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Originally Posted by JBo
Real1, please advise this formum what numerous mods and changes 'ole Shl made; other than installing engines, transmissions, radiators/fans and oil collers to these 289's or 427's bodies and chassis to make them Cobras |
Perhaps you should read some books on the subject. Through racing experience, the Shelby drivers, mechanics and fabricators, like Ken Miles and Phil Remington figured out what improved the cars and that information was used to specify running changes to both competition and street cars to AC.
The 427 chassis was jointly developed by Ford and AC. AC had limitations on what they could do with their small engineering team and even screwed up the wheel base of the coil spring cars by ordering the wrong length of tubing for the main rails and then could not afford to return the tubing for the correct size. That made it impossible to build the suspension as specified by Ford.