Yeah and in the early 80's the formula 1 cars at 1.5l were producing 1000hp in race (not qualifying) trim. This mustang is meant to represent a street car not some factory backed race car running with parts no mere mortal can attain. Stop being such a Mercedes fanboy.
You think thats something? Take a look at the Quad 4 and its feats. It was pushing this kind of power through 2 production model cars when it hit over 200 mph. On 4 cylinders. Half of what this mustang needed. And the Aerotech and its experimental motor is even crazier yet. It was pushing 290+mph on the straights through a 11-1400 hp Quad 4.
LRulesTheWorld the fact that your thinking a road car can go 290 which hasn't been done even to day, and to say that was done in the 90s completely invalidates your argument
Anthony Torres the koingsegg and bugatti are both running for top speed. Right now, koingsegg holds the production car record at 284. But Oldsmobile holds the prototype record speed trap at 290+ for any 4 cylinder. Its not an arguement, its a fact. Look it up right here on youtube.
LRulesTheWorld lol what year are you in, the buggatti Chiron failed when trying to beet the venom gt at 271, so they went for quickest acceleration and quickest deceleration from 0kph to 400kph which koenisegg beat like the next week, the genome still holds title at 271, while they made an f5 hoping for 300 plus
Goes to show how light those cars were, 202mph with just bolt ons, back then when they weren't as high tech as they are today, especially considering that they still couldn't get the "trinity" 2014 mustang cobra to hit 200 even with a pro driver behind the wheel.
I just did, a full-on streamliner record car - an all-out race car, not what you would call streetable or even street legal, and not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
rhino250r Well... to a point. Those older 5 liters we're not exactly designed handle more than 500 horsepower. Those Motors will start to tear themselves apart above that. The later 4.6 OHV variants are much more easily modified. They're still great Motors don't get me wrong. They just don't like a lot of hp mods. I'm not talking about the 93 Cobra motor btw. They may have made some upgrades to that engine design as it was built by SVT.
@@hiphopaddict007 SVT was still working on the 5 liter Windsor platform. The difference between a Cobra's motor and a GT's motor was the intake manifold, throttle body, camshaft and exhaust headers (maybe but I don't quite remember exactly). SVT didn't put any reinforcement braces on the 93 Cobra's engine block so it wouldn't make any sense that it would be able to handle upwards of 500hp.
Ken Dutweiler who built the engine became famous for basically being the first to tune the Buick Grand National turbo cars. He was building and making speed parts for the GN in the mid 80's and getting ridiculous power from those Buicks. If I'm not mistaken he switched over to the Fox Mustangs later or built both. He was on the cutting edge at the beginning phases of computerized horsepower...
That’s very impressive still a pushrod old school sbf ho . Some people don’t know how to make power with those cars thus why they swap other engines into foxes but these guys nailed it ! Sbf all the way
god i miss the old days. I was (and in my heart will have a special place) a mustang guy in the 80's and early early 90's. From my 85, forged and roller cam stock with gears, pulley's and exhaust with a 125 power shot of nos to my 89 with the B303 came and supercharger. Those eighties mustangs up to 92/3 were awesome.
With a 160 mpg police gauge installed, my 89’ GT Convertible would hit 138 mph with 3:73s and a Saleen Whale Tail out back. 20 years later I still have it in the garage. Never tried with the Vortech Supercharger I stalled.
If I remember correctly, Car and Driver built a Firebird to do 200 mph. Theirs was powered by a Banks twin turbo system. They had some interesting problems like the door windows started to pop out at speed due to the air pressure differential inside and outside the car.
I had a 91 5.0 LX notchback 5 speed , factory, except for flow master mufflers that in it I flat out ran 144 mph on a straight an flat road , it took a few miles but it went past 140 on Speed omiter an felt ok to me but I was jacked up on adrenalin an all but it did it many times , good an reliable car for 10 loyal yrs . miss that ole fox I do
Hahaha! Yeah one of my buddies had a '91 Gt and he is a hefty dude. He launched his car one night and literally ripped the seat out of the floor! I bet your old school notch looked pretty bad ass though. Seems like the notch backs are hard to come by these days.
fwh79 yeah it was metal flake blue shelby cobra rims it was sweet outside but underneath was rusted out bad my uncle bought it new in Minnesota when he was stationed there and the salt from the roads in winter had it rusted out b4 i even got it 10 years later in 92 was my first car i loved it i kinda wish you could still get a 4 speed wasnt much top end but it riped down low
This was an amazing feat back then. Looking at cars that break 200 over the years you'd never think this car would be capable. IMO most mustangs feel very light and flighty at high speeds
Thank you for posting this! Read about this car so many times but never saw the original article. It's nice to see video of the engine bay. Interesting time for cars... before intercooling superchargers got popular.
