I’ve been asked to start a build thread for (mostly) more of the serious side that I don’t take the time or effort to post on Instagram or FaceBook.
I bought #111 with 14,031 miles with a clean title sight unseen from a small dealership in Pennsylvania around 2017. Not salvage or rebuilt as rumored. I did start a rumor that it’s a clone using some red V6 pics. That made for lots of hilarious posts.
I soon found the clutch had a noise so ordered a T56 Magnum and Ram solid stand dual disc since I had plans for more power from the beginning. The issue ended up being some flywheel bolts backed out so no biggie. I intended to either see much power or could make N/A or turbocharge it and see how long it lasted for fun.
Meanwhile I was also building my 03 Cobra and always told myself I didn’t want multiple projects so I could enjoy driving something fun at all times. I waited quite awhile as my 03 snowballed and finally gave up on that idea. I did get to enjoy it, driving it around Tx2K a couple times pretending to be super cool with my fast friends as I trailed behind in my slow ricer winged stock Cobra. I also really enjoyed going to C&C whipping out my lawn chain and Cobra cutout art to fit in with the Mustang car show guys. I’ve found 4 single turbo Rs and a Vortech car. A few guys have made good power but I found some old diagrams of the assembly and the top ring land is way up on the piston so I didn’t want to push my luck with the stock motor. When I got tired of all 385hp of glorious cruising I called Wonder Racing to see if they had any 5.4s sitting around I could stick in. Of course nothing as convenient as that so I asked about getting something built to handle ~1400hp as I figure that’s close to what I’d need to eventually run 200mph in the half. Well why would anyone want 1400hp when they could have more right?
Well that’s my cars story. Sorry its such a long winded initial thread post but I get asked all the time so there it is.
Now on to the important stuff. I’ll upload pics as I have time.
I bought #111 with 14,031 miles with a clean title sight unseen from a small dealership in Pennsylvania around 2017. Not salvage or rebuilt as rumored. I did start a rumor that it’s a clone using some red V6 pics. That made for lots of hilarious posts.
I soon found the clutch had a noise so ordered a T56 Magnum and Ram solid stand dual disc since I had plans for more power from the beginning. The issue ended up being some flywheel bolts backed out so no biggie. I intended to either see much power or could make N/A or turbocharge it and see how long it lasted for fun.
Meanwhile I was also building my 03 Cobra and always told myself I didn’t want multiple projects so I could enjoy driving something fun at all times. I waited quite awhile as my 03 snowballed and finally gave up on that idea. I did get to enjoy it, driving it around Tx2K a couple times pretending to be super cool with my fast friends as I trailed behind in my slow ricer winged stock Cobra. I also really enjoyed going to C&C whipping out my lawn chain and Cobra cutout art to fit in with the Mustang car show guys. I’ve found 4 single turbo Rs and a Vortech car. A few guys have made good power but I found some old diagrams of the assembly and the top ring land is way up on the piston so I didn’t want to push my luck with the stock motor. When I got tired of all 385hp of glorious cruising I called Wonder Racing to see if they had any 5.4s sitting around I could stick in. Of course nothing as convenient as that so I asked about getting something built to handle ~1400hp as I figure that’s close to what I’d need to eventually run 200mph in the half. Well why would anyone want 1400hp when they could have more right?
Well that’s my cars story. Sorry its such a long winded initial thread post but I get asked all the time so there it is.
Now on to the important stuff. I’ll upload pics as I have time.