Oh I totally believe you they respond to mods incredibly well. I hear their headers are itty bitty teenie weenie(yes I'm 5).
The only thing Im trying to say, is that you gotta dish out the 35k for this car in the first place. Even used we'll say 25k.
Its just a car you gotta have money to get started on, thats all. My friend has an 11.98 daily driver 98 cobra that takes all. Then again his buddy has a 9sec DD TA also.
Cost aside. cobra>GN. But since we're speaking in the real world here, for what you spend on the cars, THEN mods, you cant beat a GN for that. I know we use that argument, but its true.
Personally I know what my car can,and cannot beat. I know a 03 cobra would rape me right now. But I also know he spend 30k more on his car than I did on mine, so I dont feel so bad.
I completely belive in the cobra's power. Ive heard the lowest stock dyno was around 325 RWHP. LOWEST..thats just crazy.
In reality though, you gotta GET the money to get that car,and I think thats just the main points us GN guys stick by, because not all of us can get that 35k for their car, we just cant afford it. Now I bet with 5 or 7 k on top of our 10k car, we could run 11s pretty easy if we wanted to. But we don't have the money. You dont see AS many 10sec GN's because we don't have the money to do it, which is why we dont have a cobra, because we cant have the money to afford it.
I actually considered a cobra before a GN because of the ease of modability, but starting at 27k THEN spending more on parts, just isn't appealing to a 17 yr old kid going into college. See where Im coming from?
Anyway, I made my points, proly said them more than once, but I tend to do that. I do respect the cobra, but Im obligated to hate em