88tcoupe I had the same issue. I was crazy for mustangs in high school. I kept all my magazines for about 5-6 years. Then finally threw them out. I should've kept them
Fox body 5.0 with just 205hp would do over 140mph if the diff was changed so the 5th gear wasn't a stupidly long 43mph/1000rpm. It was actually more aerodynamic than the GT500 of 2013, that needed 660bhp net to do just shy of 200mph. This needed less than 600.
Years ago. I actually bought this edition of the magazine. I remember that they didn't even use 5th gear for the 200mph run. The car was faster in 4th.
I had a automatic 1993 fox-body Mustang LS with either 215 or 225 hp and I got it up to 140 mph. That was on an interstate hwy and it took a few miles to get there. It did 140 and no more. I gave it plenty of time but 140 was the top speed. It was all stock but I think the LS 5.0's were lighter. I had a stock 1994 LT1 Camaro M-6 and I got it to 155 mph. There might have been a little more but I was not on an interstate and was coming close to a broad curve and had to let off. I also had a 300zx twin turbo 5 speed with aftermarket turbo's, 555 cc injectors, computer reprogram w/removed speed limiter and other mods running 18 to 21 psi of boost and I got the speedometer to the 6 o-clock position which is about 190 mph with 18 lbs of boost which was about 550 hp at the wheels. I never tried that again. Just to damn fast for me.
+J Bouchard that is common in 6 speed transmissions too, because 6th is the highway gear causing the engine to spin slower. Most high speed runs in a 6 speed are done in 5th.
I remember reading this in Car Craft magazine. They had to set the record in 4th gear. They couldn't get 7,200 rpm out of it in 5th gear. I still have every issue of Car Craft from '88 to '09.
Good in a straight away but lacks handling in the twisties on a road course. That's where the 1993 Saleen Mustang shines, along with same engine etc. Have a relative who owns a 1993 Mustang Saleen with that same engine with supercharger was a special order package from Ford he got good deal on it since his parents worked at Ford.
@@landyachtfan79 No... 1993 Japanese cars were worse than shit on horsepower and could never reach 200 mph with all the mods in the world at the time. American V8's were barely capable of 200+ hp, Japanese engines could barely even get over 90 hp back then.
I was about 12 years old when these things arrived , back then it was hot S..T !!! indeed !!! Beating Corvettes , wow , but after a while , you realizeit is a drag race car . A Quarter mile dominator , call it what you wish,those years , the Mustang 5.0 was very popular !!!
Had a 91 LX 5.0 with a Whipple supercharger. It produced, on a dyno, 383 rear wheel horse. It got light in the front at anything above 125mph. And the breaks back then were terrible! I can't imagine stopping a 93 Mustang from 200mph. They probably modified the brakes though. It's amazing, looking back, how much work it took to accomplish 200mph.
+Ed ibleginch They have lowering springs to fix that lift, Cobra brakes to slow that puppy down, and much better superchargers. I'll tell you how I know. 91 LX 5.0 AFR, Vortech V3si, MM suspension and Cobra brakes give me 500hp and enough calf muscle to slow er down!!!
Yeah, I had ex highway patrol 88 coupe back in 91 and I use to run against corvette, trans am and irocs on top end and it would feel like it was floating on air. Lowering the car and adding 16inch wheels help stop the floating feeling thou.
Thats pretty neat. Never new they did that. But what still is more amazing is the Mark VIII Lincoln the guys did 180 in with a bone stock engine and some other areo tricks. All of it is cool stuff being in the 90s
I believe that I still have an issue of Car Craft magazine with this car in it. Car Craft was an awesome magazine back in the day and used to have some real car guys working for them. I miss those days
NIRVANA,Soundgarden,Pearl Jam,all the grunge groups were top of the charts in 1993. Every one of them hated the kind of guys who bought brand new red muscle cars!
Thanks Motorweek! Brought back fond memories of my plain Jane 1991 LX 5.0L. Funny to think that 1991 'Stang I had when it was new was a hot MoFo from FoMoCo where as now a Kia Sorento would hand it it's butt LoL.
