kinda quiet, anybody have updates?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by kevins2

Rig Man,

The guys at ERA are few and do top quality work. The alternative would be to hire more mechanics and quality would suffer. You’ll appreciate the car when you receive it and will then feel like it was worth the wait.

My car took a year to get in kit form and another year for me to finish it and I got the same message from others that I just gave you. The car felt so good and solid when I finally got it on the road I forgot all about the wait.

All true. But Rig Man there are a thousand different traits that your ERA has and it will take time for you to get your hands around them. The way your car feels, smells, and sounds at different temperatures, the way the sound of your pipes bounces off different objects, the way your engine sounds change when it goes from cold to hot -- and this is even more dramatic if you have solid lifters. Your car will talk to you. And she will tell you when she's feeling good and when she's not quite right. Plus you will learn stuff every year. Even after almost 20 years I'm still picking things up, especially the relationship factors on my ERA. For instance how one change, like the temperature of the under hood air, increases the amp draw of the puller fan, which increases the load on the alternator and how you can feel that change when you're sitting at a stoplight and the increased drag on the alternator affects the sound, smell, feel and RPM of the engine. Or how the idle through the pipes plays a very complicated mathematical tune if you listen carefully. If you're basically OCD and have a desire to know every single possible thing there is to know about how and why your Cobra behaves like she does, then you've found the right car to feed your addiction.