Camaro Vs. 04 Cobra

[drvngstorm05]

Originally Posted by FireFox05

Are you guys talking about the real GT500, as in the muscle car, or the Ford GT, the supercar?

i meant the ford gt

[FireFox05]

Ford GT is as expensive as hell man, I agree with your previous post. However, the GT500 should be something retro back to the Supersnake days.

[drvngstorm05]

starting msrp on a ford gt is 141,000 like i said, in no way shape or form cheaper than the '06 z06 vette

[drvngstorm05]

the z06 is targetted at the ford gt, it will outperform it, for 60,000 less

[FireFox05]

Boo yah man.

[BlackGT2000]

Yeah the ford GT supercar is definately more expensive than any corvette (maybe not C5R?) but he is talking about the 06/7 cobra mustang GT500. That car is supposed to be around 40,000 and have a detuned motor from the ford GT, 450hp estimated.

[bag91]

WOW, cant believe how many posts, and how its still open!!!!!! It has to be a record...
Anyway someone on here thinks the GT500 will outperform the Zo6, Thats hard to believe.....

[BlackGT2000]

I don't think it will outperform it, I only think that it will be close in the quartermile.

[ridge_runner]

Originally Posted by bag91

Anyway someone on here thinks the GT500 will outperform the Zo6, Thats hard to believe.....

a couple hundred more dollers should do it if not faster yes i said hundred

[bag91]

Quarter mile yes, cornering no.
Ridge Runner, I was talking stock for stock.

[youngvr4]

i dont think it will be able to beat the Z06 in niether 1320 or cornering

does anyone know how heavy the new shelby 500 will be?

475hp weighing in at 3600 i beleive, and i'll double check myself cause i know i'm off by a little.

[youngvr4]

excuse me... 3850lbs at most likely 475hp@6000 rpm
quote from car and driver

Judging by our weather-limited experience at Romeo and our test-track results with the 2003 SVT Mustang Cobra [C/D, June 2002], we concur. Power will be abundant, although O'Connell and his crew were still being cagey about specifics. Pressed on this issue, O'Connell said "between 450 and 500 horsepower—how's that?" Our tech staff warmed up the calculators and figured a forecast of 475 horsepower at 6000 rpm. We may be low.

Big power isn't much good unless it gets to the ground without excessive wheelspin, which is why the production GT500 will have a lot more rear tire than the New York show car, which hunkered over a set of 19-inch wheels wearing 255/45 tires. The initial production run of GT500s will roll on 9.5-by-18-inch wheels with sticky Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar tires—255/45 front, 285/40 rear.

"We just couldn't get the 255s to hook up," says O'Connell. "Almost every run was going up in smoke."

A pronounced forward weight bias—about 57/43, according to O'Connell—didn't help, either. Part of this is due to increased mass. The supercharged iron-block 5.4 weighs about 175 more pounds than the naturally aspirated 4.6 SOHC 24-valve aluminum V-8 in the Mustang GT. That factor, plus a bigger front-brake package, bigger wheels and tires, and other GT500 package elements, add up to a curb weight projected in the 3850-pound range versus 3575 pounds for the last Mustang GT we tested.

[bag91]

It be a challenge, and also a good race, if the Shelby had $100 MORE IN MODS......Fords need mods you cant blame Chevy for making impossible competition

[bag91]

Are you saying VR4 that the 03 Cobra will be faster than the GT500?

[youngvr4]

no, hell no!! lol

i'm saying the shelby should be a low 12's, and thats what the 03 Z06 does right now(12.4). exept i'm epecting the gt500 to be in the 12.2-12.1 range