Mk IV at Brooklamds Motor Company

[administrator]

There have been some slightly confusing logins set up on the Forum in the last couple of months which I have only just sorted out.  The posts on this page with the username SBB have in fact been made by 1984MkIV; I hope subsequent posts by SBB will really be made by SBB!

[MkIV Lux]

Michael,
   
   Nice job done at Steve Gray's premises. Good choice.
   The car looks great in its new livery.
   
   Constant

[1984MkIV]

Finally the Coupé arrived!
   
   Here is a look at the power plant:
   
   
   
   The output is about 0,7 MegaWatt
   
   
   
   After weeks and weeks of waiting the Coupe arrived just in time on the day we wanted to start into our holidays! Now the last two stages of the enterprise started:
   - get a german registration, which is the most difficult part of the story
   - find out, if it´s useable as daily driver
   There are different problems concerning daily driveability:
   - noise: The Coupé is less noisy than my roadster if you are outside, but the reverberation inside the car is nerve-wrecking!
   - water: when the car arrived, all the carpets were wet and there was half a gallon of water in the co-drivers seat!
   - crampy seating position
   - fuel consumtion
   - maybe heat / air ventilation in the drivers compartment.
   I´m curious, if I will sort out all the problems and what will be the result! I´ll keep you informed, hope to get the car on the road within the next two weeks.
   Is anyone out the in the Cobra Worls having any experience with TMW stack injection? Maybe it is a Weber Injection; there is a Weber logo on the electronic unit and the inlet manifold dimensions are the same as the Weber Carburettor´s manifold dimensions?!
   Another question: I am looking for Dave Friedmans and Peter Brocks book "Daytona Cobra Coupes". Any known source? Any offer (in this case please contact CarollShelby (at) gmx.de)?
   At last some data:
   Weight: 2110 lbs
   0-60 3.60 sec.
   0-100 8.20 sec.
   0-130 14.2 sec.
   Roadholding (lat G): 1.04 g
   Braking, 70-0 mph 183 ft.
   Top Speed 180 mph
   4,1 lbs./hp
   1,84 kg/PS