Engine Option (Just For Discussion)

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by DanEC

Well, I'm inspired now with all of this engine swapping, cross pollination talk. Think I'm going to pull the 427 out of my 66 Corvette and install it in the ERA. It's a pretty rowdy engine so kind of goes with a Cobra. Next, I'll pull the 440 out of my 67 GTX and plug it into the Corvette - it needs to be calmed down a little anyway. And the FE can go into the 67 GTX because it's kind of heavy and could use a bit more torque. That should keep the boys down at the monthly Sonic cruise night talking for awhile.

I think I'm going to follow Dan's example and transplant my air-cooled 911 engine into my Cobra. I mean some idiots, er, enthusiasts, put Chevy's into "original" 911's for heaven's sake.

[Ace23]

I just have to say who would want a real cobra other than for the potential value of selling it. Can you imagine what a giant pain in the ass it would be to have an original.....you would be a complete basket of nerves driving it around and it would be a 50 year old car that you would be tinkering around with. I will take my Superformance professional kit car any day of the week. I am not saying there is anything wrong with owning an original car.....if you have the financial means and it floats your boat then that is excellent. I really like to drive my car and I can't see how practical it would be to drive an original and beat the crap out of it. You also couldn't bring yourself to modify anything or put your taste on it. Just sit back and think to yourself how great it is we can all have and or build our own version of what we want in a Cobra for $50-150K.

I guarantee you if first generation camaros were 1 million dollars there would be a market flooded with kit/replica cars and people would be rolling in cars with all types of new age suspension and powertrains. The cobra market is no different they just happened to make a much smaller quantity of them. Now back to the motor talk! Let's here about power potential, reliability and cost instead of what the heck the valve covers look like