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The Cobra will own the base Corvette in performance. On the street, or at the track.
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Unit- I respect your opinion, but I thought I'd give mine. Please don't take this as a flame.
IMO, I think that the new cobra should hold it's own in a straight line, but I'm not sure about on a road course. Here's why:
- The corvette is better balanced (50/50 wieght dist. vs 57/43)
- The corvette is a lot lighter (3200lbs vs 3650lbs)
- Vettes are dynoing 300-315 rwhp stock vs 330-340 (if the Cobras make the
Advertised 390 hp). I don't know if the difference in hp will make up for the difference in weight.
- I also think braking will be better on the vette due to the lower weight, but that remains to be seen
A guy on the corral has a 2000 C5 that dynoed 310-315rwhp and went 12.80-12.90@114 bone stock. I think if you put that car on a road course with a 03 Cobra, it would be a close race or maybe even beat it. Granted, that's a strong running vette, but I don't think an average vette will be much slower. Of course this is all speculation at this point, but it should be interesting to see what kind of performance numbers the Cobras put up.