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It's cool, easy mistake. Did they have roof slats on Fox-bodies? I can't remember. Seriously though that has to be one of my favorite styling elements of all time.
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Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
well talk top end all you want but my cousin's '04 cobra(stock except exhaust and k&n)easily pulls on a guy we knows modded ls1 that runs 12.40's...i've been in the car and have it myself....just wait until he gets the $200 pulley kit and gets more boost...
What does that have to do with anything? We are talking about the '01 Cobra.
Bone stock the LS1 car will pull in the higher gears. They also repond better to modifications.
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These guys don't want to hear that, so they automatically go to a different car. I think some of them haven't even been in a late-model F-body.
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I've been in plenty of late model F-bodies. Aside from the power, they all sucked. I test drove one once with my wife. She sat on the passenger side with the lunchbox-sized hump in the floor and said "If you get it you'll be riding alone" which of course would have sometimes been a plus  (Glad she doesn't read this or I'd probably be riding alone now  ) But it's hard to go faster for cheaper than an LS1 F-body. There's a reason they're cheap, and it's not because they're great. But back to the original post, an F-body will go faster for a lower total investment than the same model Mustang. It will suck while doing it though 
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Originally posted by SVTCJ:
I've been in plenty of late model F-bodies.
Aside from the power, they all sucked.
I test drove one once with my wife. She sat on the passenger side with the lunchbox-sized hump in the floor and said "If you get it you'll be riding alone" which of course would have sometimes been a plus (Glad she doesn't read this or I'd probably be riding alone now )
But it's hard to go faster for cheaper than an LS1 F-body.
There's a reason they're cheap, and it's not because they're great.
But back to the original post, an F-body will go faster for a lower total investment than the same model Mustang.
It will suck while doing it though
You can easily say the same of pre-'05 Mustangs. They are cheap because there's a lot of them and their not that great. There are many quirks that the Mustang has too. The F-Body has a worse interior and maybe worse stying but accelerates and handles better. All depends on what your looking for.
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to you guys that are saying an f-body will respond better,and is cheaper to mod, what kind of crack are you smoking??????must be some good stuff...
the mustang aftermarket is a million times what the aftermarket for camaro's is...for every 1 part avaible for an f-body there are literally hundreds available for any model stang....not to mention there are at least 5 or more monthly publications dedicated simply to the LATE model mustangs,how many do the f-bodies have????and in those publications are hundreds of pages of parts suppliers....
it is a FACT that a mustang(pretty much any year)can be modded for less money and more efficiently than any f-body....and you can actually work on and bolt on the mods rather easily to a stang...try bolting on the simplest of parts to an f-body...
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Originally posted by JCSVT:
Originally posted by chrisilversvt:
well talk top end all you want but my cousin's '04 cobra(stock except exhaust and k&n)easily pulls on a guy we knows modded ls1 that runs 12.40's...i've been in the car and have it myself....just wait until he gets the $200 pulley kit and gets more boost...
What does that have to do with anything? We are talking about the '01 Cobra.
Bone stock the LS1 car will pull in the higher gears. They also repond better to modifications.
if you actually read my post i said a HIGHLY MODDED ls1 against a STOCK '04 cobra...
btw have you owned either car?????or even driven either car????
actually the hp #'s are pretty similar in an '01 cobra and an ls1 f-body,so it would still pretty much be a drivers race,until ridiculously high speeds....this higher gear pulling your talking about,yeah maybe above 125-130 mph,so what who really cares if it is a little faster on the top end....the '01 cobra still runs with it,looks better than it,has a nicer interior,and will outhandle it any day of the week..
and since when does an f-body outhandle a cobra????oh yeah that's right it doesn't...even fbody owners will tell you the handling sucks,fbodies are only good for going fast in a straight line...like has been mentioned above,how many fbodies do you see autocrossing,and how many stangs/cobras do you see??????
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Originally posted by SVTCJ:
But back to the original post, an F-body will go faster for a lower total investment than the same model Mustang.
It will suck while doing it though
if that's the case than you take any f-body,and i'll take my '95 gt......give us both $5k for mods for each and i'll guarantee you my '95 will show its taillights to the f-body in pretty much any competition...but that's because i could buy twice the things that the fbody owner can buy for the same money...
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It's a tough call Chris, and it depends on the car. I've seen LS1's running anywhere from 13.2-14.5 in stock form. I'd personally do a few bolt-ons with the LS1(catback, lid, programmer) and a big shot on N2O. They respond crazy to the juice.
As for the Cobra, the first thing I'd do would be gears! They strive on the upper RPM's, and some 4:10's will keep it up there in the power band. Ofcourse I'd throw some N2O at it like I would the LS1, but probably not as large of a shot.
It all boils down to what you set your car up for. Both cars are considered pigs in the auto-x scene, so I personally wouldn't set them up for anything but straight line performance.
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you and your nitrous mark...lol..... 
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