Car has 70,000 miles on it and has had NOS ran threw it before, from the looks and upgrades that have been done it looks to be very well taken care of.
Looking at a Ford Mustang Cobra 2001 and wanted to know what I should be looking for as far as abuse?
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Looking at a Ford Mustang Cobra 2001 and wanted to know what I should be looking for as far as abuse?
these are strong engines, and can handle hard driving - providing they have been properly maintained, and since the car's appearance is 1st class this is a good starting point.
-original owner car? can you see service records...
-running synthetic oil and has it been changed regularly
-where the car has been parked , any signs of any leaks
-can you determine what shop did the work on the car, including any performance installations, talk to them
-state of tires, how much life left (performance tires are expensive)
especially for a car that has been modified/ran under stress - i highly recommend you have a proshop give the car a once over (its worth $150 to determine status)...brakes, suspension, and a compression test.
in 01 there were only 3300 cobra verts made and 3800 cobra coupes, if you are buying the car privately make sure its a real cobra (lots of clones around) by cking the VIN against a decoder, there will be olne on this page:
http://www.mustangattitude.com/mustang/ ... tang.shtml
also get on owners forum,,,, svtperformance.com , most owners of SVT vehicles register here or modularfords.com
there is 1 specific forum for the 99-01 cobras and you might even find someone who knows the specific car (not many around)....additionally if you purchase it these forums are good sources of info re performance, problem solving, upgrades.
cheers 04 cobra (whipple blower at 15 p.s.i., 575rwHP)
-original owner car? can you see service records...
-running synthetic oil and has it been changed regularly
-where the car has been parked , any signs of any leaks
-can you determine what shop did the work on the car, including any performance installations, talk to them
-state of tires, how much life left (performance tires are expensive)
especially for a car that has been modified/ran under stress - i highly recommend you have a proshop give the car a once over (its worth $150 to determine status)...brakes, suspension, and a compression test.
in 01 there were only 3300 cobra verts made and 3800 cobra coupes, if you are buying the car privately make sure its a real cobra (lots of clones around) by cking the VIN against a decoder, there will be olne on this page:
http://www.mustangattitude.com/mustang/ ... tang.shtml
also get on owners forum,,,, svtperformance.com , most owners of SVT vehicles register here or modularfords.com
there is 1 specific forum for the 99-01 cobras and you might even find someone who knows the specific car (not many around)....additionally if you purchase it these forums are good sources of info re performance, problem solving, upgrades.
cheers 04 cobra (whipple blower at 15 p.s.i., 575rwHP)