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Originally posted by Turk
SFfiredog
Stop this madness. Stick to something you know something about. Engines!
TURK [/b]
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I thought I was talking about engines... Oh, I get it!
I can still build you a Shelby aluminum block and then we can fill your footboxes with melted down lead fishing weights, or I have an old railroad tie at work, we can bailing wire it to your front quick-jacks, or hell if you really want weight I have a '75 Mark V Lincoln Continental that we can sawz-all the roof off of and bend up a roll bar out of muffler tubing...
A World War II era P-51 Mustang flew over my house yesterday afternoon. The aluminum block in that beautiful bird didn't drop any
coolant or engine parts on my head as it passed over, so 60 years later I'd guess it's still working fine...
42 gallons of fuel? Your last engine got a little better than 14 mpg.
Even if your new engine gets 10 mpg... Hell I love Cobras but I don't want to sit my ass in one for 420 miles at a time
The 42 gallon fuel tank is as much of a full racing item as open headers or removing the windshield and adding the small fairing. Actually worse because it can drastically reduce the handling of the car from full to empty making the car dangerous.
The race Cobras of the sixties did it out of nessessity. Stops for fuel wasted more precious seconds than the ill handling effects of, what in effect is carrying around an assembled 289 short block in the back of your car. Why does a street Cobra need a 42 gallon fuel tank? That's more fuel than BOTH tanks held in my last full size pick up truck!
Now that I bad mouthed your car, when can I come and see it, you lucky bastard
--Mike
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