95 cobra-R for sale in Iowa

[punch]

http://www.corral.net/forums/showthread.php?t=606900

Ever wanted one, here's your chance! Not a bad price too.

[Zinc]

Notice that he wants to trade it for an M3

[Sleeper]

ryan, your ///M3 button is broken.

[Zinc]

I know, my work computer doesnt have it

[theduckylittle]

I know the rarity makes them worthwhile (in terms of price)... but if it was for racing, why would you ever buy one?

For $24G's, you can take a V6 Car and an Engine swap A LONG way.

-Duck

[bad-speller]

Ducky,
Sounds logical, but for many types of road racing for instance, it isn't that easy. A V6 is going to have a 7.5" rear axle, you need to upgrade the tranny, driveshaft, bell housing, electrinics, cooling system, brakes, shocks, ect. If you totally rule out the sentimental value of a 95R, they certainly could be decent bargain for racing in their day because that was what the rules were written around. Most of the R's we see out in the open tracking setting are there because the owners want to see what it's like to drive on a real race track, they get bitten by the track bug and slowly modify thier cars to suit thier needs and tastes. Before they know it, it's hard to recognize the car it's so modded.

Some people might think it's a shame taking the R's modifying and racing them, but there are some of us racers that think it's a shame that these cars sit in storage with owners afraid to drive them.

When I won the two races at Road America this year in my 95R, a collector came up and told me that I had significantly increased the future value of my car by giving it racing history and ecspecially with it winning. I'm not as optimistic about the value of racing as he was, but I found it somewhat interesting.

Sorry about taking this off subject,

Brian

[punch]

I think racing cobra-r's is awesome, it's what they were designed to do. I'm sure it makes the R designers happy to see them flogged at the track.

[theduckylittle]

Ducky,
Sounds logical, but for many types of road racing for instance, it isn't that easy. A V6 is going to have a 7.5" rear axle, you need to upgrade the tranny, driveshaft, bell housing, electrinics, cooling system, brakes, shocks, ect. If you totally rule out the sentimental value of a 95R, they certainly could be decent bargain for racing in their day because that was what the rules were written around.

From my point of view, you're not talking about a lot of work in comparison to the price. I'm thinking you could put a SOLID combination together for under $10G, including the purchase price of the car.

-Duck

[Horarik]

i still dont get the ///M3 deal.......

[theduckylittle]

///M

-Duck

[ACRucrazy]

Gimmie an 03 Cobra over the 95 R

[theduckylittle]

Gimmie an 03 Cobra over the 95 R

No, I don't want to, and you can't make me.

-Duck

[kineda]

From my point of view, you're not talking about a lot of work in comparison to the price. I'm thinking you could put a SOLID combination together for under $10G, including the purchase price of the car.

-Duck

im with ducky on this one, for $25k i could take a frame and make a badass road/track car, would take much at all...

[bad-speller]

From my point of view, you're not talking about a lot of work in comparison to the price. I'm thinking you could put a SOLID combination together for under $10G, including the purchase price of the car.

-Duck

I assume you are talking building one today today and not back when the 95R's came out and were actually raced? Parts are alot easier to pick up today then back when the R's were out and being raced. Back in the day, when the real R was crashed, they replaced it with a new body by moving all the parts over. Most ex IMSA R's cars aren't real R's anymore. We have had some interesting discussions on the R forum at SVT perf on whether a R is still an R if it isn't still in it's original body.

Ducky I like you, you make very good educated posts in here, but you are not going to build a v6 mustang into a competetive road race car for 10g's. A competitive car is going to have damn near that in the suspension and safety mods. When I refer to a race car, I am meaning building it so it meets NASA or SCCA's rules, not just an open track car where it isn't actually racing.

This comes down to a diema I have been dealing with. Should I buy a New Mustang Gt, V6, or a body in white to build a new racecar. To build a new race car for NASA's AI class (which is a cheap class to run) I have figured and it has been confirmed by others that are further along in the process, to expect to spend in the 50,000-60,000 range assuming you do the work yourself.

Brian

PS: I would (and did) take a 95R way before a 03/04 Cobra on a road course. It's not even a comparison. The 03/04's have too many shortcomings that a person would have to fix.

[theduckylittle]

Ducky I like you, you make very good educated posts in here, but you are not going to build a v6 mustang into a competetive road race car for 10g's. A competitive car is going to have damn near that in the suspension and safety mods. When I refer to a race car, I am meaning building it so it meets NASA or SCCA's rules, not just an open track car where it isn't actually racing.

This comes down to a diema I have been dealing with. Should I buy a New Mustang Gt, V6, or a body in white to build a new racecar. To build a new race car for NASA's AI class (which is a cheap class to run) I have figured and it has been confirmed by others that are further along in the process, to expect to spend in the 50,000-60,000 range assuming you do the work yourself.

I'm not saying "competitive," I said soild (Of course my interpretation of that is relative to drag-racing where street cars are fine). A stock Cobra R doesn't have the necessary saftey modification either, you'll still be investing tons of cash into it to make it equivalent to the cars on the track. The advertised model is a stock one. Plain old street car.

Making a 351W powered SN95 with some suspension work and some brake work could certianly come in-or-around $10G's. It might take some patience, but you're not talking about an insurmountable task. It might even be "cheaper" to do it with a 5.0. (That way you have things like accessories and fuel injection taken care of without a lot of hassle, along with a good rear-end and a probably acceptable transmission...)

-Duck