2005/'06 SVT Cobra???

[OBleedingMe]

Hi, I'm pretty new to this forum... big classic Mustang fan (restored a 1967 Shelby GT 500, check it out at: http://members.aol.com/goaway669/), but this new Mustang style has reeled me in.
While the new 3-valve (shades of Mercedes-Benz??) engine in the Ford GT looks good, 300 HP just isn't enough stock power for me. So my question is, does anyone know around what time the SVT Cobra will be relased and what its general performance (HP/torque) specs are? I hear the pricing will be between $35-$38 K.
Concerning the 2006 Mustang SVT Cobra, can anyone confirm the rumors that Ford's going to drop a 500HP monster under the hood?
Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Rampant]

No specs or pricing has been finalized/announced by Ford. Everything is pure speculation. However, we do expect to have an aweful lot of variants besides the Cobra and the Cobra isn't expected until '07 (think that came from a memo to the dealers about incentives).

 

[Rootus]

When SVT announced the PowerLease for 2004 Cobras, their letter stated 30 months for the next Cobra, plus or minus 3 months. It will be a 2007 model.

(in addition to seeing that posted here, I read the actual letter on SVT letterhead that was mailed to all of the SVT dealers).

Dave

 

[shatner saves]

While the new 3-valve (shades of Mercedes-Benz??)

Ford licenced and developed it's 3 valve head tech from Jim Feulling (sp). Feulling was in the process of sueing M-B for violating his patents before he died of cancer last year. I don't know what became of the dispute. I believe GMC was also a licencee of feulling's patents as well.

 

[onedownfiveup]

http://home.comcast.net/~mstines/nitrous_mustang_wheelie.mpeg

 

[Mr Black]

Ford licenced and developed it's 3 valve head tech from Jim Feulling (sp). Feulling was in the process of sueing M-B for violating his patents before he dies of cancer last year.

Funny that anyone could be granted a patent for a 3-valve head. Honda has been doing this since AT LEAST the mid-eighties if not earlier (crappy little Civics had 12-valve fours)

 

[shatner saves]

It wasn't simply the 3 valves. It had more to do with specific aspects of the head and valve configuration.

Honda's 3 valve was the cvcc wasn't it? That worked on a different principal.

 

[Rootus]

It wasn't simply the 3 valves. It had more to do with specific aspects of the head and valve configuration.

Honda's 3 valve was the cvcc wasn't it? That worked on a different principal.

Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion, or stratified charge engine (interestingly, in the end the CVCC engine did not actually require a vortex to achieve stratified charge... but the acronym stuck). A concept originally developed in the United States (by Ford no less), but rejected by Henry Ford. And so Honda ran with the ball. Basically eliminates detonation, and achieves amazing part throttle effeciency. Didn't even need a catalytic converter to meet emissions standards until 1983.

Dave

 

[tommy0022]

wow

 

[OBleedingMe]

Okay, so then the next SVT Cobra that will be released will be in 2007?

 

[Emil]

From what I've read it will be an early release 2007, like mid 2006.

 

[Rootus]

Okay, so then the next SVT Cobra that will be released will be in 2007?

The next SVT Cobra will be a 2007 model year, released in September of 2006, plus or minus three months.

Dave