'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

[Snakester]

\'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

The story looks legit. It appears that Evan Smith (who ran 11.8@121 in a creampuff R/T10) was testing a '03 Cobra mule at Englishtown and got a 12.43@113 time with a totally stock (apparently) Cobra on street tires.
http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=154579
Pretty impressive.

-Dean.

 

[Joseph Houss]

Re: \'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

Oooh, I actually beat Joe C on this one! Evan Smith can make an 11 second car out of ANY Viper! He is one AMAZING driver!

If the Cobra was tweaked even a bit, Evan could take full advantage of it!

I've seen Evan slide a car through autocross pylons sideways, so that he's set up for the next gate!

 

[RedGTS]

Re: \'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

Could be a ringer, but Evan Smith is worth a good .4 or .5 compared to what most anyone else will achieve, especially on that track. I expect the typical magazine tests to produce times more in the 12.9-13.0 at 110-111 range. On the other hand, the car should be easily tweaked via a new pulley, exhaust mods, etc. to produce another 50 rwhp or so. There are already quite a few blown Cobra's out running around, but the easy answer is simply to follow TOOFST's advice and mod your Viper--550-600 rwhp in a Viper should be more than a match for all but the most radical 'stangs.

Ronnie

 

[King GTS]

Re: \'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

Very impressive if it's true. Very impressive.

 

[TOOOFST]

Re: \'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

Wish I could launch my pig like that,must have a 1.7something 60ft.
Wake up and MOD it viper brothers,the little guys are catching up.

 

[RedGTS]

Re: \'03 Cobra runs 12.43@113

1bad, there is some truth in what you're saying about scooping the magazine, but only if you know that Evan asked the guy to keep it to himself. Compared to MM&FF's circulation, the number of people who will read this on the net is quite small, and I tend to think that if MM&FF was really that concerned about being scooped by the net, Evan wouldn't have shared the info at all (at least he shouldn't have).

As further evidence of how good Evan is, I got my latest edition of Automobile magazine yesterday and their testing of the '03 Cobra resulted in a 13.4 quarter at 109. Now Automobile seems to produce fairly slow times (their "unofficial" acceleration results on the '03 SRT-10 in the same issue only produced a 4.4 0-60 and a 12.4 quarter), but a full second difference is way too much to explain away without giving Evan a lot of the credit. The man can definitely drive.

Ronnie