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Post By RedBarchetta
02-04-2010, 10:08 AM
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7 Second Cobra on Ebay
Hi everyone, please take a look at my listing on Ebay and tell your friends. After many great years I am selling my Cobra. It is extremely fast and powerful and it is well behaved on the street and highway. I will replace it with a faster one in the future but right now I am developing a land project and don't have time for the car.
Thanks,
Colin
click on Ebay ad:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=7251
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02-04-2010, 10:24 AM
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We're talking 1/8 of a mile, correct?
Bob
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02-04-2010, 10:26 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob In Ct
We're talking 1/8 of a mile, correct?
Bob
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From his ad:
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7.96 seconds at 170 mph in the quarter mile, 1.19 60' time.
0-60 in just over 1 second!
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02-04-2010, 10:27 AM
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1/4 mile is 7.96
1/8 mile is 5.11
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02-04-2010, 10:37 AM
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Say it aint so !
Colin,
Sorry to see your baby go. I've admired it for a long time. I can understand moving on to other projects as I have to.
Good Luck,
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02-04-2010, 11:05 AM
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Hi Perry, it is a little sad but should only be short term. Then I can build a faster one that is chromoly and be certified for faster then 7.50.
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02-04-2010, 11:05 AM
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A possible candidate for Hot Rod Magazine's Drag Week? You now need consistent high 7's to even be in the hunt in the unlimited category. 
Good luck with the sale...definitely a purpose-built car.
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02-04-2010, 02:10 PM
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I notice that the distributor is at the rear of the engine, where it belongs. Haven't seen any blue oval powered Cobras that go REALLY quick. Why is that?
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02-04-2010, 02:17 PM
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Because they blew up all the SOHC's in the 60's and 70's pumping nitro through them and the only ones left are too valuable to stress?   |
02-05-2010, 07:31 AM
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Ya mean that the guys that drop $40K on a beautiful stack injected Roush 511 can't go really fast? 40 large spent on a boat anchor Chebby would scream. Granted, Colin's car is certainly well set up for 1/4 mile drags, but surely there must be someone in love with FoMoCos that might approach his times, with a street legal thumper.
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02-05-2010, 08:41 AM
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There ARE very fast Cobras with Fords in them. I know of a few in the low 8's. One is a small bock!
I know I'm being presumptuous calling mine the fastest. I just don't know of any with faster quarter mile times.......there may well be, and I will change my ad right away.
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02-05-2010, 08:32 AM
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Karl, they do. But they use Fox bodied Mustangs with twin hair dryers. I grew up on Chevys and they are just cheaper to build and parts back in the day were easier to acquire. I adapted to this car/motor...still has 8 spark plugs, just a different firing order. With all the SB Ford development as of late, it's only a matter of time before someone does what Colin has achieved. Just most people going that fast prefer to have a roof over their head! 
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02-05-2010, 08:48 AM
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Karl you are missing the point. While my motor is truly a boat anchor right now, I didnt have any desire to try to go that fast in my cobra. I could of built 4 drag cars for what I spent for my csx but that wasnt what I wanted. I could of have keith craft build me a BB ford with 14:1 compression and nitrous that would be that fast for less money than I spent on my 511 but it wasnt the point. That is a purpose built drag car, period. Pull the motor and put in a 521 ford racing motor or a KC SBF pulling 900 horses and squirt it with nitrous and it will be as fast.
The difference is that is is still worth less to sell than the sum of its parts and will only be purchased by someone who is a drag racer as you sure wouldnt want to try to make that car streetable.(although it would be fun trying)
The bottom line is no one ever looks at a cobra and says" too bad it doesnt have a big block chevy"(except for you) It isnt a difference of being able to beat it, it is whether someone wants to
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02-05-2010, 12:49 PM
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One of my favorite flame type paint jobs!
Wish I had the money.
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02-05-2010, 02:33 PM
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Vanity plate candidate
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02-05-2010, 05:05 PM
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That would have been good, mine actually says:
TOXLR8
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02-05-2010, 03:34 PM
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I know that I'd never win this discussion on this forum, but it is fun to stir the cauldron. I am the first to admit that there are many amazing FoMoCo powered cars out and about and its totally beyond me how they manage to get such power out of some relatively small engines. If I could afford it, I'd be looking at getting one of those nasty Rosch 427 stroker small blocks. Hopefully, this year, the newly designed Ford engines will be able to compete in the ProStock class. Gets boring watching one GM beat up on another GM, with just the occasional MoPar playing. Sort of like the days, some 30 years ago, when nobody could touch Dyno Don with John Kaase as his 22 year old head wrench.
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02-06-2010, 09:33 AM
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Yikes! I should not have looked at this car!
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