It's been a while since I posted much on the forum, but I thought since I asked so many questions and received so much help I'd show my work. These pictures are of my Factory Five Racing 1965 427 Shelby Cobra replica that I just had titled and registered.
It's a 460 stroked to 521 ci with Jon Kaase P-51 Heads. Compression is about 9.5:1
The cam is Comp Cams XE 284H, which is s "Street/Strip" cam.
It sure is fun driving on the back roads because it picks up speed so quick, but the gearing is a little high (8.8" with 3.55) for comfortable fast driving on the interstate. In the future I may lower the gearing to keep the RPM's down when I'm going 65mph.
I have changed the air filter to a round 14" one. The one in the photo burned up after the first backfire...what a piece of crap. I've also put struts on the hood and stoped using my "custom made" hood prop
I still have a lot of work to do on it. I haven't even started the bodywork. I have a small coolant leak that will require me to remove the timing plate...again, but I'll wait until the body is back off to fix that. I had a lot of starter problems that took me a year to figure out what was wrong. The backing plate was not flush with the bellhousing and my starter was not located correctly. I think I broke like 7 starters before I figured it out
Thanks for all the help so far,
Joe
It's a 460 stroked to 521 ci with Jon Kaase P-51 Heads. Compression is about 9.5:1
The cam is Comp Cams XE 284H, which is s "Street/Strip" cam.
It sure is fun driving on the back roads because it picks up speed so quick, but the gearing is a little high (8.8" with 3.55) for comfortable fast driving on the interstate. In the future I may lower the gearing to keep the RPM's down when I'm going 65mph.
I have changed the air filter to a round 14" one. The one in the photo burned up after the first backfire...what a piece of crap. I've also put struts on the hood and stoped using my "custom made" hood prop
I still have a lot of work to do on it. I haven't even started the bodywork. I have a small coolant leak that will require me to remove the timing plate...again, but I'll wait until the body is back off to fix that. I had a lot of starter problems that took me a year to figure out what was wrong. The backing plate was not flush with the bellhousing and my starter was not located correctly. I think I broke like 7 starters before I figured it out
Thanks for all the help so far,
Joe
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