Went to the track, killed some cobras...

heres the setup, some friends of mine were at the strip today and had some guys they knew there who happened to own a pair of cobras.
anyhow, as soon as i pull in, the cobra owners are asking me to run and blah blah blah.

anyhow, they were apparently pissed cause i have a cobra killer decal on the SS, so they talked shit about me having to take it off when they spank me.

okay...

so i made a couple motor runs of about 8.30 and what have you. then i changed jets to my 150 shot and lined up on the first cobra. it was a pulleyed, exhaust, intake, tuned 03. anyhow, i ran a 7.646 @ 96.13mph and destroyed his ass. as i was informed, when i shifted into 2nd, it pulled my left front wheel off the track
so then the other cobra wants some, car was a full bolt on car, cammed, making 22lbs of boost. next at the line, i treed his lights out and ran like a 7.70 and once again spanked ass.

so i was going to make some motor only runs solo, and he wanted another piece, so i armed the kit and ran him again. this time right before 3rd, my bottle ran out, and backfired. destroyed my MAF (see pics) anyhow, i still beat him

goddamn cobra drivers.

so this weekend's breakdown:

93 octane - $25

SLP MAF - $195

K&N Filter - $62

beating over $100k of cobra...priceless.


MAF: http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...f/MAFFUBAR.jpg

did those pieces get into the motor?

really dunno lol, they were embedded into the filter, the airlid was blown off the base, and there was foil all over the engine bay. if i did suck them in, meh, it happened, guess we'll see if she blows up.

Then Cobras must really make it up in the back 1/8th... Cause I'm running 7.6-7.7 1/8 too.. but they are running 11.xx 1/4 times.. where I can only manage a 12.1....

what times were those cobras runnin? my car does 7.84 in the 1/8 but some of those cobras will get ya in the 1/4.

there is an srt-8 in my town that says ss eatr on the place. My buddy and i went to the same bar and saw him there. my buddt walked up to him and said he has $1000 on the f-body sitting out side, the guy declined and acted like he didn't care to race all of a sudden

Hope i see him at a light on night then he will read my plate 865-ZTB. LOL

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Originally Posted by Silver Streak

Then Cobras must really make it up in the back 1/8th... Cause I'm running 7.6-7.7 1/8 too.. but they are running 11.xx 1/4 times.. where I can only manage a 12.1....

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same here bud. whenever funds become more abudent i'm looking to get those afr heads

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Originally Posted by silverz28camaro

same here bud. whenever funds become more abudent i'm looking to get those afr heads

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When the 87 is on the road.. I'm gonna start saving up for heads and cam for the 02.. :)

they were running 7.80's all night. they tried to spray on me in addition to boost, but couldnt get their bottle to come on. lol, 2 power adders.

as far as an SRT8 goes, unless its turbo'd i wouldnt be scared of it.

maxwax also ran with me, his car runs 7.68 1/8ths and 11.49 1/4's

if i ever get to a real track, i think my SS will be a low 11 car.

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Originally Posted by Silver Streak

When the 87 is on the road.. I'm gonna start saving up for heads and cam for the 02.. :)

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even if you did just a cam you should be mid high 11's i would imagine. what is the rest of your times 60' and mph

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Originally Posted by Fury_786

they were running 7.80's all night. they tried to spray on me in addition to boost, but couldnt get their bottle to come on. lol, 2 power adders.

as far as an SRT8 goes, unless its turbo'd i wouldnt be scared of it.

maxwax also ran with me, his car runs 7.68 1/8ths and 11.49 1/4's

if i ever get to a real track, i think my SS will be a low 11 car.

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what was your 1/8 mile mph?

