98 WS6 ***** Am or a 98 cobra what would you take?

[300m_on_xxx 10+ year member]

my dad has a ***** am and that shit is fast as hell no cobra can keep up with it so ***** am all the way //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

 

[mattj 5,000+ posts]

my dad has a ***** am and that shit is fast as hell no cobra can keep up with it so ***** am all the way //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

No cobra can keep up with it? There are cobras that will roast your dads ***** am on 2 wheels.

lol...

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

gotta stick with the LT1/LS1 crew //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

WS6s are way sexier

 

[300m_on_xxx 10+ year member]

No cobra can keep up with it? There are cobras that will roast your dads ***** am on 2 wheels.lol...

lol NO

 

[BulldogSr04 10+ year member]

LS1 all the way.

Headers, cutout, lid, and cam and you are at 400 hp to the rear wheels. Even without the cam you can be in the 12s easily.

 

[marleyskater420 5,000+ posts]

the engine is still an air pump basically..more air in more air out.... 5.7l vs. 4.6 just dont make sense. they make like 300cfm heads for these cars dont they? I mean that and some good exhaust =teh whin.

 

[joshpoints 10+ year member]

Both are rated around the same HP and Torque.
Both have a strong aftermarket, however, I've heard of several performance complaints with the WS6.

Traveling around to an extremely large number of car shows and events last year, I'd tend to favor the Cobra 4.6 significantly more.

The number of Mustangs I saw with simple bolt on's that were pushing the 450-500+ HP range was quite substantial compared to those with LS1 TA's.

Combining that and my own experience with the 4.6L over the past 2 years, I have found these engines incredibly easy to increase power on.

My 95 Tbird with an OEM 225 HP 4.6L is now pumping out roughly 300 HP at the wheels with an aftermarket exhaust, ignition, Ported Intake and Throttle Body, Injectors, and a ECM upgrade.

Saleen, Roush, and Steeda, have all worked wonders with the 4.6.

Personally, I'd look that direction.....

I call BS. What bolt on parts are you talking about to get 500+hp? Do the same thing to an LS1 and you're going to get more power. Let's see, I can get an aftermarket exhaust for an LS1, I can get ignition (which isn't going to do much) for my LS1, I can port and polish heads, and I can swap out cams and get a nice boost in power. Injectors aren't going to do much for you either. Playing with the computer may give you a little bit.

 

[joshpoints 10+ year member]

Boost, nitrous oxide, higher compression, technology, engineering, etc. are all "replacements" for displacement ...
Displacement is the easiest, cheapest way to make more power ... However, it should be noted that additional displacement also has its drawbacks such as increased mass, increased size, and increased center of gravity ...

1980s F1 1.5 liter turbocharged V6 - 1200 hp

Current F1 3 liter V10 - 900+ hp

Now, before someone screams out, "Those are F1 engines. They're not the same !" ... You're an idiot ...

It's still a conventional piston-based engine with a shitload of money invested into advanced technologies to increase power out of a relatively small displacement engine ... In the current F1 engines, they have no boost, no nitrous, only superior technology, engineering, high compression ratio, and an insanely high redline approaching 20,000 RPM ... And most of them do the 1/4 mile in the 9s @ 180-200 MPH ... The time is rediculously high for a 900+ hp car that only weighs 1325 lbs, but the trap speed is an indication that it could be much faster (in the 1/4) with better traction and/or more suitable gearing ...

Yes you can use NOS but that hurts reliability. You could boost compression ratio but then you have to use racing fuel.

An F1 car isn't running on pump gas. Try to pull the same power out of a pump gas engine with low liters like that; it ain't going to happen reliably and actually, it's not going to happen at all.

 

[B_Master_Flash 10+ year member]

WS6, stock for stock, cobra would get spanked in the 1/4.

You should throw twin turbos on there w/ dual 4.5" exhaust and a tripple buck shot of nos. And some pimp *** spark plugs.

J/K

 

[Diplexers 10+ year member]

Boost, nitrous oxide, higher compression, technology, engineering, etc. are all "replacements" for displacement ...
Displacement is the easiest, cheapest way to make more power ... However, it should be noted that additional displacement also has its drawbacks such as increased mass, increased size, and increased center of gravity ...

1980s F1 1.5 liter turbocharged V6 - 1200 hp

Current F1 3 liter V10 - 900+ hp

Now, before someone screams out, "Those are F1 engines. They're not the same !" ... You're an idiot ...

It's still a conventional piston-based engine with a shitload of money invested into advanced technologies to increase power out of a relatively small displacement engine ... In the current F1 engines, they have no boost, no nitrous, only superior technology, engineering, high compression ratio, and an insanely high redline approaching 20,000 RPM ... And most of them do the 1/4 mile in the 9s @ 180-200 MPH ... The time is rediculously high for a 900+ hp car that only weighs 1325 lbs, but the trap speed is an indication that it could be much faster (in the 1/4) with better traction and/or more suitable gearing ...

I agree. I have been building rods with my father since I was a toddler. The number one rule for horsepower is "there is no substitute for cubic inches", bottom line. What ever you do to an engine, no matter what, another, larger engine with the same type mods WILL produce more torque and horsepower.

Now a 383 Chrysler motor compared to a Ford 389 isn't going to mean the Ford will automatically outperform the 383 because it has 6 more cubes. First thing is most the time the motor won't have its actual displacement advertised. If you do the math, surface area multiplied by the stroke, most engines aren't "right on", mainly do to marketing schemes. Second, its too close for the actual displacement to make a big difference. This is when engine design plays a bigger role in its performance.

For example: If you take the stock Chevy 454 Chevelle and pin it against a stock Plymouth 440 GTX, the GTX will undoubtedly eat the Chevelle for lunch. However once you mod both engines to death (similar mods), the Chevelle will win hands down.

As long as engines x vs engine y have the same mods, the larger will produce more power everytime.

 

[zane 10+ year member]

I call BS. What bolt on parts are you talking about to get 500+hp? Do the same thing to an LS1 and you're going to get more power. Let's see, I can get an aftermarket exhaust for an LS1, I can get ignition (which isn't going to do much) for my LS1, I can port and polish heads, and I can swap out cams and get a nice boost in power. Injectors aren't going to do much for you either. Playing with the computer may give you a little bit.

I call BS on your calling BS because your assumptions are based on BS, thus your conclusions are clearly flawed.

 

[Diplexers 10+ year member]

I call BS on your calling BS because your assumptions are based on BS, thus your conclusions are clearly flawed.

Now thats an instant classic //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[m3rK201 10+ year member]

THis is a easy question to answer...

***** AM !!!!!!

Im going to buy one my self this spring and down payment a sts turbo kit for the ***** am at the same time..awsome car, ***** am handle well to dunt belive ricer myths they handle bro.

 

[B_Master_Flash 10+ year member]

F1 has been using 102 octane petroleum for the last 20+ years ...
http://www.formula1.com/insight/rulesandregs/14/486.html

It's not like they're using "rocket fuel" (114 octane) or alcohol like many dragsters ... If they did, they could probably make a lot more power ...

Dragsters/funny cars run on nitro-methane and work with rediculously high compression. If F1 cars could run on that, I'm pretty sure it would be the end of the world.

 

[wErd 5,000+ posts]

Dragsters/funny cars run on nitro-methane and work with rediculously high compression. If F1 cars could run on that, I'm pretty sure it would be the end of the world.

i dont know what the **** that is, but everytime ive been to the strip theyve used alcohol and ethanol.