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Originally Posted by Selo
Awesome info Ed. Thanks. I'm the first to admit I don't have any experience in these matters and that's why I asked. I never learned how to work on cars - eyeballs instead. I very much appreciate the way you broke it down for me, I like the quick and dirty. Since I'm not at a place just yet to either read those books or do the work myself, I'd be looking to Craft or Lykins. At $10,000 minimum, I'm better off to buy a new car, I think, If I really feel I need more power. New gears will likely be worth it, but not a new motor or Forced Induction.
Thanks for helping me answer that question.
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These cars are extraordinary assaults on our senses, no matter what you have previously experienced in automotive performance vehicles. There is something I like to call the spectacle of speed, it is that assault. When you are in roadster like a Cobra, that can in almost any form run low eleven second / high ten second quarter mile performance, it is stunning and much more so because of the open cockpit.
I like to think about these cars as attitude adjustment vehicles. After you have been beat up and beat down during the week in our normal lives an eclectic spin through the mountain roads in a Cobra will bring you home feeling just about as good as is humanly possible.
Enjoy your car as it is today. Don't be too quick to sell your car and start over. You will not believe just how much the car's personality and character changes with a new engine that is several notches higher up the horsepower totem pole than your current engine.
Get close to both Lykins Motorsports and Craft Performance they are excellent and excellent falls short of the mark in expressing just how good they really are. Like most of us, your knowledge and expertise will grow with time and exposure to your car. Be patient. It's not just the end game that is significant. As you have probably heard before the journey is the real prize.
Take your time, measure twice (or more if necessary), cut once and your journey will be extraordinary!
Ed