I think you would be surprised.

As I found out, a 420 WHP GT simply doesn't have anything for a modded terminator, even on the eaton. Once they port that eaton its all over.

525 WHP is simply too much to handle, even with a car that weighs alot less. Simply put, with an unlimited budget the cobra IS going to win.

would I rather have a cobra than my car (if everything was equal)? Hell yes. If you don't count the starting price the cobra is simply a better platform that will make more power. But the 2v is more than sufficent to run 10s with the right setup, and with a 10K or less starting price how can you go wrong?

 

I dont dislike the cobras at all! and i agree 100%that at 450 hp they do blow up and it happened.I bought a roush for the power, the looks, and the superior handling. on the track even the new gt500 cannot keep up with the handling of the Roush! It has been proven. In 2002 when i went to get the car it was between the cobra and the Roush and at the time the cobra had no sc, and the roush did. in 2003 they put a blower onthe cobrabut i still would rather have a roush. My dad owns an 04 cobra and we are always competing at the strip and the track. on the strip almost even; on the track he couldnt lay down the same times even with me drivin. Now it is NO competition now that i went centrifugal and a stroked shortblock with ported heads. my plans are to put a t-56 to get more top end and to handle the power. i didnt mean for my post to bash cobras, i jus thought the intial post was making non-cobra vehicles seeminferior.

 

I love being underated!!I love disapointingthose guys that have $50-$60,000cars and just got beat by $10,000 car.

 

See I had my 04' GT and I loved that car.. still do - still miss it when I see a Sonic blue GT... my decision to get the Cobra came to this... my eventual goal was 600rwhp. I took a look at my car payoff was then, then started doing math, to add the blower, tranny, built motor, axle, etc... then I took a look at the Cobra. In the end it was actually cheaper for me to go with the Cobra, as I really have no time to work on my car, and the knowledge to do the serious things that I needed to do. Once I get my ported blower on my car, i should be in the 500rwhp club, and later this year when the 100shot is on, i'll be in the 600rwhp club. Which was my goal... and in the end - ill be on pump gas, and according to what it would've cost, based on shop fees and parts to get where I wanted to be with my GT, i'd be spending about the same money.. and have a car that has an extra 60-80rwhp or so still...

I will say and im sure Dan and any other Terminator owner will agree with me. The cars are a blast to drive, even with the IRS. It's also kinda cool, because I get all sorts of thumbs up from random car owners... I have gotten compliments on the look sound, and the fact that its a terminator from everyone from a Ferrari owner (after I beat his car), to a guy a that builds 60's corvettes, to people driving Vipers.. and I also get a certain respect from all the Mustang drivers it seems when im out... Those are just the "cool" benefits of having the Terminator. But in the beginning, if it would've been cheaper for me to build the GT, I would have. And I wouldn't have been dissapointed because i would've still been driving a badass mustang, whether it was a Cobra or a GT.

With my horribly tuned 440rwhp/480lb ft torque, I have spanked a 360R and a Stage 3, and have beaten a S197 Stage 3 (that one was a bit closer)... and what you're talking about the Roush vs the GT500 the test was on the S197's NOT the new edges... The S197's handle a hell of a lot better... I have driven the new ones, and I have driven the 440A roush, which was superior to the 360R and Stage 3 New Edge.

 

whats the 440A roush? the only roush i have heard of above the stage 3 is the 427r...

 

I hear yah, I wanst refering to cobras that were maxed out on the eaton - just the run of the mill - maybe an exhaust and tune - he could put up a fight.

I still believe that modded GT is the best way to go for me, Ive done too much work to my car to trade up anyway, in that I would have to do it all over again

 

440A, They made 40 of them at a rated 400hp.I love the look of roushes.

 

basically a smaller pulley, Magnaflow exhaust, 18" roush wheels (not sure if the 360 and the 3 have those), and something different in the suspension. Interior wise they have special badging, and the suede/leather cobra seats they just say 440A on them - i believe those are the only differences... There were 40 of em like joey said, and all sold to Brandon Ford in Tampa, Fl. There are I think 37 left?