A 200+ MPH 93 Foxbody SVT Mustang Cobra!...Wow!...using a Supercharger on a Modified 302 ci. Ford Iron block putting out 740HP! Not bad for a 90's Street Car on BFGoodrich Comp T/A R1's Track/Street tires!...God Bless! BTW...If I were to build a similar Ford Foxbody car today in 2017, I would use a 2015+ 5.0L Coyote engine with a 2.9L Whipple S/C and the faster shifting 6R80 Auto trans on some BFGoodrich G-Force Rival S tires!
1:30 this is the reason people don't know you have to install a hotter cam to make more hp. They talked about the heads and the blower but said nothing about the cam. I know they installed a hotter cam because they said the engine was turning 7,200 rpm. A stock 5.0 run out of air around 4,800 rpm.
They all need to be changed. The stock heads and intake are the biggest cork. No reason to change the cam if you dont change those. Plenty of guys running 10s with a heads, intake, supercharger and a stock can.
@blackericdenice the stock 5.0L heads and intake are huge restrictions. Put all the cam you want in it. It's not going to make power unless you change those items before you change the cam. The stock 5.0L cam is anything huge. But with good heads a good intake and boost the stock cam will make 500hp all day. You won't make 500hp with the stock heads or intake.
Must have had some kind of block reinforcements right? I thought those sbf start splitting in half being pushed over 500+hp unless it was just for the few runs they did or something
I'm surprised the Foxbody was considered stable at those speeds. This car didn't seem to have crazy aero mods either. I always thought the short wheelbase of the Foxbody would make it a nightmare at high speeds. Hats off to Ford. Especially when you remember that the Foxbody came out in '78.
Just goes to show how dialed in the aerodynamics are on a NASCAR cup car. They're going nearly as fast with HP somewhere in the 400's even without the draft. Man that cobra sounded absolutely awesome screaming at 7200 rpm.
@@silentshredr they've put out nearly 900 HP in some years but at talladega and Daytona they run restrictor plates limiting them to somewhere a little under 500 HP.
I don’t know why I sell mine! Every time I get crazy when I remember that i sell my fox body GT with low mileage red one 😞 One day I will catch a clean one with red I hope 🤞
I was smart not too sell mine besides my Shelby collection I have a 92 LX 5.0hatchback.and my red 87 Mustang GT T TOPS 5Spd and lastly my vibrant red 93 cobra all original with just exhaust and 20 thousand original miles.
Lol, the front of that car is mostly red tape. Every single body seam was taped over. Suprisingly aerodynamic my arse. Still, it shows with a foxbody with bolt-ons could do even in the early 90s.
This was the last year of the Fox Body Mustang. After GM released their venerable F-Body's with a fuel injected 5.7L V8 in 1993 Ford decided to up their game as well. Now, of course this engine on display is beastly just like all small block V8's but Ford wanted to move away from the pushrod. I personally still much prefer the pushrod and cast iron blocks because they can take more abuse than an aluminum one. This notion that people have today that you need a 6.2/6.4 liter or bigger engine to go fast is ludicrous. It's like the same people give the little 4 cylinder Honda's a pass but say utter nonsense like the 5.7L is a slow engine. I would challenge anyone of them to go mess with a Lingenfelter Corvette with a 5.7L or this Mustang. I wonder what it felt like to go 200mph in a Fox Body? I bet she felt like she was on ice. I had a friend back in 2001 that had a WS6 that was hitting 196mph with spray and she was squirrely at 170...196 was downright scary. I rode with him one time when he did it on the Interstate at 3:00 AM. His car made my 2002 Firehawk look like it was a Pinto even in 2002. He totaled his WS6 in late 2003 when a stupid tuner moron got pissed he lost and ran him into a guard rail sending the car over an over-pass. I chosed him down in my Firehawk and made sure the cops knew right where he was.
The goal was to have a streetable 200mph Mustang but they left off the wipers, taped over bumper ducts, taped over hood seams/gaps and had belt issues. They should have left it in stock trim. Great accomplishment though.
Do you really need 700 horse power to go 200mph? I thought those race cars (indycar and nascar) didn't need that many horses and routinely go over 200 :)
Harry Callahan : No. An F40 Ferrari proved you only need 471 net flywheel horsepower if your aero is good. The road load at 201.5 mph requires about 400 hp at the wheels to drive a 20 sq foot frontal area with a 0.35 cd factor. The Mustang Cobra 200 had 740 "gross" hp at 6500 to 6800 rpm, but probably only 530 hp "net" at 7200 rpm. Based on Richard Holdeners engine dyno work with WesTech, Gross corrected engine dyno hp without ancillaries verses Rated versions of SAE net hp with all the water pump, fans, alternator and heat soak and sterner baro and temp corrections is about a factored loss of 1.3 to 1.4 different. But only 526 hp net at the flywheel was all that was needed to make a small frontal area Aero Mustang half a mph faster than an F40 Ferrari.
