[RICK LAKE]

eschaider I love a crazy data printout. Jag rearends don't have a 3.46 rearend ratio to start. 2.88/3.07/3.31/3.54/3.77/4.09/4.54 and up. I have seen very few cobras in the 10's with even a warm 427 motor through street side pipes. Low 11's yes. This car you came up with I would like to see myself. Keith Craft showed up with a goodyear tired Kirkham and a 527 monster motor and ran about a 10.38. The weather was not perfect but the times show that his car was running well. This story book cobra is not running a 10.27 period. You give the cobra a higher gear for the rearend and also a higher trans ratio for 1st and 2nd gear. It's also got a 900+ lb advantage in weight to boot. Viper 3.07 gear and a 2.66 first gear in the trans is no race at all. The torque of a V10 makes this race close. Run the test with the same rearend gear, you will not like the out come. There was a race done years ago with an L88 vette and a 427 cobra. Vette gave 500 pounds and both had the same gearing. It was a split on 2 races. The cobra hurt the clutch and the vette blew a half shaft. Both car where in the 11's. My car runs low 12's with 335/35 17" tires and a 3.31 gear. 482 cubes and a race trans. 500+ HP and Torque through street side pipes. It will not hook up well on any track with a ton of glue on the surface. I know from smoking 2 clutches. A cobra will beat the Viper 6 out of 10 times. It's also hard for a cobra to do a 1.59 60' time. More like high 1.7- 1.8. Your time is .59 seconds from prostock numbers. I will look up the articles for the ACR viper and get the times and speeds from them. Round 2 coming up. Rick