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Old 04-30-2009, 10:01 AM   #1
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Well I've had my 95 Cobra for almost 3 years now and have been through a couple stages with it.

I bought it with a blower shortblock but it had 50k miles on it with a KB that the previous owner took off before selling it to me.

It ran decent for being 8.5:1 compression and N/A, and with drag radials ran a 13.0 @ 106mph. With slicks it would have ran high 12's easily.

I put a s-trim @ 11lbs after owning it for about a year and it ran good, but it ended up lifting a head at the track and passing a bunch of coolant. It actually fire-slotted the head, so it needed a new set of heads and rebuild.

I was tired of worrying about the tune (meth injection) and wanted it just to be fast & reliable. I took the blower off and sold it and for the past 1 1/2 years have been saving up money and collecting parts to go high compression all motor.

I have 90% of the parts together now and will be getting it put together at some point in the next month or two ($$ dependant).

Here's a list of my setup:
  • 347CI Sportsman B50 block - decked, tq plate honed, and professionally assembled
  • 10.5:1 Diamiond pistons
  • Forged Eagle rods and polished / balanced crankshaft
  • Canfield 195cc heads with custom solid roller springs and bowl blend
  • Edelbrock Victor 5.0 intake (extrude honed upper), lower will be port matched to heads
  • Custom camshaft from Jay Allen (camshaft innovations out of Saline, MI) 235/250 duration .623/.609 lift (should peak around 6500rpm)
  • 1 3/4 Accufab headers with 3" collectors & 3" Accufab h-pipe, with 2.5" Magnaflow mufflers
  • 90mm TB, 90mm lightning maf, and 36lb injectors
  • 4.10 gears with Detroit locker rear end
  • Tremec 3550 trans with 26 spline input shaft
  • McLeod street twin clutch

I'm hoping for 420rwhp and 400rwtq and mid/low 11's all motor. I'll get some pics of the parts this weekend, but here's some exterior pics:







All the badges on the trunk are gone (prev owner), headlights will be replaced with regular Cobra lights, and the side exhaust is gone in favor of regular sideskirts and turndown mufflers.
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:46 AM   #2
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Looks bad ass! Glad to hear that you took the emblems off.
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:58 AM   #3
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Looks good, how did the side exhaust sound? I thought about getting that for my cobra.
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Old 04-30-2009, 12:27 PM   #4
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Nice looking car!
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Looks good, how did the side exhaust sound? I thought about getting that for my cobra.

It had FRPP shorty headers, Dr. Gas X pipe (2.5") and magnaflow mufflers with the side exhaust.

It sounded nice, but due to having subframe connectors the pipes from the muffler to the skirt were smashed up and created alot of backpressure. Plus, the tips were a little too large for the skirts and due to them moving around a little they eventually chipped/cracked up the opening of the side skirts.

Driving around they sounded AWESOME, especially when sitting in traffic and revving it as the sound would bounce off the cars/buildings next to me.

Here's a vid the previous owner made - http://videos.streetfire.net/video/K...-to_127103.htm
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Old 05-01-2009, 08:27 PM   #6
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It had FRPP shorty headers, Dr. Gas X pipe (2.5") and magnaflow mufflers with the side exhaust.

It sounded nice, but due to having subframe connectors the pipes from the muffler to the skirt were smashed up and created alot of backpressure. Plus, the tips were a little too large for the skirts and due to them moving around a little they eventually chipped/cracked up the opening of the side skirts.

Driving around they sounded AWESOME, especially when sitting in traffic and revving it as the sound would bounce off the cars/buildings next to me.

Here's a vid the previous owner made - http://videos.streetfire.net/video/K...-to_127103.htm


Great video.
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Nice looking Cobra....I like your motor combination.
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Old 05-01-2009, 09:14 PM   #8
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Cool video and nice car!
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Old 05-01-2009, 11:34 PM   #9
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Wow, I remember this car from xceed from a few years ago! New motor should be a blast!
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