[Nola Cobra]

This may be a little off topic. I switch from a traditional 4-barrel setup on my ole Roush 392AL after about 6 years and approximately 20k miles of driving. As related to the cam, it’s an off-the-shelf XE-274HR-12 which is probably not the ideal/custom cam of choice but works for a street engine… hi-in-sight maybe I could have opted for a custom grind (discussion for a different day).

My car is mainly street driven with several track days and one drag strip trip (off idle passes for the experience) many many years ago. The thing I did notice with the carb setup is I could stop aggressively enough to stall the engine and on the track cornering hard the engine would stumble slightly on the exit…. Yes, some carb tuning and mods would likely have solved this symptom but again the car is mainly street driven, cruising the back roads.

Fast forwarding to mid 2013 I installed a set of weber’s with an initial setup by Jim Inglese. After some fiddling and methodically dialing them in the only issue was fine tuning the linkage/bellcrank. Ultimately, I whittled a bellcrank from aluminum which made the tip-in smooth as butter. The weber setup has been trouble free for years now and I have logged another 20k miles on the car. Most of my driving these days is a combination of some around town idling, not on purpose, with the majority of time spent cruising on the back roads. We usually log a couple hundred miles at a time.

Again, this isn’t answering your question, I do have the original intake/carb/classic Cobra air cleaner but it’s wall art now and I have no plans to remove my weber setup. The beauty of our love of good friends and sharing our Cobras is we can run whatever engine, transmission, fuel delivery, bling, etc. that tickles our fancy with the only limitation being our wallets.

Best of luck.