So I’ve been wanting to make a build thread to keep myself motivated and share with you guys. I have a little story behind how this build all came about so here goes...
Around September of 2017 I went through a bad breakup with my ex girlfriend and I went down a hole bad. I started drinking heavily and doing drugs bc my heart was broken, like completely shattered. I had already bought a ring to marry this girl and she left me. So after months of that going on, my brother convinced me to go with him to Ponies in the Smokies to try and get his 87 Saleen signed by Steve Saleen. I was so messed up at that point and I thank my brother everyday for making me go with him bc this is when my life turned around. We loaded his car up and headed up the mountains and made it there just in time when Steve had just started signing cars and boom, mission accomplished.
So after that we walked around inside and that’s when I saw it, a pristine 04 Mystichrome convertible. I’ve seen them before but none as clean as this one and I guess it was the lighting(and of course the paint lol) but I fell in love right there with the Mystichromes. I’ve had 2 Zinc Yellow beets and 2 Sonic Blue verts and I owned one SB when I was with my ex so I figured it was time for a change and the search began for my next cobra.
It took me all of 19 days and I found 2 at high end auto, one with 50k miles for $28k and one with 120k miles for $14k. I ended up buying the 120k mile one bc I knew I was gonna end up with a turbo car.
The car was a 1 owner car driven by a lady who was a Dr. and it still had the air silencer in the fender well!! Well within 2 weeks it had a 2.9 pulley, MGW, bassani x pipe, Borlas, and a lightbar. I finally let the drugs go and slowed down on the alcohol and was happy again that I was back in a cobra! I drove her to the beach, up the blue ridge parkway, everywhere. I never pushed her hard bc I’ve had 4 before and never took this one over 100mph. Well after 4 months or so, I started losing compression in the 5th and 6th cylinder so out came the motor and tranny and time for a turbo!!
I found a complete hellion 76mm kit on here with less than 5 miles on with a full Maximum Motorsports front end. I also bought a stock 03 cobra block, rods, heads, and valve covers as well. I flew out to Salt Lake City to buy it and have it shipped back.
I got back and ordered a full Fore triple pump fuel system, McLeod RXT1200, and in the process of ordering a Holley EFI kit now. I’m planning on doing the whole install myself except for the motor work. My friend owns a machine shop and I dropped the motor off with him and it should be ready within a couple weeks. In the next post, I’ll write a complete list of what’s going to be done and will post more pictures as I go along.
Around September of 2017 I went through a bad breakup with my ex girlfriend and I went down a hole bad. I started drinking heavily and doing drugs bc my heart was broken, like completely shattered. I had already bought a ring to marry this girl and she left me. So after months of that going on, my brother convinced me to go with him to Ponies in the Smokies to try and get his 87 Saleen signed by Steve Saleen. I was so messed up at that point and I thank my brother everyday for making me go with him bc this is when my life turned around. We loaded his car up and headed up the mountains and made it there just in time when Steve had just started signing cars and boom, mission accomplished.
So after that we walked around inside and that’s when I saw it, a pristine 04 Mystichrome convertible. I’ve seen them before but none as clean as this one and I guess it was the lighting(and of course the paint lol) but I fell in love right there with the Mystichromes. I’ve had 2 Zinc Yellow beets and 2 Sonic Blue verts and I owned one SB when I was with my ex so I figured it was time for a change and the search began for my next cobra.
It took me all of 19 days and I found 2 at high end auto, one with 50k miles for $28k and one with 120k miles for $14k. I ended up buying the 120k mile one bc I knew I was gonna end up with a turbo car.
The car was a 1 owner car driven by a lady who was a Dr. and it still had the air silencer in the fender well!! Well within 2 weeks it had a 2.9 pulley, MGW, bassani x pipe, Borlas, and a lightbar. I finally let the drugs go and slowed down on the alcohol and was happy again that I was back in a cobra! I drove her to the beach, up the blue ridge parkway, everywhere. I never pushed her hard bc I’ve had 4 before and never took this one over 100mph. Well after 4 months or so, I started losing compression in the 5th and 6th cylinder so out came the motor and tranny and time for a turbo!!
I found a complete hellion 76mm kit on here with less than 5 miles on with a full Maximum Motorsports front end. I also bought a stock 03 cobra block, rods, heads, and valve covers as well. I flew out to Salt Lake City to buy it and have it shipped back.
I got back and ordered a full Fore triple pump fuel system, McLeod RXT1200, and in the process of ordering a Holley EFI kit now. I’m planning on doing the whole install myself except for the motor work. My friend owns a machine shop and I dropped the motor off with him and it should be ready within a couple weeks. In the next post, I’ll write a complete list of what’s going to be done and will post more pictures as I go along.
