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Old 01-05-2022, 07:08 PM
jhv48 jhv48 is offline
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2932 with 438 Lykins Motorsports engine. Previous owner of FFR 5452.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I bought my cobra to take me back to driving as I remembered it in the sixties. Cars we’re cantankerous. They belched, farted, and we’re sometimes unreliable and that’s what I wanted my cobra to be.
If I wanted a car that drove like, and was as reliable as a Honda, I wouldn’t have bought a cobra.
Regarding my carbed engine, I set the tune on my carb three years ago when I set up the engine and haven’t had to touch it since then. It has no choke so after starting it can take a few minutes to warm up during the winter before driving off.
Summer starts are no problem. Never have a driving concern. Always performs like the loud, snorting, stinky powerhouse that I love.
Having a fuel injected engine may be more drivable than their carbed equivalents, but that’s not how I want my car to act. I have a 760Hp 2020 Shelby GT 500 and my cobra is much more fun to drive. Total involvement. My wife drives the GT 500 to work. She won’t even think about driving the cobra.
So, if you want originality, stick with the carb.
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