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Where in NC are you again? Need to get this thing out to a Cars & Coffee when it's done!!
North Raleigh just outside the city line. We have a 8:30 Cobra's & Coffee the first Saturday of the month at the Hardees on Creedmoor & Millbrook. Usually in nice weather 10-15 cars show up 90% FFR replicars.
Its about 3/4 of a mile north of the big Crabtree Mall.
We are also doing a track day in late November at VIR. We are renting the track so we will have it all day or till the tires wear out.
North Raleigh just outside the city line. We have a 8:30 Cobra's & Coffee the first Saturday of the month at the Hardees on Creedmoor & Millbrook. Usually in nice weather 10-15 cars show up 90% FFR replicars.
Its about 3/4 of a mile north of the big Crabtree Mall.
We are also doing a track day in late November at VIR. We are renting the track so we will have it all day or till the tires wear out.
Ah cool. I lived in Raleigh back in the early 90s in The Pines of Ashton right near the hospital.
No work this week was at the shore with the family. Son in law I took to the performance center delivery gave me this picture of the track prepared M5. Very very fast car.
Lots of boring wiring stuff this week with quite a bit more to go. One of the nice things about building a replica in NC is that its registered in the year of the original regardless of what engine is used. That said this brought an evil smile to be able to do a little something in the face of overwhelming government control of our lives.
So my 1965/67 is not required to have an annual general state inspection or emissions testing. The engine can be set up one of two ways from Ford Racing – strict emissions or ‘relaxed’ emissions.
So relaxed it is. The twin PVC valves in the valve covers get canned then replace by hose fittings & 1/2” hose (yellow). The two hoses are joined with a T fitting then routed under the chassis where they vent directly to the atmosphere. No running blow by gases pack into the intake tract.
Oh the humanity!!! we are all going to choke to death.
If anything comes out it should be a light vapor. The outlets at the valve covers are baffled to keep liquid inside the engine. Functionally they work the same as the push in breather caps on a typical hotrod.
"Road Draft" tubes similar to what I made were standard equipment on all cars prior to the PCV regulations in the late 1960's. The PCV system originally had nothing to do with emission control. The system was invented during WWII for use on tank engines to seal them for fording deep water & for the DD swimming tanks used in the Normandy Beach landings.
Last edited by BEAR-AvHistory; Aug 27, 2014 at 10:58 PM.
Its a logical suggestion. I installed an inline oil catch can to replace the PCV system on my 335is which tended to coke up the back sides of the intake valves. It would pick up a few table spoons of oil every 4-5 months when I opened it up to clean it. The Cobra will not get the use that the daily drivers get.
Engines with breathers, road draft tube type blow by control can sludge up over time, generally with non synthetic oil, but again its the type of use. Prolonged idling, stop & go traffic etc reduce the effectiveness of the road draft type systems. They typically need air movement over the end of the tube to create a low pressure area to draw out the blow by gases.
Last edited by BEAR-AvHistory; Aug 27, 2014 at 11:13 PM.
The catch can was the only liquid oil trap on the 335. The Cobra has oil separators internally before the tubing I put on so it may actually be cleaner than the BMW was. That said you are correct some will get out.
Engines with breathers, road draft tube type blow by control can sludge up over time, generally with non synthetic oil, but again its the type of use. Prolonged idling, stop & go traffic etc reduce the effectiveness of the road draft type systems.
They typically need air movement over the end of the tube to create a low pressure area to draw out the blow by gases.
Thing to think about here is these are not DD type engines, but are for 'off road' use. The computers & wiring harness from Ford Racing will not run in a Mustang BOSS because of abbreviated or dropped out functions.
Its just a loophole with the NCDMV that lets me run this engine. If I was back in Jersey I could not register it for street use the way I built it. No front license plates either in NC WOO-HOO
Last edited by BEAR-AvHistory; Aug 27, 2014 at 11:32 PM.
No pictures this week, rebuilt the rear on the Ranger after the brakes froze.
That said one of the guys cars did very well in the SCCA regionals "Super Weekend". He & a nationally ranked co-driver took the fastest time trophy out of 100 cars in the two day event.
Good week for the Cobra. Got word they have started the body work & are fitting the doors, hood & trunk in prep for painting. Will trailer the chassis down there for them to install the body. Then I will bring it back home to finish it with lights, windshield, interior etc.
Continue to work on the wiring. FM & Sat radio is being worked on this weekend. In between wiring jobs (when they get too boring) installed the rest of the intake track & hooked up the airflow sensors. This finishes all the external engine sensors, water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, oil level & fuel level.
Some extras from yesterday. Behind the dash am cleaning up the rats nest & bundling the wires. The yellow box is around an ECU connection that I had a question about for the guys on the FFR forum.
Mostly cleaning up the wiring this week. Main bus is in & engine ECU are completed. Some secondary, switched, wiring to go, plug in the dash harness to the chassis harness & then a test start YEAH.:thumbsu
In honor of my elevation to "clowndom' & BS'ing with my 0-60 claims in the TLX thread where I said, among other things, the FFR COBRA out of the box is an 11 second car. One of the guys is shaking down his ride with the first 1/4 miles. Two good runs then on the third & last where he had an excellent 1.8 60ft his throttle cable let go.
In Ryans words
'It was a very busy day at the track with lots of subarus breaking at every chance, but got a few passes in finally.
First pass, no burnout. Easy shifting... shake down pass.
Observations, brakes easily haul it down from 120 with no issue. She goes straight as an arrow. Spun through most of first gear. Shifted at ~5800. 1.8 60' time
Attempted a burnout, but pushed through the line lock. Line lock doesn't seem to be holding pressure, so I need to check and replace I think. This is the third one I have had, the first two leaked. I am not very satisfied. Same 60' time, same spinning through first. Shifted a bit more aggressively and at 6000 rpms.
And that was it... well I got a third pass in and finally managed to get a little heat in the tires. Improved the 60' time to 1.6 and was going to easily see an 11.3, but the throttle cable ball on the pedal pulled through the plastic insert and I had to abort the run.
Mostly cleaning up the wiring this week. Main bus is in & engine ECU are completed. Some secondary, switched, wiring to go, plug in the dash harness to the chassis harness & then a test start YEAH.:thumbsu
In honor of my elevation to "clowndom' & BS'ing with my 0-60 claims in the TLX thread where I said, among other things, the FFR COBRA out of the box is an 11 second car. One of the guys is shaking down his ride with the first 1/4 miles. Two good runs then on the third & last where he had an excellent 1.8 60ft his throttle cable let go...
Looking forward to hearing about your completion of the project and shakedown of the Cobra.
You should have better luck than Ryan based on the work shown in this thread.
Son in law I took to the performance center delivery gave me this picture of the track prepared M5. Very very fast car.
@ Subaru's breaking at every chance.