No no, I didn't mean it like that. Out here in CO we have a track called Second Creek Raceway. And, while it is a great track it evens out the mix between small demon handling yet tragically underpowered cars and Big Muscle Cars because the Muscle Cars don't have room to stretch their legs. The larger the max horsepower in the class the larger the raceway (to a degree). That being said, the smaller tracks prove the potency of smaller cars such as the S2000 which I can take with the firebird in the straights and in the twisties but I can't outbreak them and I can't carry quite as much speed through a tight hairpin. I hope that cleared it up a bit.

 

i assumed you didn't mean it the way i thought you did at first. I'm glad you clarified.



I actully when out with a buddy of mine who ones a 95 cobra and we went out to practice a local backroad (we're really into mountain racing... SF bay area is all hills) and his cobra only needed about 1/3 the braking my ZX did. BAH! I need parts. And I need them fast. It's not fair that a car that weighs 1000lbs heavier can brake that much better than me... I hate being so stock.

 

I was reading in hot-rod mag., that sometime in the near future Chevy is thinking about putting a newer version of the 427 on the Z06 C-6. You ought to check on it. Ford aint got **** on the vette. Oh and have you seen the 05 GTO's they have the C6's LS2. Lots meaner than the underpowered 04 Goats.

 

 

kool.... same 5.4L truck engine with a supercharger as every other "sports" car ford makes. cost-cutting re-use of the Lincoln LS chassis *read, heavy and not designed for the application* as well as a live-axle (why didnt they re-design the LS IRS for a sports-car application?) w/e, the Z06 is where its at, truely a racecar for the road, designed from the ground up for 100% performance and as always, the Cobra is an attempt to build a sports-car from non-sports-car parts.



cliffs:

GM>Ford, LS7>every version of that 5.4L, any Z06>any SVT Cobra.

 

I actually just read that article in the most recent motor trend. It really does look like an interesting car. That being said I don't like the 5.4 with supercharging. It is, generally speaking, the same set up as the SVT Lightening and I haven't found them to be reliable when they are tuned to that degree.

However, it isn't fair to compare this current Shelby to the new Z06. They are two completely different ideas of how a car should be. Yes the Z06 is faster to 60 and yes it the cobra doesn't handle as well, but I would expect the Cobra to have more potential for drag racing because it doesn't have IRS and you can't really tune the Z06 any further without dumping a lot of money because of the dry sump.

I like the look of the new Shelby and Ford brought it out of the backwater woodwork so cheers to them for mananging to keep it a secret.