[cycleguy55]

Originally Posted by Ron61

You know this conversation has appeared almost every site just like the big block small block argument and there are no clear winners. Very few of our cars are originals and in an original 60s Cobra I would say stay with the Ford engine, but in replicas, no matter how close the resemble an original 60s Cobra, they are still just replicas and I really don't see any problem with the person building one using whichever engine they like. After all they are building it for themselves and not the rest of the group. And yes, I have Ford engines in mine but they are not even close to originals as i have them the way I want them and am not trying to impress anyone. Mine are driven hard and sow it with rock picks, scratches and misaligned gaps.

Ron

Agreed, though I will note that when I was looking to buy one 3 years ago I quickly discovered those with non-Ford engines seemed to sell at quite a discount against those with Ford engines. YMMV