, take your friend who has a ZR-1 for a ride or better yet, let him drive it himself and I believe he will be plenty impressed with your car and it's acceleration without you guys even having to race. These cars are just that awesome! but if you really want to race, then go for it and win or lose just have fun with it ;).

At the end of the day I am sure that you are going to enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine! as a matter of fact I am driving mine today again because the weather is going to be beautiful so today is a "cobra day"!

Peace!