Hello everyone!
After spending a fair amount of time wishing, dreaming and hoping, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel in terms of me being able to get a Cobra of one form or another. I'm currently a grad student, I'll be done in May, and rather than follow the crowd and buy a new or newer car when I get a real job, I'd like to buy a car that requires, um, some assembly.
I'm a big fan of projects (the truck and Miata take up a fair amount of time), and now that I'm no longer involved with FSAE (I was president of my school's team for a year), I'm getting the itch to build something again.
I'm not 100% sure what direction I want to take. I was leaning heavily toward the FF Daytona Coupe, but I read on their forum that they're temporarily halting production (although it may be back up and running by the time I'm ready to buy). I'd rather have a coupe, since I don't really like convertibles, and I feel that the roof would provide additional torsional rigidity, which I'd like.
I'm leaning toward a 4.6L powerplant, specifically the all-aluminum 3v models. I'd like to avoid an iron block if at all possible to keep weight off the front end, so that I can add a supercharger and maintain a better F/R weight distribution.