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Old 12-08-2002, 02:04 PM
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Thanks for the comments guys. If it's not raining, I'll drive it next Saturday to the Houston meeting and my wife can drive the Cobra.

The kit is a $18,900 Factory Five Racing Type 65 Coupe kit. It weights about 2,200 pounds and has 430 HP. The total cost to build was about $42,000 plus hundreds of hours of labor. This kit was bought before they deleted a lot of the good stuff to lower the price. You can still get it like mine, but you just have to buy the options. This is Coupe #39. But I think it might be the 6th finished FFR Coupe.

It has a powder coated frame, 4 wheel independent suspension. Fully adjustable on all four corners. I'm running PS Engineering wheels with 275/40-17 up front and 315/40-17 out back. Flaming River 1:15 steering rack.

The engine is an Engine Factory 351W with 430HP. We added roller rockers and stage two Eldenbrock Performer heads. It's topped off with an Eldenbrock Performer RPM intake and carb. The headers and side pipes are standard with the FFR kit and I had them ceramic coated here in Houston. The pulleys are from March.

The carpet was done by Charlie's in Stafford and the paint was done by Tejas Paint in Needville. The car was build by Carl McClellen, Galt Porter and myself. It took a year to complete.

This car was built for my business partner in Reno. I'll deliver it to him after the first of the year. We're building another one that should be finished within 2-3 months. The second Coupe will be just like this one, but a different color.

The paint is House of Kolors Brandywine Candy over Silver. The stripes are Viper white.

The only thing I need to finish is the air conditioning. I'm taking it to San Antonio this week to have Hot Rod Air look at the car to see what will work.

Bill
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