04-13-2004, 09:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Surprise,
AZ
Cobra Make, Engine: 2004 Kirkham 427 Roadster. New BBM Sideoiler Block, 484 cu. in. built by Valley Head & Racing Engines, Northridge CA. installed 3/20/2016
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Goodyear Race tires on the street,
You can run them on a Cobra for 30,000 miles if you want. My brother has a '64 289 he's owned since new and has 125,000 miles on it. He ran Blue Streak Sports Car Special Intermediate tires when they were being made. They were mostly slicks simuliar to a Yokohama A-008-RS DOT race tire. They worked fine in all conditions on the streets and Freeways in Los Angeles for years.
The new "Cobra Tire" will probably be the last tire you'd have to buy because I doubt that most of you use your Cobra as a daily driver, as my brother did.
The cars are so light that tire wear is not an issue on the street. Only if you run them on the track, or on a very hot day in the desert, will they get soft enough (High Heat Cycle) to pick up pebbles and the like. If driven on the street only, this will not be a problem.
Tubes- You'll only need tubes if your running wire wheels, (a Must), or real Magnesium wheels that have not had Epoxy appied to the inner rim to seal the rim from Leaking. Magneaiun is pourus and air will seap through an un-treated wheel. This is not a problem with Aluminum Wheels.
Unless any of you have original Hailbrand MAGNESIUM or American MAGNESIUM wheels that are not treated (or wires), you don't need tubes.
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Bruce
Last edited by Bruce Robles; 04-13-2004 at 09:40 AM..
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