We're in an age of 1000 hp+ turbo V8s but making 700 hp in 1993 with only 5.0 liters and a centrifugal supercharger is impressive!
Yeah and in the early 80's the formula 1 cars at 1.5l were producing 1000hp in race (not qualifying) trim. This mustang is meant to represent a street car not some factory backed race car running with parts no mere mortal can attain. Stop being such a Mercedes fanboy.
You think thats something? Take a look at the Quad 4 and its feats. It was pushing this kind of power through 2 production model cars when it hit over 200 mph. On 4 cylinders. Half of what this mustang needed. And the Aerotech and its experimental motor is even crazier yet. It was pushing 290+mph on the straights through a 11-1400 hp Quad 4.
LRulesTheWorld the fact that your thinking a road car can go 290 which hasn't been done even to day, and to say that was done in the 90s completely invalidates your argument
Anthony Torres the koingsegg and bugatti are both running for top speed. Right now, koingsegg holds the production car record at 284. But Oldsmobile holds the prototype record speed trap at 290+ for any 4 cylinder. Its not an arguement, its a fact. Look it up right here on youtube.
LRulesTheWorld lol what year are you in, the buggatti Chiron failed when trying to beet the venom gt at 271, so they went for quickest acceleration and quickest deceleration from 0kph to 400kph which koenisegg beat like the next week, the genome still holds title at 271, while they made an f5 hoping for 300 plus
201 mph. That's exactly as fast as the F40 at the time. These men were pioneers.
Goes to show how light those cars were, 202mph with just bolt ons, back then when they weren't as high tech as they are today, especially considering that they still couldn't get the "trinity" 2014 mustang cobra to hit 200 even with a pro driver behind the wheel.
Damn a 200mph Cobra back in 93...wow
Bullshit!
I just did, a full-on streamliner record car - an all-out race car, not what you would call streetable or even street legal, and not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
200mph? no way.. 90s vette "sledge hammer" from callaway went over 250mph
Some Dude the sledgehammer had very few factory GM parts left on it. This mustang is mostly ford (other then the supercharger and intake).
CamaroAmx. The intake was a stock gt40 intake the heads were trick flow heads
The fox body mustang! What a great car it's been over the years...still a very desirable car to modify!
rhino250r Well... to a point. Those older 5 liters we're not exactly designed handle more than 500 horsepower. Those Motors will start to tear themselves apart above that. The later 4.6 OHV variants are much more easily modified. They're still great Motors don't get me wrong. They just don't like a lot of hp mods. I'm not talking about the 93 Cobra motor btw. They may have made some upgrades to that engine design as it was built by SVT.
@@hiphopaddict007 HAHA the 4.6 is much more easily modified? That explains why you never see them.
@@hiphopaddict007 SVT was still working on the 5 liter Windsor platform. The difference between a Cobra's motor and a GT's motor was the intake manifold, throttle body, camshaft and exhaust headers (maybe but I don't quite remember exactly). SVT didn't put any reinforcement braces on the 93 Cobra's engine block so it wouldn't make any sense that it would be able to handle upwards of 500hp.
Yeah my father in-law has a 4 cylinder one he turned into a v8 not sure the power but it runs 10s
Ken Dutweiler who built the engine became famous for basically being the first to tune the Buick Grand National turbo cars. He was building and making speed parts for the GN in the mid 80's and getting ridiculous power from those Buicks. If I'm not mistaken he switched over to the Fox Mustangs later or built both. He was on the cutting edge at the beginning phases of computerized horsepower...
+Patrick Simmons Ken was a turbo god back in those days. He was big during the fox mustang vs. GN wars. Definitely an EFI tuning OG!
Not many people could wrap their head around forced induction back then, thats why people like him and banks became legends
That’s very impressive still a pushrod old school sbf ho . Some people don’t know how to make power with those cars thus why they swap other engines into foxes but these guys nailed it ! Sbf all the way
I went 515mph on a stock airbus 320. Feels like your floating on a cloud.
God I love my 93 Cobra and remember these days. Good old Duttwieler behind the engine build... guy is a legend.
201 mph......foxbody....amazing...
god i miss the old days. I was (and in my heart will have a special place) a mustang guy in the 80's and early early 90's. From my 85, forged and roller cam stock with gears, pulley's and exhaust with a 125 power shot of nos to my 89 with the B303 came and supercharger. Those eighties mustangs up to 92/3 were awesome.
they still are
@@x1boomer yes sir
With a 160 mpg police gauge installed, my 89’ GT Convertible would hit 138 mph with 3:73s and a Saleen Whale Tail out back. 20 years later I still have it in the garage. Never tried with the Vortech Supercharger I stalled.
Fox body the platform that helped save Fomoco.
If I remember correctly, Car and Driver built a Firebird to do 200 mph. Theirs was powered by a Banks twin turbo system. They had some interesting problems like the door windows started to pop out at speed due to the air pressure differential inside and outside the car.
That's just a gm thing of that time even i'm suprised it held up
Yep. Can confirm on the windows though. My dad's 01 SS camaro does that at around 140.
...not that I would know of course.
TheTmaaan55 never noticed that on my 93 z28, but at 150+ you’re paying attention to the road more then your windows.
What was the car that flipped at 220 mph and almost killed Csaba Csere
@@777jones(old comment I know) No, that was a white, "Bonneville Saltflat prepared" RX-7.
FC body style.
I remember this Ford Mustang! I love it. So many years have gone by now. Still an awesome Mustang.
I had a 91 5.0 LX notchback 5 speed , factory, except for flow master mufflers that in it I flat out ran 144 mph on a straight an flat road , it took a few miles but it went past 140 on Speed omiter an felt ok to me but I was jacked up on adrenalin an all but it did it many times , good an reliable car for 10 loyal yrs . miss that ole fox I do
Cool beans
impressive for the year.
It's still impressive now
I had a 93 gt convertible, last year for the fox body, to me the best styling
mark marshall i had a 93 lx trim still kick myself for selling it then buying it back and selling it again
... you just didn't learn the first time, did you? ;) Is that the only fox you ever owned?
fwh79 no i had a 82 4 speed notch back . it was from up north and rusted to shit but fun to drive till the driver seat fell through the floor
Hahaha! Yeah one of my buddies had a '91 Gt and he is a hefty dude. He launched his car one night and literally ripped the seat out of the floor! I bet your old school notch looked pretty bad ass though. Seems like the notch backs are hard to come by these days.
fwh79 yeah it was metal flake blue shelby cobra rims it was sweet outside but underneath was rusted out bad my uncle bought it new in Minnesota when he was stationed there and the salt from the roads in winter had it rusted out b4 i even got it 10 years later in 92 was my first car i loved it i kinda wish you could still get a 4 speed wasnt much top end but it riped down low
This was an amazing feat back then. Looking at cars that break 200 over the years you'd never think this car would be capable. IMO most mustangs feel very light and flighty at high speeds
Thank you for posting this! Read about this car so many times but never saw the original article. It's nice to see video of the engine bay. Interesting time for cars... before intercooling superchargers got popular.
I still have the issues of Car Craft somewhere that covered this car. I remember reading about it I think in 1994.
88tcoupe I had the same issue. I was crazy for mustangs in high school. I kept all my magazines for about 5-6 years. Then finally threw them out. I should've kept them
Fox body 5.0 with just 205hp would do over 140mph if the diff was changed so the 5th gear wasn't a stupidly long 43mph/1000rpm. It was actually more aerodynamic than the GT500 of 2013, that needed 660bhp net to do just shy of 200mph. This needed less than 600.
Years ago. I actually bought this edition of the magazine. I remember that they didn't even use 5th gear for the 200mph run. The car was faster in 4th.
I had a automatic 1993 fox-body Mustang LS with either 215 or 225 hp and I got it up to 140 mph. That was on an interstate hwy and it took a few miles to get there. It did 140 and no more. I gave it plenty of time but 140 was the top speed. It was all stock but I think the LS 5.0's were lighter. I had a stock 1994 LT1 Camaro M-6 and I got it to 155 mph. There might have been a little more but I was not on an interstate and was coming close to a broad curve and had to let off. I also had a 300zx twin turbo 5 speed with aftermarket turbo's, 555 cc injectors, computer reprogram w/removed speed limiter and other mods running 18 to 21 psi of boost and I got the speedometer to the 6 o-clock position which is about 190 mph with 18 lbs of boost which was about 550 hp at the wheels. I never tried that again. Just to damn fast for me.
