1996 Black Cobra Built Engine w/ Vortech

kev2369

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I'm tossing around the idea of selling my cobra i picked up a few months ago.Its triple black. Very clean and well taken care of, but I'm thinking about selling to buy a truck. Drives and handles great. Everything is extremely tight. I'm not hurting to sell it so no b.s. offers.

Car isn't perfect but is in excellent shape for the year. The body is perfect with no dings whatsoever that I have found. Only has a couple little minor scatches on paint that could probably be buffed out. There is only one bad scatch that is on the hood, it was there when I got it and was touched up before I got it.

Only has 27k original miles. The engine was built and charger were put on in August of last year. Car has never been wrecked. Clean Carfax. All original paint except for the wing that has been added on.

Here is a list of modifications:
Engine:
-Completely built 8.5:1 engine built by Boosted Performance in Mooresville,NC. I have the 5k receipt on the last assembly. The first engine was built for the car by a different shop and put high compression pistons in it, and the charger was later added and blew the engine on the dyno. The current engine has approx 4-5k miles on it.
-Vortech v-2 T-Trim Supercharger w 2.8 pulley
-Vortech Aftercooler Kit
-Vortech Battery Relocation Kit
-Griffin Aluminum Radiator

Fuel/Air:
-60lb Injectors
-T-Rex 255 Pump on top of 255 in tank pump
-4" Anderson Power Pipe
-PMAS 95mm Mass Air
-Mr. Freeze Methanol Injection
-Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator

Ignition:
-MSD Coils
-MSD Plug Wires
-NGK TR6 Plugs

Chassis:
-3.73 Gears
-Maximum Motorsports Caster Camber Plates w/ recent alignment
-Eibach Springs, cut
-Aluminum Driveshaft
-Short Throw Shifter
-Stock t-45 borg warner transmission
-Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch

Exhaust:
-Mid length ceramic coated headers
-Bassani X pipe
-Weld in Flowmaster 40 series mufflers

Body:
-New Smoked Headlights
-Saleen S351 Wing
-New Chrome Outline Bumper Letters

Wheels/Tires:
-Brand New Chrome SC Wheels 9/10.5's
-Nitto NT-05 275/40/17 Tires on front
-Nitto NT-05R Drag Radials 315/35/17 on back

Interior:
-Aftermarket Cobra Bucket Seats
-Bullitt Shift Knob
-AutoMeter Phantom Boost and Fuel Pressure Gauges with clock eliminating pod. Needs installed properly


When the car was built and originally tuned, it made 555 rwhp and 480 rwtq by Prodyno in NC. Heres the link:Pro-Dyno Gallery :: Srik, Rodney vortech T trim

The Bad:
When I got the car it has a miss at low rpm, which I got out of it on the dyno at Blankenship Tuning in Louisville, Ky. After we got that fixed it started with a slight miss at 5200 rpm and i brought it home to fix so the tune was not finished. He completed a tune but the car has no timing in it at the time. It still made over 400 rwhp at like 5k rpms. I have yet to get the miss completely out of it, which i think belt slip is a contributing factor because it occurs as soon as it hits 10lbs of boost. The car is tuned with SCT chip.

Also, the throw out bearing is going out on the car, which I'm planning to fix in the next few weeks. Just haven't had time to get it. The transmission has a little whine to it at high rpms but I think some synchromesh would quieten down.

Only little thing i've noticed about the car is when you run the a/c, which blows cold, you get a hint of antifreeze, but the heater core is not leaking.

Feel free to hit me up if interested. I'd like to sell outright but would consider trades on a lightning or a Harley F-150.

Asking price is 13,000, which is about what you see stock cars priced at with this mileage.

Feel free to give me a call or text. 270-250-2643

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Here are some pics from car show today so you can see the tint on the car and the top up
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I can get pictures of anything anyone else wants to see. Just let me know. Thanks

Kevin
 
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kev2369

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thanks... its just as clean as it looks in the pictures... i love the car but i just don't have time to fool with it with my work schedule
 

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are you the guy i sold an slp ehaust to? i have saw this car in person and its sharp!!!
 

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WOW this isnt going to last long....ok so what did you do after u fixed the first miss? Show some of that interior looks crazy nice! TTT Bad ass ride wish i had the cash!!!
 

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are you the guy i sold an slp ehaust to? i have saw this car in person and its sharp!!!

Yeah I believe so... Met ya in Somerset with it...

As far as the interior goes, its pretty much flawless aside from the cover for the power port broke the other day when my girlfriend was trying to hook up an iPod transmitter. I'll post some pictures up tomorrow, i meant to do it today.

I had a broken vacuum line behind the s/c bracket that i didn't see. It was messing up the vacuum to the bypass valve. We found that on the dyno. After that was fixed (which fixed driveability ten fold) he wrote the base tune and it started missing. The tuner seemed to think its the power pipe. He has had several of the 4" power pipes that have done this and they rewelded the bypass valve inlet and it fixed the problem. I just haven't done it yet, which I planned on plumbing it into the elbow as a temporary fix, just haven't done it yet.

Its something simple, I just haven't had time to really work on it to find it. And its too hot lol
 

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Taking it to have windows tinted tomorrow, so I'll post pics and get some pics of interior while I'm at it
 

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Saw this car in person two days ago in Campbellsville, I did a double take when I saw it, wheels are awesome. I always wanted to put a set of those on my old cobra. Are the IMRCs deleted? That might fix your miss. If you need some help with that let me know. I'd love to see the car in person. I'm searching for another toy, but haven't made my mind up yet on what I want. I really wanna build one myself. Bump for a clean ass cobra!!:bowdown:
 

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the imrc's are still on the car... and it does show a little lean spike at 3200 when they open but after that it works fine... the tuner tuned it for the imrc's as well... and yeah i had the torch red car a few months ago that I sold... holler at me some time, i live in campbellsville... you can take a look at the car and you may be able to figure out whats wrong with the damn thing... if you drive it like a normal car it does great, its just at high rpm
 

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Here are some quick phone pics of inside and new tinted windows.. 5% all the way around with 40% full front windshield

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fasvtcontour00

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Man thats some dark tint. I got ticketed last year for tint and eventually had to pull it off after going to court over it. I had 2.5 on the sides and 30 on the windshield. Cops liked to f*** with me around here when I had that car though. I live in Cville too.
 

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yeah i remember the car... pretty sure you use to work at amazon... seen the car in the parking lot out here a few times
 

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