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Okay, so coming home tonight on Alicia from the freeway, I was constantly being surrounded by intimidating cars. It seemed that each car tag-teammed with the next, starting with a Cobra GT. Then a WRX wagon, and finally, the convertible GT Mustang.

First off, it was a convertible, had a pretty bumpin' sound system, yet a not-so-pretty girl in the passenger's seat. And I don't know if he understood how to drive manual very well.

Anyways, after an intimidating mile and a half, we end up side by side at the front of a red light. Little girl passenger [his g/f] looks over at me and smiles; I can't help but laugh to myself thinking, "I'm gonna get owned... but, it's all about smiles per mile, right?"

Light goes from red to green, and we start off pretty fast; no launch though. I keep picking up then shift kinda hard into second, but he just lets go of the gas. So I, thinking that he's not gonna go for it, go back to conservative shifting [I shifted into 3rd at about 57 mph]. Well, GT boy decided that he wants to show me up now [finally] and lets loose. That thing pulled pretty quickly, but had I been still in 2nd, I think I could've held him off a little bit more.Plus, he takes about 1 full second to shift. By the time I reached the good part of my powerband, he was back into cruise mode. So I stopped, too.

I dunno... don't we have some kind of weight advantage over convertible GTs? I know I woulda gotten raped in the end, but we never reached top gears.

 
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hmm... imo unless the GT doesnt know you're racing you have no chance...hehe. although they are ridiculously heavy cars... i think about 3200 lbs

 
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comparing a mustang gt's speed to a 7thgen civic... mustang wins in all ways. top speed, accel. power, etc.. (stock form that is)

they may be heavy, but still own us in the "speed" catergory.

 
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Yeah a 99+ convertible mustang is 260hp and like 3300-3400lbs probably. still driven right a mid 14 second car. He could easily win if he wanted while still mis shifting once or twice. . (im assuming you have a civic ex) with an Si he could probably mis shift once and still win.

 
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yep ... no chance ... they have more than 2.5x the displacement we do

 
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Thats so funny, i raced a Mustang gt conv. on the way home the other night too. But at the light we really did take off. I dropped it pretty hard (all i have is an aem cai) and he absolutly smoked me. There was never any chance

 
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eh. probably more like 3600, the new cobra is around 3800-4000lbs. They are pigs (of course the new murcielago is almost 4000 too, I hate that cars are getting so heavy).

 
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yep, the stock EX has no chance...

on the other hand, the SRT-4 He he he let's just say that even the Cobra guys absolutely hate me for spanking their ten cylinders with a F/I I4

 
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heavier cars = more 'damage' in a collision = not safe for other drivers


if people want to prevent racing and all that fun stuff, first step is to stop selling fast cars to the people.

 
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10 cylinders? wtf are you smoking..

Cobras are V-8's.

 
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Cobra = V8
2003-2004 Cobra = Supercharged V8

You must have quite a SRT-4 to be able to "spank" Cobra's.

 
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If it indeed was a stick, our civic have a clear advantage in shifting more quickly. If anyone has worked a Mustang T-5 shifter then you know what i'm talking about. Basically you need a map to find the next gear , that's how long the throws are.

 
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wow this guy really knows his cars (10 cylinder Cobra??) most bolt on cobras would destroy any SRT4

 
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not saying its not possible, but I wanna know what you have done to your SRT-4 to be beating a 12.9-13.0 stock car at any time like you say you are.

 
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Trust me, he's dreaming!

 
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i never had any problems driving 5 speed mustangs...

 
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i know srt-4's are 12.9 sec cars with 4-5 grand in mods but something tells be his isnt that fast

 
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i beat a GT at the drags before

 
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an srt-4 can beat cobra's with some money in mods, but its not easy

 
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Yes, cars are being built much too heavy, but the numbers aren't QUITE that high. Curb weight on a GT Convertable is 3379lbs.

First, might want to make sure you know what you are talking about before you start talking about spanking Cobra's. Sure, you probably have a 400hp SRT-4, but my friend's Cobra put down 371 WHEEL hp BONE STOCK. That equates to over 430 crank hp straight from the factory. So, with your lighter weight, your SRT-4 can probably edge out a STOCK Cobra by a car length or so, but when you are running mid-12's and trapping 113mph from the factory like Cobra's are, all it takes is a couple mods on the Cobra and almost no SRT-4 will EVER catch you. You do realize that there are STOCK BLOCK/HEADS/CAMS/INTERNALS Cobra's putting down over 1000hp, right???

First of all, Mustang GT's haven't come with a T-5 for several years. The 99-01.5's (maybe even earlier than 99) had T45's, and the 01.5+ GT's have a Tremec 3650 transmission. Second, put a Steeda Tri-ax shifter on the T5, and it's like a whole new tranny. But you are right, the stock throws are pretty dang long.

 
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you forgot to add....

AND STILL DOESNT GIVE ANY ADVANTAGE TO A CIVIC

was a funny post to read though

 
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lol omg at cmi at sacraceway some guy wit a cobra ran 15s lolllllllllllllllll every laughed at him he lost to an ep3

 
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lol btw did anyone see that vid of the supra killin the modded cobra *** domestics

 
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I raced a GT with 240whp he said

and i pulled on him in 2nd and then he beat me at 3rd

he later told me, only reason you got the jump on me was cause you put it in 2nd

you know your not supposed to do that.

What a retard, i dont have a mustang its meant to be driven that way not like some cheap *** mustang

 
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Did anyone see that vid of the Cobra running a 9.99 with just upgraded S/C and fuel???

I mean, really, you guys think that for some reason all domestics suck just because you happened to run into a couple of guys who both are morons and crappy drivers? A 240whp GT runs mid-high 13's with good driver and even a stock Cobra should run in the 12's with a good driver. Your arguments are totally illogical...

So, 1 Supra beats 1 Cobra and that means that ALL DOMESTICS SUCK!!!! By that logic, if my car beats a civic, all imports suck. Doesn't make sense.

 
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^ i agree

 
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I like how this guy thinks.

 
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I still wanna see the cobra with 10 cylinders! must be a specail edition or something! haha

 
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i saw to mustang gt's "stock i assume" run each other at the 1/8 track and one ran 10.2 and the other 10.4. they did not miss any gears and they both had good take offs they did not spin alot like i do. with that said look at my sig. and also one time i stayed dead evan with a gt through first but he stoped after that because he g/f started yelling at him.