Jesse builds another Cobra #11,061 - First body work shots

[Blitzboy54]

Seat Alignment

One of the things that I found disappointing in my initial tests is the seats. My tail bone was getting directly pushed on. I bought the seats because they look so good. Others have used them and I never picked up any complaints so I figured I would pull the seats when I shut her down for the winter and have the seat cushions re done. Maybe double the padding? It never really thought about the seat angle. One of the other things I struggled with is under my right leg there was no support. So when operating the pedal my leg would get a little stiff. I had none of these issues in my last Roadster. It hit me those seats had a pretty decent tilt back to them. Breeze mounts (which are a very popular item around here) also tip them back quite a bit.

So I decided to make some changes and see if it improved things.

I had purchased these spacers from RE Suspension. They were going to be for the bump stops but quickly pivoted away from a solid travel limiter. They are 1 inch and fit perfectly under my seat sliders.



This gave me a considerable lift in the front.



I am not sure if the picture picks up the difference but this is the drivers side tilted 1 1/4 inch and the passenger 1/2 inch.



This is both



I have to say this is night and day. I don't think at this point I need to do anything to the seats. The angle made all the difference. We will see how they do on longer rides (I could still maybe beef up the padding) but so far so good.

Engine Tune

I data logged last week and did a couple of full throated pulls. In my limited Coyote experience so far I find it opposite of my SBF in a few key ways. Mostly my 306 was snappy at the lower RPMs but petered out around 5200 rpm. It got louder but ran out of pull. This one is fairly tame under 3000 RPM but pulls really hard all the way through 7200 rpm. There doesn't seem to be any drop off at all. I really like it. I used Juggernaut Tuning and I have to say I cannot say enough good things about them. They charged me all of $300 and have engaged with me off an on since March. I hadn't had any contact with them since April because I couldn't get out for a proper drive and sent them the new file. They picked it up where they left off and made another set of adjustments at no additional charge. The engine runs flawlessly. My only complaint was it cold idled too high for my liking. They tuned it down and now it hums at about 1100 RPM until it warms up and then drops to 800.

They have sent me 3 different tunes and been very responsive. I know people like Lund but if you want to spend a little less I highly recommend these guys.

https://jptunes.com/