COBRA REPLICA CUSTOMERS PAST AND PRESENT

 

September 21, 2008 Chris, I want to say thanks to all of you for taking the time to answer my questions and I really appreciate all the help over the last couple of weeks.    Best regards, Dino Finot Calgary, Alberta. Canada.

 

 

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 Extremely responsive, on the dyno it did 135 in 4^th and pulled 340 but we did not want to push too hard, we need to get some miles on her.

351w / 400 Horsepower Polished Package

Mark Halgreen,

Lubbuck, TX

Lonestar Classic  7/6/08

 

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Car is finally done. the motor is awesome. i have attached 2 pictures for you. thanks for all of your help.

Scott Risseeuw  11/12/07

srisseeuw@cox.net

 

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Here are a few pics of my Cobra kit car with my new 331 Ford Stroker installed. Thanks again for all your valuable assistance.

John Seaman

Brunswick, Georgia    9/26/07

 

 

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Engine Factory - I speced out the complete engine build up, worked out a price with them, and it came out great. '93 style PS pump, '04 hydraboost and PS rack. Love the PS and PB.
Branda Cobra stuff - had the valve covers polished - great. Air cleaner sufficates the engine. Have switched to an Endlebrock foam filter for everyday driving. TKO 600 with mid-shift - now that all the little nags are worked out with the trans - good. Love the mid shift.
302 v. 351 v. stroker v. big block - 393W is a good bridge motor between the small blocks and big block motors. Potentially, the best overall. Happy with choice. Really good performance and I can still get somewhat good gas mileage - 17 best so far - low gearing doesn't help; 3 grand at 80 mph!

10/18/07
 

Engine runs great.
Thanks for your help.
Bob Hirschauer  April 2007 

 Roy Flores 427w  FFR Coupe.  South Carolina

The motor performs extremely well.  QUITE A LOT FOR A LIGHT CAR!!!  :)   Very fast, sounds GREAT.  I am extremely happy with the motor and its performance.  Corvettes, Saleens, new GT500, cars with nitrous, etc. can not touch this car.

Attached is a pic of my 347 sroker engine which I bought from you in January '06. It's installed in my GT40 replica, as you can see quad 48IDA webers with a full crossover open exhaust system, as you can imagine It sounds fantastic.

Regards

John Ketchell  UK
 

Check out this beauty !  Our 351w / 400 HP engine in  a GT40 Replica.

The engine that is currently in my car was built by the Engine Factory. It is a 351W (405HP Cobra Special), which is now pushing between 425 and 450HP. The engine has run without a hitch from day one. Very strong through it's power band, loads of torque, and incredible throttle response. It holds 50lbs of oil pressure at idle after a good hard run, is tight, and has no leaks after a few thousand miles. I had my engine on my doorstep within 10 days of ordering.

  I would buy from them again, if a new project comes along.
 

Bill Bayard 

Lewes, Delaware

fatalattraction@rcn.com

The guys at the Engine Factory are super. Took all my information (ok and Money) and was very eager to help me out. They have supplied many engines to the FFR folks.  The delivery was super and with no damage.
I would recommend them to anyone who is going the non donor route. I looked into the options of other crate engines and by the time you add on all the extras I would have paid the same with out the professional installation. Mine is a complete drop in and run engine with 100 amp chrome alt, MSD electronics, Edelbrock carb, intake, heads, chrome front sump oil pan, and polished alum valve covers (cobra powered by ford)..

Good overall price for something that is 500 hp and ready to drop in

Joe
Binghamton NY
 

Bill Bayards Factory Five Coupe

351w Hi-Po Engine

Sugarland, Texas

bill@ffcobra.com

I ordered my Engine Factory engine about 6 weeks ago, and it came in today. Everything exactly as agreed, with a video showing my engine running and going over all the details I'll have to take care of and watch for!
It's a 351 W - with 405HP. They found me a 69 block, so I won't have to run cats.
It'll be a week or two getting it going, but all looks fantastic so far.
What a Christmas present!

I'll call ya soon !

Jim Thomas,  Westerville Ohio

Jan. 2003

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John Arendall's Cobra,  Alabama
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003

I started working on this project about this time last Year, so far I have completely put the car together and now have disassembled it for the paint shop. It has a 302 cid HO motor with 350 HP. It has a Mustang GT rear suspension, four -point hookup and quad shocks. 327 to 1 gears with posilock differential.  It has a 95 T-5 World class Transmission with the long pilot shaft and bellhousing, stainless steel gears.  I am building the car to just drive and not show.

