I am new here and have been looking for forum like this for a while! I have a 1994 Cobra the one I have now is the second one that I have owned(the first one I took out a light pole with it sideways...I miss that car it a ton of motor work done to it 460rwhp.) Anyway the one I have now is stock besides equal length shorties, an offload x pipe, and mellow tone 2 chamber mufflers. I do not plan on doing to much to the car for now anyway! I have two question and I hope someone can point me the right way. I need a transmission to fit my cobra mine is gone... This will be the second one I have put in this car I only got 30000 out of this one and I do not drive the car hard I truly baby this car. So any help on where to get a good transmission to fit the car and I do not have a ton of money to put in it right now. And second what cam could I put in car to give it the rough idle "lope" I love the sound and at this point do not want to change my heads or intake I would like to find a cam to work well with the stock set up. As for adding power that would be great but I am not worried about that right I really just want to get the classic American muscle car sound. Thanks for any help you can give me.
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Welcome to the forum.
Wanting a better transmission than you've had and not having a ton of money is not very condusive. Here's a couple links to where you can get the better transmissions....
http://gforcetransmissions.com/
http://www.darkhorseperformance.com/
Crane makes a line of cams called "Thumper" cams that have that old school lope while being more streetable than cams that typically lope due to a lot of overlap. Check them out.
Also for the old school muscle car sound you should look into real headers, "long tubes" as the younger guys call them. That's what our old cars had.
Also realize that there were no Flowmaster or Magnaflow mufflers back then, They came along in the 80's. So how did we make our cars sound like that before modern mufflers? Easy; a powerful engine, headers, and dual exhaust without the "magic mufflers" like is available today. Often times the mufflers were glasspacks but they would blow out around 20,000 miles or so of hard driving. Also cars didn't have catalytic converters until about 1974. Even after they did come out they were easy to replace with a "test pipe".
Steve
Wanting a better transmission than you've had and not having a ton of money is not very condusive. Here's a couple links to where you can get the better transmissions....
http://gforcetransmissions.com/
http://www.darkhorseperformance.com/
Crane makes a line of cams called "Thumper" cams that have that old school lope while being more streetable than cams that typically lope due to a lot of overlap. Check them out.
Also for the old school muscle car sound you should look into real headers, "long tubes" as the younger guys call them. That's what our old cars had.
Also realize that there were no Flowmaster or Magnaflow mufflers back then, They came along in the 80's. So how did we make our cars sound like that before modern mufflers? Easy; a powerful engine, headers, and dual exhaust without the "magic mufflers" like is available today. Often times the mufflers were glasspacks but they would blow out around 20,000 miles or so of hard driving. Also cars didn't have catalytic converters until about 1974. Even after they did come out they were easy to replace with a "test pipe".
Steve
Hey guys thanks for the answers. I will try to get some photos on here soon. I allready have a set of long tube headers to go on the car and the I took the cats off years ago... I will check the links thanks guys. This site is great.
94darkhorse
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Welcome to the site.
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scarface
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welcome.
eliyarbrough
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Welcome! You will like this site!!
Schiffy
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Shouldn't you figure out WHAT keeps breaking the tranny's before you drop the money on ANOTHER new one?
