Seen at a local Ford dealer yesterday

[FunInTheSun]

I would rather have an old car or truck that wasn't numbers matching. That way I could mod it the way I wanted and drive it to enjoy it. My youngest and I really want to do a cobra kit car just for that reason.

Factory Five has a frame + body kit that uses Mustang parts for engine and brakes, etc.

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[Bob902]

Factory Five has a frame + body kit that uses Mustang parts for engine and brakes, etc.

Thats the ones we have been looking at. A friend of mine built a Factory Five several years ago. Turned out real nice

 

[Langwilliams]

Thats the ones we have been looking at. A friend of mine built a Factory Five several years ago. Turned out real nice

A buddy of mine built a 347 stroker motor for a FF kit car. It was around 2200 pounds an had 435 HP. It was a screamer. He pulled the motor for another cobra replica but with a Jag independent rear end for better handling. It just wasn't the same LOL. A local post master bought the FF kit for a retirement gift/project. His kid was a 5.0 fanatic they started building it. They ended up paying to have it finished. They got it back as a roller only needing the engine an trans installed. I see it around town but he put an auto in it which just doesn't look right.

 

[Bob902]

A buddy of mine built a 347 stroker motor for a FF kit car. It was around 2200 pounds an had 435 HP. It was a screamer. He pulled the motor for another cobra replica but with a Jag independent rear end for better handling. It just wasn't the same LOL. A local post master bought the FF kit for a retirement gift/project. His kid was a 5.0 fanatic they started building it. They ended up paying to have it finished. They got it back as a roller only needing the engine an trans installed. I see it around town but he put an auto in it which just doesn't look right.

I want the coyote and a six speed tremec

 

[Dr. Zaius]

A friend of mine (RIP) had a Cobra kit with a built 460.

Wicked fast but extremely impractical for anything other than making tire smoke and impressing people you don't know.

For far less money you can build a wicked fast Miata that will nuke 99% of the cars on the road and yet still be a civil daily driver. I prefer the NC3 platform personally.

You won't have the WOW factor and it won't be the eyeball magnet that a Cobra is, but you will have a much better CAR that also happens to have heat, A/C, a stereo, and a top that actually works.

 

[Langwilliams]

I want the coyote and a six speed tremec

The coyote wasn't around then...the bad boy at the time was the terminator cobra (03/04).

The gearing of the T5 didn't match the Jag IRS very well. He looked into a gear change but no one would touch it (you couldn't get to it IF you wanted to). He ordered a T56 with custom ratios to match the Jag rear better. I helped him do the trans swap. The T56 wouldn't go into the trans tunnel far enough back to slide into the bell housing. I suggested taking the motor loose an pulling it forward as far as it would go to get the trans in the tunnel. That worked. The drive shaft was crazy looking at like 14" long.

 

[Dgc333]

Factory Five has a frame + body kit that uses Mustang parts for engine and brakes, etc.

I will be heading over to Factory Five tomorrow (they are about 30 minutes from my house) to put a deposit on this kit.

They call it the Speedstar. I have a 5.7 Hemi in the garage for it. It is around 450 HP. I also have a T5 tranny I am going to use. Still looking for an appropriate rear end for it.

I really wanted to build the Cobra Coupe but the sills are so wide I can't get in/out gracefully where I can with the Speedstar.

Here is my other toy. It is a 68 Barracuda that I have owned for almost 25 years now. I have driven this car just shy of 100,000 miles since finishing the resto mod in 2000. It has a built 360, OD 4spd, disk brakes, upgraded suspension, upgraded cooling and fast ratio power steering.

 

[THLONE]

My toy is a 68 chevy C-20. I have had it since 11/67. You can actually see the engine. It has zero emissions equipment on it. But, every year like clock work it passes the AZ emissions test. I paid $3,000 for it. Nobody has ever worked on it but me.

 

[FunInTheSun]

wish i had a) the money to buy something from Factory 5 b) the time, patience to build something from Factory 5 c) a garage to build something from Factory 5.

I love the speedster, and it would be a perfect mid life crisis car for me.

Almost the same here. No garage is the deal-killer. I'm not sure my skills would be up to the challenge, but it would be super fun to try. They are not THAT expensive. Less $$ than a Ranger...

 

[Dgc333]

Almost the same here. No garage is the deal-killer. I'm not sure my skills would be up to the challenge, but it would be super fun to try. They are not THAT expensive. Less $$ than a Ranger...

Well I have the skills, garage and lift, except maybe for the body work. I just don't have enough patience to do the necessary block sanding to get a real straight finish. I hope I can talk my buddy into helping with the body work.

The kit optioned the way I want it is $28k (base price is $23.9k). You still need to supply an engine, tranny, rear end, tires/wheels and paint. If you didn't have any parts already you would be hard pressed to build one for less than $40k. You can easily run the kit cost up over $50k with IRS, high end disk brakes, AC and billet bits and pieces. Using a new crate motor, tranny and rear end you are looking at $80k.

The Cobra roadster is the only one that you can get the kit relatively cheap and use a Fox Body Mustang. But a Fox Body that is in decent shape that you would want to use the parts isn't cheap anymore.

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