Hi folks Im Creepy an finally God has shined his sunshine on my sorry ARSE! ;-)
I bought 2 Cobras in the past 2 years a conv 99 pretty much stock an a 01 which has 27,000 on it mint with afew minor improvments, basically no cats an exhaust an a chip.
Im not a engine guy what so ever and I dont race any of these on street or drag. I cant shift for **** an would only embarrass myself an ruin the car so I basically hang out at Tasca Fords Racing Dept with afew friends an watch cars dyno. I think its pretty cool an Im the kind of guy that would annoy the die hards with one question after another. I only retain about 22% of what they say so I end up asking the same question 3x times.
Now getting to my story. Last week I received a call from Balise Chevrolet an they told me that I one a prize. I knew it was a gimmick of some sort, but it was a free weekend package an I thought my wife an I could get a baby sitter an then spend a weekend arguing somewhere else besides home. So her an I jumped in the car an headed down there.
So Im sitting there filling out the paper work an they say you have 2 nights an 3 days at any Ramada Inn in the following places. Im like yea yea cool thank you. I stand up an shake hands an then I say " You wouldnt happen to have any 03/04 Cobras would you?
So his face lights up an he says we just got one on a a trade for a new Vette yesterday its in the back waiting for the service check an cleaning. So my wife is giving me that look like hey here we go again your buying another one? I say yes but theyre getting faster an faster honey.
So we walk out an right away I say hmmmm.. Mods I can feel them. The car has stock rims an F-1s, but its lowered an looks nice an mean. Now comes my big questions, how many miles an how much.
My sales guy an we will call him Chuck say Creeps its 25,999 an then he says I think its 17,000 miles on it one owner. Now Im thinking holy smokes this is too good to be true. Here where I live you dont find stuff like this unless your prepared to pull your draws down an bite hard.
So I look at it an the interior is mint the car looks mint an straight an theres great tread so Im excited. Theres one small dent the size of a pencil eraser on the passagener side you can only see at an angle so Im like **** this car looks the part. My wife is standing there saying hey Im getting cold make a decision an I say Chuck Ill be back in the morning without the baggage.
So I start looking over the net comparing prices with miles an other things an figure out that hey its not a bad price. Now be aware that Ive been looking for a Teminator for the last 6 months. Its spring here an Im at a Chevy dealership not expecting this so Im pretty excited to say the least.
So that night after researching I decide that Im going to go in there shake hands with Chuck an offer him 20,000 an thats it. So next morning I get up I walk in an I sit down. Chuck seems to be a new employe so Im thinking he may need a deal here. So I say 20,000 cant go no higher youve seen how crappy my wife is.
He says hmmmmm not sure Ill be back. 15 min later he comes back says its a deal, but Ill have to pay the 733.00 sales tax on the car. I said no problem. That day they had the car serviced an cleaned for me. I left with the car an the follwing day I brought it to Tasca Racing in RI an got in line along with 4 other cars to be dynoed.
Now heres where it gets great.
The first car to be run is the new GT500 Cobra with Mods. Extremely fast from what Ive been told. So everyone is standing around talking smack an Im bascically gonna be the guy with the least HP. Thats cool I can tell right away the car has some basic mods but I havent even really looked at anything. Its not leaking any fluids from what I can see an Im on good tires. Im ready to roll.
So the GT500 makes 3 runs on the dyno. Best run is 611 RWHP. Nelson seems pretty happy but says hes going to mod more soon.
Next is a 2007 GT moddifed to what Tasca Ford calls the Cobra Jet. Its got an upgraded Exhaust an a Wipple 2 screw blower with other mods. Its been retuned an theyre hoping to see 500 RWHP.
So they make 3 runs an the best run turns out to be 483 RWHP. Now im watching all this thinking wow Im gonna be happy with 420 to 430. Doug is running the dynos an he says looks like you might make 430 if your lucky. He ask what mods I have an I tell him not really sure. Its the way it was yesterday when I bought it. So he does afew checks to make sure it wont blow up during the runs an says okay we are ready.
So he starts doing his thing an everyone is kind of standing around with theyre fingers in the ears yelling about other things besides an 03 Terminator thinking this isnt gonna have much more than stock.
So after the first run Doug gets out get on the computer an is scratching his head saying this cant be right. He goes over to the car an looks down an say **** now I see. No smaller pulley on the blower shaft but theres a much bigger crank pulley on the engine.
First run turns out to be 578 HP at the crank an about 530 at the tires. Hes pretty impressed we run again. Slightly lower. End up running the 3rd run an its about 550 on the crank an still over 500 at the rear wheels.
Boost pressure is 18 if I remember correctly. So with that said it turns out that I have over 500+ HP for only 20,733 an they filled the tank for me with the goodstuff I know that cause I drover Chuck to the fuel startion. After my run a GT-40 made 3 runs an turned out to be the baddest boy in the lot. Not only was it the loudest of us all he made an incredible 718 RWHP with flames coming out the tail pipes when he shut down. For sure the most powerful car Ive ever been around street legal too to boot. Im sure Doug said it was slightly modified but I have no clue what was done to it.
So with that said I left there as happy as a pig in poop an tried to show my wife my joy when I returned home only to be told that she wanted me to take out the trash an that I was staying home an watching the kids that night cause she was going out with the girls. I could care less cause today is my birthday an what better present could I ask for other than to finally have found a Termanator an to find one with 500+ at rear wheels with only 18,000+ miles for under 21,000 is a gift from the gods.
Also on hand during the dynos runs that day was Bob Tasca Sr. He still hangs out at the speed shop an keeps telling Doug that hes going to be put about a mile from the shop cause the dynos are too loud. A very nice guy who will walk right up introduce himeslf an ask you any number of questions or answer anything you ask him about the Mustang or Ford in general. Heres alittle of his bio.
Bob Tasca, Sr., Inducted 2003 Founder, Tasca Ford, Providence, Rhode Island. During the nineteen sixties Tasca Ford was synonymous with Ford Performance. Mr. Tasca coined the term, "Win on Sunday. Sell on Monday." He was the father of the Cobra Jet 428 and a key sponsor for the Boss 429. Over the decades, he effectively used his strong influence at Ford to keep the Mustang true to its heritage as it has progressed from the 2nd on through to the 5th generation vehicles.
Initially hired as a 40 cent-an-hour mechanic, Tasca wound up running with a crowd that included Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca and Carroll Shelby. Although he earned a Ph.D. in engineering from Roger Williams University, the skills that created the first Ford dealership to be No. 1 in BOTH sales volume and customer satisfaction were developed on the street. *"Bob Tasca was not a smart man," he said, referring to himself in the third person. "Bob Tasca learned from a lot of very, very smart people at Ford, basically because I asked a lot of questions and remembered most of the answers." *From 17-year-old "grease monkey" at Sandager Ford in 1943, Tasca climbed the ladder, becoming sales manager in 1948 and General Manager in 1949. Four years later, he opened his own dealership, making complete customer satisfaction his main selling point. *Despite his sales success, Tasca became concerned in the early 1960s that FoMoCo was being upstaged by the "muscle cars" being developed by General Motors and Chrysler. *As a result, he commissioned Holman & Moody to build a 406-powered 1962 Ford Galaxie that chief mechanic John Healy immediately drove to 13.30 second quarter mile times, a performance impressive enough to cause Lawton to abandon the Chevy 409 with which he had been taunting Tasca and join the blue oval brigade. *With Lawton, Tasca was at the forefront of the development of the 427-powered 1964 Ford Fairlane that became known as the "Thunderbolt." In 1966, at Tasca's behest, Holman & Moody built the first long-nose, altered wheelbase, match race Mustang, the precursor to today's Funny Cars. It was called the "Mystery 9" Mustang because of its 9-second quarter mile times. The number subsequently was altered to reflect eight and seven second times. *Finally, in 1968, Tasca Ford built the Cobra Jet prototype that would become what Tasca called "the fastest production-built car in the world at that point. I'm not talking top speed, "I'm talking run fast, get up and go. It was a 12-second street machine in the 1960s." *Now, with his name prominently emblazoned on Force's Mustang as well as on those of Pedregon and Densham, Tasca Ford has come full circle. Win on Sunday. Sell on Monday.
I would post my dyno results but I dont have a scanner. The Dyno we used is a Dyno Dynamics Dynamometer at Tasca Ford in Cranston RI. Alot of you know alot more about the equipment an how it works than I do.
Well I made this into a really long story an forgive me for that. Im gonna post afew pics I took of the car for you too.
Thanks for reading.
