Check this out now. I imagine it would be fun to take around the track.

Shelby with v12 Mercedes engine.

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Jim

Yipes!

What a car!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Wow. Awesome work.. look at those manifolds. No big ugly plastic cover on that engine!

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1985 CA 300D Turbo , 213K mi

What engine is that? M275?

And yes those exhausts much have taken a dozen tries to get right....

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

seems like a lot of cost and effort for 600HP, nice skills although to me seems woefully misdirected

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1982 300CD Turbo (Otis, "ups & downs") parts for sale
2003 TJ with Hemi (to go anywhere, quickly) sold
2001 Excursion Powerstroke (to go dependably)
1970 Mustang 428SCJ (to go fast)
1962 Corvette LS1 (to go in style)
2001 Schwinn Grape Krate 10spd (if all else fails)

That's for sure. An LS7 Corvette engine can easily make 600hp without a blower. And prolly weigh a bunch less.

If I were wanting to build a Cobra look alike I would stick with Ford engines. If building a 427 replica I would use a 427 side oiler and build it as much like the original as I could.

A fellow last fall had a lovely cobra replica at one of our SCCA autocross events at Terre Haute. It looked just right. American racing blue with wide white stripes. It had a 427 small block ford (I suppose based on the cleveland). It may have been aluminum. It was running big fat Hoosier A6's.

The driver it turns out knew how to drive too and it was the first Cobra replica that ever beat our top C stock Miatas and such. And he beat us by seconds.

( Course it ran in a modified class, cannot remember which one), but it was a lovely well worked out sweet handling car which lept at the caress of the gas pedal.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

The subject car is hardly a Cobra look alike.

That is an M137... O_O


Not the best motor, but not terrible.



They sound amazing though...

http://www.youtube.com/user/w220178137#p/u/3/I5ZIomet8Yk

Sounds like an F1 car!

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91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

What part of cobra look alike is objectionable to you?

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Keep in mind what the guy said in the write up. He is in an area of the world where it is easier to get engines like these versus the Ford/Chevy stuff.

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Jim

What a waste of an engine, he could have accomplished the same thing with some kind of domestic engine.

domestic = Volvo in his case. No way would I put a Volvo engine in something like that.

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Jim

I don't care what he uses, I just hate to see a Benz engine wasted in a kit car.

Now you're asking a subjective question. I didn't claim any part was objectionable, I posted it hardly looks like a Cobra. Below is a Cobra. You can make your own decission about what is different ot objectionable.