New guy to the forums here. I've had my 1998 Cobra for about a year now and figured I'd start a thread to help diagnose a couple issues and document the build.
I flew to St. Louis last April and drove the car home to Cincinnati. It was nicer in some areas than I was expecting, but had a couple issues that I wasn't told about so it all evened out
I put about 4k miles on the car last year and did several changes during that time.
-Removed the Eibach Sportline springs and installed a set of H&R Super Sports specifically for convertibles.
-Replaced the worn out stock struts and shocks with a set of Bilstein HD's
-Replaced the no name CC plates with a set of 4 bolt MM's
-Traded the Cobra R hood for an OEM 96-98 Hood (some may call me crazy, but I think the hoods are what make these 96-98 cars)
-Replaced the Flowmaster catback with a Borla S Type
-Added an MGW Short Shifter
-Replaced the BBK CAI with a JLT CAI
-Replaced the SR performance clutch quadrant with an MM (have the MM OEM Ford Cable that I need to install as well still)
-Swapped the FR500's that were on the car for a set of Aodhan 18x9.5 and 18x10.5 +22
As of now I've got the following parts sitting in the garage awaiting install
-FRPP 4.10 gear kit
-Team Z K member and A Arms
-12" 200lb coilovers
-Pacesetter Long tubes
-Pacesetter X pipe
-MMR IMRC deletes
-Mcleod Clutch and Alum Flywheel
-All new FRPP clutch related parts (fork, tob, pivot, etc)
-Other misc things I'm sure I'm forgetting
I am having two major issues with the car.
1) The car doesn't idle well at all. Once it gets warmed up I can't get it to come down past 1800rpm in neutral. The ECU is trying to add 24% fuel at idle which is also very odd. I suspected vacuum leak, but I've used an automotive smoke tester on the car and I see no visible leaks besides a little coming out of the IAC vent
2) When the car is under 1/2 tank of fuel the car will straight cut out completely going around any kind of turn. At first I was thinking this was just a bastard 98 fuel system bucket issue, but I posted up elsewhere and lot's of folks are able to run their car to empty without issue. I ordered up a new TI Auto 255lph fuel pump system off LMR and am just going to replace everything to eliminate that.
That's all I can think of for now. Here's a couple pics:



I flew to St. Louis last April and drove the car home to Cincinnati. It was nicer in some areas than I was expecting, but had a couple issues that I wasn't told about so it all evened out
I put about 4k miles on the car last year and did several changes during that time.
-Removed the Eibach Sportline springs and installed a set of H&R Super Sports specifically for convertibles.
-Replaced the worn out stock struts and shocks with a set of Bilstein HD's
-Replaced the no name CC plates with a set of 4 bolt MM's
-Traded the Cobra R hood for an OEM 96-98 Hood (some may call me crazy, but I think the hoods are what make these 96-98 cars)
-Replaced the Flowmaster catback with a Borla S Type
-Added an MGW Short Shifter
-Replaced the BBK CAI with a JLT CAI
-Replaced the SR performance clutch quadrant with an MM (have the MM OEM Ford Cable that I need to install as well still)
-Swapped the FR500's that were on the car for a set of Aodhan 18x9.5 and 18x10.5 +22
As of now I've got the following parts sitting in the garage awaiting install
-FRPP 4.10 gear kit
-Team Z K member and A Arms
-12" 200lb coilovers
-Pacesetter Long tubes
-Pacesetter X pipe
-MMR IMRC deletes
-Mcleod Clutch and Alum Flywheel
-All new FRPP clutch related parts (fork, tob, pivot, etc)
-Other misc things I'm sure I'm forgetting
I am having two major issues with the car.
1) The car doesn't idle well at all. Once it gets warmed up I can't get it to come down past 1800rpm in neutral. The ECU is trying to add 24% fuel at idle which is also very odd. I suspected vacuum leak, but I've used an automotive smoke tester on the car and I see no visible leaks besides a little coming out of the IAC vent
2) When the car is under 1/2 tank of fuel the car will straight cut out completely going around any kind of turn. At first I was thinking this was just a bastard 98 fuel system bucket issue, but I posted up elsewhere and lot's of folks are able to run their car to empty without issue. I ordered up a new TI Auto 255lph fuel pump system off LMR and am just going to replace everything to eliminate that.
That's all I can think of for now. Here's a couple pics:


