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COBB tuning makes STrIbeca
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:33 pm
by zaxrex
Motor Trend that I picked up in th airport had a 1/4 page article of the **black** [flame-suit on] Tribeca that COBB did EM tuning/supercharging, exhaust, syspension, brakes, and wheel/tire upgrades to the beast.
http://www.cobbtuning.com/cobbtuned/ct_tribeca.html
http://www.worldcarfans.com/tuners.cfm/ ... obb-tuning
MMMMmm. Torque
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:11 pm
by WRXWagon2112
I wonder if they messed up the legend on that graph? Because it currently reads that the torque dropped considerably at low revs.
--Alan
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:47 pm
by zaxrex
I would immagine that is where the supercharger kicks in, if that 15 ft/lbs drop before 2500 RPM is what you are looking at.
I just think it is neat to have such a flat torque curve all the way to red-line.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:13 pm
by WRXWagon2112
Oops! Looks like it was I that mis-read the graph.
Move along. Nothing to see here...
--Alan
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:31 pm
by Sabre
I'm actually suprised that the numbers are not a lot higher
Hopefully someone will try to make a Cayanne killer... but I'm guessing they would need to do some internals for that to happen reliably.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:47 am
by sirwilliam
sabre wrote: Hopefully someone will try to make a Cayanne killer...
That is why we have foresters...they do that easily!
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:05 pm
by drwrx
sabre wrote:Hopefully someone will try to make a Cayanne killer.
There already is a Cayenne Killer.
It's called the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8:
$40k
0-60: 4.5
1/4 mile: 13.2 @ 104.5mph
lateral accel: 0.85g
700ft. slalom: 63.5mph
Cayenne Turbo:
$90k
0-60: 5.3
1/4 mile: 13.9 @ 101.2mph
lateral accel: 0.83g
700ft. slalom: 62.5mph
Will also has it right, a modified FXT will eat a Cayenne Turbo for lunch any day of the week. It just dosen't have the 7715lb. towing capacity of the Cayenne.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:27 pm
by Sabre
^^^ Very good point Darrin
I'll see your XT and raise you an AMG
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:54 pm
by zaxrex
MB AMG ML63
510 HP
480 ft/lbs
6.2 L displacement
0-60 4.9 sec
0-3280 ft in 23 sec
tuned for performace. 8 Min run around Nurburg Ring.
First engine to be wholey designed and built by AMG for a production car., the resilt is the M273.
$88K
Re: I'll see your XT and raise you an AMG
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:05 pm
by drwrx
zaxrex wrote:BMW AMG ML63
510 HP
480 ft/lbs
6.2 L displacement
0-60 4.9 sec
0-3280 ft in 23 sec
tuned for performace. 8 Min run around Nurburg Ring.
$70K
I think Zak means Mercedes Benz ML63.
And yes that should be a screamer. I just haven't seen any data on it yet.
My guess is that it's skidpad and slalom performance will not top the Porsche and certainly not the Jeep.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:14 pm
by zaxrex
Oops, thanks D!
BMW, Mercedes, Porche -- all the same thing. Iwill not be owning one.
Though this does have AWD, and I would think the Jeep would be RWD. I think the MERCEDES AMG will do a lot better than the Jeep on a road track like the Nordschlief.
The more research I do into it, the more the number change.
I modified the price and engine designation. The MB USA site has the torque dropped down to 465, but that is probably b/c of our gas, and not the engine itself.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 5:30 pm
by zaxrex
http://www.caranddriver.com/previews/11 ... 3-amg.html
Talk to anyone at AMG, and he will tell you the target vehicle for the ML63 AMG is the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. Forget other sporty utes such as the Range Rover Sport, the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, or the BMW X5 4.8is: AMG focused on one truck, and one truck alone. The ML63 was even developed on the fearsome Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, where it laps the 12.9-mile circuit in “about 8 minutes, 40 seconds.” Not so long ago, that was a good Porsche 911 time.