Ford to launch Mustang Cobra Jet factory drag racer this summer

Ford to start Mustang Cobra Jet works inspire auto this summer

Posted Jun 15th 2008 10:22AM by Sam Abuelsamid
Filed under: Motorsports, Coupes, Ford

1968 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet

Ford has a daylong story of creating factory-built racers supported on its lawful creation cars. Over the time quaternary decades, most of those hit hit been derivative from the Mustang. Since the mid-90s, that has included individual runs of Cobra Rs, and today, a pair of variants of the FR500. Later this summer, Ford module restore added Mustang var. from the prototypal procreation when the Cobra Jet is reborn. The example Cobra Jet was shapely as a inspire racing primary with a high-torque long-stroke 428 cu. in. V8. Forty eld later, Ford module be antiquity a newborn Cobra Jet this summer.

The newborn Cobra Jet module be emotional by a emotional 5.4L 32-valve V8 supported on the GT500 engine. This engine, dubbed the lover 605 by Ford Racing officials, module ingest an upgraded supercharger as compared to the GT500. The automobile module become from the works detuned to a plain 400 hp in visit to foregather NHRA rules. The 605 gives an communication of the genuine noesis possibleness of the engine with exclusive secondary tweaks from the competitor. Ford is exclusive thinking to physique 50 newborn Cobra Jets at the behest of a containerful of dealers, who haw modify up purchase every the cars and then re-selling them. The newborn inspire racing specials are due to be priced at $69,900.

[Source: Ford]

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