Originally Posted by Shaggy

yeah im realy disapointed with the new look of the GTO. sure the numbers are good but they could have made it look like a muscle car not a luxury car, but oh well i cant afford one lol.

Originally Posted by own3dbyyou

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Yeah you're right. Pontiac is more along the lines of Chevrolets luxury car division anymore. I know the GTO doesnt have a twin in Chevy's line up. But the TA was more of a luxury sport coupe where as the Camaro was for ***** out performance. Same with the Crapolier, the Sunfire was slightly more luxurious and had a few more options than the Crapolier, but it was just as quick.</P>


Personally if I'm payin 30k for a GTO I want it to be a damn nice car and be quick as hell too...which is why lately I'd take a TA WS6 over an SS. </P>

Originally Posted by The_ImportEater

Good call dave. I just read this forum todayand i would have brought up that article too. I am a huge mustang fan and i could have bought a zo6 but, instead i opted to buy an 04 cobra because like you said you can buy a cobra and put enough money to make it more powerful and faster than a zo6 and i think even a viper! </P>


Now I have been trying to do figure out how and this is what i want to do bare with me though i am new at this stuff and anyone jump in if you want...</P>


1st INCOMING AIR: Seems easy. Now everyone in this forum knows that the '04 cobras come with an Eaton blower with8 psi, now i heard of a pulley that you can put on the superchargers that creates more boost that a supercharger can produce, is this true? If it isthen whats and called and who makes the best one? Now also I know that cold air is important so a cold air intake with a k&amp;n filter would also be intalled. From my understanding the stock 57mm twin bore throttle body is plenty big, right? Now I believe thats it for incoming.</P>


2nd MORE FEUL: Now to match that air im going to need more feul. How? feul pump andfeul injectors, right? Im still scetchy on that.</P>


3rd IGNTITION: Now i believe a better spark plug and maybe MSDS Ignition systems right? But what kind should i get?</P>


4th ANYTHING IM FORGETTING ON THE ENGINE I SHOULD CONSIDER?</P>


5th EXHAUST: FLOWMASTERS ( no brainer) with a bassani X-pipe. (when i got my v6 when i was in the military i put 18in. chrome icw rims and flowmasters( with a home made h-pipe)on it. it was a 98 and yellow with mirror tint (i didnt have that much money) but i loved the sound of my flowmasters. so i want them again</P>


drivetrain: help me out dont know chit about it</P>


SUSPENSION: Eibach lowering springs</P>


LET ME KNOW HOW IM DOING SO FAR AND IF YOU WANT TO HELP ID APPRECIATE IT.</P>


I WANT THE CAR TO HAVEmore HP, torque, and a better 1/4 mile time and handlingthan a srt-10 and z06. thanx if ya help.</P>


It will be easy for the car to make more power than a z06 and turn better 1/4 times than a completely stock ZO6. First you need an upper and lower pulley to create more boost, second you will need a cold air intake, third you will need a different plenum, 4th complete exhaust, including headers and x-pipe, you'll need a set of slicks or et streets to get the thing to hook. Once it hooks you're going to have to put a new heavy duty clutch in it and finally throw away the IRS rearend because it will grenade!!! It is going to take a lot of money to get your car to handle as a well as a z06. Believe it or not the Z is a factory race car. The Cobra weighs about 600 lbs more it will take a lot to get it to perform as well as the z on a road course. You will probably have 50k in the car including the price to get the cobra to beat the z in all performance categories. You can buy a new z for around 44k sink 8k in it for the lingefelter supercharger package and you will have a 10 second daily driver that will get 28 miles to the gallon on the highway and pull 1g on the skid pad. </P>