Well some of you may have seen the youtube video on the 2003 Cobra I recently picked up (no big deal if not, irrelevant). Sneak peak for those of you that have, its got low compression on 1 cylinder, so motor is coming out. Its a mostly stock setup. 2.93 upper, longtubes, catback, tune etc.
Originally was thinking about getting stock motor rebuild but in the interest of time i started looking around locally for motors and what do you know some guy is selling a freshly rebuilt 97 cobra motor:
-Teksid block
-.010 over
-OEM forged kellog cobra crank
-Molnar forged H beam rods
-Diamond pistons ~10:1 compression
-Clevite bearings
-Fully Rebuilt heads
Obviously the major issue here is the B heads, which wont work with the eaton lower intake. No problem, seller says he will sell for cheaper without them. Great!
So my plan as of now is:
-Shortblock described above
-Find some nice refurbished 9 thread C heads, or a cheap set and have them refurbished
Thats about all i have so far. What I need help with is the following. I've owned plenty of mod motor cars but never built up a shortblock/longblock so this is new for me.
Keep in mind, this is going to stay a upper pulley, pump gas, bolt on car ~500whp. Nothing crazy as of right now.
-Head gaskets and head bolts: OEM Ford or something else? I assume MLS since it is a FI motor
- Should I see if the seller will throw in the 97 cobra cams? is it the intake AND exhaust cams that are desireable? or just the intake?
-Other than grinding down the bosses in the valley, and updating the timing dowels, anything else I need to do to make the Teksid block work on my 03-04 setup?
-New OEM timing components, or something else?
Anything else i'm missing or any advice is much appreciated here!
Originally was thinking about getting stock motor rebuild but in the interest of time i started looking around locally for motors and what do you know some guy is selling a freshly rebuilt 97 cobra motor:
-Teksid block
-.010 over
-OEM forged kellog cobra crank
-Molnar forged H beam rods
-Diamond pistons ~10:1 compression
-Clevite bearings
-Fully Rebuilt heads
Obviously the major issue here is the B heads, which wont work with the eaton lower intake. No problem, seller says he will sell for cheaper without them. Great!
So my plan as of now is:
-Shortblock described above
-Find some nice refurbished 9 thread C heads, or a cheap set and have them refurbished
Thats about all i have so far. What I need help with is the following. I've owned plenty of mod motor cars but never built up a shortblock/longblock so this is new for me.
Keep in mind, this is going to stay a upper pulley, pump gas, bolt on car ~500whp. Nothing crazy as of right now.
-Head gaskets and head bolts: OEM Ford or something else? I assume MLS since it is a FI motor
- Should I see if the seller will throw in the 97 cobra cams? is it the intake AND exhaust cams that are desireable? or just the intake?
-Other than grinding down the bosses in the valley, and updating the timing dowels, anything else I need to do to make the Teksid block work on my 03-04 setup?
-New OEM timing components, or something else?
Anything else i'm missing or any advice is much appreciated here!