Here are my experiences with these bastages, 96 Cobra with flowmasters and
K&N vs 92 LX Hatchback with Edelbrock Performer Intake, pulleys, offroad h, Dynomax Super Turbo Catback, 3.55's from a low roll held the 96 Cobra off from a low roll by about a car into third or fourth gear, cant remember. The 5.0 car was always pretty slow for it's mods too, put down 225 rwhp, nobody knows what the timing was at or anything lol.
Same 92 LX vs a 99 Cobra pretty much stock, was either a dead stop or a first gear roll, cant remember, LX hopped out hard, Cobra started pulling back but was still behind at 100-110ish but was on our bumper about to come by.
Now another instance, 87 GT with mac shortys, prochamber, pro dumps, pulleys, 3.08's, lakewood lift bars, draglites with skinnies and bfg dr's which would DESTROY that 92 LX from a stop, a roll, a 40 roll, reverse, every which way always had big time problems with Cobras that had gears and more mods.
Gears help those peaky powerband Cobras out big time. With this one having stocker gears, it will be closer in the 1/8 until things stretch out, should be interesting!