Well some of you might be wondering what has happened with the cobra adventure. After settling into snowbird life in Riverview we went to cruise nights, a Christmas car show and a Deeper South Cobra Club cruise to the Nav-A-Gator restaurant. Enjoyed the warm winter weather and cruising in the Cobra.
I kept putting off finishing up the details of the cars history with her past owners that I promised. In January I started to work on it and my computer hard drive crashed. It had all my recorded conversations, notes and pictures on it. The local computer guy said it was all gone but my computer wizard at home says he can retrieve it all for me. When we get home I guess we will see. I can recreate most of the info but it will be a royal pain.
On our way back from the Nav-A-Gator the car started running rough at freeway speeds and acted like it was running very rich. I found a tuner that was a EFI expert and took the car to his shop the 10th of February. He was very busy but promised to work on it as time allowed. When he got around to working on it the ECU wouldn't seem to hold the changes he made. He played with it for several days and finally talked to the folks at HALTECH and they felt that the ECU unit was probably bad and needed to be replaced. I had been having trouble finding someone that could tune the system so was reluctant to put the same one back in. I called Bob Reem at Imagine Injection to see what he recommended. He told me that they now were using a FAST EZ ECU on his injection system and had had no problems. So I ordered the FAST EZ and wiring harness from Bob and had it shipped to the tuner in Florida that was working on my car. He installed the new FAST ECU and started the car up on the Dyno and it ran for a few minutes then everything went dead. He calls FAST and they tell him to send the unit back and they will test it. It is now April and we have no car to take to the 24 Heurs de Florida but more importantly we are scheduled to leave for home April 16th.
FAST puts a rush on a new ECU module (the original was fried) and we get it April 11th. The tuner puts it in the car and I'm supposed to pick the car up the 13th. Wow 3 days to spare. I don't want to say anything more as I'm afraid that I might jinx this.
On our trip home we are looking forward to doing some Cobra cruising in the cities that we are stopping in. We will be in Atlanta April 18-21, Birmingham April 22-25, Memphis April 26-29, Little Rock April 30-May 2, Branson, MO May 3-6, Colorado Springs, CO May 11-14 and be back home in Idaho the 18th of May. We would love to meet any of you along the way home.
Dick & Jo
The Cobra Adventure Continues
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