so my friend has a 05 WRX. all he has is a cat-back. my 98 cobra only has a SLP catback, h pipe, and FIPK. who will win and by how much????

 

If he just has a catback, consider him bone stock. A catback exhaust on the WRX really doesn't do much performance wise. You've got to replace the downpipe, uppipe, etc before you see any real gains.

His AWD will generally give him the advantage from a stop, but I'd think you'd take him pretty easily after that. Especially if you guys raced from a roll, I don't think he'd have a chance.

Now if he had an 06 WRX, it might be a little more interesting. They're finding those to be severely underrated from the factory as they've gotten a 0.5L increase over the past models. Word on another forum is that an 06 WRX, bone stock, ran a 13.4.

 

ull win

 

You should win

 

A 14 second Cobra vs a 14 second turbo four banger, oh but of course this is mustangforums... so the mustang can nevar l0se!

 

Ahh your catching on

 

Stang

 

How is a 305hp cobra a 14 sec car? 99-04 gt is low 14 isnt it? Wrx awd 227hp vs cobra with 305+ hp? I dont get it. You are the one thats being inreasonable! 99gt vs WRX stock for stock goes to mustang. Maybe u can argue that, but not the cobra!

 

Yea dude. Unarguably it is the Cobra. If you want a real race stay with cars that have V8s or a least severly modified 6s, don't even bother with those 4 banger wanabes.

 

So what you're saying is that a 1998 Cobra weighing 3393 lbs and 305 hp is a 13 second car? Proof? You're going to debate me just to debate me on this, aren't you? When I see proof of this I'll retract my statements.

But when I see data like 305 hp, 3393 pounds and a 0-60 time of 5.4, I don't exactly think 13 second car. Since the 99-04 GTs pull 0-60s of 5.4-5.6 and they're low 14 in the quarter, I tend to think it's of equal performance between the two.

But hey, I guess numbers really do lie and weight never matters.