Where to start. This year the NHRA changed some rules on me, for my car. They require me a taller rollbar setup, a fire shield fore and aft and some other minor stuff. I started the process of switching over to a Coan glide this winter so I tore the Cobra down for a tranny switchover. Got 85% of the tranny stuff done, including a massive brake upgrade and a midplate fabracation. Then I sorta shoved the Cobra aside for a Chrysler hemi project car that both me and my son are gluing together. This Cobra has allways been more or less a drag/Street car from it's inception, but has begged to be upgraded to a more road racer format. To that end I ordered a innercooler from Vortec (not on the car yet) and pulled the motor for a bearing check w/ some minor upgrades. Guess what I am saying is the Cobra is all apart now. And it really looks like now is the time to upgrade the whole car to a more road racing friendly format together with the NHRA mandaded changes. So I took the car to local famous race team IRL shop and had the M/S-II front end set up a bit better. My ol' buddys at Kenny Brown told me when I get the whole car back together they will finish setting up the front end for me. That leaves me to the backside of the car. So I pulled the rear end and and that's where I am now.
I plan on upgrading the rear end to a 5th arm setup with a full classic Watts links modification, together with a Dry Sump upgrade. Enter this Thread.
But time is the issue. I've wrote off this summer for the Cobra. I need to finish a blown Challenger (close!) before I can get back to the Cobra. I also signed up for a Cobra kit assembly school listed on this board for this summer, and throw in a couple of other minnor projects and the fling and you can figger the rest.
In the back of my mind I want to build a nice stock type street Cobra too. Enter the school and maybe a Lone Star may be in the future. That is if I can ever get back to the Cobra I have now.
I have allmost ALL the major stuff needed right here in my garage minus the kit, for a streetcar.
Richard - Dry Sump it's got to be. Plan on banging and thrashing at
www.putnampark.com at least to strart with. I've had no problems with dist./gears . But that is on my VERY short list of stuff I do watch.
Scott - Topside vac. is just a drag trick used to trick your motor into thinking it has a dry sump, together with a custom Stefs pan and a custom scrapper setup. I don't think I will gain that much power switching over to a dry sump. But I plan on thashing things about a bit more than I have in the past. I have a nice space on the firewall just behind the passinger front wheel thats just calling for a large tank. That way the lines can be kept fairly short I would think. The guys at Earls here in Indy know me. They are a listed dealer for the Petersons site you listed above. I talked to them and they showed me that my vacuum setup is redundant on a dry sump.The Stefs pan could be used on a street Cobra I mentioned above. I just happen to have a fresh stockish 460 sitting under a bench. I called Stefs about a dry sump pan too.
Steve - Don't know how to post pictures. Hot rodder I am, but computer geek I'm not. I keep thinkin' if I send some digital pictures to someone, maybe, maybe,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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