The mustang lost fair and square. I've been street racing for 15 years and drag racing for 9 years and the rule is "Run what you brung and hope you brung enough!!" That night the Supra brung enough. It may of had more mods than the cobra but hey its fair on the street. The Cobra owner could of declined to race since the Supra posibly had more mods but did'nt and subsequntly got his doors blown off. A word to the wise is to learn about the compitition and how they run with mods.
I'm a huge mustang fan but read about other cars and I found that I like the Supra best of all cars from japan. What immpreses me is that with the FACTORY short block and a huge turbo some have ran 8's!!
The Cobra is a great car too. But I never well in love with the looks of the 99-present models like i did when I saw my first LS1 T/A.So I bought one and I love it.
I still race my '88 Saleen though. Back in '95 when it was bone stock it ran high 14's and this summer I got it down to 9.6@146 on 4 year old slicks and a bad 1.49 60'.
As for the cobra being best hp per dollar.It might be. But watch out for the new '05 GTO. Its going to have the 400hp LS2 and I also heard that in a couple of years dodge will have the hemi in the 425hp range and plans on building a charger. Things are goings to get exciting.
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'88 Saleen- 310cid, Fox lake twisted wedge,Holley systemax lower intake, Saleen upper intake,Novi 2000,
Kooks headers,dynamic mighty mite C4
best et- 9.67
best mph- 146.16
'00 T/A-
Hurst billet shifter,Spec st.3 clutch,MTI lid,
Borla catback,Baer eradipeed rotors,Hotchkis
lower control arms and torque arm,Kenny brown DD subs,U.S. exotics hood,Torque thrust II's,Nitto Dr's,SLP line lock
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