Carbureted and Cammed Modular 4V Cobra -LOTS OF PICS&VIDEOs-

[Chris _Scott]

Okay I have been busting balls periodically over the past few months on this swap..finally feel I have enough accomplished to throw up this thread.

I'm going to keep this short and simple and full of plenty of pictures.

Quickly recap..bought my car at 194k miles about 2 years ago completely stock...and this is a picture of it exactly a year ago..

Then this happened..

Stock brake booster being replaced for manual brakes [as well as manual steering]

Many times my room has looked like this..

to this..

Couple bolt ons...big cams..untouched 03 heads...laid down a sturdy 380rwhp w/ 366 ft-lb of torque to boot..STOCK INTAKE MANIFOLD and I ran out of injectors on the dyno.

My car weighed almost 28xxlbs at this point while retaining full interior[besides back seats], power locks, and power windows.

I had fun with this setup for a couple months..then I decided that I REALLY wanted to do something off the wall

 

[Chris _Scott]

Here are a couple videos of my car up to that point.

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Here's some nice pictures of it as well.

well anyways...now here comes the fun part.

BTW, I'm just going to put this out of the way..because every single thread about my car and build has turned into some EFI nutswinger thinking that I am saying 'carb>efi'. The reason I decided to go carbureted is because I WANTED to. I realize that EFI takes the cake when it comes to drivability and MPG, but quite frankly I don't care. I had issues with my car while it was injected, and chased down every single vacuum line and sensor and it still wouldn't behave perfectly right...so I ditched it. From a performance standpoint a properly setup carbureted setup can make more power than an EFI setup....also since I plan on going to a blow through setup, it will allow me to run ethanol with a LOT of boost and a LOT of compression while keeping inlet air temps down lower than EFI. Anyways...

Intake and some wiring removed..

Removed the valve covers to powder coat them..heads still look beautiful!

Start removing the interior pieces..

Then a little more...

Then I just kinda crazy with it..

Anyone need to buy harnesses or a computer?? lol

water pump needed some persuading to come off...

wiring I am currently messing around with [and giving me a nightmare]

241,000 miles and finally retired! [anyone want to buy? lol]

my ignition

Since I ripped out all of the wiring from the car...I now have to wire it from scratch. It is a simplified early version of my new wiring diagram that I had to design from scratch.

In the end, I went through 250-300' of RAW spool'd wire that I had to individually cut, strip, crimp connectors, solder, heat shrink, and run through the car.

My instrument cluster and race panel were both made by me, from complete scratch, took me somewhere around 10-15 hours to get them both completed..but definitely was worth it!

Another late night spent wiring

 

[1967eleanor]

cant wait to see the final result!

 

[DSGWhippedSnake]

Dude I give you a TON of credit for all the work you've done so far, well done. Well almost lol can't wait to see it done/driving! :rockon:

 

[Chris _Scott]

Some more progress along the way!

How my thanksgiving was spent.lol

..then many months later I finally got my intake manifold in!

Got rid of my Fluidyne and going with a smaller AFCO drag racing radiator..the reason I am doing this is because I needed a LOT of extra room in front of the engine now. Going with a F2 on a gear-driven setup. For size reference:

My almost complete interior.

I even took the time to take a wire brush to each individual bolt..made a big difference!

I don't have any nice fancy tools..so when I had to do all the AN lines...this is ALL I literally used to cut and assemble all my braided lines.

cuts turned out nicely though!

Fuel setup all put in! A1000 fuel pump, A1000 regulator, -8 feed, -10 return, sumped tank

Catch can setup done

Custom coolant setup for my car, using what WAS a maurader coolant crossover

 

[Goindeafonmtx]

28xx lbs? How? Did you have it weighed?

 

[Chris _Scott]

And me getting ready to fire her up for the very first time!!

 

[VirtualSVT]

Really can't wait to see it out and running around.

 

[CanuckSnake]

Good job bud, props for doing something different, and hard! Engine almost looks like a Boss 429. What size carb?

 

[Chris _Scott]

Anyways..here are the videos I have of it so far!

And on my first attempt to fire the car up in 352 days..it did! and it fired up immediately and held an idle on its own!! I guess I did all my homework, lol

Here's my very first drive

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and another my friend took of my car..I think it sounds REALLLL nice here
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Here is a closer picture of my alternator setup now [since that is the ONLY accessory I am now spinning]

Note ALL the free room I now have in my engine bay :]

I will be having plenty of more pictures/videos coming in the next few days...I am still working on getting the car fine tuned and all the little things all closed up. I should have plates/insurance back on the car and my hood pinned on[I picked up a 3" cobra r lift off hood..which I'm still not quite sure if that will be enough]..I have a GoPro camera..so I'll be posting videos with that :]

As of now...being that I have big cams, single plane intake, a not so forgiving carburetor..my car doesn't like riding around at 1500-2000RPMs...I mean, it runs fine but I can't SMASH the gas and expect it to take off.[once it is properly tuned i should be fine]

Yesterday I did my first pull in it...I took it up to 2k RPMs and just rolled into the throttle and she screamed like her old self! Definitely loves the RPMs!

