Originally posted by Widewing
Road and track magazine just tested Pete Brock's personal SuperPeformance Daytona Coupe.... Highest skidpad numbers they ever recorded. Fastest Slalom run ever recorded by R&T. Out-performs the Enzo in several categories. Out-performs the Ford GT in all categories. Both the Z06 and Viper SRT10 Coupe pale in comparison. Powered by an aluminum 427 ci, 566 hp engine. A/C is standard... CD player optional. You can order the exact same Daytona Coupe for well under 90 grand, delivered with 2 year power train warranty.
Frankly, that's all I'd want in my garage....
My regards,
Widewing
I would HOPE that SuperFormance has dramtically improved their products since the last three Cobras I did.
The frame is horribly weak and inadequate. The design is so bad that not only do their headers not fit, but neither does their exhaust system. Not to mention the headers are among the absolute worst I've ever seen, especially for the $600 cost. The exhaust is only 2", hardly adequate for even a 400HP engine, it KILLED the 620HP 427 small block I built, I doubt if the thing makes 540HP with that system.
The fuel system is inadequate as well. One small line, with a Nissan plastic fuel filter off of a 200SX best I can tell.
The clutch system is a rigged abomination, bastardized from a 5.0 Mustang.
The brakes immediately required $1000 upgrades, and the shocks and springs were replaced by the dealer as well at a cost of over $1500.
The guages did not work right, and the ignition system wasn't much better.
Considering all three customers paid over $45K for their cars WITHOUT the engine OR transmission, I was horribly disappointed.
The 8.8 rearends appear to give problems as well, and the halfshafts are weak. At the last track event one of my customers attended in Charlotte (the factory and dealer put the events on) one of the Cobras broke a rearend and a half shaft and stuffed the wall.
During the event, my customer had brake problems as well. From 100 MPH, if you clutched it and coasted, it stopped VERY quickly. For a few minutes, you could park the car on the back door of the trailer and it would stay there by itself even out of gear. They actually told the customer to pull the master cylinder and sand the piston down.
As soon as I finish the resto on his 66 L-79 Corvette engine and trans, we're taking the Cobra to a couple of racecar builders to get quotes on having REAL headers built (I simply don't have the time to build a set, it'll be a nightmare). Then I'll swap heads and put on a 4 Weber 48IDA intake for him, and see if we can get all his power back and then some.
