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04-18-2011, 08:27 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Mesa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #2119 289FIA
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Ralphie, didn't realize that you drove the car enough to break it. What happened, other than coming from the blue oval people?
You just need to man up and spend your summers in AZ. Quit woosing out and running away from the warm, dry heat of our Sonoran desert.
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04-18-2011, 10:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Carpentersville,IL & Maricopa,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ACE, 351W, 3550 Tremec, Raging(?) Red W/ White Stripe.
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Originally Posted by Karl Bebout
Ralphie, didn't realize that you drove the car enough to break it. What happened, other than coming from the blue oval people? ...
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Cam went soft, the two lobes on #7 were almost round and others showed pitting and wear. Don't know why, religiously changed oil but most of the flat tappets were also slightly con-caved, with one actually having a hole worn through.
Had it rebuilt with roller cam, tappets and rockers, stronger push rods, ported and polished GT40 heads with beefed up valve springs. Also went with RPM Airgap intake, a performance clutch and road-race oil pan, and a few other things.
It sure runs a lot smoother and can definitely feel the extra power.
Now back up north to work a little to pay for it. 
Ralph 
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04-18-2011, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Sun City West,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF2984 MK111, Roush 511 IR FE 8 Stack, Dynoed: [flywheel] 572HP at 6000 , 556# Torque at 4700, Bowler 4R70W Auto Transmision. Tires: Mickey T's S/R 26.0x10.0x15.0 F ,26.0x12.0x15.0 R Color, Bleck, because they told me it was Bleck, at the factory.
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I feel for ya Ralphie......
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Originally Posted by RedSnake351
Cam went soft, the two lobes on #7 were almost round and others showed pitting and wear. Don't know why, religiously changed oil but most of the flat tappets were also slightly con-caved, with one actually having a hole worn through.
Had it rebuilt with roller cam, tappets and rockers, stronger push rods, ported and polished GT40 heads with beefed up valve springs. Also went with RPM Airgap intake, a performance clutch and road-race oil pan, and a few other things.
It sure runs a lot smoother and can definitely feel the extra power.
Now back up north to work a little to pay for it.
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How can you have a soft cam and almost round lobes?
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04-18-2011, 11:07 PM
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Location: Carpentersville,IL & Maricopa,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ACE, 351W, 3550 Tremec, Raging(?) Red W/ White Stripe.
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How can you have a soft cam and almost round lobes?
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Steel not hardened enough will wear down the lobes! So I hear! 
I'll take any other explanation. 
Ralph 
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04-18-2011, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Sun City West,,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF2984 MK111, Roush 511 IR FE 8 Stack, Dynoed: [flywheel] 572HP at 6000 , 556# Torque at 4700, Bowler 4R70W Auto Transmision. Tires: Mickey T's S/R 26.0x10.0x15.0 F ,26.0x12.0x15.0 R Color, Bleck, because they told me it was Bleck, at the factory.
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Omg...........
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Originally Posted by RedSnake351
Steel not hardened enough will wear down the lobes! So I hear!
I'll take any other explanation.
Ralph |
Do tell me your engine is not a Roush.... 
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04-18-2011, 11:13 PM
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Do tell me your engine is not a Roush.... |
Tinney, if I had worked in China for twenty years, it would have been a Roush! 
Ralph 
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04-18-2011, 11:56 PM
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yeah but............
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Tinney, if I had worked in China for twenty years, it would have been a Roush!
Ralph |
It helps, but look at it this way, its a retirement present for me and I figured I only live once.
And not to put a fine point on it, I just read the post about Michael Sarrazin dyin' at 70, and I realize I'll be retiring at 70, so talk about then livin' it up, an burnin' bridges, doin' burnouts, chasin' my wife and acting like a silly kid again, yeah, bring it.
Cheers, John, AKA, tin-man
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04-19-2011, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by RedSnake351
Steel not hardened enough will wear down the lobes! So I hear!
I'll take any other explanation.
Ralph |
By any chance you were running Mobile One full syn oil?
Mine did the exact same thing after switching to the high dollar oil.
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04-18-2011, 10:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl Bebout
Ralphie, didn't realize that you drove the car enough to break it. What happened, other than coming from the blue oval people?
You just need to man up and spend your summers in AZ. Quit woosing out and running away from the warm, dry heat of our Sonoran desert.
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So Karl, are you calling Ralphie a wimp, I thought the club was made up of fine upstandin' gents, not wimps?
BTW never heard the expression "woosing", boozing, yeah, but woosing, never, so help me understand.
Ralphie, is you gonna let that stand, sure sounds like a challenge?  
Cheers, John, AKA, tin-man
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