R/S
Creepy847
I bought 2 Cobras in the past 2 years a conv 99 pretty much stock an a 01 which has 27,000 on it mint with afew minor improvments, basically no cats an exhaust an a chip.
Im not a engine guy what so ever and I dont race any of these on street or drag. I cant shift for **** an would only embarrass myself an ruin the car so I basically hang out at Tasca Fords Racing Dept with afew friends an watch cars dyno. I think its pretty cool an Im the kind of guy that would annoy the die hards with one question after another. I only retain about 22% of what they say so I end up asking the same question 3x times.
Now getting to my story. Last week I received a call from Balise Chevrolet an they told me that I one a prize. I knew it was a gimmick of some sort, but it was a free weekend package an I thought my wife an I could get a baby sitter an then spend a weekend arguing somewhere else besides home. So her an I jumped in the car an headed down there.
So Im sitting there filling out the paper work an they say you have 2 nights an 3 days at any Ramada Inn in the following places. Im like yea yea cool thank you. I stand up an shake hands an then I say " You wouldnt happen to have any 03/04 Cobras would you?
So his face lights up an he says we just got one on a a trade for a new Vette yesterday its in the back waiting for the service check an cleaning. So my wife is giving me that look like hey here we go again your buying another one? I say yes but theyre getting faster an faster honey.
So we walk out an right away I say hmmmm.. Mods I can feel them. The car has stock rims an F-1s, but its lowered an looks nice an mean. Now comes my big questions, how many miles an how much.
My sales guy an we will call him Chuck say Creeps its 25,999 an then he says I think its 17,000 miles on it one owner. Now Im thinking holy smokes this is too good to be true. Here where I live you dont find stuff like this unless your prepared to pull your draws down an bite hard.
So I look at it an the interior is mint the car looks mint an straight an theres great tread so Im excited. Theres one small dent the size of a pencil eraser on the passagener side you can only see at an angle so Im like **** this car looks the part. My wife is standing there saying hey Im getting cold make a decision an I say Chuck Ill be back in the morning without the baggage.
So I start looking over the net comparing prices with miles an other things an figure out that hey its not a bad price. Now be aware that Ive been looking for a Teminator for the last 6 months. Its spring here an Im at a Chevy dealership not expecting this so Im pretty excited to say the least.
So that night after researching I decide that Im going to go in there shake hands with Chuck an offer him 20,000 an thats it. So next morning I get up I walk in an I sit down. Chuck seems to be a new employe so Im thinking he may need a deal here. So I say 20,000 cant go no higher youve seen how crappy my wife is.
He says hmmmmm not sure Ill be back. 15 min later he comes back says its a deal, but Ill have to pay the 733.00 sales tax on the car. I said no problem. That day they had the car serviced an cleaned for me. I left with the car an the follwing day I brought it to Tasca Racing in RI an got in line along with 4 other cars to be dynoed.
Now heres where it gets great.
The first car to be run is the new GT500 Cobra with Mods. Extremely fast from what Ive been told. So everyone is standing around talking smack an Im bascically gonna be the guy with the least HP. Thats cool I can tell right away the car has some basic mods but I havent even really looked at anything. Its not leaking any fluids from what I can see an Im on good tires. Im ready to roll.
So the GT500 makes 3 runs on the dyno. Best run is 611 RWHP. Nelson seems pretty happy but says hes going to mod more soon.
Next is a 2007 GT moddifed to what Tasca Ford calls the Cobra Jet. Its got an upgraded Exhaust an a Wipple 2 screw blower with other mods. Its been retuned an theyre hoping to see 500 RWHP.
So they make 3 runs an the best run turns out to be 483 RWHP. Now im watching all this thinking wow Im gonna be happy with 420 to 430. Doug is running the dynos an he says looks like you might make 430 if your lucky. He ask what mods I have an I tell him not really sure. Its the way it was yesterday when I bought it. So he does afew checks to make sure it wont blow up during the runs an says okay we are ready.
So he starts doing his thing an everyone is kind of standing around with theyre fingers in the ears yelling about other things besides an 03 Terminator thinking this isnt gonna have much more than stock.
So after the first run Doug gets out get on the computer an is scratching his head saying this cant be right. He goes over to the car an looks down an say **** now I see. No smaller pulley on the blower shaft but theres a much bigger crank pulley on the engine.
