horsepower TV is featuring a 04 cobra

FiveO

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bone stock they dynoed it at 364 rwhp, with a hypertech tuner they got 407 rwhp, and then a 2.8inch pulley put them at 427 rwhp. thats without exhaust work.

thats pretty sick :nice: :hail2:
 
Is it me or was that the lamest show ever! How do gain under 10hp when upping the boost by 4psi! Gaining 40hp with a hypertech is bogus too. Something is wrong there. I dunno. I would expect the 40hp to be from the 4psi pulley, and less then 10hp from the programmer. Does anyone else think something is wrong there?
 
Nope...That hypertech programmer had a preset program made specifically for a stock 03 Cobra...I can see it getting 40rwhp from just a tune on those cars...they have a very conservative tune from the factory...That's why they said they couldn't change the air induction or the exhaust because the program in the Hypertech was optimized for a car that didnt' have those things on it and it also has a program for up to a 2.80" pulley...427rwhp seems pretty right on track for a car with no other mods...add exhaust and air induction with say a predator or SCT tuner and that would probably add another good 40rwhp and it'd be a 460-470 rwhp car...which is right about what they put out with those mods...swap in a ported Apten eaton and it's at 500rwhp...
 
I just got off the phone with hypertech... they provide 3 programs, one for stock pully and two other pully programs... they said that CIA upgrades and Exhaust upgrades work with all three programs... with K&N FIPK2 CAI, and Magnaflow Cat-Back... I should be looking close to 450 HP & 460 TQ.... Makes me want to run as fast as I can to get a hypertech tuner :spot: