Since 1993, Mark's Workshop of West Australia, or MWS, has been the western Outback's premiere leader in supercharger installs and in-house tuning. Not only a retailer and manufacturer of such superchargers as the Eaton-based unit for Holden's (GM) LS1 motor, but MWS has some 25 years of fabrication experience accumulated, and so they have the knowledge and resources to build and fabricate their own, full-custom assemblies. MWS also specializes in various V8 conversions, Euro-tuning and suspension and brake upgrades.
Today, MWS brings us something that a lot of Ford--maybe even Mopar--folks might consider "sacrilege," enough even to seriously consider making confession booth reservations for Sunday. The "unpardonable sin" of which we speak is the 427 AC Cobra kit car from MWS and Superformance, fitted with an LS7/T56 drivetrain. The car, as seen in this video, is an unfinished project running on a dry sump and race-fuel system, just to name a few.
As far as the kind of responses the Cobra has generated on YouTube, these vary from those who understand the nature of kit-car construction to those who are a bit more "in-the-wool," condemning and reminding us all that Chev motors in Ford race cars are deserving of no less than "great and severe punishment." But for those of us who understand that the beauty of a kit car is in its flexability of construction, the LS-powered Cobra is nothing less than a mechanical masterpiece.
So why does the "stigma" between Chevy and Ford continue to exist? Because some of us, in the world of hot-rodding, have chosen to climb under a rock; truth be very much told, we were all one of "those" at one time or another. Once you come out from under that "rock," however, you might be surprised what you were missing while you "cried and complained" about how the days of 289s in FIA racing are long-gone. Actually, MWS' Cobra could've worked just as well with a carbureted 289 mill, but we're damn glad that our Aussie friends have chosen to represent the "Chev dog" with this Chevy/Shelby lovechild.
Read more about this car at Chevy Hardcore!
