Has your Cobra ever left you stranded?

[PatBuckley]

I didn't quite get the dimensions for an EGR plug right when I made it on the lathe.....I thought that if it required tapping into place with a hammer it would stay in place, it didn't.

[Rick Parker]

Pat:
Truth be known, he was attempting to shrink the hole in the FE distributor gear so it would fit the 302?

PS: He would advise taking the 5th.......

[Jamo]

Damn...what a cool jacket i was wearing.

[PatBuckley]

Dead ringer for McQueen when he had a beard.

[Jamo]

That there's funny...almost Dennis Miller-like.

[Madmiles442]

Stranded? Yes, many times.
Had a loose ground for 6 months that I thought I had found repeatedly. Kept popping fuses at the fuel pump, which sent me on wild goose chases. Turned out to be the battery terminal.
The worst time was a smoking ex girlfriend's first ride in the car to a car show and it dies at 5pm in 107 August Dallas heat. She was a trooper about it.
Then there was the blown head gasket. (unfortunately, no relation to the smoking ex girlfriend...)
Now it's something in the clutch that has me grounded.
I've never recovered from the loose ground and now don't trust the car for more than 20 minutes at a time. But my therapist and I are working through that....

[YerDugliness]

About 250 miles after I bought my roadster replica from a forum member, the clutch cable failed....getting it towed home was easy, getting it fixed was not.

I found a part at a Freightliner semi-tractor parts department that would have been OK if it had been 15" longer....

Three trips to the part of Houston FURTHEREST from my home did not yield a cable that would work, or a shop that could make me one using my broken piece for a pattern.

Finally I found a place that would do what I needed and I had a custom cable made....and that still has "issues", like a sort of a "catch" as the clutch is released that makes it tricky to take off from a standing start. I can manage it, but don't trust my daughter with it yet.

I can't imagine any of us has not had some issue with these "race cars"....think about the type of reliability that was required from the originals, they were only expected to hold together through the race that day, then they might have been rebuilt for the next race. Our replicas are much more reliable, IMHO.....but, again, that depends on the quality of the build moreso than the quality of the components/kit, no?

Cheers from.......

Dugly

[Bobcat]

About a month ago , car shut off while I was just cruising at about 2500 rpm in 3rd . Pulled over and saw that the starter main wire had contacted the #4 header tube and burned through . I assumed that I hadn`t tightened the starter down tight enough after clocking it for clearance ... so I re-clocked it and re-tightened starter and replaced the cable . Last week , the tach went to zero briefly and then worked properly again .... which was what happened about a mile before the car shut off the last time . Came home immediately ( only 3 blocks away ) ... and found the starter wire had come into contact with the header again . Talked to RobbMc and found that this was/had been a problem on some starters and they had changed the clamping plate from a plain one to one with serrations on it so the lock was positive when clamped down . They are fixing the starter at no charge . Things like that just drive me crazy as I was sure I had done everything correctly .... and I had .

[RallySnake]

Dugly,

Next time that cable breaks (and it will), buy yourself a master and slave hydraulic cylinders and do it right. Wilwood or Tilton will do as long as the diameter is the same size (I like 3/4 inch). The clutch feel and reliability will be vastly improved.

The second option is to learn to drive without the clutch. It is not that hard.

RallySnake

[lnfletcher]

I agree with RallySnake 100%. I converted mine for less than $160 and like the feel and reliability.
http://lnfletcher.homeip.net/66Cobra/hydroclutch.html