New cobra owner in the south hills

[Dark Shadow]

Nice car! ....and a GTO in the garage too I see. Which one is faster?

[MBH]

Thanks again guys!
That picture was at my friends house, and its his GTO. I was out driving her around after I got my plates and decided that I was comfortable enough with the car to start to give it some throttle, I almost shat my pants the first time I floored her in 2nd. The torque on these cars down low is just insane.
I was being kinda vague about it because I didn't know the forum rules about posting about racing or posting racing videos... but we got a couple easy runs in, and you can guess the rest.
If you can't guess, here is a hint or two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nXNOLiiyVo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0grzqaCsYo

The car has new tires on it now, and yeah they were bald as hell as you can see.
Old 555R's:

New 555RII's:

[u1arunit]

Nice runs Bo.

I liked the one comment about the GTO only being a button away from the Terminator. lol

[Wolfpack Speed]

welcome!!!

[MBH]

Nice runs Bo.

I liked the one comment about the GTO only being a button away from the Terminator. lol

lol yeah I just got an email and responded to that. There are some dumb people out there, but bench racers will always have a warm and laughable place in my heart.

welcome!!!

Thank you! I'll be seeing you when the weather breaks for a FLSFC installation off of Nate's recommendation

Do you do any transmission work? I have a couple of things that might need a little sorting out. I can list them if you'd like, but I won't be able to do anything about it until may, so its no rush.

Bo

[Stangman701]

Welcome! I remember seeing you over on SVTP all the time and wondering if you were on here too. Bout time you stopped by

[PunisherStang]

correct me if im wrong but lol this is the highway right by starcity movie theater? im very familiar with this highway lol. im surprised i havent seen u around im always round the south hills area.

[u1arunit]

correct me if im wrong but lol this is the highway right by starcity movie theater? im very familiar with this highway lol. im surprised i havent seen u around im always round the south hills area.

I'm positive that the vids were recorded on a closed test track and NOT a public highway. :D

[somethingclever]

Car sounded a little dead on the throttle hit in the second vid....hope you have a good (safe) tune on it.

[u1arunit]

Yep I heard that too. Spinning the tires on the hit or some wierd stuff going on?

[03 OW SVT]

Yep I heard that too. Spinning the tires on the hit or some wierd stuff going on?

I guess I need to listen to it again. Maybe a little clutch slippage

[gmkillr]

What's up with all of the "Terminater" and "Termy" talk?
What is this a "Vette" forum?

[somethingclever]

Yep I heard that too. Spinning the tires on the hit or some wierd stuff going on?

Rpm's stayed flat/skipped....if he was spinning they would've jumped up.

Could be rich/lean/detonation/belt slip...etc.

[MBH]

I'm positive that the vids were recorded on a closed test track and NOT a public highway. :D

Exactly!!

It was a bumpier section of test track, and the belt gets a bit of slip. I was also worried that if I just mashed it the car would want to get away from me, and thats no way to learn the power of a new car. So its a combination of bald tires/bumpy road/belt slip/easing into throttle rather than just punching it.

The car is supposed to have a safe dyno tune on it from amazon racing, so I have no reason to doubt that.

I have a few things to look into with the transmission though, so I could have some clutch issues down the line, so I wouldn't rule that out either. Hopefully whenever we get together you guys will be able to help me sort out my paranoia from reality though. As much as I thought I knew about this stuff, I'm still a noob when its all said and done :o

[MBH]

What is this a "Vette" forum?

You tryin to tell me that this isn't a forum to talk about our sweet gold chains and track suits? damn it!

[somethingclever]

The car is supposed to have a safe dyno tune on it from amazon racing, so I have no reason to doubt that.

:o

Did you get a graph? Heck...even if you did...i still would not go WOT until I personally put the car on a dyno and checked the a/f ratio pre cats.

For $75 for a couple pulls with a/f monitoring, it's worth it.

Did you buy that car off SVTP?

[MBH]

Did you get a graph? Heck...even if you did...i still would not go WOT until I personally put the car on a dyno and checked the a/f ratio pre cats.

For $75 for a couple pulls with a/f monitoring, it's worth it.

Did you buy that car off SVTP?

Bought it from Turkish on SVTPerformance. The car has been running the tune since late summer I believe. David gave me the dyno graphs and all of the information and records with the car. Amazon wouldn't tune a timebomb, but I'll get it on a dyno when I get a new bet on it to make sure its still safe. The car pulls smooth and hard. If you're going off of the strange noises on the second run, also it might not seem like it, but the GTO was WOT in both of those videos, so even as I eased into the throttle I was even or better with him, despite belt slip or whatever.

edit: have you ever heard of amazon? I'm not trying to talk back to you, I'm just not sure if you're familiar with them at all? You've got me kinda freaked out.

Rick's qualifications:

* Engineering degree from Loyola University
*Master Electrician
* 35 technical, mechanical, diagnostic, software and programming certifications
*certified instrument calibrator
* member of Society of Automotive Engineers
*30 years experience of mechanics and restoration of Mustangs and Ford vehicles
*Has been racing Mustangs and Fords for 30 years
*Has been tuning performance cars with Autologic, Superchip since 1998 and Diablosport and SCT live tuning software when they became available
*Datalogs over 30 parameters when dyno tuning
uses 2 AF meters
custom programs developed with live tuning software
uses load bearing edy current Mustang Dyno to simulate proper load on vehicle when tuning
*NMRA race circuit as a vendor for 2003, 2004 and 2005
*Amazon Racing was the title sponser for the NMRA 03 Cobra Shootout
*Rick has been featured in numerous national Mustang magazines for products we have developed and his tuning experience and knowledge specializing with the 03 /04 Cobra

Nothing but praise on his work from those who've had him tune their cobra, and thats coming from a bunch of whiney people over on svtp :shrug:

[One Sweet Day]

welcome nice to see you having some fun with that thing. ;)

[somethingclever]

edit: have you ever heard of amazon? I'm not trying to talk back to you, I'm just not sure if you're familiar with them at all?

shrug:

Sure have....I've heard only good things about them except that their dyno reads a little on the optimisic side.

I've just read about too many horror stories about people trusting mail order tunes (i don't think amazon does them) and getting poor results.

I guess I just like to be as close to 100% sure as possible as to how the car is running...even if I bought one with a a/f graph.

To me, the risk isn't worth the reward. Not trying to give you a hard time...just a heads up.

[u1arunit]

John is giving good advice. Rick's tune should be fine if he did it on his load bearing(Mustang type) dyno. If it is a mail order tune it should be okay but like he said it's always good to check it.

I personally always use and reccomend a wide band O2 sensor to be installed in plain view and once installed compare your data with another accurate wide band meter like one at a dyno that has been calibrated and verified to be correct. I did this when I dyno'd last year. We had three wide bands installed during the pulls and they were all within .1 of each other throughout.

This is real good advice, like he said we aren't trying to scare ya. :)