The new Whipple is the hot ticket for the Cobras. We havent had much luck with the KB stuff.. they tend to want to lock up.
What kind of power have you seen out of them? Those cars are sick, they are a modern day buick so to speak.
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SignUp Now!The new Whipple is the hot ticket for the Cobras. We havent had much luck with the KB stuff.. they tend to want to lock up.
What kind of power have you seen out of them? Those cars are sick, they are a modern day buick so to speak.
Yeah but here's hte question...
How many passes can they make like that before it breaks?
Yeah but here's hte question...
How many passes can they make like that before it breaks?
We had a Cobra in here about a month ago with a HP Performance twin turbo kit that made over 700 at the wheels..
I know some guys with the HPP kit, those are pretty cool.
My buddy just got his 04 Mystichrome Cobra back from the shop. He blew up the 4.6 with the ported blower, so he bought a 5.4 Navigator motor and went with twin 67s. It was from HPH, so probably a little different as far as turbo location than the HPP one.
Here is his buildup thread if you wanna see some pretty big $$$ being spent It should do 1000 at the wheels easy.
Must be nice to be in the oil business.....
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Well i have a 03 Cobra, and a GN, but the GN hasnt beat the Cobras ET yet!
You can't make a stock buick do low 13's? Really? Someones mistaken...
And nitrous for launching? Actually, it works dam good, but so does a new maf pipe/air filter, exhaust cut out, and a MBC with some M/T tires.
And who says a turbo's not a bolt on? Since the advent of these new bb turbos on here recently, I've seen some SWEET deals on some Ta49's and bigger turbos, for REALLY cheap. I don't know about you guys, but I replaced my stocker, (with another stocker. my seals went) in NO time. I could have done it in my sleep.
For 450 bucks and 45 minutes, you can add a lot of HP. They're simple swaps. The difference between a bigger turbo and our stockers is MINUTE. Were talkin millimeters of diameter. Hardly a huge affair. To add a supercharger to an N/A car is NOT a simple bolt on. That's surgery there. You just don't go out to your local speed shop with a few hundred dollars, buy one, drive home, and 2 six packs of Newcastle later, you're pushin 100 more hp. No... not happenin. Super/Pro chargers are expensive. There's no way you're sneakin' that one behind the woman's back. That one takes approval by the finance manager (your wife) 450 dollars for a used turbo on here is nothin. Turbo swaps are simple bolt-ons for us. Throwin a S/C on a mustang is not.
Now, if you yanked the air box entirely, and mounted the maf in place,
gut the cat, and yank the mufflers off
crush the fpr
turn up the boost
box the control arms
yank one maf screen
yank the ic screen
block off the turbos inlet bell oil tube
bellmouth the compressor housing
port the exhaust elbow, and threw on your buddies mickey thompsons, and dumped in two cans of xylene with a few gallons of 94, you'd have a low 13 second car all day. i could do all of this to a factory buick for zero dollars.
It seems ghetto, but it's free, and yanks a half second off a 13.7 car. There you have it. I have a good friend (he doesn't own the car anymore) do this back in 87, and ran a 13.1 on a warm day. I could imagine on a fall night here in michigan, on a 40 degree night, he could manage a bit faster. None of these are additions but the tires and the plates on the control arms. Now obviously I wouldn't drive around like this, because some things are going to start to suffer, without any supporting mods, but for just a few passes at the track, it gets the job done. These cars are torque hiders. It's like ragu, "It's in there." All you gotta do is just let it out. Mustangs are very fast and respectable cars, but I see the buicks beat them every day. At least around here, I NEVER see a buick lose to a mustang. Never.
I'm currently in the process to see how quick I can make a stock motor/turbo/IC go. I'm going to squeeze every last bit of hp out of my stock stuff, and report my progress on here ( I only have a little time to do it, as I redeploy in 4 weeks)
Most mustangs may have more HP, but I'm telling you guys they cannot drive. They lose all the time. Sure, they beat us on the freeway, but racing on the freeway is gay. That's not racing.
Bolt ons couldn't have been that decent on the 03 Cobra. Very easy to make big power with those cars. There are 3 in my neck of the woods that are throwing down close to 600 at the wheels!!! Stock blower.
Dangit n00b, you just bumped a super old thread :frown: