04-16-2010, 08:13 AM | #1 |
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95 cobra
I figured that I would post some pics of my slow ongoing project car. I bought the car about 3 years ago. The car had a small underhood fire caused by a brittle old fuel hose that goes from the passenger side strut tower to the fuel rail. The fire burned up some of the engine wiring harness but other than a burnt hood liner and some warped melted small plastic pieces the car was really unharmed otherwise. I bought the car from someone who had already replaced the engine harness and got the car running again. The car has never been wrecked and had 67,000 miles. The front bumper cover had been recleared at some point but the prep work was bad as the clear is pealing off the bumper. The only mods done to the car was welded in flowmasters and tinted windows.
Here it is as it sits today, The engine short block is out of a fox body but has a lifter tick that I cannot seem to get rid of (I broke some lifters and had to pull the crower 15511 cam that I did have in it that was my fault). I done some slight port work to the factory gt40's and installed some good valve springs purchased from thumper460 on corral, ported the lower intake, put some mac shorty headers, off road X pipe, bassani catback, 3.73's, CAI, and a tweecer RT. I am getting a very good running 60,000 mile 95 gt engine out of a friends wrecked car. I am just gonna install my heads, intake, roller rockers, and probably a TFS 1 cam. I may hide some wiring, powdercoat the front brackets and clean up the engine bay some if I can as money is tight due to my newborn baby and my wife not working at the moment. I will post some pics of the engine when I go pick it up. Progress will be slow but I will update it when I get into it better. Sorry for the long post but I figured I would give the story about the car.
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95 cobra with Mac shorties, O/R X pipe, Bassani real street mufflers in a 2 1/2" catback, CAI, 3.73's, Tweecer rt, ported stock heads and lower intake. |
04-16-2010, 08:20 AM | #2 |
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Here is the current engine and a pic of the 96 tail lights (stockers were faded badly) that I used VHT niteshade on.
I also still have all the factory parts except the mufflers and h pipe
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95 cobra with Mac shorties, O/R X pipe, Bassani real street mufflers in a 2 1/2" catback, CAI, 3.73's, Tweecer rt, ported stock heads and lower intake. Last edited by rj95svt; 04-16-2010 at 08:24 AM. |
04-16-2010, 07:45 PM | #3 |
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That is a sweet looking cobra! If you can get it to run as good as it looks it is going to be an awesome car. Oh and if you ever want to get rid of it I call dib's just let me know!
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04-16-2010, 09:36 PM | #4 |
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Nice... pretty rare car too! Keep an update going!
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04-16-2010, 11:21 PM | #5 |
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Nice looking car. Should be a good project
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04-17-2010, 02:58 AM | #6 |
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nice ride!
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04-17-2010, 05:10 AM | #7 |
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Thanks guys, the pics make it look better than it actually does. I have some big plans but it will take me awhile to get much done to it. I should have the engine ready in the next few months though. My plans include a single turbo for about 400-450rwhp at some point. It should be pretty easy to get that kind of power out of it with a turbo.
Anyone here of on 3 performance turbo? They are currently working on a turbo kit for 94-'95's but it includes a offshore built turbo. Although they offer upgrades to mp t70's for about 300. Their fox body kit is only $1495.
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04-17-2010, 07:21 AM | #8 | |
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I have no doubt that B&G would be a great option but until I see someone that has a on 3 kit complain I am gonna consider them.
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04-18-2010, 07:19 PM | #10 |
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they dont complain because they dont want to hear i told you! i just read some on them and seen pics of headers and piping. i would stay away from that kit. you would come out better to flip some shorty headers around and do it myself and get with coupe (Matt) on here for a turbo. you will come out better in the long run IMO
And we also need all the money in the USA we can get
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