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I'm with you Excaliber. I don't mean to offend anyone with idealization what a Cobra should be but, I don't accept anything other than a FIA type small block, 427 side oiler or a FE, as a engine. I also don't believe in a "Hot Rodded" Cobra. I can't even see using 17" wheels, unless maybe, for racing. Don't like automatics, or BMW suspension's, wood dashes or high back seats. Cobras were built as a race car. Fuel fumes, harsh ridding, noisy and hit the pedal so it pushes you back in your seat and scares the crap out of your passenger, gives you the "Cobra experience". I don't care that you can put in a crate Ford 514cu. with 630 hp or a Chevy 572 cube for easy and cheaper power than building a expensive "FE". I've even heard of a crate Hemi in a cobra ! (shameful) You could even put in a relatively stock, rice engine with twin turbos, coolers, alcohol injection and incredible boost numbers and have 800 + hp............it's not a cobra. Is my cobra as original ? No, I've just polished the aluminum on the engine, half of the wheels and dash ect., and I still get people asking, "is it real" ? Which I reply, "no but thank you". "I wish I could afford one though" Even a kirkham is out of my reach so, I'll have fun driving my Lone Star. I'm not saying that anything other than original is wrong. "To each it's own" and "what ever makes you happy" IS, what I saying but, at least try to stay with in the parameter of original. I would never....put a V-8 in a BMW unless it was manufactured that way. Or how about putting a rice burner engine in our sprint car, I don't think so ! LOL !!! A Cobra is all about great....... "American muscle power".