Hello all it's been a long time since I have been on here much but my car has been down for over a year and I haven't had time or money to fix it. It started about a year and a half ago. I had been fighting a long battle with a ticking vibrating engine that just didn't seem right. I won a triple threat nitrous kit from Ny-trex and installed it on my cobra but never put more than a 50 shot (only three times) through it for fears of engine problems because of the ticking and vibrating. It finally let go one day though finally letting me know what was wrong with the engine for so long.
The crank broke into two pieces just behind the first throw. I had put that motor together about two years ago and the crank I used had been sitting in the garage for ten plus years I suspect it got damaged somehow due to the way it broke. I started having problems within weeks of the first start. To top all my great luck off after the engine broke my garage was hit by a tornado on April 27th here in Alabama. I was really lucky my car was not destroyed because my car was pulled halfway into the garage because I had started pulling the engine apart. The roof and the garage door fell onto the front end of my car but really only doing minimum damage to the car and other than some hail damage the car looks fairly good but now instead of having to just repaint the front end I will have to do a complete paint job.
Fast foward to now, work is is cutting costs and they are taking the company trucks away and I had to have transportation to and from work. I rolled new bearings into a low mileage stock 95 GT engine bottom end and put my lightly ported GT40 heads (after a few new valves) and intake on it. I left the stock gt cam in the engine. I had three weeks notice and got it all together and running and am now driving it 143 miles round trip to work and back. It feels nice to have the car back but I hate having to drive it this far daily. It surprisingly is running really good even considering the long time it sat. Sorry for the book there is just allot to the story. I will post some pics soon of the car in it's current shape and after the tornado.
The crank broke into two pieces just behind the first throw. I had put that motor together about two years ago and the crank I used had been sitting in the garage for ten plus years I suspect it got damaged somehow due to the way it broke. I started having problems within weeks of the first start. To top all my great luck off after the engine broke my garage was hit by a tornado on April 27th here in Alabama. I was really lucky my car was not destroyed because my car was pulled halfway into the garage because I had started pulling the engine apart. The roof and the garage door fell onto the front end of my car but really only doing minimum damage to the car and other than some hail damage the car looks fairly good but now instead of having to just repaint the front end I will have to do a complete paint job.
Fast foward to now, work is is cutting costs and they are taking the company trucks away and I had to have transportation to and from work. I rolled new bearings into a low mileage stock 95 GT engine bottom end and put my lightly ported GT40 heads (after a few new valves) and intake on it. I left the stock gt cam in the engine. I had three weeks notice and got it all together and running and am now driving it 143 miles round trip to work and back. It feels nice to have the car back but I hate having to drive it this far daily. It surprisingly is running really good even considering the long time it sat. Sorry for the book there is just allot to the story. I will post some pics soon of the car in it's current shape and after the tornado.
