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Yeah, but I don't want them taking away my precious wildflower seed! I got this mower to help me spread that seed where it needs to be... This place used to be a hay field and had ZERO wildflowers. After carefully nurturing the wildflower population we now have a CARPET of wildflowers in the spring and one heck of a variety of butterflies, bugs and various pollinators visiting.

@@possumfarms Ah, I get it. That’s pretty smart, I never thought about that. It didn’t occur to me when you were talking about the new flowers with Henry.

Everything else is BONE STOCK and I haven't changed anything in that regard. The HP gains are minimal at best...

@possumfarms thanks for the reply! I ended up getting this same exhaust, paired with a Goodwin racing 1.8" max power catless header and the Stock midpipe. The drone at 2400-3000 RPM is bad especially on decel, but butt dyno feels like I picked up another 3-5 HP up top in RPMs compared to stock muffler with the header and tune already installed 👍 It's a smidgen too loud for my taste but it was cheap, I'll probably get the Cobalt Muffler in the future to quiet it down some more

I agree - bout 600-650 cfm is all this small block needs...

I found some that "fit" the holes... Sorry I can't be more help there...

@@possumfarms No problem, man. I got it figured at my local hardware store. Some regular bolts did the job!

Yeah, whatever... I have parts on the shelf form my racing days and I can tear it down damn near blindfolded... It's a cruiser not a racer. And BTW, how many cobras are in your garage/barn?

because I didn't need to!

The original is a 6v battery... size? I dunno... Sorry...

I am guessing you sort of glossed over the video title of the FIRST shake down run?

@@possumfarms ,.....nope....

mine is hydraulic... I think... :)

I bought it on eBay from "Racingpartsdepot" listed as "OBX Axleback Exhaust for 2006-2013 Mazda Miata NC MX5" for $441.99. Racingpartsdepot is no longer a valid eBay user and the item is no longer listed from them, so I don't have a part number, sorry.

Thanks for your response. I can't find the OBX like yours anywhere and OBX won't answer the phone or reply to an email, so they must be out of business. I like the way yours looks & sounds. I found another brand called Piper Exhaust but it's in the UK, it has no silencers, so I reckon I'll have to order that one.

I bought it on eBay from "Racingpartsdepot" listed as "OBX Axleback Exhaust for 2006-2013 Mazda Miata NC MX5" for $441.99. Racingpartsdepot is no longer a valid eBay user and the item is no longer listed from them, so I don't have a part number, sorry.

Thanks for your response. I can't find the OBX like yours anywhere and OBX won't answer the phone or reply to an email, so they must be out of business. I like the way yours looks & sounds. I found another brand called Piper Exhaust but it's in the UK, it has no silencers, so I reckon I'll have to order that one.

Hey bro there is another version of this exhaust by OBX online

It is still sitting outside of the barn, in pieces... I got distracted and haven't gone back to it.

Glad I could help

I did... I don't know what other people do - but I did. It doesn't take much! Just a good splash to fill the little ball socket. Thanks for your comments!

Yeah, I could have done a better job o that video... Better luck next time! :)

Good idea... I'll have to think about that... :) And I don't see it as a nightmare - just correcting previous owners mistakes and abuse... It's got over 20,000 miles on it. And ridden hard. When I finish it (are project cars ever finished?!?) it should be a nice, reliable toy! :) I'm not there yet... Thanks for your comments!

That video was a compilation of over 40 years of our lives... We live in a world that I was seemingly not brought up for now. You can never foretell your future, but you can try... I went back to where I grew up and EVERYTHING has changed! Fields I used to go hunting in and riding motorcycles in are all now "insta-neighborhoods" with strip centers, gas stations and lots and lots of tract homes... It was depressing. It makes me glad I dragged my family out in the boondocks and built a farm on what used to be nothing more than a hay field. It's "The retirement farmlet in the middle of nowhere". :)

I don't fault the original builder all that much... A father and son team that were NOT mechanics... Much like many Cobra builds. I blame the owners after him that abused it and didn't pay attention to things that should have been sorted. The car has over 20,000 miles on it. Plenty of time to fix all sorts of little problems. I KNEW this needed some love - which is why I took it on. Part of my hobby is fixing up old cars that need some love - this car needed some love! :)

Most of the roads out here are relatively smooth, but not all of them! :) Thanks for your comments!

