1993 Cobra Registry

Hi guys I'm a newbie to the Cobra world but not to mustangs in general as this is probably my 10th one! A guy i knew in town basically daily drove this Cobra and promised me when he decided to sell it he would let me know. That day came when the ECU went bad in it and it needed quite a bit of attention so I broke down a bought it. I'm working on it slowly but surely (just picked up last December) and its no concours restoration i am having a blast with this one and it is definitively a keeper!
So far i have completely redone the suspension: New ball joints, rack and pinion, tie rods, correct cobra rotors, new brakes and calipers all the way around, upper and lower control arms, bushings throughout and not.
Mod wise it had shorty headers, intake and 3.73s when purchased and after finding a broken intake bolt i went a good way in it. New gaskets, oil pump timing chain and freeze plugs throughout
Comp XE270 cam
Ported original heads milled .030, valve job and springs/ ported lower intake and Throttle body
Longtube BBK Headers and offroad H pipe
New Clutch, fiore quadrant and firewall adjuster
Quarterhorse Tuning software
255 LPH Fuel pump
Im sure im forgetting more.
The paint on the roof, hood and hatch was faded and the hatch had some rust. I had the roof, quarters, hood, painted and hatch repaired with metal from another hatch, still need to go over the rest and buff it and repaint the trim like I want. Next addressing will be getting the correct tail lights as it had LX lights when purchased and i just threw some 85 lights in and a total interior revamp!

First purchased




Getting there, just threw some headlights i had in for the time being going back stock


Powerwashed engine bay, notice broken ac clutch and fan shroud partially missing!


Decided to drop k member to paint it and do oil pan gasket. Small garage at my home didnt allow a engine pull but after owning a Modular Cobra swap car i can drop k members easily


Ew dirty, car had leaks everywhere


Cleaned up with longtubes and new motor mounts


BMR springs and new struts and ball joints

Broken intake bolt


Bottom end still very clean for 180k miles.


Filthy


Some before/after head porting. My first time so treat me nice





Back on the engine




At body shop






Soon as it was back from the Body shop put the XE270 in


All done, along with new ac compressor lines and radiator


Some pictures outside

Wow looks great now.

Welcome to the site! Your restoration looks to be coming along quite nicely.

Congrats on finally acquiring her!! Love stories like this.
Keep up the terrific resto job you are doing on her. Looks way better already!!

Thanks guys! I found it already registered here hopefully someone here will know a little history on the car. Looks like it came from California and the guy i got it from had it since 2008 i believe.

Nice!

Welcome to the forum!
Wow, what a great story and detailed restoration write up with pics. Thanks for sharing. Looks really good, nice job!


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I'll keep you guys updated along the way! having the windows retinted then going to work on the interior along with a new heater core and double din radio. Found the paint code for the wheels thanks to this site

Well put about 1500 miles on the ported GT40 setup and scored a good deal on some edelbrock performers. Going to work the exhaust ports on them some and go to some FTI LSX valve springs in them hoping itll hold the Xteme energy cam a little more. Heads are back off



The old GT40s have been good



The edelbrocks, going to play with the exhaust ports some while i wait for the lindy Flycutting tool (2.02 intake valve)

Plugging away slowly but surely havent had a chance to mess with the Cobra from working on everyone elses stuff. Pistons are flycut for the 2.02 intake valves and lsx valve springs from Ed Curtis have arrived.



Got bored and used berrymans b12 on a rag and cleaned the pistons up after cutting



Edelbrock performers and the old springs vs the new much lighter lsx springs

Impressive work!

Enjoyed the pics. Thanks for posting.

Finally got it all buttoned back up and going, had to enrichen the tune quite a bit was seeing 13.7 afr at WOT but runs very well with the Heads and upgraded valvetrain
Going to try and get it on a dyno soon to see what it'll do

Measuring for pushrods, ended up needing a 6.300 Comp magnum


PTV Clearance, pretty tight around .070 on the intake side exhaust well over .100. Heads were milled to 59CC chambers and used .041'' compressed head gasket.



1250S3 Intake gaskets


Didn't take any of it all buttoned up but will have some soon!

Great post man, welcome to the site! Like somebody else posted, love these stories. I especially like guys who turn their own wrenches. Obviously not your first rodeo.

Post up more about the 93' and don't be shy with the other cars either. I like'em all!

I've had my share of vehicles lol, probably upwards of 60 easily. Heres a few of the ones i do have pictures on my photobucket of ill get off my butt and compile them one day!

This is my old terminator swapped 2003 Automatic Mach 1, steggy ported blower, longtubes, full suspension and bolt ons. Bought it bone stock blew up the original engine on nitrous and bought a wrecked 04 cobra to swap from. Never got a clean 1/4 pass but ran a 11.4@126 on a 1.8 60'





Back when it was Bone stock with a h pipe and 150 shot lol



My old 6 speed 6 cylinder accord, probably the best handling car ive ever had although it had tons of suspension work. Was so much fun for a Daily



This was the 1993 Coupe i had a couple years, 4 cylinder conversion. Trick flow heads, intake and cam with 175 Shot on a stock bottom 302. Yes i split the block 15 or so Bottles into it