Cobra 19 or 29?

Please dont buy into the hype,they are pretty well dead even when it all shakes out.
If your dead set on staying within that performance level I would suggest you look into a 25LTD.
Upgrade the finals and have a good shop get your SWR's down to 1.3
Ive seen many 25LTD's that are properly set-up do a nasty on many 19/29's.Stay away from mod kits of any type.
Not sure of your antenna but a Wilson 2K works fantastic at this performance level.

 

The Cobra 29 can be "Peaked & Tuned" better than the 19, so between those two, the better choice would be the 29...Both radios from the factory are going to do the same amount of watts, but a shop can do more with a 29, than they can the 19, to get it to preform better!

 

You can get a helluva lot more modulation out of a Cobra 29. I tuned up one of my old 29's, and sold it to a fellow driver. Everybody accuses him of running a Connex or a Galaxy, lol. Running about 120% modulation out of it.