Does anyone around Raleigh have an 03 or 04 Cobra with aftermarket exhaust on it? I would like to be able to hear some different sounds before I buy something for my car. I am looking to get headers, mid-pipe, and exhaust. Does anyone have any suggestions on what combination to go with. (shorty vs long tubes, cats vs no cats, etc.)

Also, I have a clunking noise on my car. I know the Cobras have a problem with the IRS, but I'm not sure if this is coming from that or not. It sounds like it could be coming from the front of the car also. If anyone could maybe look at my car or give me some ideas that would be nice.


Thanks.

10/5/2007 10:45:15 PM

IRS Cobras are notorious for haveing "the clunk". Its just slop in the IRS between the differential and the halfshafts. you usually hear it when shifting gears or putting it in gear. It was very noticable on the 99s(my car) but got better as the years went on.

a note on the headers... 03/04 cobras have different shape ports on the heads than 99/01s. Some compaines just make a "best fit" header and advertise it as 99-04 cobra headers. I would stay away from these. try to pick a header thats been made for your car. also be aware that some headers will allow you to take the transmission out of the car without taking the headers off while some you have to loosen or even take the headers off to take the tranny out.

midepipes are pretty much all the same. Choose based on your sound preference. H gives the traditional deep rumble of a muscle car. X pipes give more of a raspy exotic sound(as exotic as a mustang gets anyways).

Mufflers... chambered mufflers again give you that deep muscle car sound but rob you of more horsepower. Straight through mufflers (magnaflow, bassani, etc...) yeild more power but again give you a higher pitched more exotic sound.

This is my post for this year, enjoy.

10/5/2007 11:36:21 PM

bassani. get a pulley and a good tune on that thing too, it'll be a whole new car.

10/7/2007 12:49:40 AM

We put an exhaust on a customer's cobra a month or so ago.. sounded incredible.. I can't remember for the life of me what combo he had, though.

10/7/2007 1:07:22 AM

imo, any v8 mustangs are some of the best sounding cars ever with aftermarket exhaust.

10/7/2007 1:17:03 AM

^agreed.

10/7/2007 2:10:54 AM

NO CHAMBERS...

hell NO CATS for that matter let that beauty sing her tune to the world un-altered

<3 small block ford sounds

10/7/2007 2:30:28 AM

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"imo, any v8 mustangs are some of the best sounding cars ever with aftermarket exhaust."

funny, as i read that, i hear the sick ass fox body next door fire up.. its fucking nasty..

[Edited on October 7, 2007 at 2:55 AM. Reason : ..]

10/7/2007 2:55:16 AM

Mah 5.4L with cutout sounds pretty nice if I do say so myself.

10/7/2007 3:24:31 AM

^^ Do you live next to slowback96?

10/7/2007 6:09:54 PM

no, his sounds closer to some rocks being shaken around in can.

10/7/2007 8:27:33 PM

well it is a 5.4 but it aint the sound of a terminator car. i live in the cut so i dont think it was my car

10/7/2007 11:31:37 PM

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"^^ Do you live next to slowback96?"

haha.. no way. the guys in the shop next to us were building a[nother] fox body.. iirc, this one had a 302 (may have been a 351), high comp., with lots of spray.. they just put the engine in and fired it up when i posted that.

10/8/2007 10:08:00 AM

where is this shop?

10/8/2007 2:09:30 PM

off of new bern ave.

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 2:27 PM. Reason : i will try to get some pics, but they're kind of secretive about what they're working on.]

10/8/2007 2:26:43 PM

there's a shop beside slowback that builds mustangs but they actually use a good looking body style (60's/70's). fox body mustangs look like civics on steroids, absolutely no creative design whatsoever.

10/8/2007 2:34:51 PM

you dont need design creativity when you can lift the front wheels off the ground.

10/8/2007 2:37:36 PM

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"you dont need design creativity when you can lift the front wheels off the ground."

Yeah...You need a 4 link.

