Cobra Make, Engine: Some polish thing... With some old engine
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Originally Posted by RodKnock
I'm Cammer all the way. I love those engines.
I love the hypocrisy here. Folks are worried about the weight of the engine or other components of their Cobra, yet often carry around 25-50-75 lbs of extra weight around their mid-sections.
Cammers are rubbish... They last only 50miles of street use, and then aren't worth the warranty.
But YOU already know this, and that's why you don't have one
As for losing 50lbs... Yikes, That would amputation for me to achieve.
Which engine is best. When I titled my kit car, I presented the inspector with MY manufacture tags. Technically I am the manufacturer of my car, so I built it MY way. In 1968 I was looking at a blown up cobra, I also had an original ZL-1 available.(it turned out to be a little warm so I passed.) To present day the heritage ZL-1 came available so I put together a 40 plus year old idea. I liked the SOHC, been done. I liked the boss 429, been done. If somebody and their kids built a kit with a 4cylinder from an old pick-up, I'd consider that pretty cool if that was what they could afford and spent the hundreds of hours together building their car. I just wanted something different. Its the builders choice, do what you like and enjoy it.
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
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Love the Cammer as well and have helped work on them, but they are too worrisome for me with all the variables and reliability (that's just me) as well as fitment issues.
Love the Boss 429 as well, but fitment issues etc in a Cobra...
Love the Tunnel Port 427 too!
Love to hear an SBC scream at over 10k (saw in one of Larry Minor's cars)
Lots of love above, I know. But I always end up back at the well-built FE MR that I personally understand best.
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All that's stopping you now Son, is blind-raging fear.......
Cammers are rubbish... They last only 50miles of street use, and then aren't worth the warranty.
But YOU already know this, and that's why you don't have one
As for losing 50lbs... Yikes, That would amputation for me to achieve.
Somebody must be able to build a reliable Cammer out there, CC member Damage's Cammer notwithstanding. Jay Leno has had a Cammer in his Cobra for a couple decades. He famously appeared with it in a TV commercial many years ago.
I'd probably look to Robert Pond down in SoCal to build one, if I suddenly got the itch to torch $50,000 +/- of my money.
As for losing 50 lbs, amputation of a limb is not required. A more desirable approach would be just converting fat to muscle and that would work OK too.
Years ago, two cammers I helped work on were NOS crate engines and we did nothing but install them and they worked great.
Then we worked on a couple of "rebuilt" ones and had nothing but troubles.
I guess the story there is that if you're going the cammer route, know who you are dealing with and what his knowledge is in this particular engine.
I see them on Ebay all the time and cringe...
My Cammer would definitely be very reliable.........nestled between the frame rails of my Kirkham.................sitting in the garage, under a car cover, year round. I think at some point, I'll just move it into the living room, so I can look at it more often.
Cobra Make, Engine: Some polish thing... With some old engine
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Originally Posted by RodKnock
A more desirable approach would be just converting fat to muscle and that would work OK too.
Earlier on in this thread you were seemingly one of few that could do the math (ie: EZ$'s post & calculations) but now, I'm thinking maybe you just got lucky?
Converting 50lbs of fat in to muscle, still leaves you with 50lbs of muscle.
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Originally Posted by Dimis
Earlier on in this thread you were seemingly one of few that could do the math (ie: EZ$'s post & calculations) but now, I'm thinking maybe you just got lucky?
Converting 50lbs of fat in to muscle, still leaves you with 50lbs of muscle.
Enjoy...
You beat me to it!
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All that's stopping you now Son, is blind-raging fear.......
Earlier on in this thread you were seemingly one of few that could do the math (ie: EZ$'s post & calculations) but now, I'm thinking maybe you just got lucky?
Converting 50lbs of fat in to muscle, still leaves you with 50lbs of muscle.
Enjoy...
Hey, I was trying to save you from amputation.
I don't believe there's a 1:1 correlation between converting fat to muscle, but I'm not an expert. In my experience, people will gain muscle, lose fat and lose weight in the process, depending on how much their metabolism has increased due to their exercise regimen.
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