2001 Cobra Build

[1slovert]

Well, a quick history behind the car: (sorry I'm not a great story teller)
I bought it from my dealer in October of 2010 from the original owner with 74,... miles and didn't start the tear down till spring/summer 2012 with 76,502 miles. Bought the car with a slipping clutch and a rod knock and shortly after lost second and third gear.

During that time, I ordered a 5.0 stroker kit from MMR with .020" over pistons, and a 10:1CR and a few other little things and tore the motor down. I had Lou from LRB Performance do all the block machine work (line hone, cylinder bore, etc) and had him balance the full rotating assembly.

After that, I sent my heads out to Ron at Fox Lake Racing for a valve job. While my cylinder heads were there, there was a mix up and long story short, I ended up with fully stage three CNC cylinder heads. Ontop of that i added Crower springs and retainers and kept my stock cams and valves.

Drivetrain wise, having no second and third gear, I went with a Promotion built T3650 with the 26 spline input shaft. I chose a Mcleod twin disk clutch and a Fidanza Aluminum flywheel. I also have a set of Richmond 3.73 gears which will be installed at a later date once I save up enough money for the FTBR full bushing kit.

Onwards to the build:
Just want to throw this out there, just about every penny put into this car from buying it to building it was out of my pocket starting from the ages of 19 to 22. My main motivation for this was to say that I bought, built and assembled the car myself.

(hopefully i can get the pictures to work)

Started out with the bare block cleaned it and installed the crank with ARP Mainstuds. Put the rings on the pistons, pistons on the rods and the rods on the crank, also with ARP hardware. Installed the cylinder heads and torqued with ARP studs. Used an MMR oil pump and pickup tube. For now, I'm using the stock exhaust manifolds until i get enough money for Mac Long Tubes.

I also installed a UPR K-Member, control arms and coil overs with the C/C plates. Which brings me to where I am now, motor and transmission, is in the car and waiting for the final touches and start up next weekend. Some other little things that have been added is a JLT intake 03/04 cobra wheels (which maybe forsale along with the factory 01 cobra wheels) rear seat delete, Corbeau LG1 seats, Steeda Tri-Ax, firewall adjuster and a styling bar. I'm sure theres other things that I'm forgetting but thats the jist of things.

Tuning wise, I'm still very unsure of who I'm going to use to tune the car. I'm leaning towards John Lund but it's been brought to my attention that a place called Wicked Motorsports or so does a very good job tuning also. If you guys have any input or suggestions on tuning or anything else that I should do differently, please feel free to comment. I'm open to anything and everything.

List of wants, needs and dreams:
Fuel System
Eaton Supercharger
Matching rear suspenion
FTBR Bushing Kit
Rear Diff Brace
Full length subframe connectors
and the list goes on and on.

Long and short of the mods to the car:
5.0 Stroker Kit
Bored .020" over
10:1 CR
CNC ported and polished heads
Crower springs and retainers
JLT Intake
BBK Catless X-Pipe
UPR K-member and control arms
UPR Camber/Caster Plates
KYB Coil Overs with QA1 Sport Springs
Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter

I'll up date it as I go on and theres more to add just forgetting.

Special Thanks Too:

Machine Work:
Lou
LRB Performance
1-973-209-7770
Franklin, NJ

Cylinder Heads:
Ron
Fox Lake Racing
1-330-682-8800
North Lawrence, Ohio

Parts:
Lethal Performance
1-877-2Lethal
MMR
1-805-383-4130

Shop:
Biggest thanks to my old boss for letting me use his shop for installing my motor and building it there.