10/8/2007 3:13:02 PM

hell nah... plenty of leaf spring cars out there totin the fronts.

10/8/2007 3:25:41 PM

oh john wests shop. hes a good guy. did the motor in my girls dads camaro

10/8/2007 5:08:36 PM

john west? no, i dont think that is it.

the guy that owns the place does mostly transmissions.. i think the mustang stuff is just something he does with his friends.. the red car was his brother's.

10/8/2007 5:26:43 PM

my bad. where on new bern is this shop. i figured bunch of mustangs, so assuming was a bad ide. but anyway.

10/8/2007 5:30:22 PM

you've probably never heard of them, if that's what you're getting at.

10/8/2007 6:18:44 PM

power used to lift your front end is wasted power

*edit* even though it does look cool as shit

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 7:14 PM. Reason : asf]

10/8/2007 7:13:58 PM

yes 70s mustangs are great oh wait. i might as well buy a mustang 2 then. fox=78.5 so its still a fox that was made in the 70. i dont think you know what your talking about. 67-69 ftw anyway back to 03 04 cobras

10/8/2007 9:01:29 PM

who said anything about 70's mustangs downy?

10/8/2007 9:07:27 PM

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"there's a shop beside slowback that builds mustangs but they actually use a good looking body style (60's/70's). fox body mustangs look like civics on steroids, absolutely no creative design whatsoever"

this guy biggaydummy

10/8/2007 9:15:02 PM

he clearly made the difference between the two body styles.

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 9:17 PM. Reason : .]

10/8/2007 9:16:56 PM

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"they actually use a good looking body style (60's/70's). "

got that.............

Quote :

"fox body mustangs look like civics on steroids, absolutely no creative design whatsoever"

and this.............

fox made in 78.5 what part of that do younot gather. 78 was between 70-80 donny the retard

10/8/2007 9:21:25 PM

dear dipshit (slowbrain96) he said 60s/70s which i'm betting would be 64.5-70 if he actually new.

anyway small block fords sound great. don't use a chambered exhaust though....

10/8/2007 9:23:35 PM

well it should have been stated like..

Quote :

"64.5-71 mustangs are bad a s shit"

10/8/2007 9:26:04 PM

^^dont go assuming now of what he meant to say.

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 9:27 PM. Reason : d]

10/8/2007 9:27:30 PM

im not ass u me ing. yall goin to sauser tonight

10/8/2007 9:37:15 PM

i got my arrows messed up u replied on the quick.

yeah man i got n** pickin me up bc i dont feel like even going riding out there HAHHAHA and she's buyin my beer.

ur missing out!

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 9:38 PM. Reason : .]

10/8/2007 9:38:07 PM

free beer im down

but damn i got to work in th emorn

10/8/2007 9:39:03 PM

werd

[Edited on October 8, 2007 at 10:00 PM. Reason : d]

10/8/2007 10:00:02 PM

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"Faggotry.......all of it "

10/8/2007 10:03:33 PM

pumpkin ale ftw

10/8/2007 10:05:17 PM

Oh shut the hell up. I said 70's because I know I like the 1969 version and I was simply guessing that it continued into the early-mid 70's. I also did not know they did that shitty-ass fox body style that early. Why it lasted so long the world may never know. I've avoided nit-picking you because i'm not the one to start fights and I also have to interact with you professionaly (when my inspection machine goes down). You knew what I meant as did everybody else. Don't get all buttsore that I picked on your ride.

10/8/2007 11:57:23 PM

well how bout it lasted so long because chevy couldnt compete.

are you the guy with the auto camaro that sounds like a farmtruck?

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 9:51 AM. Reason : ?]

10/9/2007 9:49:22 AM

I guess that's true, nobody really had a sexy vehicle in those days (atleast none I can think of off the top of my head).

No, I drive an F-150 and a jeep.

10/9/2007 2:36:40 PM

oh

10/9/2007 4:57:07 PM