How many people work on their own Cobra?

[joyridin']

Lots of great replies! After reading so many posts on here over the years, you sometimes get the impression a lot of people just drop their car off somewhere when it needs repaired and tell the technician to fix it. Nothing against doing that if all you want to do is hop in the car and drive it.

[jhv48]

Originally Posted by joyridin'

Lots of great replies! After reading so many posts on here over the years, you sometimes get the impression a lot of people just drop their car off somewhere when it needs repaired and tell the technician to fix it. Nothing against doing that if all you want to do is hop in the car and drive it.

Don't know about you guys, but it's getting harder and harder to find a shop that is capable of working on these relics. Thus, the necessity of relearning how to turn a wrench.
Sure is embarrassing to have your car towed to a shop so they could fix what you screwed up.

[olddog]

I'm the third owner.

Intake was sucking oil in. Found heads were not tapped deep enough on the end holes, and bolts were bottoming out. A 0.005 feeler would slide under the bolt heads. Tapped heads, port matched intake while it was off, installed studs with stainless nut capped with Acorn nuts.

Removed oil pan and welded a factory pin hole. Added a wind-age tray while it was off.

Converted headers/side pipes from a slip joint to flanges.

Made adjustable links and replaced originals, so I could adjust pinion angle.

Rebuilt center section on 9" rear end, changed ratio, and replace wheel bearings. Short sentence for a lot of work and time.

Changed fuel gauge and mounting - old leaked fumes. Found tank rusty. Acid cleaned it and coated the inside. I drew up plans to make a new tank if the coating doesn't hold. Next tank will be welded aluminum.

Battery in trunk, was grounded to frame at rear. Engine grounded to frame in front. This put 500 amp through the frame, when starter was engaged. Ran a ground cable from the battery to the engine. Voltage was dropping under 10 when cranking, now it is above 10.5.

Presently working on tuning EFI, after changing Filter, ducting, and Mass Flow Meter and its location.

[joyridin']

Originally Posted by jhv48

Don't know about you guys, but it's getting harder and harder to find a shop that is capable of working on these relics. Thus, the necessity of relearning how to turn a wrench.
Sure is embarrassing to have your car towed to a shop so they could fix what you screwed up.

We have quite a few specialty shops and Rod Shops that will gladly work on them. I do not know how good they are or anything, but they will fix them (make that attempt to fix them) if you want them to try.

I saw a BackDraft at a GM dealership a while back. It was getting the distributor gear replaced with just a few hundred miles on a brand new crate engine.

[Blue66]

I cleaned the fuel filter today !!! Thats it for me hopefully for a while

[Frank Messina]

I built mine


but a had Jeff Miller paint it.



I take care of whatever it needs which is darn little.
Frank