+J Bouchard that is common in 6 speed transmissions too, because 6th is the highway gear causing the engine to spin slower. Most high speed runs in a 6 speed are done in 5th.
Robert Wolfe yep. One of the noted cars with that "cruise" 6th gear are corvettes. It's 6th gear drops the rpm's way down.
They said it made 740 horse.
I remember reading this in Car Craft magazine. They had to set the record in 4th gear. They couldn't get 7,200 rpm out of it in 5th gear. I still have every issue of Car Craft from '88 to '09.
Exactly, it had the 2.73 rear end as I recall, thus 5th will be absolutely useless
I remember reading about this project over 25 years ago in either Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords or Super Fords magazines,
Amazing what technology can do, 20 or so years later you can buy a stock NA Mustang GT that's probably about 20mph shy of 200. Gotta love it!
markurbancowboy That's a big difference...
I watched this episode when I came out. I’ve been loyal to motor week since the beginning on Maryland Public television.
Good in a straight away but lacks handling in the twisties on a road course. That's where the 1993 Saleen Mustang shines, along with same engine etc. Have a relative who owns a 1993 Mustang Saleen with that same engine with supercharger was a special order package from Ford he got good deal on it since his parents worked at Ford.
Turbo would fixed the belt issue lol
Very very few back then lol...
Turbos would have worked perfectly but the tuning would have been a nightmare.
No, Car Craft doing a JAPANESE vehicle instead of an AMERICAN one would have fixed the belt issue!!!!!!!
@@landyachtfan79 No... 1993 Japanese cars were worse than shit on horsepower and could never reach 200 mph with all the mods in the world at the time. American V8's were barely capable of 200+ hp, Japanese engines could barely even get over 90 hp back then.
@@ReallyRyan. Ever heard of the Mid Night club? Stupid
That was Big in...93 !!!
I was about 12 years old when these things arrived , back then it was hot S..T !!! indeed !!! Beating Corvettes , wow , but after a while , you realizeit is a drag race car . A Quarter mile dominator , call it what you wish,those years , the Mustang 5.0 was very popular !!!
The foxbody mustang is utterly beautiful in my opinion it’s one of the best looking mustangs ever
That's how they are to me too!...and it's pretty special to see one on the road now---bonus (in the NE)...!
I can't even begin to imagine how much a Fox body mustang would float up near 200mph, lots of front lift on those things.
Had a 91 LX 5.0 with a Whipple supercharger. It produced, on a dyno, 383 rear wheel horse. It got light in the front at anything above 125mph. And the breaks back then were terrible! I can't imagine stopping a 93 Mustang from 200mph. They probably modified the brakes though. It's amazing, looking back, how much work it took to accomplish 200mph.
+Ed ibleginch They have lowering springs to fix that lift, Cobra brakes to slow that puppy down, and much better superchargers. I'll tell you how I know. 91 LX 5.0 AFR, Vortech V3si, MM suspension and Cobra brakes give me 500hp and enough calf muscle to slow er down!!!
I had an 88 SSP that I took up to 138 in 4th gear and the front wheels were just floating. I can't imagine 200.
Yeah, I had ex highway patrol 88 coupe back in 91 and I use to run against corvette, trans am and irocs on top end and it would feel like it was floating on air. Lowering the car and adding 16inch wheels help stop the floating feeling thou.
Thats pretty neat. Never new they did that. But what still is more amazing is the Mark VIII Lincoln the guys did 180 in with a bone stock engine and some other areo tricks. All of it is cool stuff being in the 90s
Loved my '93 Cobra. Wish I kept that sexy teal car. It was super quick for the day
Awesome car,love those Foxbodys Mustangs.
I remember watching this back in 93 when it aired , now many fox mustangs later here I am. Lol 28yrs later 🤣
Man that mustang dam sure performed an looked good strutting down that run 🏃♂️ way hoss!!
I believe that I still have an issue of Car Craft magazine with this car in it.
Car Craft was an awesome magazine back in the day and used to have some real car guys working for them. I miss those days
NIRVANA,Soundgarden,Pearl Jam,all the grunge groups were top of the charts in 1993. Every one of them hated the kind of guys who bought brand new red muscle cars!