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Originally Posted by silverz28camaro

even if you did just a cam you should be mid high 11's i would imagine. what is the rest of your times 60' and mph

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1.6 60
7.6 1/8 @ 87.53
12.15 1/4 @ 109.28

Yeah, but if I'm going through the trouble of the cam.. might as well do the heads while I'm at it too... only tear it apart once... for a while anyway.. lol

1.93 60'

96.13mph

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Originally Posted by Silver Streak

1.6 60
7.6 1/8 @ 87.53
12.15 1/4 @ 109.28

Yeah, but if I'm going through the trouble of the cam.. might as well do the heads while I'm at it too... only tear it apart once... for a while anyway.. lol

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True that. i think i'm going cam only for now just to see what it does plus its more in my price range, or if i get a good deal on some ls6 heads i will install those also

Ive got a 594/594 cam kit for mine, just dont wanna install it.

nice kills.........what part of ga u in ?

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Originally Posted by Fury_786

heres the setup, some friends of mine were at the strip today and had some guys they knew there who happened to own a pair of cobras.
anyhow, as soon as i pull in, the cobra owners are asking me to run and blah blah blah.

anyhow, they were apparently pissed cause i have a cobra killer decal on the SS, so they talked shit about me having to take it off when they spank me.

okay...

so i made a couple motor runs of about 8.30 and what have you. then i changed jets to my 150 shot and lined up on the first cobra. it was a pulleyed, exhaust, intake, tuned 03. anyhow, i ran a 7.646 @ 96.13mph and destroyed his ass. as i was informed, when i shifted into 2nd, it pulled my left front wheel off the track

so then the other cobra wants some, car was a full bolt on car, cammed, making 22lbs of boost. next at the line, i treed his lights out and ran like a 7.70 and once again spanked ass.

so i was going to make some motor only runs solo, and he wanted another piece, so i armed the kit and ran him again. this time right before 3rd, my bottle ran out, and backfired. destroyed my MAF (see pics) anyhow, i still beat him

goddamn cobra drivers.

so this weekend's breakdown:

93 octane - $25

SLP MAF - $195

K&N Filter - $62

beating over $100k of cobra...priceless.


MAF:

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how were they $100k worth of cobra's?

SpeedAddict38: i live in Bremen, its on I20 west of Atlanta.

Trickstang, one of the cars was worth approx 50k, the other 60, thus 110. and 110 > 100. :)

heres the cobras leaving

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m...t=Video003.flv

and this is the 7.64 run...

http://s100.photobucket.com/albums/m...0309081644.flv

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Originally Posted by Fury_786

SpeedAddict38: i live in Bremen, its on I20 west of Atlanta.

Trickstang, one of the cars was worth approx 50k, the other 60, thus 110. and 110 > 100. :)

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i must have missed some of the details... were the wheels solid gold?

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Originally Posted by Fury_786

Trickstang, one of the cars was worth approx 50k, the other 60, thus 110. and 110 > 100. :)

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Wow....didn't know the price of lightly-moddified Cobras had gone up that much.

Also, very, very, very few 03/04 Cobras are "cammed" - especially those that are supposedly making 22 lbs of boost (law of diminishing returns, given the cost of replacing all those cams). Going further, 22 lbs of boost means well north of 600 RWHP. If the guy was only running high 7's in the 8th, then you beat a poor driver.

Still a win, of course.

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Wow....didn't know the price of lightly-modified Cobras had gone up that much.

Also, very, very, very few 03/04 Cobras are "cammed" - especially those that are supposedly making 22 lbs of boost (law of diminishing returns, given the cost of replacing all those cams). Going further, 22 lbs of boost means well north of 600 RWHP. If the guy was only running high 7's in the 8th, then you beat a poor driver.

Still a win, of course.

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im just going by what i was told. the red vert supposedly had over 60 in it, and the black one was approx 50 he said. and they had a dyno sheet showing something like 550hp. both cars were at least, exhausted, intercooled, full intake, tuned, one was sprayed and both had some good drag tires.

blkcloud, i may have beat a poor driver, or a car that wouldnt hook, or whatever, but i do appreciate the win is a win statement :) thanks

trickstang, it obviously burns you up that this happened. sorry that you werent there to prevent it.

Ok - one or both of them was blowing smoke up your Derriere.

