On3 Turbo Cobra!

1997GT4.6 · Jul 25, 2012

Nice build! Glad you went back to the mustang. SN95 Cobras are a blast! Low on power but that can be changed.

rideorange812 · Jul 25, 2012

1997GT4.6 said:
Nice build! Glad you went back to the mustang. SN95 Cobras are a blast! Low on power but that can be changed.

Yeah i am as well, hondas suck! But there fun n cheap. I really like sn95s, my first car was a black 95 i posted on here wen i was young. I had a choice of 03/04 cobra but you rarely see sn95s done all the way out and i intend to do everything to this car.

rideorange812 · Jul 27, 2012

Well I'm completely done buffing the car now, tomorrow I'll pull the motor and disassemble it, and I'll start pieceing together my 99+ charcoal gray interior

Tomorrow I hope to have pics of the dissembly of my motor....

CoD_50callongshotz · Jul 29, 2012

thats a beautiful cobra! i wish my paint had turned out that good. it looks like you have some experience?

rideorange812 · Jul 30, 2012

yeah my dad restored high end cars for 20 years, than went into colision repair but we are about to start restorations again.

Got the motor out and dissembled and dropped it off at the machine shop, I'll be spraying the engine bay next and hiding some wires.

rideorange812 · Aug 18, 2012

Been mainly waiting on the machine shop, I should have the motor next week to start assembly on it, I got the UPR k member and all the front end goodies ordered or installed, still waiting on camber plates, bump steer kit, and strange struts to come in, I got the control arms k member and off set steering rack bushings in. Now its basically a hurry up and wait game spend money and wait again...

Heres how it sits.

CoD_50callongshotz · Aug 18, 2012

I'm rebuilding my 98 motor as well. What kind of money do you have into the machine work? I think I'll be going with Manley parts as well. Did you reuse your forged crank?

Tally_4.6 · Aug 19, 2012

I hope my hood comes out as nice as yours lol.

Good stuff.

rideorange812 · Aug 19, 2012

machine work alone im at 600 bucks that includes

honed cylinder bores w/o boring
polishing crank
freeze plugs
main and rod bearings
dissasemblin heads w/ valve job and reassembly
resizing rod bolts
and cleaning everything.

here is my parts list on my motor so far.

Engine-
SVT cobra manley rods 400
manley premium pistons 569
total seal rings 120
arp Main Studs 229
FRPP oil pump 80
ARP Harmonic Balancer bolt 26
Arp Cam bolts 75
cobra crank kellog-395
Arp 2000 Rod Bolts - 129
machine work- 600

total so far 2600 and some change... keep in mind my motor is being built to handle over 1000 hp as well...

rideorange812 · Aug 22, 2012

down to bump steer kit and rotors! machine shop is assembling my head and i'll have my motor back next week, time to get things going again...

Tally_4.6 · Aug 23, 2012

Nice gun.

Matco FTW.

rideorange812 · Sep 8, 2012

well i almost got the whole interior finished... waiting on my 03 cobra seats to come in, sorry for lack of pics, should have pics of the motor install this week as well as maybe the car drivin this weekend.. never know...

KillNThrill24 · Sep 8, 2012

nice man no expenses spared i see. thats how you bring a car from the ashes! i would have done everything exactly the same as you have if it were me rebuilding the car. i love the black on black with the touch of red. by far my favorite color combos.

hope to see that thing on the dyno soon!

ttocs · Sep 8, 2012

just curious but why did you paint it and then pull the motor? I would have started there myself to get the engine bay painted as well as to ensure nothing dumb happens to the paint.

But forget that it looks like the paint could not have come out better. I am hoping to have my car painted in the next couple of years and planning on doing some wet-sanding on it to polish it up. Any idea how many hours you have into just the rubbin and buffin?

rideorange812 · Sep 8, 2012

thanks for the compliments, i've poured almost every dollar i make in to this car and gave 100% effort on making it a beautiful example of a sn95 cobras potential and something i can be proud of. as far the paint process, i actualy painted the engine bay after i pulled the motor and i have the whole front end off the car so i will install the motor than assemble it. i have roughly 5 4 hour sessions in it, it still needs more, but im going to be repainting the doors and roof and hood as well, black is a very hard color to get straight