If Jerome received a nickel...
If Jerome received a nickel every time someone asked how much trouble it was to install the SN-95 dash, he'd be a millionaire. Although the dash from the wrecked Cobra couldn't be used, Jerome found a good donor from a '97 Mustang, and he got to work. He and his friend, David Hornsby, spent 10 hours cutting and trimming alone, and that was just to be able to mount the dash. "It was worth every minute of it," Jerome says.
Oh, yeah-about that. Jerome used an Anthony Jones Engineering tubular K-member specifically designed for a modular-into-Fox swap. With that in the coupe, he dropped in the '03 Cobra engine, transmission, driveshaft, radiator, and hydraboost brake system. When the car was "finished," Jerome took the car with the '03 Cobra Eaton supercharger, fuel system, and a 6-pound lower pulley. "The car made 431 hp and 421 lb-ft of torque," he says. But that was before his wife, Pamela, bought him a Kenne Bell 2.4 Twin-Screw supercharger. He says there's no getting rid of Pamela now-and she doesn't have a sister. With the Kenne Bell, twin SVT Focus fuel pumps and 60-lb/hr injectors, the coupe hammered out 579 hp and 545 lb-ft to the rear wheels at just 13.5 pounds of boost. Performance Fuel Systems' Alan Kennedy tuned the car using SCT software.
After seven months of working on the coupe and "finishing" it at 3 a.m. on September 30, 2005, Jerome started it at 8 a.m. and headed for Bowling Green, Kentucky, for the NMRA World Finals. We didn't see the car the Saturday of the event, but NMRA Car Show Director Sweaty Eddie Svoboda did and, being the good guy he is, told us he would call when Jerome arrived with the car. As you can see, he has arrived. Quick street car, accomplished.
| 5.0 Tech Specs |
| ENGINE AND DRIVETRAIN | ELECTRONICS |
| Block | Engine Management |
| '03 Cobra | Alan Kennedy-tuned SCT chip, |
| Bore | Stock '03 Cobra computer |
| Stock 90.2 mm | Ignition |
| Stroke | Stock '03 Cobra |
| Stock 90 mm | Gauges |
| Displacement | Auto Meter, Innovate |
| 281 CI | Motorsports air/fuel |
| Rotating Assembly | |
| Stock '03 Cobra | SUSPENSION AND CHASSIS |
| Camshafts | Front Suspension |
| Stock '03 Cobra | K-member |
| Heads | Anthony Jones Engineering Fox |
| Stock '03 Cobra | Modular swap tubular K-member |
| Intake | Control Arms |
| Kenne Bell | AJE tubular for modular swap with |
| Throttle Body | SN-95 ball joints |
| Kenne Bell Big Oval | Springs |
| Mass Air | AJE coilover |
| SCT 90 mm | Struts |
| Power Adders | Lakewood 90/10 |
| Kenne-Bell 2.4 Twin Screw, 3.5-in | Caster/Camber |
| upper pulley, Metco 6-lb lower | UPR |
| pulley, Lightning Force | Brakes |
| Performance heat exchanger | Stock '03 Cobra |
| Fuel System | Wheels |
| Twin SVT Focus fuel pumps, | FRPP FR500 chrome 18x9-in |
| Earl's Performance Products | Tires |
| Prolite fuel lines, CPR fuel rails, | BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW |
| Siemens-Deka 60-lb/hr fuel | 265/35 |
| injectors, Stock '03 Cobra fuel- | Rear Suspension |
| pressure regulator | Springs |
| Exhaust | FRPP C-springs |
| Kooks long-tube headers and | Shocks |
| X-pipe, Flowmaster 3-in after-cat | Stock |
| exhaust with two-chamber | Control Arms |
| mufflers | Bennett Racing adjustable uppers, |
| Transmission | Steeda lower control arms |
| T56, McLeod Street Twin clutch, | Brakes |
| Steeda Tri-Ax shifter, Stock '03 | Wilwood four-piston system |
| Cobra driveshaft | Wheels |
| Rearend | FRPP FR500 chrome 18x9-in |
| Stock 8.8, Kenne Bell girdle, | Tires |
| Powertrax Locker differential, | BFGoodrich drag radial |
| Ford Racing Performance Parts | Chassis Stiffening |
| 4.10 gears, Moser axles | BBK subframe connectors |