Frank
Strictly Fords
2856 Route 17K
Bullville, NY 10915
1-845-361-2063

Onto the Pictures:

Transportation
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Milage
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Don't mind the weird setup, didn't have a place at the time to disassemble it.
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Some stuff taken out
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Ready for removal
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Slinging her up
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Starting to come out
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Motor and trans out
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Perched
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Disassembly
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Uhoh
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Spun #7 Bearing
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Parts
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Bare Block
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Head after machine work
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Pistons and Rods assembled by me
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Pistons in block
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One head on
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Lost the pictures of the rest of the assembly

Completely assembled
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Engine on the K-Member installing flywheel I think
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Flywheel
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Clutch
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Ready to go in the car
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Back Tracking, New coils in
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Motor in and bolted up
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Back on its feet. Had to call it a night after this. Finishing it up this coming weekend.
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[ROUSH 4]

Lots of luck with that Cobra...........

 

[Clerk]

The clutch not mess percussion Obviously, you made ​​a mistake

 

[Chuckie B]

Good cobra build....goodluck!..in the mean time without a blower....SPRAY IT!!

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[PrjctLxEnvy]

sweet build man!! where in Rockland? I am right in Suffern I'd like to see that thing when its done, .. and maybe, when there is no snow on the ground...

 

[TBapp3]

Looks awesome, gonna be a mean car when done!

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[1slovert]

Hey guys sorry for not replying sooner been working. I got the car running this past weekend and she sounds great but ran into a little problem with my clutch. I noticed the cable was on the tighter side as soon as I installed it. The car goes into gear no problem but you let the clutch out and it doesnt move. I tried contacting Mcleod and they've never really heard of anything like this. I'm gonna try and put an adjustable cable on and see what happens but if that doesn't work then i might have to pull the trans out.

A question I have is, do I need to get it tuned right away or can I wait until I break it in first. I'm gonna monitor my o2's next time I run it but it starts, idles and revs up perfect no hesitation or stumble. Either way its getting tuned just curious if I should do it right away.

Chuckie B, I thought about doing nitrous but I don't know enough about it and I need more things before more power haha. I want to get the rear bushings, diff brace, rear suspension and tires first haha. Plus i need to figure my clutch situation out.

Prjctlxenvy, I live in Congers but work at Mahwah Ford. At the moment the car is at my old job up in Orange County but will hopefully be home this weekend!!!! Send me a message and we can meet up when ever.

I have a few more little things to sort out before I get it on the road. It needs a new throttle cable, power steering resiviour bracket and eventually get the right seat brackets for my Corbeu's!!!!

My front and rear seats are for sale along with some other parts but I'm really looking for rear suspension at the moment

 

[Noterminator]

Awesome build. Sounds like she'll be pretty sweet once you get everything done and to where you want it.

 

[1slovert]

The clutch not mess percussion Obviously, you made ​​a mistake

what are you saying?

 

[Noterminator]

what are you saying?

Ignore him lol. I've seen some of his few other posts and most of them seem out of place or ignorant. I think he's a spammer or something. Someone was posting in the classifieds for a part they want asking if anyone has one to let them know. He replied with "No". Most normal people don't reply if they don't have the part the person wants or know where they can get it. Then I saw this reply to your thread, and again it makes no sense. So probsbly a likely spammer or troll.

 

[1slovert]

Ignore him lol. I've seen some of his few other posts and most of them seem out of place or ignorant. I think he's a spammer or something. Someone was posting in the classifieds for a part they want asking if anyone has one to let them know. He replied with "No". Most normal people don't reply if they don't have the part the person wants or know where they can get it. Then I saw this reply to your thread, and again it makes no sense. So probsbly a likely spammer or troll.

haha ok cool thanks

 

[1slovert]

took her for the first drive today!!!! runs and drives great but needs an alignment BAD. didnt really get on it but she just wants to get up and go!

 

[Eatonualive281]

I love this build man! great job so far. id love to build an NA modular someday. have you looked into getting that intake manifold shortened and ported?

 

[1slovert]

I really didn't plan on going as nuts as I did with the build but I'm def gonna port match the intake manifold though. Who does good full porting for the manifold in the area?

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[PrjctLxEnvy]

I really didn't plan on going as nuts as I did with the build but I'm def gonna port match the intake manifold though. Who does good full porting for the manifold in the area?

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miele did all the work on my buddys LS1 heads