Posting a reintroduction under my new userid. Found that my old id, HSSS427, had been put in cryo freeze. Probably for good reason since I had gone many years without posting or even logging in. Now retired and looking to revitalize my Cobra-related activities. But it sure seems the activity on this great site has slowed since my prior tenure. That said, the wealth of knowledge contained here is incredible, and I've often used it as an example to clients of the power of internet-based community and collaboration. So take heart newbies - your answers are likely here if you can push the right buttons. Using little more than advice from the members here, I've taken on an completed projects on ERA #414 that include:
- Identifying and test driving multiple candidate Cobra purchases from across the US
- Buying ERA #414 and having it shipped from Sonoma Country, CA to Roswell, GA
- Purchasing and installing a new Tremec road race transmission, clutch, bellhouse, and drive shaft
- Removing the engine and shipping it off for a rebuild to Keith Craft
- Diagnosing a crazy issue where the sleeve on one cylinder rusted through from the water jacket creating pin holes that were letting water into the cylinder but only under pressure
- Removing and having the engine rebuilt a second time by Bill Parham
- Purchasing and installing a Ken Miles aluminum race seat
- Replacing the street dash and Stewart Warner gauges with competition dash and Smiths gauges
- New intake, new carb, new distributor, new brake cylinder
- and on, and on
And you ask why I did all this? Not because there was really anything wrong with the car. Rather simply as George Leigh Mallory said (not Edmund Hillary) "Because it's there!"
