hi, just to update in case some people are looking up this info in the future....
i have pretty much completed the changes on my Cobra and am now ready for my next 2 track days coming up Monday/Tuesday.
My latest set of changes include
1) Canton 460 ford 7.5" low-profile baffled road race pan, which also requires a new
oil pump, pickup, mounting stud for the pickup. All available at canton.
2) Moroso 3-quart accumulator, 25psi solenoid charge/discharge valve, and new twist-loc plumbing
3) 295/50/15 and 265/60/15 AVON CR6ZZ series tires
4) lateral support to roll bar, head rest bar added to the driver/passenger rear loop
5) flaming river mustang II power steering rack. requires a special coupler because it is NOT a splined input shaft, it is some weird triangle/pyramid input shaft.
flaming river rack was a last minute item....while i was doing some work on it. i noticed that the front wheels were not pointing the same way. come to find out the existing steering rack had some 1/4" slop on both inner tie-rods!!! I figured I should replace that before taking it back on the track. The rack I was using was just a 'remanufactured' mustang II rack, probably not the ideal one for track events I suppose.
At any rate, i took the car out today on my 'street test track' for about 30 minutes today.
Whatever people say about the AVON's....i think they are right! The combination of the new springs, shocks, corner balancing, AVON's, and the flaming river rack makes the car drive/handle/feel like my wife's fancy BMW, or my friend's Z06 corvette, except with more torque
This little car has gone through quite a change over the last 6 weeks and I am very excited to get it back on the track and ..carefully.. build up lap after lap.