LOL, apologies accepted (but not necessary).
I think your response was a good one, and not off the beaten path at all. Lots of Mustangers don't know that the STI's come with 300+ HP stock from the factory.
Of course, its always the same old story, "a good big man will (all other things being equal) always beat a good small man".
Or...
"There's no replacement for displacement".
Turbocharge a 2 liter motor and spend $30,000, and you will get X power.
Turbocharge a 4.6 liter motor and spend $30,000, and you get XX power.
Its how physics works.
Its also the reason why 282 cubic inch Mustangs struggle with comparably modified 350 cubic inch Brand C's.
I actually don't mind the "what if" comparisons, so long as it all starts with dollar signs as one of the control points.
I used to own 280Z's, so I'm no Japanophobe, but I also know what building a first class high output car like a twin turbo Supra costs. I had a rather interesting bet going with a Supra owner one time that I could build a Mustang that would easily beat his Supra in the quarter mile, for the same money he had invested in his car.
Of course, he didn't know that I had his build list with notes about what he had spent that he had posted earlier on the site...
When I started listing my proposed buildup (spending over $60,000) on my Mustang, he cried foul, saying that no way had his car cost that much...
When I popped up his own old post, and mentioned that I would be willing to forget and forgive all the recent upgrades he had made (which must surely have greatly added to his total), he never responded and in fact, disappeared from the site.
The huge advantage Mustangs have over virtually all other cars is the low COST of achieving relatively high quality results. There is no doubt that, for instance, one could buy a nice Z car and modify it into a barn-stormer - but also no doubt that, for the same money, one could build a superior Mustang.
Just as it was once said that "Men are NOT created equal, but Mr. Colt changed all that", DOLLARS are the ultimate item to compare when building custom cars.
Just as a 7 liter Corvette starts with a huge advantage over a 4.6 liter Mustang in displacement, and so long as money is not studied the Mustang will be forever playing a game of catchup which it is doomed to lose, as soon as you involve Dollars, the tides of fortune shift to favor the Mustang.
Sure, billionaires could care less about the cost of a car...
But the rest of us sure do.
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Originally Posted by tripleblack  Typical twin turbo DOHC 4.6 in fighting trim puts out about 1000 foot pounds of torque. The stock STI drivetrain is rated at 360 pounds - and the stock 01 Cobra is too!
So my comment applies to the stock Cobra drivetrain as well.
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My apologies, I missed the line about the turbo's in the original post. |
Cobra Motor swap in an STi 
