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10-26-2011, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: St. Lucia, West Indies,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427SC 383 stroker
Posts: 3,772
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Street vs. SC
Nothing beats the clean, sleek, low slung look of a nicely done Cobra roadster. Any of you 427SC guys sometimes feel like you've outgrown the street fighter image and find your eyes wandering in the direction of the more subtle street car?
CSX3357
CSX3111
Its been said that not all replicas look good naked. Removing the sidepipes and roll bar really exposes the lines and stance to scrutiny. Beauty however is totally subjective and I have seen some well very executed examples from a variety of manufacturers.
ERA does a beautiful job:
Kirkham:
Superformance:
 
FFR:
My Unique - I couldn't readily find a pic of a Unique street 427, but here's mine altered in photoshop only to remove all the SC trimmings. Hmmm... 
Let's see some pics of yours or your favorite 427/428 street roadsters.
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -(wasn't me)
BEWARE OF THE DOGma!! Dogmatism bites...
Last edited by Buzz; 10-26-2011 at 01:00 PM..
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10-26-2011, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sacramento,Ca.,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Midstates (2001)
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its hard to beat the look of a "Street Car"....
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10-26-2011, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Ottawa,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 2002 Superformance w/392 stroker
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I think the best solution would be to have one of each.
That way you could pick the street or S/C, depending on your mood that day.
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10-26-2011, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary classics 3041,sbc 350(have no fear ford guys for there is a FE 428 in the garage waiting to be rebuilt & installed) but for now she is a driver while other projects take precidence.
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Never, not for one second, have I ever thought the SC looked anywhere near as good as the Street version. Took me a long time to find one with no sidepipes or roll bar. I am in the process right now of completeing the look, just recieved my correct gas cap from Mickmate, getting ready to cut out the hood scoop and lemans gas cap. Need to find a splitter and redo my dash layout.
Just finished redoing the undercar exhaust and am putting on the heat shielding this evening, hopefully have the exhaust hung by the end of the weekend.
unfortunately it is a Contemporary, and you hate contemporary's, so no pictures for you.... 
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10-26-2011, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Marlboro,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary Cobra
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Show pictures of headers
What headers did you use on you FE powered Cobra to run the exhaust under the car? Any pictures?
Jon
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10-26-2011, 03:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
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My Superformance "street"....
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10-26-2011, 04:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Chattanooga,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance # 1774 / 392 Stroked Windsor
Posts: 464
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Nice color Jack!
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10-26-2011, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Fresno,
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Cobra Make, Engine: KMP 184/482ci Shelby
Posts: 14,448
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Damn nice photoshop work there buzzboy!
Yup...street is mucho muy goodo.
I watched Gerry Hawkridge trying to figure out how to route for rear exhaust exits on a Kirkham up on the stands at provo a few years back. Heard the work "fok" a few times to indicate frustration.
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10-26-2011, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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I'm not converting but I am building my ERA as a Black Street Roadster. Hope to paint it in two weeks. Had a hard time finding photos of a Black one for inspiration but I did find this on U-tube. If the owner is here I hope they don't mind my posting it.
1965 Shelby 427 Street Cobra: CSX3134 - YouTube |
10-26-2011, 06:17 PM
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Want the streetlook buy a sunbeam tiger.
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10-26-2011, 06:36 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: St. Lucia, West Indies,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427SC 383 stroker
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Quote:
Originally Posted by avanti-176
Never, not for one second, have I ever thought the SC looked anywhere near as good as the Street version. Took me a long time to find one with no sidepipes or roll bar. I am in the process right now of completeing the look, just recieved my correct gas cap from Mickmate, getting ready to cut out the hood scoop and lemans gas cap. Need to find a splitter and redo my dash layout.
Just finished redoing the undercar exhaust and am putting on the heat shielding this evening, hopefully have the exhaust hung by the end of the weekend.
unfortunately it is a Contemporary, and you hate contemporary's, so no pictures for you.... |
 Please post the pics! I have no hate for Contemporarys at all - they are top quality replicas and have stood around the top of the heap of 'glass Cobras for many years. I've only taken issue with the statement that they are the most accurate. They may well have been before the "tweaks", but it is what it is...and who cares what I think anyway - Pics!!
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Originally Posted by Jamo
Heard the work "fok" a few times to indicate frustration.
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People say that to me all the time bigga brother, and I always wondered what it meant.
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -(wasn't me)
BEWARE OF THE DOGma!! Dogmatism bites...
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10-26-2011, 07:15 PM
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contemparary cobra
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10-26-2011, 07:19 PM
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sorry but I can't stomach
stripes
pipes
scoops
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hoops.
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10-26-2011, 07:28 PM
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Location: San Antonio Valley Ca,
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I've been wrestling with the "look" of my Cobra. My mind is finally made up. Street it is! Now just to decide on a color. Great thread.
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10-26-2011, 07:38 PM
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Quote:
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I've been wrestling with the "look" of my Cobra. My mind is finally made up. Street it is! Now just to decide on a color. Great thread.
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I am working on cast manifolds for the under car exhaust. I could have bought a set from a well known canadian cobra shop at $4000.00. Well to spend 10% of the cars value on two manifolds was not in the cards.
A customer of mine has a real 427 street cobra and he had stripes, pipes, hoops and scoopes and I was razing him to bring it back to original and he did. The car looks so good in its original dark green.
The cheap cast log manifold for the fe engine will work with spacers, I am having them made at the my local machine shop. No more side pipes for me. |
10-26-2011, 07:48 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
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Quote:
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Nice color Jack!
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Thanks,
The color is Portofino Blue. It is one of Superformance's standard colors. It is not however one of their more popular colors. Fine with me. I love it.
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10-26-2011, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Meriden,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 427 SC s/n 718, 428 FE
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"Different strokes for different folks". I'll take my car just the way it is. If we were all the same...
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10-27-2011, 05:23 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Cobra Make, Engine: 2002 Superformance w/392 stroker
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Quote:
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contemparary cobra
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racco, please post more photos of your car. It looks gorgeous.
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10-27-2011, 05:39 AM
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So many of these pictures are framed and when building my car were all around our shop and entertainment room.The more I looked at those with belly exhaust the more it made sense for me to do the same.Once my car was on it's tires loved the clean lines without side exhaust,so out the back it went.In the end the wife and I love the look,sound and riding around without having to scream at each other over the exhaust.The car will always make it's statement no matter where the noise makers are located.
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10-27-2011, 05:46 AM
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Location: Chester Springs,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham 289 FIA #690, FRPP 427 Boss engine
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