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Title: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 03:35:35 PM
Good evening all, I have poured over a ton of threads on Cobra intakes and still find myself unsure of what I have in my 1965 Kcode, cloned GT350 in 1970. The intake on my motor is a small letter cobra at the front, there is a firing order on that front runner, nothing on the rear runner (closest to the firewall) but on the flat spot behind that rear runner is S1MS 9424-A   Can anyone help ID this intake?  Thank you in advance, Scott  I have a pic of the S1MS and will try to load.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: J_Speegle on October 19, 2024, 04:36:05 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 03:35:35 PM.............. I have a pic of the S1MS and will try to load.

That should help some and help confirm. Does the carb flange happen to have four individual holes or one big single two oblong holes?

Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 04:49:36 PM
the 4 hole version... having issues getting picture here...
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: TA Coupe on October 19, 2024, 06:10:37 PM
Here's a tutorial on how to post pictures. Hopefully it will help you.
First click on user actions, then click on reply and then write what you want then click or drag the pictures you want.

      Roy
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 06:46:59 PM
Thanks Roy... so pic is on my phone... I need to save the pic to a file and then try to find to attach here?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 19, 2024, 06:52:10 PM
You can send it to me and ill post it for you

Coralsnake68@hotmail.com
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: TA Coupe on October 19, 2024, 07:58:27 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 06:46:59 PMThanks Roy... so pic is on my phone... I need to save the pic to a file and then try to find to attach here?

I have an Samsung android phone so here are the last steps to post a picture. After you click to get the files, you will get a page with some icons on the bottom that you have to slid over to get to media picker which you will tap on and that will take you to a page with 3 lines at the top left that you will click on and then you'll scroll down to gallery and click on that and then tap on the pictures you want to upload. Sounds a little complicated at first but once you do it a time or two it's easy easy.
If you want to call and talk I can walk you through it which I've done with a few people.

     Roy 510-917-FORD
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 09:02:01 PM
Thanks Coralsnake68!  Just emailed to you.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 19, 2024, 11:05:50 PM
Thanks TA Coupe... I have Apple.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: TA Coupe on October 20, 2024, 01:11:21 AM
I believe apple works similarly because I helped someone I met while at a restaurant and if I remember it wasn't to hard for me to figure out.

     Roy
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 20, 2024, 06:06:53 AM
Scotts photo


(https://www.saac.com/forum/gallery/8-201024060512.jpeg)
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 20, 2024, 06:15:57 AM
Thanks Coralsnake.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 21, 2024, 07:45:39 AM
This pic shows what I was trying to describe... there's no casting on the back runner and the S1MS you see here is behind that rear runner... between the firewall and the rear runner?  TIA, Scott
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: JD on October 21, 2024, 09:19:11 AM
Does it look like these... but with 4 round holes, not two long openings, at the carb mounting surface?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 21, 2024, 09:57:21 AM
Correct.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 24, 2024, 07:30:33 AM
JD ?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: JD on October 24, 2024, 08:48:50 AM
Was trying to help show what you have, since posting was not easy.  There are many variations of small block intakes which makes it difficult to know just what someone has in terms of "correctness" and/or value.

There are others on this forum that know a lot more about these variations than I do.

I was trying to gather images of these variations and got as far as this, see attached, and was told there were many more out there and I stopped.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 24, 2024, 08:59:24 AM
Starting to look like the ten spoke wheel chart 😉
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 24, 2024, 09:28:11 AM
Yes there are others not pictured. SCOTTGTK needs to send a over head picture of his like what JD posted to Coralsnake to post.  Preferably a picture without the carburetor or gasket underneath  on it.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 24, 2024, 09:39:40 AM
Please send me pictures

Dont give up JD keep looking for them you are the best resource
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 25, 2024, 12:59:10 PM
Thank you all... I'll do my best to get some over head shots as soon as I can. I cannot get with carb off as I'm running it.
Thanks for posting Coralsnake.... I'll continue to try and upload from my end as well.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 25, 2024, 01:51:14 PM
No problem
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 09:19:36 AM
I should be able to get a pic or more to you today Coralsnake and I'm gonna attempt to post again from my end.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 30, 2024, 11:58:30 AM
Standing by
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 01:46:11 PM
Just emailed to you CS... I'll now try to load from my end as well...
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 01:50:17 PM
All following/contributing to this thread, thank you and be aware, these pics are not the best... best I could get at the moment.. if you "expand" on them you'll be able to see what I see... I understand looking underneath would be helpful as well, but I wont be pulling the motor for a few more months for sure... Thanks again for your thoughts!
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:04:54 PM
HHere are 4 of 5 pics... I think... it stopped me at 4...I'll try the 5th on another post..
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:05:25 PM
And the 5th....
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 30, 2024, 02:26:00 PM
I need to make them smaller, I will load them shortly
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:40:14 PM
I just tried to open one of the pics and on my end it just sends it to downloads... Don't know of that will happen to all
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:49:42 PM
Trying again..
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 30, 2024, 02:55:35 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:40:14 PMI just tried to open one of the pics and on my end it just sends it to downloads... Don't know of that will happen to all
That happened to me too. I can't open them . Hopefully Pete will have better luck posting.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 02:58:31 PM
Sorry... I need to figure it out for future use! I have a new subject shortly for the group that would include a couple pics...
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:01:02 PM
I'll try to post from my phone? Maybe it makes a difference.. I've been trying from the laptop.. tech is not my sand box.. I do see I have "user actions" here... I didn't on the laptop
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:04:45 PM
Did that work? I did get a message... I'm no longer allowed to post anymore pics unless in a new post.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:08:21 PM
And the 5th... seems to work from the phone??? 
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 30, 2024, 03:23:49 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:04:45 PMDid that work? I did get a message... I'm no longer allowed to post anymore pics unless in a new post.
That made all of the differance in the world . A picture is worth a thousand words. It is one of the first reproduction intake attempts made several decades ago. I would be surprised if it had 4 holes when the carb is taken off. It is based on one of the last versions of production Cobra intakes. That is a typical common denominator for the repro companies to use the last available version before it went obsolete. The large firing order letters and numbers ,unused thread holes by the runners which are for mounting the coil to the intake on engines with thermactor (1967 and up smog)are the obvious tells.  The S1MS engineering number on a S2MS large letter Cobra intake given the other described tells ends the speculation. I suspected as much because that S1MS and its mold mark I have only seen on old repro intakes but didn't want to make a determination by that alone.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:32:22 PM
Awesome!  Thanks Bob!  Couple follow up.... is the mold mark the 9424-A? Is that COBRA considered LARGE cobra letters? I thought they were the small letters?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: computerworks on October 30, 2024, 03:35:27 PM
Scott... you were not attaching universal images... you were posting some Apple formats (HEIC)

HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container, a file format for storing digital images and image sequences. It's the default image format for Apple devices.

Needs to be converted to JPG or some universal format

Ron
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 04:00:50 PM
Thanks Ron... seems to work better from my phone. I didn't have the "user actions" tab on the laptop but I do on the phone.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 30, 2024, 04:11:16 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 03:32:22 PMAwesome!  Thanks Bob!  Couple follow up.... is the mold mark the 9424-A? Is that COBRA considered LARGE cobra letters? I thought they were the small letters?
The mold mark I was referring to is the oblong raised pad the S1MS is on.That is not on the genuine intakes. The Cobra letters on yours are the same size as other genuine S2MS intakes which are LARGER than the genuine small letter S1MS intake.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Coralsnake on October 30, 2024, 04:29:56 PM
Winning
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 30, 2024, 05:30:48 PM
Understood, Thanks Bob ....Thanks again Coralsnake!

Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: shelbydoug on October 30, 2024, 07:30:25 PM
It's a very nice manifold, just not original to a '65 GT350.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: TA Coupe on October 30, 2024, 11:06:06 PM
How did you finally figure out how to post?  Might help others.

     Roy
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 04:44:29 AM
Agreed shelbydoug... I'm happy to know what it is and know that it's a much older (maybe period correct) intake.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 04:51:54 AM
TA coupe, I literally just decided to try it from my phone (Iphone) and when I got into it noticed I had the "user actions" tab you mentioned earlier... clicked on that and then went thru the next step or 2 to load the pic and it worked?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SFM6S on October 31, 2024, 07:10:09 AM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 04:44:29 AMAgreed shelbydoug... I'm happy to know what it is and know that it's a much older (maybe period correct) intake.
It's technically not period correct...just my two cents of thought
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 31, 2024, 11:43:37 AM
Quote from: SFM6S on October 31, 2024, 07:10:09 AM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 04:44:29 AMAgreed shelbydoug... I'm happy to know what it is and know that it's a much older (maybe period correct) intake.
It's technically not period correct...just my two cents of thought
+1 .The repro intake on your car is copied after a 1967 and later intake. It has extra provisions for smog which weren't seen until 1967 up. It would not be the best aftermarket alternative on a 1965 engine. There is no 1965 Cobra intake that has been reproduced . The closest that you could come in that department is the excellent Scott Drake S2MS marked Cobra intake which is almost Identical to some Cobra intakes that were produced in 1966 production. https://www.jegs.com/i/Scott-Drake/204/S2MS-9424-C/10002/-1
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 31, 2024, 11:45:59 AM
Here is a picture of the Scott Drake reproduction Cobra intake which is more correct looking then the blue thunder reproduction Cobra intake which has been around for 15 or 20 years in current form.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 02:14:10 PM
Thanks Bob, SFM6S! I like the Drake version... maybe someone out there has an original for sale? Knowing what mine is now Bob, do you have a ball park estimate how old it is?
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 31, 2024, 03:07:26 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 02:14:10 PMThanks Bob, SFM6S! I like the Drake version... maybe someone out there has an original for sale? Knowing what mine is now Bob, do you have a ball park estimate how old it is?
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 02:14:10 PMThanks Bob, SFM6S! I like the Drake version... maybe someone out there has an original for sale? Knowing what mine is now Bob, do you have a ball park estimate how old it is?
The Drake repro is marked just like the genuine it copies which is S2MS 9424 A . That early style of repro intake you presently have on the engine is probably 30 years old IMO.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: Bob Gaines on October 31, 2024, 03:13:21 PM
Quote from: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 02:14:10 PMThanks Bob, SFM6S! I like the Drake version... maybe someone out there has an original for sale? Knowing what mine is now Bob, do you have a ball park estimate how old it is?
FYI a genuine nice condition S1MS 1965 small letter intake sell in the 1800-2800.00 range if you can find one. If you are considering a genuine S2MS intake over the repro S2MS in this case would be a lateral move IMO not worth doing because it is so close in appearance.
Title: Re: Cobra intake
Post by: SCOTTGTK on October 31, 2024, 03:27:07 PM
True... my goal here is to get as much as I can, period correct or original. Next on the list is swapping the rear disc brakes for larger drum. I'll have some pics shortly of the rear end/axel as were having difficulty identifing what it came out of.. it's a 9inch, just can determine what from and so far no identifying tags/marks etc.