Right or wrong, appropriate, or whatever, there are many colors in a rainbow. A Yates headed 331 making 580hp on pump gas can be driven on the street without too much difficulty, just routine maintenance and checking, which some of us enjoy. 5k miles later, it still gets my goat every time I drive it. Agreed, not a wise street rod head, or combination for the average cobra enthusiast, but some of us are below average. We haven’t smartened up yet. Point is, I have 3 other friends running track motors with Yates heads on the street, all of which more radical than mine. For them and myself, this is not a bad thing, it was the intension from the start.
For some of us, driving your cobra in “a holy $%#%^ sort of way” is just right.
John