Article: June 2013 ROTM - Venom351R

[MustangChris]

June 2013 - ROTM - Venom351R

Congratulations to Venom351R !!!! He is our June ROTM winner and the recipient of the TMI $100.00 Gift Card!!

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Mine is the #0042 built Cobra of 94 ( and that body style ) out of 5009 with black leather. It has an engine and drivetrain from a 95 Corbra R. I am the third owner and bought it down in FL ( second owner since the engine swap) The conversion was done at Roush Industries.

Custom CNC Ported 234 HR Trickflow Highport cylinder heads
Accufab 1 3/4 long tubes
Victor EFI Intake
Strange shocks / struts
Team Z K member A arms UCA"s
MM LCA
Tremec 3550 / Pro 5.0 shifter

Seeking 11 second NA 1/4 times and just started the process of finalizing the tune and with some front runners should be in the very low 12's soon.






-Check out his video-

http://s29.photobucket.com/user/Trav...50224.mp4.html

Dyno approx power is between 385-405 HP ( Est )

 

[MustangChris]

Congrats Brotha!!! Lovin' the wheelie-poppin-power!!!

 

[DeepList]

Very nice ride! Congrats!

 

[white95]

Well deserved victory!! 351w power!!!!!

 

[belber095]

well deserved win! congrats bro!

 

[Musturd]

Awesome well deserved . Glad to see you won

 

[Walking Tall]

Awesome car! The documentation behind it makes it a cool story too.

 

[Venom351R]

wow thanks guys. Never thought I would win ROTM considering the car is far from the way I picture it as being done but I'm glad all of you thought enough of it to have me pull out a win over some very tough competition this month. Thanks to everyone who participated in voting and who voted for me.

 

[wht1997cobra]

Congrats man

 

[Steve-Oh]

Nice win Travis!!! Congrats!!

 

[krazyrabbit]

Congrats! Such a nice looking ride with the legit docs behind it.

 

[Tony]

muscle mayn...muscle!!! congrats travis!

 

[Ferocious]

Congrats man!

That wheelie picture is killer.

 

[9838stang]

congrats on the rotm award!

 

[chris91]

I think for me it was how it is such a sweet car with the documented R drivetrain. That is just so cool. Congrats on the win!!

Any idea how many were done like that?

 

[gate keeper]

Seriously a WELL DESERVED win - I'm guessing the interior on your ride is as cherry as the outside - in case it is not, we manufacture the headliner, sunvisors, upholstery and front bucket foams for your year.
Feel free to shoot me a message with any questions you might have - and again, nicely done. Hope to see this car in person at an upcoming show!!

 

[Venom351R]

I think for me it was how it is such a sweet car with the documented R drivetrain. That is just so cool. Congrats on the win!!

Any idea how many were done like that?

Just mine as far as I know. I'll tell you what I do know. Ford actually produced 255 Cobra R engines and 250 cars were sold. Engine #1 was never installed in any car it still pops up from time to time on Ebay. Its located in Windsor Canada the last I knew. My car was originally owned by a Roush Intern who go an over seas job and he could not take the car with him so he sold it to someone at Roush ( not sure if it was Craig Barker or not ) but they took this car and used it as the candidate for the R swap.

There were two prototype R Mustangs produced. Both were Red, one was wrecked and totaled during testing of the Cobra R and the other one has vanished. No one seems to know where it is but my guess being a Prototype 95 R that was actually red I'm sure its locked away in a climate controlled storage locker somewhere. I can post up an article that the previous owner wrote up about the two prototypes if you guys want to see it.

Since everyone likes the wheel up pic ( including me ) you can use that one for the banner picture

 

[Addermk2]

I don't think they should use that picture... They should use the next one you are going to have... Because the wheels will be up further.

 

[chris91]

Wow that makes the story even better. So basically its a 1 of 1. Badass!

 

[Venom351R]

More wheel up would be nice

as far as I know I do not know of any other 94 or 95 Cobra's that received a 95R engine ( especially one installed by Roush ) I cant confirm where the other 4 engines have ended up other then being in collections somewhere like engine #1.