Foxbody mustang have drag racing in its DNA even in 2023 these bbys are Dominant in many Drag places 😈
Thanks Motorweek! Brought back fond memories of my plain Jane 1991 LX 5.0L. Funny to think that 1991 'Stang I had when it was new was a hot MoFo from FoMoCo where as now a Kia Sorento would hand it it's butt LoL.
I'm a huge mustang enthusiast and I never knew about this
A 200+ MPH 93 Foxbody SVT Mustang Cobra!...Wow!...using a Supercharger on a Modified 302 ci. Ford Iron block putting out 740HP! Not bad for a 90's Street Car on BFGoodrich Comp T/A R1's Track/Street tires!...God Bless!
BTW...If I were to build a similar Ford Foxbody car today in 2017, I would use a 2015+ 5.0L Coyote engine with a 2.9L Whipple S/C and the faster shifting 6R80 Auto trans on some BFGoodrich G-Force Rival S tires!
It was a GT made to look like a cobra.
25 years later and we still have belt slippage on centrifugal blowers
Eat your Heart out, Hellcat!!
Crazy my new stock camaro ss went 172 and was still pulling until speed limiter. Wow tech has came so far
I still have that issue of Car Craft, they hit 201 in 4th gear because 5th gear was too much drag on the engine
Whatever happened to Craig Singhaus? I enjoyed his input on the show
That’s was super cool!
The god of foxbody
A flying brick. Reminds me of the Callaway Sledgehammer.
I remember this like it happened yesterday.
I remember reading this article, it reach 200mph in 4th gear using the stock 5 speed manual and the stock 2.73 rear end
Fox body ... legendary...
amazing!
that's what I'm talking about baby 😉 and with only 5 liters...WOW!
this needed to be on the wangans in japan back then.
1:30 this is the reason people don't know you have to install a hotter cam to make more hp. They talked about the heads and the blower but said nothing about the cam. I know they installed a hotter cam because they said the engine was turning 7,200 rpm. A stock 5.0 run out of air around 4,800 rpm.
They all need to be changed. The stock heads and intake are the biggest cork. No reason to change the cam if you dont change those. Plenty of guys running 10s with a heads, intake, supercharger and a stock can.
@@adamrushka8096 I can tell you don't know how to make hp. Heads and intake is not the biggest cork. No one run 10s with a stock 1993 cam.
@@blackericdenice yeah 👍
@blackericdenice the stock 5.0L heads and intake are huge restrictions. Put all the cam you want in it. It's not going to make power unless you change those items before you change the cam. The stock 5.0L cam is anything huge. But with good heads a good intake and boost the stock cam will make 500hp all day. You won't make 500hp with the stock heads or intake.
@blackericdenice
Do you read ? I said with a supercharger. Should I screen shot that ?
if lowered, i think it could have hit higher mph
+francis brown
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cool. wonder this car is at now.
Must have had some kind of block reinforcements right? I thought those sbf start splitting in half being pushed over 500+hp unless it was just for the few runs they did or something
I'm surprised the Foxbody was considered stable at those speeds. This car didn't seem to have crazy aero mods either. I always thought the short wheelbase of the Foxbody would make it a nightmare at high speeds. Hats off to Ford. Especially when you remember that the Foxbody came out in '78.
sounds fucking nice
Not hating, I have a 88 gt, but how is it streetable if it eats through belts in one run?
What's impressive is his hitting 7200 rpm they said, how the hell, this thing is amazing
Just goes to show how dialed in the aerodynamics are on a NASCAR cup car. They're going nearly as fast with HP somewhere in the 400's even without the draft. Man that cobra sounded absolutely awesome screaming at 7200 rpm.
I believe NASCAR engines run somewhere between 650-850 depending on track setup.
@@silentshredr they've put out nearly 900 HP in some years but at talladega and Daytona they run restrictor plates limiting them to somewhere a little under 500 HP.
Where is this car now?
WoW and this before Callaway came out with the sledgehammer corvette in 1989!
This is a good reason to use a turbo.
I don’t know why I sell mine!
Every time I get crazy when I remember that i sell my fox body GT with low mileage red one 😞
One day I will catch a clean one with red
I hope 🤞
I was smart not too sell mine besides my Shelby collection I have a 92 LX 5.0hatchback.and my red 87 Mustang GT T TOPS 5Spd and lastly my vibrant red 93 cobra all original with just exhaust and 20 thousand original miles.
Super fast car
How in the world did they keep it on the ground? I pushed my 90 Mustang GT to 145 (only once, never again) and the front end was lifting.
Where is this Cobra today?
