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[trularin]

Taught Engineering and high school. There's a contrast.

Kids trying to get out of school as fast as possible. Then there are the ones that pay for their education, most want more than they get. I found foreign students just want to graduate, but the average person who is fronting the bill, they want to know the material.

Well, I spose I'll have to do chores most of the day.

So Kristen, do you drive your snake to school and let the students ask questions??

[Ron61]

Mike,

Engine of CSX2000 from my die cast model.

[Ron61]

Mike,

My die cast of CSX200, the first Cobra Built.





The trunk picture shows the cover over the spare tire. It has real knock offs and I can change the wheels.

Ron

[Ron61]

And one more of the 1964 Cobra with the webbers.

[LwCwb]

Ron, nice pics, I cant change the wheels on mine.

OH, and Kristen has about 7 more pages of photos than I do, deduct 75 posts

[hey,littlecobra]

You know, we have been talking about carbs, etc, for quite awhile. Why are the engine setups so different? You'll see a car with a turkey pan (like mine) then others with dual carbs, other with webers, what's with all the differences? And in your photo, of the first cobra, it has one air filter, and no turkey pan. A little "on topic" but figured ron or trularin, in ya'll's noncombative way could explain the differences.
thanks!
K
I've gone to "how stuff works.com" and printed out how an engine works, but haven't had time to read it! I just want to know why the engines on Cobra's are so different!
ps. I haven't taught "real" school in almost 15 years! Once little cobra girl is in school fulltime, I might start substitute teaching at their school....

[LwCwb]

Kristen, I cant believe my eyes.

OK, another carb equals more fuel and air into the engine, making a larger explosion inside of the engine, therefore it makes more power.

[hey,littlecobra]

what? what do you mean?
can't believe your eyes? why?

what about the webbers? Ya'll's pics weren't there when i posted that, and there they are! Webbers! What are they for? 8x's the air?

[Ron61]

Kristen,

The first picture is of the 260 engine that was in CSX2000, the first Cobra made. The turkey pans came into being with the big blocks if I am not mistaken. The webbers were the race set up for the 289s. The dual carbs came into the Cobras with 428 motors first as the first 60 CSX3XXX series were single four barrel Carbs and were competition cars. Then after the 428 engines they put the 427s like came in the 64 Galaxies in some and they had dual carbs. Even all of the first originals weren't the same as they used different gauges and grill layouts in some of them. A lot depended on what they could get at the time.
By the way, when you figure out how the engine works, please explain it to me. By the time Mike gets his, they won't have engines as we know them now, so he doesn't have to understand them.

Ron

[LwCwb]

800th post, getting mighty close to number 1000

[rdorman]

Originally posted by trularin


Wow, Rick stopped by. So, Do you have a barbed wire fence up around the house like Clay?

I do not think I could handle the daughter thing. I would be in jail by now.

"Daddy, this is freddy." "Freddy... can you spell Winchester?" "Look Yukon, Dinner."

Just have to be sure you all are behaving yourself! No barbed wire. But I am an excellent marksman! 15 in the clip, 1 in the chamber and another loaded clip handy. Dead meat.

The daughter thing is tough! But also very very nice.

Rick

[trularin]

No Freddy, Huh?

Clay, what about you?

[Ron61]

Kristen,

Shelby and others used the Webber set ups for racing as they made more power. And they were hard to keep in tune, so you never saw many on street cars back then. And they gulped fuel asif they were trying to drain the whole supply. But they were the ultimate in carbs for power.

Mike,

Loved your explanation of why two carbs. They make bigger explosions. Why didn't you also tell her they blew the parts of the engine farther?? I had a 427 Tunnel Port once with two fours and was parked in a small park and some man and woman from Washington pulled in while I had the hood up. The woman walked over and asked me why I had two carburetors and I told her to double my gas mileage. About 5 minutes later here came the man really agitated. She had gone back and told him that they had to have two put on their car. Boy, some people will believe anything.

Ron

[trularin]

I knew you were a trouble maker Ron.

[LwCwb]

[Ron61]

Hey, I once told an engineer for SBC that the color of the processor frame determined the speed and that he needed a red one. All telephone company bays are that battle ship gray. Three days later I got a call from Sacramento and was he ever ticked. He told me he was the laughing stock of the whole company because he had insisted on a RED processor. I think he was moved out of engineering shortly after that.

Ron

[hey,littlecobra]

you are definitely a trouble maker

[Ron61]

Kristen,

I have that down to an art form now. Heck, I even got the head of the high school cafateria department so convinced that bananas grew upside down and on the ground, that she went to school and told all the teaches that. I love teachers, they are so gullible.

Ron

[LwCwb]

Trouble maker indeed!

[LwCwb]

My dads girlfriend brought her 8 year old son over tonight. He was adding numbers out loud, so I thought I would teach him how to say engine. I typed "Engine" into word pad and asked him if he knew what it said. Of course, he never heard or saw the word before, so i slowly helped him pronounce it. After some time, he got it. "ok" i thought to myself, "this word is useless to him unless he can see what an engine is." Theres no way im goin out in the bitter cold, so I took the Cobra from under the display case, popped the bonnet up and pointed to the 427 in it. I said "that is an engine." He shook his head up and down in acknowledgement, (spelling?) taking in the new knowledge. Of course, one thing lead to another and I taught him another word. "Cobra," he said it correctly on the first try! I feel that I have taken a young gearhead under my wing, and I will continue to teach him parts of a car. Maybe the next word will be "427 Sideoiler." Too soon?