 

[90goldtsiawd]

Congrats!!!!

 

[iicrazy]

Amazing craftsmanship and patience

 

[Amazongt]

Lol at all the room in the engine bay. Thats awesome. I wish I knew how to work on cars in that aspect. Kudos to you.:thumbsup:

 

[Nick_B95GT]

freaking awesome man,,is it hard to steer without the power steering box, cause my fox without power steering with the tubular k-member is crazy hard to drive

 

[WeakSauz]

Man the car looks and sounds SWEET. My hat is off to you. The road less traveled is often very rewarding. And you seriously have a crap ton of space in front of that motor for the blower or any type of forced induction.

I have to ask you something though-- you look kind of young (around my age). Im 21. What exactly do you do for a living? I could never even begin to think about funding something like this. Not hating in any way, I am just asking because I may need to make some life changes! hahaha

 

[Competition]

Good god, that thing sounds naughty. What cams are in it man?

 

[Chris _Scott]

cant wait to see the final result!

Dude I give you a TON of credit for all the work you've done so far, well done. Well almost lol can't wait to see it done/driving! :rockon:

Good news..it is already done!! haha..sorry I was just splitting up my OP.

Thanks though..I've spent countless hours researching, planning, designing, and building this darn thing! Proud to see it finally rumble once more.

28xx lbs? How? Did you have it weighed?

It was low 29xxlbs when I last had it weighed..which was when I still had power steering, brakes, EFI, and several other things.

My car has NO radio/cd player, no AC, no heater/heater core, no defrosters [except the rear], I literally removed the entire air vent assembly, no windshield wipers, I ripped out all un necessary wiring, all the soundeadening/heat insulation located in the interior is GONE..I have full manual brakes/steering and anything and everything that I did not need was gone. Even the exhaust hangers located by my rear bumper I threw away since I don't need them anymore because I have dumps.

I suspect my car to weigh around 2700lbs..maybe even 2600lbs! For reference...I used to NOT be able to fit a finger between my front tire and fender well...I now have a THREE finger gap there from all the weight I removed off the nose alone.[and that was from when my car already weighed 29xx]

This setup will probably make somewhere around 400-415rwhp NA..and since I weigh so little..should make for a fun little car!

Really can't wait to see it out and running around.

I'll be sure to hit up the local car meets once I get back down into Orlando!

Good job bud, props for doing something different, and hard! Engine almost looks like a Boss 429. What size carb?

Thanks man!

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Congrats!!!!

Thanks!

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Amazing craftsmanship and patience

Patience is THE word!! haha

 

[Chris _Scott]

Lol at all the room in the engine bay. Thats awesome. I wish I knew how to work on cars in that aspect. Kudos to you.:thumbsup:

Thanks man! I love me a clean engine bay to work in..makes all the difference in the world!

Takes me 2 minutes to have BOTH valve covers completely removed on the car, lol

freaking awesome man,,is it hard to steer without the power steering box, cause my fox without power steering with the tubular k-member is crazy hard to drive

ehh..you get used to it I guess. I'm a small little guy and I don't have an issue with stopping [all ~140lbs of me] or turning the car...but it DEFINITELY takes some getting used to.

I won't let anyone just jump into my car and drive it because of that.

Man the car looks and sounds SWEET. My hat is off to you. The road less traveled is often very rewarding. And you seriously have a crap ton of space in front of that motor for the blower or any type of forced induction.

I have to ask you something though-- you look kind of young (around my age). Im 21. What exactly do you do for a living? I could never even begin to think about funding something like this. Not hating in any way, I am just asking because I may need to make some life changes! hahaha

haha and no offence, you are correct..I'm a young kid. I'm a broke student doing this on a reallllly tight budget. I just keep finding out how to do things better, stronger, and cheaper....catch is, I have to put a lot more elbow grease into it.

Pretty much everything I did on my car during the swap I had to make myself, for instance my instrument cluster/race panel I made with about $20 in materials...Florida 5.0 sells those same things for a couple hundred dollars, I didn't have the luxury of buying things that already bolt up to the car.

Just bouncing around part time jobs while in college and funding things where/while I can, lol.

Good god, that thing sounds naughty. What cams are in it man?

comp grind #106400, I think it is something like 236* of duration@050.

New engine that is being built I am stepping up to much bigger solid roller cams.

 

[32ValveRom]

Very nice. Who'd you get it tuned by?

 

[Chris _Scott]

Very nice. Who'd you get it tuned by?

Tuning her myself! :banana:epper: