Apexcarver wrote: I always found the bulge to fit the shaker on the mach 1 a bit contrived, but can understand the attraction. heres mine for your consideration
Any videos?
Apexcarver wrote: I always found the bulge to fit the shaker on the mach 1 a bit contrived, but can understand the attraction. heres mine for your consideration
Any videos?
In reply to mancha:
good summary and true, but a cobra intake it is not, it was unique to the Bullitt and the cobra parts wouldnt work with 2v heads or vice versa.
In reply to Storz:
Not recent, the car has been in storage since 2011 while I got my career off the ground. Went up and cleaned it up last weekend and got it running again without real issue from sitting. Closing on a house next month and hopeful to get to run it again some this year.
Embarassingly, the car only has ~58k on it.
Apexcarver wrote: I always found the bulge to fit the shaker on the mach 1 a bit contrived, but can understand the attraction. heres mine for your consideration
Love it. The 95 Cobra R has always been on my pipe dream list.
I've shopped on-again and off-again for SN95 Cobras for years. Honestly, the biggest problem is finding one that hasn't been modified into a total E36 M3pile.
Apparently that red one I posted earlier is a '99 with some bodywork updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04m8n45tUTg
A good thing to know: the 1996-2001 cobra engines have hypereutetic pistons and weakish rods, so you can supercharge it, but over 450hp is risky. Crank and block is reputed to be good to 800ish and by then you have other problems.
I really enjoyed my 1999 Cobra. Most have hit the heavy clutch on the car. If your doing stop and go traffic it is no fun at all. I had a Vortech T trim on mine it put down around 425 at the tire. Really made it into a fun car.
The only one I've ever been associated with (a 99) was the biggest automotive disappointment of my life. Incredibly hard to work on, and a truly gutless toad. I think whoever optioned this particular car was a bonehead, because it had a 2.73 or so final drive. In a car that makes no power down low. First gear was good for around 50mph, and it was barely idling at highway speeds in 5th.
In my opinion, it would be a fabulous place for a proper small block Ford and a set of 3.73's.
Was that a GT or Cobra? I would be surprised to hear there were axle options available on the SVT car
That's why I put 4.30s in mine 
For normal driving, I started out in 2nd, 2200RPM, shift into 4th, 2200RPM, shift into 5th and hit 45mph 
Yeah, the 2.73s are just too tall. The optional 3.08s worked decently with a 5.0 as a cruiser in a lighter foxbody and are good for ~27 mpg at 70 even with the bad foxbody aero, as it's only turning ~1850 at that speed (would closer to 1650 with the 2.73s 
). But with a 2v 4.6 and associated lack of torque, it just needs more gear.
A little off topic but what about the bullit is unobtanium, a local guy has one thats really clean, but I never noticed much on the outside besides a green GT. Its awfully pretty just curious about whats specific about it thats so rare, cosmetically that is.
Opti wrote: A little off topic but what about the bullit is unobtanium, a local guy has one thats really clean, but I never noticed much on the outside besides a green GT. Its awfully pretty just curious about whats specific about it thats so rare, cosmetically that is.
Body wise? Not much. The bullitt has a different grille, which deleted the corral around the pony.
It had the standard GT bumpers and body, but with special wheels (which then were available on all 01-04GTs, special rolled exhaust tips and bullitt badging. It had a hood scoop as well, but i think it too is identical to the 01-04GT scoops. The trunk was the normal GT faire but minus the spoiler
Interior it had special seats, with unique 60's-esque stitching, various bits of stainless trim, a serial number badge, and special gauge faces with 60's-esque numbering.
Then engine came with a better upper intake manifold and I believe slightly more aggressive camshafts.
My '01 GT meets all the requirements. I use it as a three season DD, and drive around with my boys in the back.
I'm not convinced that the '99 and '01 Cobras are significantly better than the GTs. Of the New Edges, I like the Bullitt the best. Terminators are amazing, but they're in a totally different price range.
Wild idea for potentially myself. What if I took a mustang of this era, yanked whatever motor was in it and replace with Lincoln mk8 with additional cobra bits, and used the irs from the Lincoln in the mustang? The Lincoln irs into a mustang is more what I'm interested in.
In reply to Storz:
SVT Cobra.
The Lincoln Mark 8 IRS is different than the Cobra IRS, mounting, control arms and subframe are different. Now it could be made to fit, depends on how much fabrication you want to do. Mark 8 IRS is the same as the 89-97 Thunderbird V8 IRS, except the Tbird has a cast iron center section vs Mark 8s aluminum one.
Opti wrote: A little off topic but what about the bullit is unobtanium, a local guy has one thats really clean, but I never noticed much on the outside besides a green GT. Its awfully pretty just curious about whats specific about it thats so rare, cosmetically that is.
Not much. Everything that was "special" about the Bullitt at the time was eventually just made on all of the regular GT's. 5-spoke "Torq-Thrust" look wheels, hoodscoop, "dark" headlights, and side scoops. The corral-less grill and fuel cap are both available all over the aftermarket.
The only hard thing is actually the rear 1/4 windows and trim. All 99-04 Mustangs, including Cobras, have a lame rounded window:
The Bullitt and 03-04 Mach 1 got a much better looking kinked one:
Oh goodness, never noticed the kink, looks good
Just so were clear, i hate you all. I forgot how much i wanted s terminator cobra til right now. No winter means....rwd and stuoid power are ok.
mndsm wrote: Just so were clear, i hate you all. I forgot how much i wanted s terminator cobra til right now. No winter means....rwd and stuoid power are ok.
There is a guy in my office that daily drives a new SRT8 Charger. Year round. In Detroit. RWD + Winter + Stupid power is OK with the right tires
Storz wrote:mndsm wrote: Just so were clear, i hate you all. I forgot how much i wanted s terminator cobra til right now. No winter means....rwd and stuoid power are ok.There is a guy in my office that daily drives a new SRT8 Charger. Year round. In Detroit. RWD + Winter + Stupid power is OK with the right tires
I see people DD-ing stuff like that in the winter here in upstate NY too. There's a G8 GT on snows sitting outside in the parking lot right now.
Just keeping this thread alive with things that make me
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