Well, my car's been down for quite a long time between going back to school and accumulating parts here and there, and also changing my mind a few times on the route I want to go with the car. So, in the last year I've been without the cobra and oover this time a few friends have gotten some high 12-second 240's with SR20 swaps, and a few new faces have shown up in town with respectable cars. Turns out that apparently the "fastest" car that's really been running around is a guy's LS2 C6 vette. Yeah yeah, I know...we don't have crap for a car scene and all of us are friends that make up the entire "scene." All, I've heard this entire time is how quick it is and watched this guy's ego get bigger and bigger, as well as all of his friends with slower cars.
So I get my car back Tuesday night from getting tuned, and I see him out wednesday night just cruising a bit and he follows me 'til I meet up with my buddies but he never say a word to me. Thursday night rolls around and we're all out as the next day is Good Friday and nobody has to be in early for anything, but it's rained a bit and the roads are still wet where we make runs, and NOW he comes up wanting to run and I simply tell him I'm not wrecking my car to prove a point. Fast forward to Friday afternoon and now my phone's getting blown up from people I know wanting me to run him and I agree. Apparently this guy knows my entire set up and the power I laid down and he is STILL extremely willing to run me. So I'm guessing he either thinks that i'm BS'ing everyone with what I have OR he's spraying a decent size shot and will stick with me or pull me slightly....12:30 a.m. rolls around and we take off to where we're running at and I'll let the video do the talking:
2 Bikes following: 1000 GSXR and ZX14, Camera car: 370Z with intakes, test pipes, x-pipe and cat-back, tune. I also have to say that the camera operator is extremely novice as in, this was his first time ever doing this, so please for give the jerkiness and shakiness of the video:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUJwDdwARg"]YouTube- 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
rolls:
starting off in 2nd gear at ~3250 RPM. First is a waste as you'll see in the 2nd roll vid. This is the reason I did this run starting in 2nd:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zSR5l8HB8"]YouTube- 2004 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
1st gear: blew off the tires, wheel hopped, stopped, put it in 2nd and proceeded to pull.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GupS4qWjHG4"]YouTube- 2004 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
So I get my car back Tuesday night from getting tuned, and I see him out wednesday night just cruising a bit and he follows me 'til I meet up with my buddies but he never say a word to me. Thursday night rolls around and we're all out as the next day is Good Friday and nobody has to be in early for anything, but it's rained a bit and the roads are still wet where we make runs, and NOW he comes up wanting to run and I simply tell him I'm not wrecking my car to prove a point. Fast forward to Friday afternoon and now my phone's getting blown up from people I know wanting me to run him and I agree. Apparently this guy knows my entire set up and the power I laid down and he is STILL extremely willing to run me. So I'm guessing he either thinks that i'm BS'ing everyone with what I have OR he's spraying a decent size shot and will stick with me or pull me slightly....12:30 a.m. rolls around and we take off to where we're running at and I'll let the video do the talking:
2 Bikes following: 1000 GSXR and ZX14, Camera car: 370Z with intakes, test pipes, x-pipe and cat-back, tune. I also have to say that the camera operator is extremely novice as in, this was his first time ever doing this, so please for give the jerkiness and shakiness of the video:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUJwDdwARg"]YouTube- 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
rolls:
starting off in 2nd gear at ~3250 RPM. First is a waste as you'll see in the 2nd roll vid. This is the reason I did this run starting in 2nd:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zSR5l8HB8"]YouTube- 2004 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
1st gear: blew off the tires, wheel hopped, stopped, put it in 2nd and proceeded to pull.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GupS4qWjHG4"]YouTube- 2004 2.4L KB Cobra vs. LS2 Vette[/nomedia]
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...I'm still getting used to the car so i was definitely shifting like a grandpa and only shifting at ~6500 when i'm good for 7K RPM...and at 130 it was close to 2 buses.
