The interior and trunk is mostly back together, bottle is mounted at a 30* angle and I just got the NX Fire&Ice controller so that is the last of the pieces for the trunk and it is starting to look bad ***. I think I found a spot for the controller, not sure:




The fan looks like it is right off of a PC's CPU!



I got to see the entire SpeedHut custom made gauges lit up, I was so blown away I took some pictures with all the lights out in the garage. The green perfectly matches the SVT ones, although the illuminated needles are much brighter, but I think that will help me to know what is going on with center cluster, without having to focus on them or move my eyes directly to them. Yup I was so excited I left the frikin flash on when snapping pics in the dark and didn't figure out they would not show up like at night until I got home? what a putz! Well I'll have to try again for the money night time shots but here is the best of what I took today:



These gauges not only look good but they are programmable, the button is to set upper and/or lower thesholds to trigger a VERY bright red warning light. Someone asked what that was for and I completely forgot it was so long ago when I ordered them, but they weren't cheap so they are full function.




My magic black box is wired in now to reprogram the Cruise Control. When you flip the "CC ARM" switch my cruise control becomes a momentary switch for my LINE LOCK! thats right, not only can auto's launch off of a footbrake, but so can I with my stick! I roll up to the beams, arm my CC, touch the brake about 1/2 way, not a full pump like for burnouts, put my left thumb on the CC button on the stock steeringwheel, now I am holding the car on the front brakes with my thumb! Now I have one foot for the clutch and one for the go pedal, I then will release the clutch enough to push the car forward to pre-stage. Then with the clutch all the way up with no play I will light the second light, stomp the gas to pull the rpms up to the 2 stage limit of 5500 and with the clutch heating up and the front suspension actually loaded I release my thumb and clutch on the 3rd yellow and hold the F on.

I went with a rather large purge button to help when I have gloves on. I will always do a quick purge right after the burnout because the way it is wired, the purge will only work if the NOS systems are armed, so I will still have a chance to reach down and flip the NOS arming system, if I blip the purge and nothing happens:



When attempting to attach the E-brake, they didn't have enough slack to be attached to the new lowers, so a couple L brackets were required to be fabbed up:




Just a couple more things left to do like installing the underneath style anti-roll bar I just ordered from Miller Race Cars (yeah the same guys who lost on Pinks), a super sweet setup that will be welded to the Moser case and is specific for Stangs, the FRPP hood pins, the rear seat delete using matching carpet that just arrived, the bottle heater and controller has to be wired in and a blow down tube installed & vented outside of the trunk and finally a solution to the mufflers/tail pipes. The trick StainlessWorks mufflers barely fit in the body opening in front of the yoke but come too far back to allow room for a bend up over the axles, so I need to find a shorter high flow muffler or I will have to go with bullets.



I can almost smell the burnout box now!

 

This is a LS1 forum!! Get that POS FORD outta here!!! Why would you even post in here??..........Just messin with ya man...haha...You were probably thinking..."what a dick"...haha..nice F*CKIN car though!

 

Do you still have your LS1 Camaro? How do you like your cobra compared to your LS1??

 

I'm not selling either one for a long, long time.


Your essentially asking me to pick a favorite between two of my children, I don't know maybe some parents could spit that answer right out, but not me.

Both are bad *** rides and I like them for different reasons and for all the putzes that own a Chevy and hate Fords or own Fords and hate Chebbies maybe they need a hobby or something, or need to grow up cause it makes absolutely no sense to me?

I want a street ride that is totally well behaved so for me that is the SS. T-tops, comfortable, wide *** seats, hatchback, good stereo for the few times it is on, N/A torquey LS-1, T-56 what else could you ask for? I'm going to add a RAM clutch, LS-2 slave cylinder, better flywheel, long tubes with electric cutouts to what I have already done and that will probably be it for a few years and I'm just going to drive the snot out of it and have fun. I'll take it to the track for Weds nite street racing and play but it is street first and track occasionally.

The Cobra is in a different stratosphere. It will be my race car for serious Sunday NHRA sanctioned racing until I get a real tube chassis car built for me if I stick with it. Yeah it will have plates but I won't be driving it on the streets, don't want any trouble with kids or cops but it will make a few cruise-ins and convoys with my Stang buddies. It is track first and foremost, street only in a blue moon.

Sometimes you need a open site brush gun for in close treestand hunting and other times you have to break out the Magnum, sighted in at 250 yds for those other times you want to reach out and touch something. Is one better than the other, NO. Its horses for courses and I'm just lucky enough to have a stable with two different options and I LOVE them both!

Oh, and my daily driver is one of the first year 02 WRX's and that is a cool little rocket completely stock, just so you don't think I have something against imports, because I don't!