how much abuse can the termi engine take?

i like to floor it but everytime i do i get real paranoid that it's gonna break something. i'm not used to driving something so fast and as loud as it is, how long would it survive if you really got on it 2-3 times a day but not taking it to redline?

 

Just do your annual maintenance and you'll be fine

 

Is this a serious question? ...I'd go a little slow before you hurt yourself or someone with your age and experience! ...Just keep the R's down

Cobra can handle plenty...what about you?

 

Agreed

Lots of things happen when you romp on gas consistantly and it is generally a cumulative effect. Eventually you will likely wrap it around something or get so many tickets you will have to sell it due to insurance rates. This is not an idictment (< speling?) on your driving skills, just an eventuality as someone will ALWAYS be there to take you up on a launch from a stoplight (except me )

The eventual outcome will be on this forum and just a link to Youtube

 

I think it can take plenty of abuse. John Coletti and his SVT team did torture tests on the cobra engines. They ran them for 300 straight hours from peak torque to redline, back and forth over and over again thats 12 and a half days of continuous abuse. They also rant several 8 straight hour track days to be extra safe.

If it cant stand up to that I'm sure it can hadle just about anything you can throw at it on the streets.




Also Jazzer the Cat I envy your chassis. IDK if my could pass that jackstand test, Do you have some sort of crossbrace?

 

haha, that may be true for most, but i would bet money against that...my insurance is full coverage with $50 deductable and it's only $1020 a year and i'm 17

but +1 on the stoplight thing

 

What kind of insurance coverage are we talking?? Limits please! I don't care about a $50 deductable...FYI mine's less then $250 a year on an 03 Cobra....

Your own policy or under your parents?

 

damn, that's the loswest insurance i've ever heard of on any car, it's under my parents policy with me listed as driver, i know the coverage is up there cause my step dad is paranoid about stuff like that and doesn't "want to lose everything he has", i know we have a $2,000,000 umbrella policy on top of it too

 

....Trust me, if you went out on your own policy...you'd be paying at least 3 times what you are paying!

I'm old ...but young!

 

oh i know, my mom told me if i ever got caught racing she'd make me get my own too, without any of my discounts it woulda been around $2650, it's rediculous

i've never even heard of that low of a rate on something that was even a POS car before, congrats to you, i think you win best driver award