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Originally Posted by ChinoCharles

Okay, so how much have you sunk into your Cobra? $30k total? You said $1400 like that is really all you had done to it. Sounds like you need to spend a lot of money to get a Cobra to do many different things too.

I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm not saying I'm right. All I am saying is its really, really redundant hearing this stuff over and over again. I'm half tempted to start a thread in performance entitled "Flame Chino and his ideas" so you guys can all take your responses there and stop filling these threads with off-topic babble. This is an open invitation for anyone that wants to start that thread. I'll read it with the same zeal I read everything else here, I promise.

Again, nobody owns a fast Yaris yet so who can possibly say it can or can't be done? Only time will truly tell.

I wish you were closer, I'd give you a ride in it.

Spec wise, as stock the 04 Cobra compared well to Evos and STIs. The AWD cars do the slalom a little quicker and handle a bit better, and the Cobra was faster.

The Cobra was pretty cool stock. It handled well, drove well and was just a bit slower than a z06 Corvette. I just cant leave anything stock. I could have gone with lowering springs, but got coilovers which was the bulk of the suspension money. I have around $4K into it total. That includes all the guages, wideband, suspension, engine and drivetrain mods.

You definately don't need to spend alot to get a Mustang to do whatever you want relatively speaking. Most of the mods for domestic cars are much less than what you would pay for an import.

The Yaris is not a good example because there isnt a whole lot available for it. Compare my car to an STI or EVO and It will easily cost you $6K + to do similar mods to what I have done to my car (Coilovers and suspension mods, guages, exhaust, intake, turbo upgrade etc). And you would need to run race fuel to break 450 WHP or so.

You definately are not wrong. Its cool that you bring up these discussions, but the car is not a performance car. These are the types of challenges we are up against when modding a Yaris. You are going to here "Why bother?" a lot.

Yea someone will eventually have a fast Yaris but that will be it - just someone.
Look at XAs and XBs how many fast ones are out there? Very few. The Yaris will not even come close to having that kind of aftermarket support.

I've been through all this stuff before with my old roomates supercharged Camry. The car was unique and fun but what do you have in the end? You start runing into all these weird problems because you are at the absolute limit of most of the components because you hacked up the car trying to do something that it wasnt designed to do. You then realize you dumped thousands into a car that will never realize any of your goals.

Just food for thought.

Ashley