Corky Bell's Mongoose
 

And here's the homepage for the whole project (not sure if the site is maintained by BEGi, but it's linked to from their homepage): http://www.cb1project.com/

pretty bad ass

yeah..thats nasty.

lot of work for just 505 hp.

kinda what i was thinking....nice car none the less though


second site says 650 HP 640 ft/lbs of torque

"Custom bucket seats"? Those are from a freaking Miata.

Even if it is making "only" ~500hp, it's only a boost controller adjustment away from more...or a turbocharger upgrade away from MUCH more.

And those seats don't look particularly like Miata seats.

Also on the second site it says 12psi instead of the 7.5psi on the hot rod site. I love that guys work, immaculate.

Hmm. Yeah. Not to take away from Corky's mad skills (I've been drooling at this car for months), but that number is conservative. We have a "mild" 351 here (at Jesel) with a hydraulic camshaft, carb, no forced induction that makes 563 all day long. A streetracer can get close to 500 in his 5.0 mustang (302 windsor) just buying parts from Summit. I'm sure he's making (or easily can make) lots and lots of power.

He's using a camshaft gear drive. They're worse than a chain. Tisk tisk. He didn't buy any drivetrain components from us :nono:

Why's the camshaft gear drive worse than a chain, Tim?

It makes a lot of noise, all of my experience with the gear drive has been positive. I personally hate the wine that the gear drives have though, so I would have went the chain route.

Well, they were chopped up and recovered first. :)

Some people have the money to spend...

Second site is correct.

I'm sure it's not just one of those dyno queens either.

the gears are usually louder, but far better. formula one for example uses all gear drive parts. cams, water pump, alternator, etc. they are more efficient, accurate, and lightweight when done properly.

If I want to get paid on Thursdays I have to say chains and gears suck compared to belts. Closest competition is gears so they suck more than chains.

F1 uses gears so what does that tell you? ;)

I do know that gears do impart certain bad harmonics to certain valvetrains that belts absorb. All pro-stock drag cars use belts, all top fuel cars use gears, all nextel, busch, craftsman truck engines use belts.

I'd still rather a nice big block :dunno:

yellow cobra = wow as it is. damn thats an amazing car

Very nice setup... Now if I could just win the lottery...

0-60 in 2.85

1.15 g's

What's this thing weigh?

I agree with Philip though. 5-600 HP is doable with an NA big block, let alone what could be done with turbo's. I'm sure the decision to go Fjord Windsor had to do with the Shelby-Ford mystique and balancing the weight/ power/ drivability.

Any word on price yet?

i would want a t78 2jz with the getrag 6 speed

:ugh2:
Why not just swap in an SR20DET?

"Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless. Like water. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend!"
Bruce Lee
Enough said.

Why not just turbo the 4-cylinder you've already got in the car instead of putting in another 4-cylinder?

And WTF would you put a turbocharged, straight-6 Toyota motor in a Cobra, replicar or not?

And WTF do people think the comparing the acceleration in two entirely different cars with two entirely different drivetrains is meaningful? WTF cares that a turbo'd straight-six Supra can out-accelerate a big-block Cobra (with the aerodynamics of a brick) from a roll?

So, what would happen if you took the turbos away from the Supra? Or put turbos on the big-block? I mean, you've gotta play by at least a couple of the same rules to mean anything, right?

Why did I spend all that time responding to something so inane?

I don't understand. misquote?

I've driven a Factory Five cobra (stock 302)....believe me....what corky built has gotta be insane.

oh yea,thats definately ..insane...:bowdown:

but if i could build 1 it have 2j,i just like inline motors.

No, not a misquote at all. I'm dumbfounded when someone suggests doing an engine swap in the car from one 4-cylinder to another; unless it's like M2CupCar's 2.3L FE, since it's at least got a ton of extra displacement, it uses all Mazda drivetrain components and is thus easier to do.

Then I was angry with TurboPezzz for suggesting putting in a Toyota straight-six in a Cobra...I'm sure he'd love that Skyline motor in the '66 Mustang that was shown a while back (think it was made for a movie, perhaps?). Or the Cobra with the Lotus Esprit 3.5L V8 in it...it just don't make no sense (preferably read in a Southern drawl).

Then I became upset with all the ridiculously inane Youtube, Streetfire, etc. videos of some car with billions of dollars dumped into its engine beating another car and all the little ricer minions thinking it meaningful in some way.

That's al:sadwavey:

yeah, thats pretty much what I meant.

lol ... i love you guys

anyway, would love to see this thing in action on the track soon. Should be very vewwy quick.

supra slingshot rolls FTL :nono:

The man who owns it runs it at Motorsport Ranch in Ft. Worth area regularly, and just bought a bonneville car. Only three or four people have driven the cobra. Corky, Trey and the owner. Corky only gave rides, but never let anyone else drive it. :cry:

I may be biased, but it is MUCH better any kit car will ever be. hehe.
Stephanie

(this has nothing to do with corkys car.as i think its mint.)
LOL,ahh sorry for thinking out of the box.its a "shelby'' KIT CAR.There isnt anything holly about it.its not a AC shelby car.

i just think it would be best bang for the buck to put a 2jz in.there capable of 700hp on a stock motor.plus they arent that exspensive.

im just saying what i want to do in a few years,buy a factory five kit,a cheap mustang as a donor and a 2j motor.

Hmmm...I think the best bang-for-the-buck would be an LS1 motor...more befitting the nature and look of the car, too.

LSx FTW!!!!!!!!! Wonderful engines. Great mileage too.

yea thats also a good motor,priced right too.i just dont care for the fords 5.0 .

wow

Upping your post count by posting useless shit so you can sell something in the "for sale" section?

I've seen it parked out at MSR, but never seen it run.

:bowdown:

The gen 3 and 4 small block motors are truly impressive. The engines produce gobs of power with very little done to them. While ford went to the modular motors, chevy stuck with the pushrod design and the motor got smaller, while the modular got physically bigger. I never understood that logic of the motors displacing less and the motors being physically bigger.