Well I started the car build some time last august. I have done every peice of work except the body/paint. There is a local guy that has painted over 300 cobras so I took it to him. I have about 280 hours into. I built the engine twice so thats where some of it went. When I built it the first time I had a funny noise emanating from it on startup. I thought it was the
oil pan but a buddy of mine said it sounded like a rod. So I tore into it, checked all of my clearances and reassembled it in a weekend. Turns out though that it wasn't the rod. I put a deeper
oil pan on and voila the noise was gone. ;>)