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Varmit · #41 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmustang

Factory Ford 427 Sideoiler 650lbs
Factory Ford 351W 470lbs

Deduct for aluminum heads and intakes on both if attempting an apples to apples comparison.

Bill S

with an aluminum block even better. I replaced my Roush iron block 351/427 with a Pond Aluminum FE block, alum. heads, intake, manifold and water pump with a 15 lb alum fly wheel. The things cracks just like a small block when you snap the throttle. Have to readjust the front ride height as the front end not sits higher with the lighter engine.

NewYorkGuy · #42 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by RodKnock

This coming from a Nissan Leaf owner who has never owned or driven a Cobra. Keep riding the subway with your bags of cat litter.

yes, you are correct. I've never sat in or driven a Cobra

but I have over 200 miles in a factory five and backdraft replicas. great fun for about 5, 6 hrs. of spirited driving. after that, they are PITA. We are living in 2014, not 1960s.

1795 · #43 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 06:18 PM

Cobra's are what they are, pure brute force and an exhilarating driving experience. They are a race car pure and simple. If you are looking for luxury and state of the art electronics, go look elsewhere. If you are looking for a car that gets attention from just about anyone that sees or hears it, this is the car. The only vehicle that I have ever owned that has had hundreds of pictures taken of it by people just walking by.

They can also scare the sh*t out of you in a hurry if you are not careful. Maybe that is one reason some people get rid of them with low mileage, got their foot into it thinking that they were driving something else and had to throw out their underwear when they returned home.

xb-60 · #44 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by patrickt

I've had ERA732 going on nine years now. At this very moment she's less than ten feet away from me.

Is your Cobra a 'she'?

patrickt · #45 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by xb-60

Is your Cobra a 'she'?

Without a doubt.

RodKnock · #46 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

yes, you are correct. I've never sat in or driven a Cobra

but I have over 200 miles in a factory five and backdraft replicas. great fun for about 5, 6 hrs. of spirited driving. after that, they are PITA. We are living in 2014, not 1960s.

Yet you're still here posting to threads. You must be a masochist if after driving 5-6 hours, you've found them to be a PITA, and yet you're still coming back to the site. Strange. Once I've given up on a particular marque I move on.

As for them being a PITA, not many use them as daily drivers. But if an owner wanted to use it daily and make them more comfortable, you can add almost anything you want during the build to make them more daily driver-ish.

But why? You can own more than one car. It's not either or for anyone here. Jerry Seinfeld collects and owns rare Porsche's and recently had his rare RSR hit but some dumb unapologetic women in Hampton's.

Hamptons Woman Backs Into Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche - Road & Track

So you can own multiple cars and you can drive the Nissan Leaf during the week. And not be afraid of damaging it. The better question is why you here posting negative comments when you have never owned a Cobra. Go post negative comments on Ferrari Chat. You've never owned one of them either.

rodneym · #47 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

...I have over 200 miles in a factory five and backdraft replicas. great fun for about 5, 6 hrs. of spirited driving...

It took you 5-6 hours to drive 200 miles in a "spirited" manner?

If you're gonna have fun in a Cobra replica, then at least drive it like a Cobra, and not a Leaf.

FuzzyDiceRide · #48 (**permalink**) 10-12-2014, 11:29 PM

Hurricane 1121 427W by Keith Craft sounds real enough take a peek .
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxuPRcIpSU&feature=youtu.be[/ame]

mdross1 · #49 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 04:03 AM

One thing is for certain we all see our Cobra's from a different point of view. The only time I consider our car a PITA is when wanting a ride and something bothers me which by the way is hardly ever. We have owned our big block powered car for over 21 yrs, It has been a pure joy. For quite a few years drove it to work almost every day.

It has a top and side curtains love the look, the heater will drive you out of the car, look forward to every chance we get these days to put on some miles. It is a hot rod plain and simple a car nothing anybody could say will ever make me feel any different. It will be with us till the time comes when I cannot climb in behind the wheel. It goes like stink, sounds absolutely ballsy, the look says it all. A hot rod I have drooled over since the first time I read the article in a mag back in the 60's about the car being able to go from 0 to a100mph and back to 0 in 12.7 seconds.

Tommy · #50 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 04:43 AM

I'm not trying to be the Thread Police, but I find it interesting that the OP originally asked why so many Cobra replicas go up for sale with low miles, and most of the answers have been from members who drive them a lot. Perhaps if he had asked what made some guys drive them year after year, he would mostly gotten replies from NewYorkGuy and that woman who crashes her Cobra in the infamous video.

patrickt · #51 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Tommy

I'm not trying to be the Thread Police, but I find it interesting that the OP originally asked why so many Cobra replicas go up for sale with low miles, and most of the answers have been from members who drive them a lot. Perhaps if he had asked what made some guys drive them year after year, he would mostly gotten replies from NewYorkGuy and that woman who crashes her Cobra in the infamous video.

