I really get so tired of hearing people(especially the GM crowd) say it's too bad Ford had to put a supercharger on the cobra to make that kind of power.
Do any of us have any pull with Ford? NO
Ford choose several years ago to begin putting 4.6's in mustangs, not 5.0's, 5.8's 5.4's or what ever.
And I especially like when the GM crowd says well lets put a supercharger on an LS1 and see what kind of power it makes. Fords motors have typically been low compression, meaning 9.5:1 or lower. GM's motors are usually 10:1 or higher. Imagine how much more power a regular cobra would be if it was 10.5:1 like the LS1.
Now lets slap a blower on the 10.5:1 LS1 motor. How much boost can you make without destroying the motor, maybe 10 lbs with the best tune possible, most in the 6-8 lb range.
The cobra has 8.5:1 and runs 8 lbs from the factory. This thing could easily handle 15 lbs of boost with a conservative tune. If the power is as advertised, which I think it will, you add a full exhaust, smaller pulley, more gear, and a chip and a stock Z06 has meet it's match, even a lightly modded one.
I scan the net regularly to see what others are saying, and alot of the GM crowd is scared of this thing, they just want admit it. All I hear is excuses about the supercharger being cheating or they continue to refer to the 99' cobras lack of advertised power in hopes that the new cobra will be the same, at least they hope it will.
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