Excalibur Owners: Please Reply!

[cobraduke]

Tradingup
I think you are right. I know some of the welding on the four hole flange to the cat on my car is really "after market". Looks like some one in high school shop did it. But it hasn't failed! I may be wrong, but I think both type factory systems uded the Ford 5.0 exhaust headers as part of the system, whereas mine has a a kit car set of tube headers that terminate in the square four hole flange. I have no info on the source of these, but my quess is that they could be Classic Roadster since the two cars are so similar. Perhaps what we both have is CR systems with cats?

Mike

[cobraduke]

The yellow demonstrator Excalibur II shown at Carlisle two years ago is apparently for sale on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=290248918606

The photos show many of the details of this new version. Apparently the plans to produce them as a kit or roller or whatever are no longer being pursued as the listing says the body molds are for sale as well. A business opportunity?

Mike

[tradingup]

Can anybody tell me what the right-most toggle labeled "Auxiliary" is suppose to do?

Do you have a manual switch for the radiator fan on your Excals?

[cobraduke]

Don't think the aux switch is wired to anything. Probably could use it for driving lights or ?

The computer controls the fan based on temp. I had to install a separate fan controller when I found mine had a '93 cobra computer swapped in (with some wiring changes also required). The earlier Ford computers (pre '94) did not control the fan as it was mechanical, not electric.

Mike

[flyboy1997]

CobraDuke, what temps does Your car run & others if You know of? Jim brought his car to show me while I was getting some service work done on my dodge trk. & his temp was " Indicating" 220 & he did have some water spray under bottom side of hood & a full overflow tank. Mine will run 170 most of the time but in town & NOT under any kind of traffic I will see 200, mine has the mass flo computer & Jim has stock ? Wendell

[cobraduke]

I replaced the thermostat with a 180 degree (stock is 193) and it runs at 180 most of the time. I can't remember seeing over 200. I'm not sure when the computer is programmed to turn the fan on, but I have my fan controlled set at 170. Several have indicated the gauge indication higher than desired. One problem that has been found on some cars is the gauge accuracy with reports of 10 to 20 degrees too high compared to actual coolant temp. A couple have gone to an add on computer chip (can't remember the brand, but there are posts in this thread from a few years ago) which improved performance and reduced the overheating. I think part of the chip installation is the lower thermostat and possibly it turns on the fan at a lower temp as well.

If the fan is working, the timing set properly (10 to 12 degrees with the plug in the harness removed) and the gauge working accurately, probably won't see much over 200. I personally like it to run cooler than that.

If Jim is seeing high enough temps to force coolant out under normal driving, it needs some attention. Not normal.

Mike

[cobraduke]

Thanks to older info collected and forwarded by Tom Hekkers and recent finds on the net by several owners who have sent them along, the registry now has 70 confirmed VIN specific Excalibur cobras. This represents slightly over half of the estimated regular production. We have info on about 8 known component Excalibur cobras of an unknown total number that were sold after regular production stopped in 1997. We also have info on about 16 cars with known years but no VIN's (so some might be duplicates of the VIN known cars) and an additional 10 where neither year nor VIN are known (same possibility of duplication). I have collected photos of 43 of these cars.

I am posting this info to encourage more Excalibur cobra owners to submit their car's info so we can fill in the blanks and add to our collective knowledge and appreciation of these great cars. Photos are also greatly appreciated. As stated before, this info is available upon request. All that is asked is that you help by submitting your info and that you forward info on other cars you come across and encourage other owners to join the effort. You can contact me by PM or my new email [Mike Duke]mduke8@gmail.com[/email]

I'd like to archive all this info at some point, but I'm no computer guru. Job one is to update and add to it.

Mike

[sremp000]

Mike

I noticed that you are trying capture all the excalibur VIN's. I just bought a 95 and want to know what to do to get on the list and are there any good sites that I can buy some small needed parts......