- Only an aftermarket blower will make 22 lbs of boost, so they either had a KB/Whipple, or weren't making 22 lbs.

- All 03/04 Cobras are intercooled from the factory.

- There are no aftermarket intakes for Cobras.

It would be interesting to see the timeslips for all (if you could post them). I say this, because while you had a very high 1/8th mile MPH (good for probably 120-ish in the 1/4), your ET wasn't very good for that MPH, indicating a lot of spin. Assuming they had ~550 RWHP, then I suspect they had even more spin, and those "good drag tires" weren't doing any good at all.

Finally....it is quite possible that they had put a total of $50k+ in the cars (price of the car plus mods) but there is no way on God's green earth that their market value would be anywhere near that right now. In fact, assuming mods needed to make 550 RWHP, but in otherwise good condition, probably $25k-$30k.

i agree, the market value isnt going to be that much. i assume that they were tlaking about money invested.

the red car had a KB charger. and by intake, i mean CAI, as the supercharg ris the intake.

the only timeslip i have from both of us running is the run aginst the black car,

his times were:

60' - 1.91

330 - 5.317

594 - 7.52

1/8 - 7.998

also the cars were running aftermarket intercoolers. not sure of the brand, but were polished and some kind of fabbed aluminum.

Yes, there are several aftermarket heat exchangers made. I had one on the 04 Cobra I used to own. Much larger than stock, looked better, and per my data logging, a complete waste of money. You should tell them as much if you see them again. :)

What was the MPH for that car? How about the other one? 1.91 on any sort of sticky tires is horrid - unless he is just completely and totally blowing the tires off. 1.91 on a true street tire would be outstanding with a manual tranny.

Did you lose the other timeslip or what?

his mph was 95, so he was running when he got her moving.

I had NT on my window, so the track wouldn't show our times, the one timeslip i have is because the guy who hands out the slips forgot to separate them.

the red car ra within a car or two of me, i blew my MAF at the end of the last pass but still won by a couple feet.

i believe they were running MT ET Street Radials. the same thing i was.

ive since ordered some plain ET streets, 26x11.5x17, basically cheater slicks. ive got to get my 60' down.

i would like to tell them about the coolers, but the kid's dad (i ran the son and his dad owned the cars) was a real prick and knew it all. thats the reason im so proud of what happened. i dont care to lose, but winning is always better, especially when someone is talking trash.

they were at my car as soon as i pulled in wanting to race and telling me how they were going to spank me.

after we were done racing, the guys dad was making excuses, but his son came over and talked to me. i told him that we'd do it again when he got his spray working. im not sure how im gonna do aginst 2 power adders, but its for fun, so i dont really care. ive got a car that runs 8's in the 1/4 so i have nothing to prove :)

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Originally Posted by Fury_786

im just going by what i was told. the red vert supposedly had over 60 in it, and the black one was approx 50 he said. and they had a dyno sheet showing something like 550hp. both cars were at least, exhausted, intercooled, full intake, tuned, one was sprayed and both had some good drag tires.

blkcloud, i may have beat a poor driver, or a car that wouldnt hook, or whatever, but i do appreciate the win is a win statement :) thanks

trickstang, it obviously burns you up that this happened. sorry that you werent there to prevent it.

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nah, not at all. i dont even really care all that much when i lose at the track, i could care less about someone else's losses. just your $100000 statement does not add up at all.

and if that KB cobra was trapping 95 in the 1/8, that would be about 120-122 in the 1/4, well WELL below where it should be. I mean, its possible, someone on the svt boards (svtperformance) just posted up his times with three slips of him trapping 120-121 in his KB cobra, but he is pretty distrought as to why his car is trapping so low. Looks like he's down almost 100rwhp. It should be ATLEAST 127+.

500 rwhp (ported stock blower range) should be in the 120-123's and higher.

those cobras are not worth even close 50k

since when does it cost 25k+ to put boltons on a cobra.

you were racing bullshiters. but at least you beat them :)