Mustang Cobra Vs Mustang Saleen

[thinker]

is the sidepipe exhaust on the roush mustang just for looks or duz it actually make performance and sound better?

[sgtrock]

I would have to choose the Saleen. The horsewpower #s for the Saleen are confirmed @ 6-8 lbs boost. The Cobra's have been dyno'ed around 365 as well. I know they are advertised at 390. Read the mags. They come in around 365 like clockwork before mods!! Both can easily be modded to push 400 at very little expense. I own a 99 Saleen # 282. I have in the past year looked at many Saleen's to replace mine and have found most have a 6 speed these days. Mine has the 5 speed. Of course until the 2003 year the Cobra was left in the dust. Both are great cars. I just prefer the looks of the Saleen and the fact that, there have been less Saleens made than there were Shelby's to this point. Keep it collectible

[Niko_Fx]

I would have to choose the Saleen. The horsewpower #s for the Saleen are confirmed @ 6-8 lbs boost. The Cobra's have been dyno'ed around 365 as well. I know they are advertised at 390. Read the mags. They come in around 365 like clockwork before mods!! Both can easily be modded to push 400 at very little expense. I own a 99 Saleen # 282. I have in the past year looked at many Saleen's to replace mine and have found most have a 6 speed these days. Mine has the 5 speed. Of course until the 2003 year the Cobra was left in the dust. Both are great cars. I just prefer the looks of the Saleen and the fact that, there have been less Saleens made than there were Shelby's to this point. Keep it collectible

I think I speak for everybody when I say that we would love to see some pics of your Saleen with the proof of ownership (Paper with your nick written, stabbed on your shift knob)

Great car

[thinker]

i would probably choose the cobra because it looks a lil less flashy than the saleen...i think the saleen looks awesome, but for a person like me who isnt really a racer, the cobra would fit better because the saleen looks less like an everyday driver car

[hellraiser93gt]

ya the cobra does 0-60 in 4.4 second while the saleen does it in 4.7sec.

i choose the cobra because my dad use to own a 86 cobra gt. and it was awesome.

but what if mustang had all its tuners put together a ultimate american car.
it will be like mustang saleen svt cobra r. that would be awesome

i hate to tell ya but they didnt make the cobra untill 93' he could have had and svo but its not the same ford started svt mustangs in 93 and thats when they started making cobras again, sorry i'm just a mustang nut

[DodgeNitroBIRM]

Maybe he's getting a '93 body mixed up with the '86 body?

[essex]

It has to be the Cobra every time ... 4 valves per cylinder, suspension and brakes sorted ... 4.4 seconds and it's already stupidly fast ...

I've got one, and the supercharger easily boosted with a new pulley, re-map the chip and add a free breathing air filter .... adds around 44 rwhp ... for around 500bucks.

You get performance that most German and Italian exotica canot achieve despite costing three times as much.

Not sure what this takes the power figure from the engine to ... ? I presume the quoted 390bhp standard is at the crank, adding the above must make take that to around 440 ... and the torque curve (boosted low down enormously by the blower feeding through 32 valves) ... makes the Cobra one beautiful and ridiculously fast machine ... that handles and stops as it should despite the fact it's a little heavy. Power kicks in at just above 1000 revs and continues to scream with that beautiful supercharged whine all the way the to the red line...

Tyres don't last that long ... but the smile never fades

This is one Cobra living in England that is much loved!

[jcp123]

Neither...get me a 351- or big-block-powered '65-73 model any day

[essex]

Neither...get me a 351- or big-block-powered '65-73 model any day

I agree they're all beautiful... and to be honest I also love them ....

The love affair can occasionally kind of dwindle if you ever need to stop in a hurry though

[jcp123]

hmm yeah...though power discs with 245/45zr17's help that

[essex]

hmm yeah...though power discs with 245/45zr17's help that

But imagne life in the late sixties when radials were considered a luxury and people would have assumed that "245/45zr17" meant that someone had collapsed on their typewriter

Even though there was probably about a billion or so less cars on the road to worry about, they must have been pretty brave back then ....

and ps. the car looks lovely

[jcp123]

yes, but then again you have to remember that nobody else stopped any better either...if you learned to drive with manual brakes, it was just...normal to drive like that. i think it's since the advent of "safer" cars that people have been driving like maniacs so you NEED the dang brakes now lol

anyway...that's quite a digression!!

[essex]

yes, but then again you have to remember that nobody else stopped any better either...if you learned to drive with manual brakes, it was just...normal to drive like that. i think it's since the advent of "safer" cars that people have been driving like maniacs so you NEED the dang brakes now lol

anyway...that's quite a digression!!

true

but it's good to digress occasionally ... how's your air con? ;->

[essex]

ok back on topic,

the cobra has nice pedals with a racing style bare-metal effect, it bings constantly at you if you don't wear your seatbelt and the handbook comes in a nice velvet effect cover

does that swing it?

[04MysticCobra]

[IMG]http://[/IMG] Dudes come on, if you guys knew anything about Mustangs; you would realize that the new Cobra out performs in all aspects over the Saleen. Yes the Saleen looks great, but "and I stress" "but", if you compare power, torque, 0-60 time, price you would realize that the Cobra is by far the best between the both.