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The engine was finally installed in September 2002.  I ran the engine three times in the 9 months of waiting for the car.  I used a plastic bucket to provide a reservoir for the water pump and circulated the water to clean out rust deposits in the block.  I turned the engine over without plugs to circulate oil prior to starting.  The engine started right up the first time and all the other times.  The car is finally finished and we have been on the road for two weeks.  (now it has been a couple of months and about 900 miles).    I thought I would send you some pictures of the finished product.  Your engine has been perfect.  Starts easily and runs very strong.  I am very pleased with the job you did on this motor.  Not only does the car look fast, it is.  Much more engine than I am used to, but will try to get used to it.   I have tried to follow most of your directions, if not all of them.  I ran the engine without thermostat (put in a thermostat around 400 miles) as you recommended.  50° - 60° weather car will run about 140 – 160 water temp.  If I let it run at idle, temp will get to 180° (electric fan comes on), or if I run it a little hard, it will reach 180°.   I also wish to thank you for the clear directions in connecting MSD system.   There was some confusion with directions from ERA.  I need to clean up some of the wiring in the engine compartment, but will do this while waiting for my oil pan modification. Had to replace K&N air filter (4-inch high) with a very low profile filter (about 1-inch high) because the hood would not close.  I have an oil temp indicator, but no port on Canton oil pan.  Again not your problem as I should have let you know that I needed a port in the oil pan for the sender unit.  I have removed oil pan and sent back to Canton Racing for modification. 

Minor Appleman     ERA Cobra Replica Owner   MN

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Fred Dunn, Factory Five Roadster. Arlington ,VA

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Shailen Salvi   New Jersey

Factory Five with our 351w / 400 HP Engine

Somehow it just did not seem like we were building a car, until the Engine Factory sent this little number to our house, complete from air cleaner wingnut to oil drain plug. They built it just as I asked, then ran it up on a bench to check it out and tune her up. Even included a video of the engine running with a narration from the builder, good stuff.

Brian McCarthy Nashua NH - 10/31/04
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Engine test conducted on Friday. If any of you saw the movie "Christmas Vacation" with Chevy Chase, do you recall how excited he was when he finally got his 25,000 outdoor Christmas lights lit? Same feeling here. These guys helped me get her ready for test. Fired up on second crank.
 

Stephan Pohl  331 / 410HP FFR  Wetzlar, Germany  info@Ford-Pohl.de The dream of owning a 65 Roadster is not exclusive to those stateside.  After all, dominated tracks all over the world in the 60’s, so its influence was felt in many corners of the world.
Excerpted from Stephan’s emails: In 1996, I restored my first European BRM-Cobra 427, which I bought in England.  After I married my wife Silke and my daughter Emelie was born, in August 2002 I sold the car to spend more time with my family. Only 3 years later, however, I couldn’t resist the urge to own a new cobra.  So I asked my family, and they gave me the green light.
Stephan enjoys the super-speedways of the German highway system as much as he likes pushing the car to it’s limits on Germany’s famed Nurburgring or one of Formula 1’s favorite Hockenheimring.  He regularly shares stories of racing and other adventures in his German Factory Five. FFR posted a small portion of the images he has sent us over the last few years.

I thought you might be interested in a couple of pics of my car showing the engine and radiator – a nice new ally job which, following his advice on video, The bundle of snakes exhaust system is ceramic coated and will hopefully take a lot of the heat out of the back. The engine fired up straight away as promised and sounds great. The only change I’m making is replacing the mechanical fuel pump with twin electric ones. The engine is mated to a 5 speed Renault transaxle unit with limited slip diff.

The build is about 2/3 complete now.

Nick Smith   United Kingdom.    04/08

 I bought my motor last February 2007, it arrived ahead of schedule and due to life getting in the way the motor sat for almost a year. I was very nervous that it would have problems for sitting that long, especially during a Utah winter. It fired right up also. Mine purrrrrrs as well. I'm at 5,000 ft so I did change the metering rods and this is the nicest motor I've ever played with.

Paul Berg   FFR Owner
 

Hi Guys,

Please see annexed copy of pictures of my Shelby Cobra replica with the engine bought from you , runs great and I'm having a lots of fun down in Miami!

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