Alignment, brakes, leaks, etc... Better to have my wrecker guy move it so I don't have to fiddle with my trailer in my mechanics tight parking lot! :)

That sounds like a problem with the "thermocouple". When the thermocouple gets hot it will keep the valve open. I have to hold the button down until the top gets glowing red hot - and then release. AFTER the thermocouple gets good and hot. Thanks for your comments!

After driving around on these for a few weeks, I figured why they are so "affordable"... It rode like a buckboard and damn near rattled the fillings out of my teeth! On the advice of my mechanic - who is a Miata nut - I put a set of Koni adjustable shocks with the stock springs on the car and WOW what a difference! I LOVE my Koni's! These things ended up being Chinese Trash... I sold them to someone else, dirt cheap and he BROKE them in less than a month! DO yourself and your spine a favor and go get a set of Koni adjustable shocks... Thanks for your comments!

Then I would go and make friends with your local muffler shop. Preferably one that has been around a good long while with an old coot as the owner. And express your concerns. The old guy has probably seen it all... And has a few tricks up his sleeve. Thanks for your comments!

@@possumfarms Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated

Appreciate that

Yeah, it was some sort of fabricated special bucket that worked great! Thanks for your comment!

We haven't caught up in a while... We need to do that! :)

@@possumfarms agreed!! I need to see you and the mrs!!

Happy to help!

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks for your comment...

One thing I hate about eBay components, they change! What was available last year is POOF gone.... :(

They work great! I have had no issues.... Thanks for your comment...

I would NEVER EVER use this in the house... EVER! For a drafty barn with a HIGH ceiling, sure, in a house - oh hell no! When the barn is all closed up and the top ridge vent is open, and running this thing for hours - you WILL notice yourself getting a headache. Which means it is time to open a door and go outside for a while! Because it is the first signs of carbon monoxide/dioxide poisoning... DO NOT USE THIS INDOORS! :) Ya know, unless you already have all of your funeral plans all in order....

I know you are not suppose to, but sometimes you have to do what you gotta do. I know enough to crack a couple windows and watch for symptoms etc. I have used the sunspot heaters in boats during the winter. It is either that or freeze when you have no power. Mr. Heater needs to invent a cheap heater that you can vent through a window.

I never can make out all those little tail numbers :)

As someone without the means to build or buy one, I was always very judgemental on how one of these 'should' be built (427 Ford--I wouldn't mind the 427 Windsor-based small block crate engine that Ford sells/4 or 5 speed manual). Several months ago, I saw a few videos featuring West Coast Cobra replicas (a now defunct replica manufacturer). Their cars were not as 'authentic' in the looks department, but the more videos I saw, the more I opened up to the idea of this alternative brand of replicas. The cars featured 460 crate engines from Ford Motorsports, and buyers had the option of 4-speed (it might have been a 5 speed) manual or 3 speed auto. With 500 or so horsepower on tap when Ford offered the 460s as a crate engine, I actually started to like the idea of the 3-speed autos as many of the videos showed West Coast cars that featured the auto. Just a few weeks ago, I found a video of another Shell Valley car which looked fairly authentic, and that one featured a 427 Chevy small-block and 5 speed manual. As well, there is a video short on yet another Shell Valley Cobra with a 427 Chevy ZL1 big-block (a newer released, limited edition crate engine offered by Chevy a few years back based on the orignal 427 ZL1). For some reason, Shell Valley kits seem to end up with Chevy engines. So, making a complete circle, here we are with this Shell Valley replica with yet another Chevy engine and also featuring an auto.

Carroll Shelby's first choice wasn't Ford, it was Chevy, but they turned him down! They didn't want to support competition for their Corvette. So he approached Ford. And they took the bait! :) As to the auto - Shelby himself had a 260cid Ford with a C4 auto as his own personal car, one of the first ones built before they stuck in 289's. He had it until he passed away in his own collection. He used it for years, driving all over California. And as he put it, You just get in and "drive"! In traffic and in the hills, all you had to do was drive and enjoy the drive and not worry about shifting... It wasn't a racer - it was to go out and just enjoy driving. Which is exactly what I am intending to do. I didn't buy this Cobra to race, I just wanted something nice to take my wife out to dinner in and go enjoy the twisty turny back country roads in the rural Texas county that I live in. It has "street manners"! I don't need a 500hp fire breathing monster to take my wife out to the local wine bar for a flat bread pizza and vino... :) A 355hp monster will do just fine... Thanks for your comment...

Thanks for your comment! I think it was more along the lines of a couple of different owners (The dealer who purchased it from the builder and the "second owner") were more used to computerized cars and NOT 1960's style technology. I'm sorta old school, and an ex-drag racer that is used to carbs and analog stuff - because it worked! IF YOU KNOW HOW. One of the reasons I took this project on, is it had an engine and transmission I KNEW quite well. And an engine I had spent many many years working on for the drag strip. One that I could damn near tear down and reassemble blindfolded... One that I already had spares sitting on the shelf from my old drag racing days! LOL To some, it is blasphemous. To me, it was slipping on an old shoe, well worn and familiar. A Chevy ZZ4 crate motor and a TH350 automatic transmission. 350 CID and a pretty bone stock TH350 transmission that I had parts on the shelf for - and even a 800HP rated full drag race prepped trans to replace it if the need arose. I KNEW for an absolute fact that this wasn't running right when I first heard it - but I knew it was a simple fix! The trans works perfectly... Nothing fancy, nothing earth shattering, nothing that was too powerful for a fun weekend cruiser - which is exactly what I wanted! Honestly, I did NOT want a 500+ HP big block track monster with a manual transmission. I wanted something I could hand the keys to someone else and not worry about them wrapping it around a tree! It has a modest 355 HP with about 418lb-ft. of torque that is easy to drive. A little twitchy because it weighs less than a Miata! But still manageable. It will still plant you back in the seat like a jet fighter... And yeah, it may be a lot more fun with a manual transmission - but after sitting in several cobras, I quickly figured out that my fat, wide feet covered more than one pedal at a time! The footwell is TINY! Making driving it with even the skinniest shoes I own, downright dangerous! So the auto trans made sense and really fell in line with what I WANTED out of this car, a simple to drive, fun weekend cruiser I could take my lovely wife out to dinner in. But as you will see, in upcoming videos - it is STILL one hell of a handfull to drive and one hell of a scary beast to try to hold onto. You can't take your hands off of the wheel for a second! It's kind of like trying to hold onto a feral hog by the tail when someone else has a blow torch up its butt.... :)

Dang, I just wonder what’ll happen when Possum Farms Jr. gets into this thing? Can we say speeding tickets in three counties? Oh boy!!!

My barn is about 1150 sq. ft and the one head on LOW works quite well... No need for anything larger. It takes a while to get up to temp but it keeps it there with a big 40 lb bottle of gas.

His name is "Chupa Cobra"... (Chupie for short) That sound was a bit tattle-tale to me when I first looked at it. The previous owner LOVED how it sounded and that "lowered look" to the front end. I, on the other hand, was sorta pissed about it. First, the "lowered look" was because of BROKEN SPRINGS! The front end required a complete rebuild. New shocks, springs, bushings, tie rods, ball joints, the works! And that "Hot Cam Sound" was due to it running on only 6 cylinders, the timing was so far off that it was astonishing it even ran at all and the carb was so maladjusted it was almost criminal. AND both headers were crumbling in my hands and had holes so big I could stick my thumb in them and wiggle it around! New headers, new side pipes, the right kind of plugs, wires, cap and rotor, a BIG timing adjustment and some time diddling the carb settings make it sound like a normal, decent running engine - NO MORE LOPE, no more backfiring and it runs so smooth now you can balance a nickle on the valve cover... :) It sounds totally different now. Just in time to send it off to my mechanic for a long laundry list of items that I just can't do in my barn - like a front end alignment, etc... It took 5 months to get it back from the mechanic - it needed that much love... :)

A lot more dangerous too - it's a real handfull....