Please advise, selling Vette and Bought 04 Cobra.

[ANIVNM]

I just purchased and 04 Cobra, guess I have to change my name now that I am back on the Ford side...forgive me. That was the license plate on my Corvette.
Anyway, I have heard some horror stories about busted rods, pistons, etc with the 03/04 motors when more boost was introduced to the equasion. Is this true? Is there a difference in the bottom end on and 04 from and 03? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. I ahve been a Vette owner for two years and I did not keep touch with what Ford was doing with this car. Glad to be back!

ANIVNM

 

[IronTerp]

Glad to have you back! The 03 and 04 bottom ends are identical. The Terminator bottom ends are among the most durable to ever come out of Detroit in a mass production vehicle. There are numerous members on this Forum running 600+ rwhp without Nitrous. The stories you may have heard usually originated from guys that bumped the timing up, raised the air/fuel too high, or were careless with MAF and fuel delivery requirements......all of which can be fairly simply avoided.

 

[ANIVNM]

Set,
Iron, thanks for the tips. I dumped 22,000 into that Chevy and I still missed mu damn mustang, don't know why, but I am anxious to take delivery of the 04. Do younknow anyone here that can run a vin code for me? The were guys on the Corvetteforum that do it, but thay would likely bash me to death for this kind of request...know what I mean. Thnaks in advance!

ANIVNM

 

[cobravenom39]

If its any consolation, I'm running between 12-14 lbs of boost out of a 2.75 RR pulley since 1000 miles. I know have 17,000 miles and I beat the thing like a red headed stepchild. I love it to death, though.

 

[ANIVNM]

Sweet...that is what I like to hear!! Now I think I can be a little happier with my purchase. Sooner or later I will grenade it and rebuilld the whole bottom end like I did the vette, forged everything, and pump the boost up as high as it will go. For now I will get it moving, and start picking everyone's brain about what mods to do first. Thanks again!

 

[cobravenom39]

Here's the mods I did-And got some serious results 465hp/498lb/trq:
JLT Ram air intake
Amazon idler pulleys
2.75 upper Reichard Racing pulley
Mac Prochamber Off Road H-pipe
Flowmaster cat back

Support/Suspension mods
Maximum motorsports full coil over kit w/castor camber plates
MM full length Subs
MM IRS bushings
LFP heat exchanger/IC resevoir
Pro 5.0 shifter/MGW handle (Gm synchromesh fluid w/friction modifier)
Steeda Clutch Quadrant/firewall adjuster
Autometer Apillar Lunar boost/fuel press gauges
Chrome Cobra R Replica wheels 17X9 and 17X10.5
315 Nitto Dr's

 

[cobravenom39]

Here's the mods I did-And got some serious results 465hp/498lb/trq:
JLT Ram air intake
Amazon idler pulleys
2.75 upper Reichard Racing pulley
Mac Prochamber Off Road H-pipe
Flowmaster cat back

Support/Suspension mods
Maximum motorsports full coil over kit w/castor camber plates
MM full length Subs
MM IRS bushings
LFP heat exchanger/IC resevoir
Pro 5.0 shifter/MGW handle (Gm synchromesh fluid w/friction modifier)
Steeda Clutch Quadrant/firewall adjuster
Autometer Apillar Lunar boost/fuel press gauges
Chrome Cobra R Replica wheels 17X9 and 17X10.5
315 Nitto Dr's

W/ these mods I lay the smack down on my old man's 03 Z06.

 

[ANIVNM]

Man that is sick...these friggin motors are so damn efficient. What did the engine mods cost you? maybe a few grand tops??? Should have bought one long time ago...I will miss the vette though, but once I am laying down 500 RWHP...It should help heal the pain!

 

[DitchTehFish]

AWESOME!!!! You're going to love the Cobra. In stock form if you think it's fast, think again. These cars have so much potential with such easy modifications. :coolman: Enjoy...

 

[ANIVNM]

I will like it!! I just need to get it up to being a fast as the vette first, then once the vette sells, I will have a nice lump of cash to start working on the Cobra...early Christmas!!!!

 

[DR. WU 2000]

Enjoy the snake and let the modding begin. :rockon:

 

[CobraBob]

Man that is sick...these friggin motors are so damn efficient. What did the engine mods cost you? maybe a few grand tops??? Should have bought one long time ago...I will miss the vette though, but once I am laying down 500 RWHP...It should help heal the pain!

Welcome back! I sold my '03 last summer but when it was mine it was putting down 504 rwhp and 494 rwtq. That's actually pretty modest compared to what a lot of others are getting. And I did that with the following basic mods. Inexpensive overall and easy to do.
Magnaflow catted X-pipe
Steeda catback
Steeda CAI
Apten ported Eaton (Steigemeier)
Accufab throttle body/plenum
2.80 upper
Diablo chip tuned by Amazon Racing
Denso IT22 plugs gapped at .035
Dual Focus fuel pumps
MAF modified by JDM

I had no problems at all with my Terminator the year and a half I had it. Some were not so lucky buy like IronTerp said many had issues due to a faulty tune or other factors not related to the factory. Enjoy!

 

[ANIVNM]

Is anyone aware of any good tuners in Texas? 109 degree summers will really throw a fork in the operation if the tune is off...want to be safe.

 

[Power Trip]

Glad to see u bought a cobra! Good luck with it man, im sure u will love the car.

 

[Orange Poison]

I will like it!! I just need to get it up to being a fast as the vette first, then once the vette sells, I will have a nice lump of cash to start working on the Cobra...early Christmas!!!!

That shouldn't be that hard :lol1:

Glad you dumped the Chebby....

 

[ANIVNM]

I wouldnt think it would be that hard. I know the Cobra is rated at 390 but what are some real world stock RWHP numbers? I have no idea. My Vette was pushing around 435 at the crank and 485 ftlbs. So I do have my work cut out for me, but it's going to be a whole lot easier this time around. No $5000 dollar bottom ends, no $3000 heads, no problems with the crappy batch fire ignition which was in no way flexible...should be a cake walk compared to that car...

 

[davbrucas]

Is anyone aware of any good tuners in Texas? 109 degree summers will really throw a fork in the operation if the tune is off...want to be safe.

are you on dfwstangs.net? mike at dallas mustang uses the SCT software and has a lot of happy customers. give him a call. if i were you i would take the blower/TB/plenum off now and send them to stiegemeier for porting
( http://www.stiegemeier.com/index1.html ), talk to doug at billetflow.com to get his 2.93 pulley with the 4 idlers, get a metco 4lb lower pulley from LFP, a borla stinger catback, JLT true CAI, then get a KB BAP, SCT MAF, and tune from james at runninwiththedevil.com and you will be all set...look to make 520rwhp/530rwtq with the above. or you can take your car to get a dyno tune at dallas mustang. personally, i would go with james. good luck. :beer:

 

[akinomka]

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[ANIVNM]

Davbrucas,
i do not want o mess with the blower at this point, when the vette sells I will buy a daily driver than I will get the blower ported or get a whipple. I know the guys a Dallas Mustang, I bought tons of stuff from them for my 98 Stang. I will go see them. Thanks for the advise! I will be doing exactly that real soon....