Finally got some pics of the Cobra's big repair..

[TroyV]

http://s423.photobucket.com/albums/pp31 ... %20Repair/

I'm amazed the car runs as well as it does after seeing these.

[breakaway500]

No pics of the cyl heads or gaskets? Boy,that engine bay is large. Nice 610ci mountain motor would look nice in there

[TroyV]

The heads were away at the machine shop when these were taken.

I did get the head gaskets back from Imperial, and I performed myown CSI style inspection of them. The leak was in between the laminates of the head gasket at #5.

To make a very long story short, Ford should have used ARP2000 studs to put the heads on instead of their standard mod motor TTY bolts. Welp....the ARP's are in there now.

I had the car to one autocross, on street rubber.

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..and the car was fine... I'm going to run it on the 28th for the SHO event on the V's and see how it is.

[breakaway500]

Last event I ran street tires as well. NEVER again. Talk about a handicap.I had forgotten just how much better race rubber is holding your car to the ground.

Glad to hear the Termi's feeling better.

[TroyV]

The car runs fantastic actually. I'm very pleased.

[John F]

I was impressed with how quiet it was at Mt Tremblant. All you could hear was blower whine going up the straight! Scoots pretty well, also.

[TroyV]

Thanks. The car has had four different sets of pipes. I settled on the FR500 pipes as I didn't want a hassle with the noise regs at the various tracks COM goes to. I'd actually prefer a little more note, but it is better this way....the car doesn't wake the neighbors..