And it's a (small block)...that thing was rippin
Lol, the front of that car is mostly red tape. Every single body seam was taped over.
Suprisingly aerodynamic my arse. Still, it shows with a foxbody with bolt-ons could do even in the early 90s.
"got to join in on their late-hist eff-hurt"
If you want to know what a seriously strong MD accent sounds like, Craig Singhaus or however you spell his name has it in a big way.
I wonder where this Cobra is today...
Anyone know what wheels those are?
I'm not a fan of that body style as a stock Mustang, but they are cool looking modified.
that guy is wearing like seven shirts, was that a thing in the early 90's?
Here's a MotorWeek Retro Review of the Mustang Car Craft Cobra 200 from 1993.
Wonder where this car is in 2018 anyone know ?
beat to shit, it wasn't even a real cobra, it was a white 92 GT VIN with cobra dress up on it, it became a drag car for a while.
But will it fit in a Honda? rofl :) (I do love those jokes)
A nissan Stanza!!!!!! =D
BAD ASS FOR BACK IN 93! EAT THAT CHEVY!
This was the last year of the Fox Body Mustang. After GM released their venerable F-Body's with a fuel injected 5.7L V8 in 1993 Ford decided to up their game as well. Now, of course this engine on display is beastly just like all small block V8's but Ford wanted to move away from the pushrod. I personally still much prefer the pushrod and cast iron blocks because they can take more abuse than an aluminum one.
This notion that people have today that you need a 6.2/6.4 liter or bigger engine to go fast is ludicrous. It's like the same people give the little 4 cylinder Honda's a pass but say utter nonsense like the 5.7L is a slow engine. I would challenge anyone of them to go mess with a Lingenfelter Corvette with a 5.7L or this Mustang. I wonder what it felt like to go 200mph in a Fox Body? I bet she felt like she was on ice. I had a friend back in 2001 that had a WS6 that was hitting 196mph with spray and she was squirrely at 170...196 was downright scary. I rode with him one time when he did it on the Interstate at 3:00 AM. His car made my 2002 Firehawk look like it was a Pinto even in 2002. He totaled his WS6 in late 2003 when a stupid tuner moron got pissed he lost and ran him into a guard rail sending the car over an over-pass. I chosed him down in my Firehawk and made sure the cops knew right where he was.
I don't know about stable, my '91 LX 5.0 was pretty sketchy over 120mph.
Since I first read about this in Car Craft in the 90's I've often over the years wondered what happened to it.
My friends used to call these 5 ohs not fox bodys,
Did they ever market this car? I never saw one.
it was a car magazine build, not a commercial car. Car Craft isn't even around anymore.
I guess that means the issue of car craft that showed up in my mail is fake?
They should put a hellcat motor in it.
Should have used stock looking wheels. Those aftermarket wheels used on this car look ghetto.
Today they'd just use an $1800 On3 turbo kit. No belts to eat.
The goal was to have a streetable 200mph Mustang but they left off the wipers, taped over bumper ducts, taped over hood seams/gaps and had belt issues. They should have left it in stock trim. Great accomplishment though.
1993 Cobra? The engine bay is white, it should be red! Did they paint it and if so, why?
It was a 92' GT made to look like a 93' Cobra, marketing drum up for the release of the 93' Cobra.
Where is this car today?
It turned into a drag car, it wasn't even a cobra, just a GT with cobra add ons for marketing of the "new" 93' cobra that was being released.
Meanwhile a stock 87-93 Gt at 140 is a handful
You sure that wasn't a NASCAR Engine? It sure sounded like it.
Do you really need 700 horse power to go 200mph? I thought those race cars (indycar and nascar) didn't need that many horses and routinely go over 200 :)
Harry Callahan : No. An F40 Ferrari proved you only need 471 net flywheel horsepower if your aero is good. The road load at 201.5 mph requires about 400 hp at the wheels to drive a 20 sq foot frontal area with a 0.35 cd factor. The Mustang Cobra 200 had 740 "gross" hp at 6500 to 6800 rpm, but probably only 530 hp "net" at 7200 rpm. Based on Richard Holdeners engine dyno work with WesTech, Gross corrected engine dyno hp without ancillaries verses Rated versions of SAE net hp with all the water pump, fans, alternator and heat soak and sterner baro and temp corrections is about a factored loss of 1.3 to 1.4 different. But only 526 hp net at the flywheel was all that was needed to make a small frontal area Aero Mustang half a mph faster than an F40 Ferrari.
Those wheels