First run turns out to be 578 HP at the crank an about 530 at the tires. Hes pretty impressed we run again. Slightly lower. End up running the 3rd run an its about 550 on the crank an still over 500 at the rear wheels.
Boost pressure is 18 if I remember correctly. So with that said it turns out that I have over 500+ HP for only 20,733 an they filled the tank for me with the goodstuff I know that cause I drover Chuck to the fuel startion. After my run a GT-40 made 3 runs an turned out to be the baddest boy in the lot. Not only was it the loudest of us all he made an incredible 718 RWHP with flames coming out the tail pipes when he shut down. For sure the most powerful car Ive ever been around street legal too to boot. Im sure Doug said it was slightly modified but I have no clue what was done to it.
So with that said I left there as happy as a pig in poop an tried to show my wife my joy when I returned home only to be told that she wanted me to take out the trash an that I was staying home an watching the kids that night cause she was going out with the girls. I could care less cause today is my birthday an what better present could I ask for other than to finally have found a Termanator an to find one with 500+ at rear wheels with only 18,000+ miles for under 21,000 is a gift from the gods.
Also on hand during the dynos runs that day was Bob Tasca Sr. He still hangs out at the speed shop an keeps telling Doug that hes going to be put about a mile from the shop cause the dynos are too loud. A very nice guy who will walk right up introduce himeslf an ask you any number of questions or answer anything you ask him about the Mustang or Ford in general. Heres alittle of his bio.
Bob Tasca, Sr., Inducted 2003 Founder, Tasca Ford, Providence, Rhode Island. During the nineteen sixties Tasca Ford was synonymous with Ford Performance. Mr. Tasca coined the term, "Win on Sunday. Sell on Monday." He was the father of the Cobra Jet 428 and a key sponsor for the Boss 429. Over the decades, he effectively used his strong influence at Ford to keep the Mustang true to its heritage as it has progressed from the 2nd on through to the 5th generation vehicles.
Initially hired as a 40 cent-an-hour mechanic, Tasca wound up running with a crowd that included Henry Ford II, Lee Iacocca and Carroll Shelby. Although he earned a Ph.D. in engineering from Roger Williams University, the skills that created the first Ford dealership to be No. 1 in BOTH sales volume and customer satisfaction were developed on the street. *"Bob Tasca was not a smart man," he said, referring to himself in the third person. "Bob Tasca learned from a lot of very, very smart people at Ford, basically because I asked a lot of questions and remembered most of the answers." *From 17-year-old "grease monkey" at Sandager Ford in 1943, Tasca climbed the ladder, becoming sales manager in 1948 and General Manager in 1949. Four years later, he opened his own dealership, making complete customer satisfaction his main selling point. *Despite his sales success, Tasca became concerned in the early 1960s that FoMoCo was being upstaged by the "muscle cars" being developed by General Motors and Chrysler. *As a result, he commissioned Holman & Moody to build a 406-powered 1962 Ford Galaxie that chief mechanic John Healy immediately drove to 13.30 second quarter mile times, a performance impressive enough to cause Lawton to abandon the Chevy 409 with which he had been taunting Tasca and join the blue oval brigade. *With Lawton, Tasca was at the forefront of the development of the 427-powered 1964 Ford Fairlane that became known as the "Thunderbolt." In 1966, at Tasca's behest, Holman & Moody built the first long-nose, altered wheelbase, match race Mustang, the precursor to today's Funny Cars. It was called the "Mystery 9" Mustang because of its 9-second quarter mile times. The number subsequently was altered to reflect eight and seven second times. *Finally, in 1968, Tasca Ford built the Cobra Jet prototype that would become what Tasca called "the fastest production-built car in the world at that point. I'm not talking top speed, "I'm talking run fast, get up and go. It was a 12-second street machine in the 1960s." *Now, with his name prominently emblazoned on Force's Mustang as well as on those of Pedregon and Densham, Tasca Ford has come full circle. Win on Sunday. Sell on Monday.
I would post my dyno results but I dont have a scanner. The Dyno we used is a Dyno Dynamics Dynamometer at Tasca Ford in Cranston RI. Alot of you know alot more about the equipment an how it works than I do.
Well I made this into a really long story an forgive me for that. Im gonna post afew pics I took of the car for you too.
Thanks for reading.
R/S
Creepy847
really no need IMHO.
