What are some good mods besides a S/C lookin to get some real horse power or perfomance from besides what I already have.

 

Well, I am sure that you have heard it before... but the only thing that has really good bang for the buck besides adding a supercharger or nitrous (and I would go with the supercharger over nitrous any day for reliability sake) is the changing out of the rear gears. 3.73s are perfect, in mine and many other's opinion. You would get to the HP a lot faster with the lower gears, and with the 3.73s, you still maintain decent enough RPMs for city use. If you really want to get her going, then supercharging is the best way to go... boring the cylinders is not really an option for our thin walled aluminium blocks, so building more cubes is not going to last... You can check into some of the tuners... not that sure that you would gain much with that, but I don't have any experience with the tuners on our Cobras. I can tell you that I installed a piggy-back chip in my old 94 GT and really didn't see much (or at least couldn't feel much) of an increase.

 

4.10 gears
Don't fear the gear.....

 

if u wanna bring the saying into it... dont fear the gear.. depending on the driving... 4.30s are still very dooable too

get LT's, .. u/d pulleys, new wires(ford 9mm preferably).... and some other crap ill think of later

 

I love my 4.30's but his is more of a Daily driver, blown and 4.30's doesnt make for a good daily car.

 

go with 4.10's, HIGHLY recommend an aluminum drive shaft which will cost you around 200 bucks but definatley worth it, now those arent horsepower gains but are your best bang for the buck. Ill think of more later

 

so exactly does the aluminum drive shaft do to make it all that much better. i have always herd of doing this but didn't know the reason.

 

From my understanding, an aluminum shaft is MUCH lighter than a steel shaft (anyone have actual weights?). The lighter the shaft, the less rotational mass. The less rosational mass, the less hp it takes to make it spin. The less hp lost in the driveline, the more hp you put to the ground. Kinda the same principle as lightweight wheels or lightweight flywheel.


Matt

 

Don't forget about porting the heads and getting some cams. Much more expensive than gears, but the payoff is great. Plus, the sound of some medium cams will put fear into everyone you come across. They won't want any!!!

 

I installed an aluminium drive shaft in my 97 a little while ago... I thought that there whould be a big difference, but there wasn't because the steel one is hollow and pretty thin... the aluminum drive shaft is most definately stronger, but that won't come into play for several hundred more HP... What I found was actually a little lighter was the yoke, as the steel one is solid. But, all in all the difference in weight was very little. I think it would take a ton of HP made at the engine, before you could notice the slight gain in HP to the ground.