1993cobra wrote:

BADBOY wrote:They do look pretty nice

thats because they look just like the Fords wheel that they put on our cars in the first place!

And that's the whole idea. Best of all worlds.

-MJS

Are all finishes $500? We have our name down on the second list for a set of chrome ones. Do you know approximately how much shipping is? Thanks! The only finish done was the original silver. Chrome would be more, but the manufacturer says that he needs a minimum of 50 sets in chrome alone to do a ...

It's been a six month process, but the thread on the Corral paid off and now Wheel Replicas is doing their '93 Cobra replica wheel in a five lug version with standard Fox back space. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a174/P51C/fivelugwheel.jpg These are limited production, only done when the waiting...

At first, I thought this idea was a little weird and exclusionary, but now I think it's a great idea. Any SVT product in New Jersey that hasn't been stolen and parted out deserves to be in a book.

-MJS

Impressive setup, great taste in cars and toys. The Supra and the GT500 look like they are about to start trading blows, and I think that's the cleanest SHO I've seen since they were new. Be interesting to see what it brings, everything being so soft right now.

-Mike S.

My teal car has the same paint that is in the engine bay, a semigloss, non-metallic version of the teal color with a little bit of the metallic teal overspray around the edges.

-MJS

The Cobra had a different belt, the March pulleys are smaller than the Cobra pulleys, and in my experience, the only real use for underdrive pulleys on a street car is to make your A/C, water pump, and alternator less efficient, and give you no noticeable power increase. 1-3 HP, yes. Will you feel i...

I knew about them when they first published preproduction photos in the magazines in late '92, and knew I needed one. I still have most of the magazines that tested them. I bought mine brand new with 18 miles on it at a local Ford dealer in October 1993, teal with leather, power seat, and CD player....

I wonder how much Cobra is left. With all of those regular 5.0 parts on it, it might have been a rebuilt theft recovery.

-Mike S.

The advertised boost was with the Cobra underdrive pulley. not the GT pulley. I would be WAY over advertised boost with the GT pulley. I was under the assumption that the kit was for a standard 5.0, and KB was telling you that you weren't seeing the boost you wanted to see because the Cobra crank p...

Swap to a regular 5.0 crank and water pump pulley, and ye shall see thine advertized boost. -Mike S. The advertised boost was with the Cobra underdrive pulley. not the GT pulley. I would be WAY over advertised boost with the GT pulley. I was under the assumption that the kit was for a standard 5.0,...

Swap to a regular 5.0 crank and water pump pulley, and ye shall see thine advertized boost.

-Mike S.

OK, so you pulled 196 HP at 1,200 feet. That's probably a corrected number, the actual number at altitude would have been maybe 175 or so, so we can go from the 196. There is a generally accepted 17% loss through a manual transmission drivetrain, 22% for automatics, so 17% of 196 HP is 33.32 HP, plu...

My estimate was low because Laz stated he was going to a Mustang dyno, and those things always read 20-25HP lower than a Dynojet, which are more common and produce most all of the published numbers.

-Mike S.

I don't plan on going 5-lug. If I did, I would have just gone to a rim repair place, have them weld up the existing holes, and redrill them for 5-lug. Shouldn't cost that much more than buying a set of knock-off 5-lugs if/when the come out. I actually have a set of the new repro 8.5" four lug ...