i could get a deal on a cobra intake, and i am wondering how good it flows versus the other popular ones, and if i should try and get it. Its on a stock engine, possibly heads, etc later
how does a 95 cobra intake compare with, say a edlebrook or a trickflow?
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jmuva44
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If it did, Cobra owners would never switch to an aftermarket intake. The Cobra intake is a great intake!! However, it is engineered more to maximize airflow on stock Cobra engine components. It does a very good job of it too. However once you begin to add aftermarket heads and cams and such, its not quite as efficient as it once was. Thats when you need the Edels and Trick Flows and such. They want more airflow in order to maximize their potential than the Cobra intake. However, compared to the stock GT intake, the Cobra is leaps and bounds more advanced and efficient.
The cobra is a good solid intake and I personally think in recent times has became knocked alot and underated. It provides a good power curve is excellent on the street. In the Ford motorsport catalogue it says its good for 425hp (probably a huge bottle neck on such an engine) It was used on the 95 Cobra R (the upper and same lower design) so it can't be too bad supporting a 351. It is one of the best looking intakes, and with some work to the lower and upper i am sure it would perform as well or better than many of the other intakes on the market. I guess what Iam saying is for a good looking street/strip performer I don't think you can go wrong even with price, and the quality is there. If you are looking to race and want every extra horsepower available at fairly high RPMs, look for a different intake. but thats just my 2cents.
As they said, its a good solid intake. An edelbrock performer is definatly better IMO. Just buy the edelbrock or trickflow street heat, then you wont needa change it down the road, and if you do, you can just swap the upper to an RPM, or trackheat.
On my old engine combo, i picked up 2 mph in just the swap from a cobra to typhoon(RPM copy) but that was on a heads/cam motor.
On my old engine combo, i picked up 2 mph in just the swap from a cobra to typhoon(RPM copy) but that was on a heads/cam motor.
BlueOvalStangGT
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since the cobra is a oem peice, wouldnt there be more porting work available? what im trying to say is couldnt you port a cobra more then the eddy?(ported cobra > ported eddy ) that what i was thinking and last time i was at the track some guy said the same thing to me.
Nik_95Cobra
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everywhere I've seen says the cobra one's good for 400 horse...so I won't be spending the money to change mine til the 351 goes in and I just have the upper and 351 lower ported. (Plus I dig The Factory Look).
randomjoker
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well my engine is completly stock. i have chance to get a cobra intake for cheap. should i get the cobra one or buy a trickflow street one? on a stock engine which one would be better for me? would the trick flow hurt my performance or help it more? also if i get the trick flow or cobra intkae could i use a 70mm throttle body without hurting performance or should i just get a 65mm?
jeeeze it looks like the cobra intake is barely better than the stocker!!!...only thing, is that chart the stock 94/95 or the old intakes? see the 94/95 really blows
on that chart they show the upper only, the stock lower is where it gets restrictedGreenMustangGt said:
Green Machine
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GreenMustangGt
I saw the same chart listed below and also listened to Vibrant and got a Eldelbrock Performer. It made a nice difference. Added about 12 rwhp with the mods I had already installed. Then when I added my AFR's, it added alot to the over all performance. I've dyno my GT recently, and its at 284.9 rwhp and 312 torque. That's with stock 19 lb injectors and a stock cam. Also running a Tremec 3550 which is using up ~ 5-7 rwhp. So you can see this combo does produce good rwhp.
If you want more top end you can buy the older Performer RPM upper intake and bolt it on the existing lower. I like that kind of flexibility.
Dewman
I saw the same chart listed below and also listened to Vibrant and got a Eldelbrock Performer. It made a nice difference. Added about 12 rwhp with the mods I had already installed. Then when I added my AFR's, it added alot to the over all performance. I've dyno my GT recently, and its at 284.9 rwhp and 312 torque. That's with stock 19 lb injectors and a stock cam. Also running a Tremec 3550 which is using up ~ 5-7 rwhp. So you can see this combo does produce good rwhp.
If you want more top end you can buy the older Performer RPM upper intake and bolt it on the existing lower. I like that kind of flexibility.
Dewman
I knew a guy that had an extrude hone Mirrored finish Cobra intake for sale for $700. It came off a car making over 500HP!
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randomjoker
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YEAHLOH95
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my first intake was a 95 cobra with stock heads and cam it worked great and made alot more power than the stock intake can but when i got my afr's the lower ports were way smaller so i sold it and went with the trick flow which matched right up with my heads the cobra lower ports are small but that makes for nice torque , but you could always port them later i just decided to swap intakes instead of porting mine to match the heads. it's all in how good of a deal you are getting i went with the cobra because it had the elbow built in and you have to take the additional cost of that into the other intakes as well .
I made that graphic above and it shows the upper intake flows then below that it shows the lower AND the upper together - shows how restrcitive the lower intake is. Also, read the fine print! - those values must be multiplied by 1.06 to get flow values at 28" of water as that test above was done at 25".
Greg at XSR Cylinder Heads recently flow tested one of my ported lowers and it averaged 195cfm without a clay radius, which would have added at least 10cfm according to Greg.
If your going to use the E7, ported E7, GT40, GT40P, GT40Y, Windsor Jr heads then the stock Cobra/Explorer/GT40 intakes which flow 205-210 cfm will work great. So will the Performer. Comes down to price as always. I think the TF street intake is a little on the large side for the above heads.
Greg at XSR Cylinder Heads recently flow tested one of my ported lowers and it averaged 195cfm without a clay radius, which would have added at least 10cfm according to Greg.
If your going to use the E7, ported E7, GT40, GT40P, GT40Y, Windsor Jr heads then the stock Cobra/Explorer/GT40 intakes which flow 205-210 cfm will work great. So will the Performer. Comes down to price as always. I think the TF street intake is a little on the large side for the above heads.
