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Below are several projects that were copied over from my forum www.lonestarcobras.com. I have copied them here to consolidate that forum with this one. These projects were done by myself Cobrapilot and Luce over the past few years. I really enjoy doing these projects on the cobra and hope that...

8:55 PM - Jan 21#11 I've had it on the road twice so far and It's real promising. Tune is super green. I've only had 2 iterations of datalog, smooth and repeat. It has gobs of torque all the way down to 1000 RPM. I have a big pulley on it now, so it only gets 3 lbs of boost over 4500 rpm or so...

2 spring meets ago, I was losing coolant and couldn't find a leak. It was slow enough that it didn't make the forbidden milkshake. As I was getting ready for last year's spring meet, it went hard and caused problems. Head gasket let water into the valley, and the first bearing to fail was the...

This is a relatively minor project, but it does get rid of an annoying problem that's been going on for years. Since I did the fuel injection system for the car, the engine tachs so fast that it tends to put a lot of force on the alternator bracket. I tried to remove the old bracket that I had...

Aug 30, 2016#1 (Old post copied over from the old forum) I finished this up in March, but thought I'd go ahead and post a writeup, as there seems to be a lot of discussion on the front control arms and such. Also, I talked to Dennis during the Cobra Meet, and suggested that they make these...

This hardly even qualifies as a project, but here's something I did recently. I kept having a problem with my 15" oval air filter. The engine has sucked out the fabric from a couple of the K&N filters, leaving only the mesh. I replaced the 15" filter with the cobra 22" oval filter and the 2"...

I never liked the cheap plastic center caps that came with my wheels, so I decided to just make some. I machined some discs out of 1/4" aluminum plate with a recess in the center the right size for one of the hood emblems. Got 4 of those from Finish Line. The aluminum disc is mounted to the...

Here is the whole system installed and connected. I used silicone vacuum tubing for heat resistance and chemical resistant Tygon rubber tubing for the brake fluid reservoirs. The vacuum reservoir canister: The engine was found to only make about 7 inches of vacuum due to the camshaft’s...

Cobra Power Brake Modification R. Bickle 3/2018 The Lone Star Classics cobra was not designed with power brakes in mind, although some people have modified them with power brake boosters. My car had an additional problem because I had cut out and moved the firewall forward 2 inches in order to...

(Old post copied over from the old forum) You all may remember last year I converted my cobra from carbureted to fuel injection with the help of Brian (luce). Well, not being able to leave well enough alone, I decided to take it one step further and remove the distributor completely, in favor...

The earlier models of Lone Star cars didn't have much room for the gas pedal. The firewall was sloped from the console outward, which made the gas pedal mount too far back or too far left. If you're 6'2" like me, you're driving with your knee in your face. I cut out the firewall with a grinder...

Well, I agonized over whether to share this here or not. It is a crappy old chevy and not a Cobra, but the info can easily transfer to a Cobra. So, the wife wanted a fun car. Her dream car was always the older C3 vette, with the chrome bumpers. We got one, but the old 350 was tired and...

(Old post copied over from the old forum) Hey all, Things have been more than a little slow on this forum lately, so I'll post what I've been working on over the winter. Some of you have been hearing me talk about this for the last year or so, but now it's actually done. I have retrofitted the...

Thought I'd post some pics and do some explanation of what I've been working on for the last couple of months. With much help from Brian (Luce), the original designer of this IRS, we have fabricated all of the parts and made a few changes from the original setup. Here's the car on the lift...