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06-09-2005, 03:46 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: S.F.,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 1965 West Coast Cobra 351 Windsor 400 HP
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I think the problem with heat shields is that they are ugly. Most people will risk the burn rather than ugly the lines of their exhaust. Small children and animals are at risk too.
The product from Total Performance is quite attractive. They are smooth not ridged or baffled. I'm gonna call today and check them out.
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06-09-2005, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: Ottawa Lake , Mi USA,
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burns
I really burnt my leg bad in a motorcycle accident once on the exhaust pipe. I'll be pretty careful since I still remember that....vividly.
Steve
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06-09-2005, 10:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: Modified DRB 2000, 302 Windsor
Posts: 480
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You kinda just have to grin and bare it until it becomes second nature for you to step over them!!!
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06-09-2005, 10:17 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Evans,
CO
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 FIA, 347 stroker with Weber 48's, building a '48 Anglia gasser, driving a '55 Chevy resto-rod
Posts: 3,119
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Don't they go with the territory 
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06-10-2005, 05:36 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Royersford,
Pa
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR2479K, 351W yellow/black stripes
Posts: 1,604
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My wife has two. Funny thing is that whenever I take people for rides, she usually helps get them strapped in. When she helps them out, she always says "Watch your legs!!!" and yet she's done it twice.
Steve
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No, it ain't "real", but it's real fast....
Some people choose to rattle their windows with stereos and speakers... I choose to rattle windows with my right foot.
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06-10-2005, 05:41 AM
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Member of the north
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Join Date: May 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: A Cobra
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Though I had ripped the bottom out on a side pipe, so...reached down to check. The blisters lasted for two weeks.
I can relate to the arm burn.
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06-10-2005, 05:50 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Ellington,
CT
Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadster 351W, T5, Red & White
Posts: 3,478
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Ceramic Coating
Swain Technology offers Ceramic Coating.
http://www.swaintech.com/header.html
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06-10-2005, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: SE Wisconsin,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Arntz/SBC/Jag
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Makes me glad for my undercar exhaust... rather sacrafice a little ground clearance than a pund of flesh (not that i do n't have a pound or two to spare )
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06-10-2005, 07:43 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Alpharetta,
GA
Cobra Make, Engine: Sold - Unique FIA - SA 396 Stroker
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Build or buy an FIA replica  No burns possible unless you are really trying.
Randy
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06-10-2005, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: southeastern,
OK
Cobra Make, Engine: BDR #139, Indigo blue, white stripes, KeithCraft 351W, 315 WHP, 17" Boyd Smoothies, dual roll bars, gunrack, assorted young females
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CoBro- do you really think heat shields are ugly?
My BDR's shields are perforated mirror-finished stainless, and I think they look 'way cool next to the kinda gold-amber "actual" pipes.
Keep in mind I have 17" Boyds because I hated the 15's and I have dual rollbars so I could mount a gunrack.
My friends have been telling me that I am half-crazy for years.
It reached the point where I had to prove it to them.
Have fun and remember that the semi behind you can't see you!
UT
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06-10-2005, 11:55 AM
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Location: San Jose,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF #1436 514
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I think my heat sheilds look good. The only problem with them is that the clamp to hold them to the side pipe is right were you get out of the car. So it transfers the heat to the sheild at that point. But they do help, except when you lean over to look under the hood.
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06-10-2005, 04:43 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Roseville,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: 427 Unique Roadster, FE by FE Specialties, 470hp, Top Loader, 3:31 Jag
Posts: 1,716
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Heat shields belong on corvette's and Honda 90's - not Cobra's.
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CA SPCN 2004-040 complete and legal
http://www.uniquecobra.com/
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06-10-2005, 04:49 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Ellington,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadster 351W, T5, Red & White
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.......... the CT DMV thinks heat shields belong on Cobras during the initial one time inspection to obtain the registration. However, once out of the DMV property, the heat shields can come off.
In CT, have never heard of anyone getting ticketed for no heat shields, although for some reason the Inspectors like them.
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06-11-2005, 04:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: S.F.,
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Cobra Make, Engine: 1965 West Coast Cobra 351 Windsor 400 HP
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uncltodd,
Most shields I've seen (ala corvette) to me are ugly. These Total Performance items are the only ones I've seen that I actually like.
Its a personal preference though, don't you think?
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06-11-2005, 04:40 PM
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Beam Me Up Scottie
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Squantum (part of Quincy),
MA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF1049 Titanium w/black stripes, 351W with Trick Flow Heads, Tremec 3550
Posts: 7,592
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Heat shields are ugly and are for whimps!
I have never burnt my leg yet, but I've only had it for about 1.5K miles.
A friend of mine had a CSX he bought in 1965 and when he got bitten when in shorts, his calf actually stuck to the sidepipe! OOOOOOUCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sold the Cobra a month later and bought a GTO.
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'Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.' (Jamo 2008)
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06-15-2005, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: San Jose,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF #1436 514
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It is amazing the comments people have.
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06-15-2005, 08:55 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Jupiter,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Gardner Douglas 427 Euro
Posts: 230
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just when I had thought we had managed to drag ourselves into the 21st century! 
maybe I should start dry shaving with an axe and change the fanbelt WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING! I mean, anything less is just plain girly. |
10-22-2007, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Waukesha,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Custom built Excalibur 351C
Posts: 530
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It finally happened!
As stated above... every time someone exits or gets near my Cobra, they get the "Watch the pipes!"
Well it finally happened to my 83 yr old father-in-law! He got a nice "snake bite"... a mistake he said he won't make again.
Now he's hope'n he lives long enough for it to heal!
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10-22-2007, 08:12 PM
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Ask him if he buys green bananas. If he does, he'll be around for a while. 
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Of course it's REAL! You are NOT imagining it!
We don't want a bigger government; We want a government that does a few BIG things, and does them right.
If you think that you can cut it, if you think you got the time, they'll only give you one chance, better get it right first time. 'Cause in this game you're playin, if you lose you got to pay. And if you make just ONE wrong move, you'll get BLOWN AWAY!
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10-22-2007, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Sacramento,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby CSX4795 (Sold)
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Long pants only!
You will never see me driving my Cobra in shorts. Just seeing those photos of the 'Snakebites' I've seen posted online was enough for me. 
I may still get a slight burn, but it won't peel the skin right off, like those I've seen! 
Plus I always help everyone into and out of my car. So I'm right there to see to it, they don't get burned. 
I carry one of these 'snakebite kits' in the trunk, just in case!
http://performanceunlimited.com/cobr...s/burnkit.html
jdog
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