i guess it varies from place to place.

over here mach 1s go for around 13k tops. (stock, low miles, great shape)

cobras cost quite a bit more over here than mach 1s. if you cant afford a cobra i can see why a mach 1 would be a great alternative.

everyones entitled to their own opinion.

 

sorry dude, but your a complete idiot.. I have seen a handful of blower kit, bolt on gts barely trap over 110mph...

i have seen damn never everybolt on mach, auto and stick, trap 108 to 112mph easy...

not to mention 10psi for 10psi the mach would put trains on a gt and probly be damn near a second faster... Yes you have to build the bottom end, but you dont need to do heads or cam like you would in a 2v...

not to mention they look better than alot of 2vs, they have better interior, and stock for stock, mod for mod would kill a 2v...

 

im the idiot? i was comparing a mach and a 03/04 cobra, not a gt...gtfo

14k for a whooped mach 1 that is about ready to shoot rods through the block is a bad investment...a cobra can be had for the same price as making that mach reliable

and a built 2v is just as capable as a built 4v, and if you disagree then you seriously dont know your ****...theres 2v motors pushing well over 900hp....sure you would need heads and cams, but the car already cost that much less than a mach that will also need cams and a whole bottom end

for making major power, a mach is not a good starting point compared to a cobra...unless the mach is had for cheap...he paid a **** load for his mach for the condition its in, and therefore i said it was a bad move....

over all the cost of machs is outrageous compared to the cobras which are so much more of a better car for so close to the same price...theres a 3-4k difference in a cobra and a mach, and thats not even if you get a good deal on a cobra...if youre happy with sub 450 hp, why not just get a gt and throw a shaker hood on it?

if you want more than that, get a 03/04 cobra and have a better starting point compared to buying a mach and building it

 

in 10 minutes of looking, i found 2 cobras with less miles than that mach, for 4k more... i bet you could even talk them down since it was their starting asking price

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...-03-cobra.html

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...-sb-coupe.html




look around for a month or two instead of 10 minutes and i guarantee you will find a deal.... 14k for a mach with that many miles and that many mods, is just outrageous

 

most of the 03-04 cobras in my area are still over 20k

 

4v>2v in terms of capability.. bottom line, no matter how much money you got....

 

did you happen to read either of the add you posted.. One of the guys has sprayed and dismayed in his sig? yeah, that sounds like something i want to spend 18k on.. A car with a hole in the bumper, a car thats most likely been sprayed to hell, an obviously he just beats the **** out of it.. Why else would you have 4.10s and a solid rear, with prostars?


then if you look at the other one its a freaking autocross car.... Do you have any clue how much abuse these cars get put through?

 

and a mach 1 bottom end will last at 500rwhp pretty reliably.... obviously when you are talking about a car with a head cam intake setup that is leaps and bounds more efficient more than a gt, it will obviously make more power safely on a similar set of internals...

 

but also your talking 4kdollar price difference... thats enough for a built motor, and he already has a blower setup thats a hell of alot better than an eaton... so for the same price as a cobra, you could have a built motor with 0 miles, and a blower thats will probly do 100more rwhp than an eaton.

 

proof now!

I PERSONALLY know a guy, his name is Jay he lives up here he had a GT making 42xwhp for 2 years! sold it and bought a Mach and eventually supercharged it. Making 43xwhp it snaped a rod in half and he has pictures to prove it. Oh This was 2 months after he supercharged it. Same shop tuned it as his GT. Really i think its just how lucky you tend to be but i have NEVER seen a stock internal GT or Mach make more than 470 to the wheels for more than 6 months and not blow to pieces.

oh and i agree with black, Machs around here are only a few k cheaper than termis, thats why i would never consider one, a friend of mine bough a mach for 17,9 out the door with 32k on it, another friend spent 18,5 on a termi with 43k on it, I don't see the point if you can get a blower and forged internals for that much more. And as far as mach to GT goes, Compare prices there, you can damn near have a blown GT on stock internals for the same price as a mach bone stock.