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I think the only thing I have seen on todays roads that are more dangerous than the Cobra REPLICAS are probably the crouch rocket motorcycles---considering acceleration, top speed, braking and the fact that they ususally wear some sort of driver protection whereas the cobra REPLICA crowd seems happy running around with a set of seat belts that pull the wrong way for tightening , and a rollbar (usually not padded) that will give a fatal dose of head trauma to an unhelmuted head-- at least the motorcycle will turn the same both ways.
Your SPF, Patricks ERA, my E-M and all the others are dangerous and if we were sensable we would not drive them on public roads in order not to endanger innocent motorists in modern , fairly safe vehicles that have been thru a design and manufacturing process to meet an very strict federal(world) set of regulations that are steered to road safety , reliability, and emission standards that none of our toys will meet.
I have been reading your past posts and the biggest cardboard box you are preaching from is the Hate Patrick because of his number of posts and you have support from a lot of other SPF not because your right but because there are so many of you that 1 % of the SPFers outnumber all the other owners totaled---
Your SPF are very nice cars, nice paint and upholstery, turn signals that don't work, windshield wipers that are grounded thru the dash and are questional , loose brake bolts, coil over mounts and adjusting collars---the engines and transmissions are repeatedly mounted solely to line up the side pipes with the body instead of the driveline--
oil coolers that just have lines stuck up into the fenders instead of actually hooked to the engine, underdrive pulleys to gain 5 or 6 hp, which then run the water pump and alternator too slow for cooling---I could go on and on , but many of these issues are scattered thru out the replica cobra world, but a much higher percentage are on SPF---
Now--a slant on proper corner weights as an offshoot of setting coil overs for ride ht that has spread like weeds off subject(yep, I stirred a lot) has deteriated into a flame fest that has most people now ignoring this thread--will not contribute one more response from me on this thread but I will soon (hopefully this weekend)start a thread about some basic suspension/brake/alignment for street driven vehicles (cobras, hotrods,other kit cars)
as ERA CHAS has me pretty busy rounding up detail pictures for the guys over at Scale Model Magazine forum
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