I am going to agree with the tire issue. With my GT500, the factory Goodyears during 40-50 degree days are useless.... I HONESTLY would have lost to a Kia from a stoplight race. It was THAT BAD. Now with the 555r's... well.. different story...
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I am going to agree with the tire issue. With my GT500, the factory Goodyears during 40-50 degree days are useless.... I HONESTLY would have lost to a Kia from a stoplight race. It was THAT BAD. Now with the 555r's... well.. different story...
I will agree with your side of it too. I guess it should not have happened on both ends. :beer:
However, the cobra spun 1st 2nd and 3rd gear...and the race was a not so short one to 110mph (which given a stock cobra's trap speed this took place over more than 1/4 of a mile). So none of those apply here, but keep trying.
555Rs are so sweet for street use I love them!!
+12,576.98 :rockon: Much more fun to drive when not blowing the tires off. Can't wait for warmer temps.. 2nd gear roll from 40 will still spin, have to feather throttle a little.. but 3rd and 4th... pure joy. :burnout:
I love these threads. No one online beleives it's possible for a slower car to beat a faster.
I beat a 1500hp Twin Turbo Gallardo the other day. I accellerated like hell from a stoplight and left him behind. He was still parked in the mall parking lot.... but I won......dammit.
Well I would say if the OP did win this it sure wasn't because his car is faster. For one new 5.0 Mustangs has a very good T/C system that hooks up extremely well out the hole and way better than any factory Mustang before it, and two a Coyote kill is even something for a stock Terminator to boast about, and a stock SN95 Cobra sure isn't faster than a stock Terminator. Stock Coyotes have managed low/mid 12's in some cases.
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Look, I was running stock 235/50/18 Pirelli Nero Zeros all season radials then switched wheels and tires to Nitto 555r 275/35/19 on charcoal AMR 19s. On cold roads those Nitto's are absolute junk, the Pirelli's hooked way better to my disbelief. I lost to a pick up truck sporting wider, better summer tires on cold streets. If I were racing the OP's Cobra he would have crushed me worse than the Dodge pick up truck.
So you honestly believe OP's bone stock SN95 cobra beat a coyote? I really want to know your answer
The worse I've seen a coyote do in the 1/4 is 13.4 @ 104mph. Can any human being get a stock SN cobra
Into The mid 13s?
Ok in my opinion even if you spun OP said he spun through third I think it was, so to me there's no way if both cars are spinning that the weaker one will win once both get traction.
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If it wasn't for the spinning I could see the op winning. Think he was racing a V6 though. I did a thread over a year ago dragging a vette with my Acura TL. Everyone was butt hurt because the vette was the faster car. Plus I was giving him thumbs down. 15 - 20 degrees outside and I was dragging him from light to light. AWD was putting in work while the Vette fish tailed through the gears
The only problem with that is..... the new 3.7's are actually faster than his SN95....
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I honestly believe a slower car can come ahead in a race with a faster car depending on several situations like road conditions, driver errors, mechanical failure, etc... However in the OP's original statement, he claimed he was spinning in first while the coyote was at his door. He continued to spin in second and the coyote was at his rear quarter panel. How did that happen?:shrug: Then the tires finally hooked and he was gone. Now, unless that coyote was running on two legs, there is no way the OP could have killed it......LOL. If the driver of the coyote spun as well (possible) his tires eventually hooked as well at some point if he was only one or two cars length behind when the OP reached 4th gear. Remember the OP's car is bone stock. For it to spin that much with the stock gears, there must have been ice on the road or something slippery. I wish the owner of the "Lime Green Coyote" was a member here to clarify all this. By any means we all speculate from the OP's statement as we are well aware that anything can happen in a race.
Im hooking In 40ish degree weather running 305 45 18 555rs little extra side wall at 25psi. Feather through a lil of first and hooks with 2nd gear scratch I think im benefitting from the extra sidewall for sure. I also have stock 3.31's so the larger tire actually makes for a bit longer gearing I beleive also.
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it'd be different if the OP said he hooked right off the line. but he says he spun through 1st and 2nd and still put 2 cars on him.
there are 3 options for this story.
1- it's bs
2- it was a v6
3- coyote didn't know they were racing
meh :shrug:
lol @ security forces.
Yeah, I'm sure the 18's help more over the 20's. I run my r's at 30psi on the street, and have driven so far in temps as low as 27degrees. Mostly in the high 30's-40's right now
Can't happen. Everyone knows the MT-82 in the 5.0's has no usable 2nd gear!
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