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Old Jun 13, 2009 | 07:25 PM
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SO i saw this mustang for sale $6000 went to check it out... It has the cobra on the side and it says cobra on the back. 5 speed manual 92000 miles. Then I popped the hood and it looked to be a mustang gt engine. He said he had a new engine put it that was from some company and was built to handle a supercharger because thats what he wanted to do. I asked him if the car was a gt with a cobra body kit but he said if I checked the vin it would show it was a cobra... Why would he have what looks to be exactly like a 1997 mustang gt engine instead of keeping the cobra engine?
Old Jun 13, 2009 | 07:27 PM
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pics of car?
Old Jun 13, 2009 | 07:34 PM
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This is all i got for now im gunna go back tommorow
Old Jun 13, 2009 | 07:37 PM
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it has the cobra hood on it so either some one made a fobra or they blew the stock motor and put in gt motor
Old Jun 13, 2009 | 08:21 PM
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Check the steering wheel, most people miss it when they do a fobra, should say cobra, and last, least and most importantly, take pics of the engine bay, come back post them up, Guy could have just destroyed his **** bought a 2v motor for $200 and dropped it in.
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by SVTeeshirt
Check the steering wheel, most people miss it when they do a fobra, should say cobra, and last, least and most importantly, take pics of the engine bay, come back post them up, Guy could have just destroyed his **** bought a 2v motor for $200 and dropped it in.

Sounds like it....check the redline on the tach, too.....
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 08:19 AM
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Love Cobra's, but I'd stay away from this one...
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 11:00 AM
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what does the tachometer read in a cobra?
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 12:53 PM
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just checked vin on carfax... Its a 1997 mustang gt
Old Jun 14, 2009 | 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by POISND U
Sounds like it....check the redline on the tach, too.....
Why look at the redline, I think those cobras had white faces gauges.


OP, did the brakes say cobra or nothing at all.

Either way, stay away from cars that someone else builds. Why would anyone trust someone that puts a GT engine in a Cobra, built or not.

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