11-04-2011, 11:24 AM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Paris, France. City of wine and food,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Paint:Metalflakes Royal and Abalone stripes registered in France in 1973. Engine: Ford Shelby aluminium block, 482; two 4-barrels 600cfm Holley; Edelbrock Performer Aluminium heads,,fluid damper,4-speeds Aluminium Toploader (short), 2.88rear
Posts: 209
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Originally Posted by Clois Harlan
I have told this before but I hit 159 at Texas Motor Speedway several years ago in my Cobra coming out of Nascar turn 4.....I had replaced my rev limiter from a 6200 chip to 7000 RPM chip. As I crossed the start finish line my enigine went completely silent after a shutter and a bang. I pushed in the clutch and all I could hear was the wind. I would never do that again because of the cost to repair 427 FE. Now I keep my 6000 Rev limiter ship in place and seldom bump up against it (unless I need to clean the dirt off my tires in the country).
Clois
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Reving a FE too high can be costly. I had a bad experience with that in 2009 at the dragstrip. The cost in dollars was almost equal to the number of RPM.
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