Thanks for the replies. No it wouldn't be her daily driver thats for sure. Prob drive it once the salts off the road to around November or so. Prob once a weekend and maybe one day to work kinda thing. Maybe around 2500-3000 miles a year. It will deff be 5 speed or a 6 speed she doesn't want a automatic. Kinda been looking around here for cobras for sale and haven't come up with much. Chances are we wont find something until spring time anyways.
Sounds like you have a great girl BTW. Not many like manual transmissions, and not many want a fast car that isnt a "girly" mobile.
Well we found a car. Its not a mach 1 or a 03/04 cobra but it is a cobra. She is picking up her 97 cobra this week! The car is Pacific Green with saddle leather interior and this thing is clean. Well basicly 100% perfect, she loves it and cant wait to bring it home. Its got a few goodies too, kooks long tubes, catted x pipe, magnaflow catback, slotted rotors front and back, 1.5" lowering springs, UPR cai, 4.10's, steeda upper and lower control arms, real sweet subframe connectors, steeda shortthrow, 18" silver saleen wheels and its been tuned by a local shop not sure what it put down or anything. I would think its around 300 to the tires. Drives perfect and actually really has been babied its whole life. Best of all it has 50,000 miles. Will be posting pictures once she gets it, maybe a few shots with my car too.
Sounds like a solid Snake Hope the price was right, well guess it was or she wouldnt of gotten it That was the first Cobra I ever had. 97 Green Coupe, sweet car
She paid $9500 for the car. He was asking $10k and I was trying my best to get it as cheap as possible but he wouldn't go under $9,500. Don't blame him one bit. She didn't steal the car thats for sure but I think its a very reasonable price for the condition its in and the miles it has. Forgot to say it was a coupe in the my other post. Way I figure it, all the mods that are done to it are things we would have done anyways so she really is saving a bit.
Thinking we might bring it to the track in a few weeks on just a test and tune night for the heck of it. Street tires and all.
Don't be too disappointed if it's not a rocket on the first night. Early 4V Cobra's take some "finesse" to properly manipulate the clutch and throttle coming out of the hole. Drop it too low and it bogs BADLY and kills your run. Drop it too high, and it blows the tires off the rim. She really needs to learn how to "ride" it off the line. This is why most early 4V owners go right for 4.10-4.30 gears as their first mod. Getting these cars into their power band as soon as possible is priority for a good run. Many have gone well into the 12’s with just gears, long tube headers and basic bolt-ons.
Ah, read the thread she already bought a 97 cobra. Edit: Not you gearbanger. Anyways, take a look at the previous page its already got a bunch of mods! "Its got a few goodies too, kooks long tubes, catted x pipe, magnaflow catback, slotted rotors front and back, 1.5" lowering springs, UPR cai, 4.10's, steeda upper and lower control arms, real sweet subframe connectors, steeda shortthrow, 18" silver saleen wheels and its been tuned by a local shop not sure what it put down or anything" Copied that from my other post. She will prob make a few runs, then I will.
Yeah, I actually read all that Thats why I said "looks like a solid car". I have no hesitation about buying a pre moded car if its the mods that should be done and the car is in as good of shape as that one My first ever Cobra was a Green 97 Coupe, I loved that thing!