The problem is that once those guys find out a Cobra was not for them, they then sell it and drop off this forum. It would be nice if we had a forum entitled "Talk to Me Before You Buy A Cobra" and had it populated with all the guys that dumped their cars within a year or 2000 miles of getting them. So, as a service to people like Boone, I try and bad-mouth Cobras as much as possible. If I can manage to steer him away from the Cobra hobby, then the Cobra hobby was never right for him anyway. And one day he'll thank me.

NewYorkGuy · #52 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by RodKnock

Yet you're still here posting to threads. You must be a masochist if after driving 5-6 hours, you've found them to be a PITA, and yet you're still coming back to the site. Strange. Once I've given up on a particular marque I move on.

As for them being a PITA, not many use them as daily drivers. But if an owner wanted to use it daily and make them more comfortable, you can add almost anything you want during the build to make them more daily driver-ish.

But why? You can own more than one car. It's not either or for anyone here. Jerry Seinfeld collects and owns rare Porsche's and recently had his rare RSR hit but some dumb unapologetic women in Hampton's.

Hamptons Woman Backs Into Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche - Road & Track

So you can own multiple cars and you can drive the Nissan Leaf during the week. And not be afraid of damaging it. The better question is why you here posting negative comments when you have never owned a Cobra. Go post negative comments on Ferrari Chat. You've never owned one of them either.

lol, you need a hug or a pet or something warm and fuzzy cause you need it

RodKnock · #53 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by rodneym

It took you 5-6 hours to drive 200 miles in a "spirited" manner?

If you're gonna have fun in a Cobra replica, then at least drive it like a Cobra, and not a Leaf.

That statement sounded like BS to me. I'm not sure how your drive a Cobra for 5-6 hours when you don't own one. I'm sure there's lovely story (BS) to go with that statement.

I'd suggest lending your "expertise" to these two forums, where you actually have some "seat time":

Nissan Leaf Owner's Forum:
Nissan Leaf Forum - Online forum for the Nissan Leaf Electric Car

New York City Transit Forum:
Home - NYC Transit Forums

kevins2 · #54 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 11:22 AM

The common denominator here is that you shouldn't think of a Cobra replica as just a car. It should be viewed as a hobby, at the very least, and probably more like a lifestyle if you drive it a lot. If you're not the type that would actually enjoy some of the aspects of the car that have been described here as a PITA, then you probably shouldn't get one.

As for mileage, I finished my car this past January and have almost 5,000 miles, so guess you can add me to the camp that drives them.

Lastly, listing "kicking some ass on the streets" as one of the primary reasons for wanting one is worrisome. Good chance it won't end well...

patrickt · #55 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by kevins2

Lastly, listing "kicking some ass on the streets" as one of the primary reasons for wanting one is worrisome. Good chance it won't end well...

Uhhhh, there was some pretty good ass-kicking going on shortly before this one....

kevins2 · #56 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 11:43 AM

Exactly, too many examples of this. A Cobra replica plus an overdose of testosterone is not a good combination.

Rawkkrawler · #57 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by NewYorkGuy

yes, you are correct. I've never sat in or driven a Cobra

but I have over 200 miles in a factory five and backdraft replicas. great fun for about 5, 6 hrs. of spirited driving. after that, they are PITA. We are living in 2014, not 1960s.

Isn't your avatar from the 60's?

Boon · #58 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 01:25 PM

Patrick my wife probably wishes the same thing. Like a previous person said, I saw one in a mag as a kid and have never lost the urge. And as for kicking ass, I'm not some teenager who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. One does not have to push the limits to get the point across that this car is one you don't mess with. Been 120 mph on bike before and I have desire to do it again. I don't have an ego problem. I have no problem with them blowing past me. Because inside we all know the truth. By the way, love all the responses. Thanks.

GregAgrest · #59 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 01:27 PM

I don't think the answer to the question is really all that difficult to answer. Unless your Cobra is an everyday driver you simply don't rack up the mileage of one that is. Less use=lessr mileage.

patrickt · #60 (**permalink**) 10-13-2014, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Boon

Patrick my wife probably wishes the same thing. Like a previous person said, I saw one in a mag as a kid and have never lost the urge. And as for kicking ass, I'm not some teenager who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. One does not have to push the limits to get the point across that this car is one you don't mess with. Been 120 mph on bike before and I have desire to do it again. I don't have an ego problem. I have no problem with them blowing past me. Because inside we all know the truth. By the way, love all the responses. Thanks.

Well, then what you should do is touch base with your local Cobra club and go to some of their get-togethers. That way you can see the different flavors of Cobras that are available. Then start putting together your wish-list, and your budget, and start speed-reading the threads that are on here going back years. If you have the funds, having a Kirkham or ERA custom built to your specs can't be beat. Buying used is, of course, much cheaper and can be just as rewarding. If you still have the fever in the spring, that's when a lot cars will hit the market. With a little luck, though, during that time you'll come to your senses and buy a Corvette instead.