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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Must have OEM/Performance spare parts for 2013-2014 Shelby GT500
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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Company" data-source="post: 17021721" data-attributes="member: 141815"><p>Mecum sold a butternut yellow with black interior that had the original engine and drivetrain a few years ago for the exuberant price of 3.4 million dollars. The red car estimated auction price was 3.4 million also. It actually brought $2,585,000 plus buyers fees. My wife was usually with me when I stopped to look at the red car and she didn't want me to buy the car, as she knew I'd want to build the engine as close to original as possible. I made sure she watched this car go at auction, unfortunately it didn't seem to upset her one bit.</p><p></p><p>The closed chamber aluminum cylinder heads to replicate the build were probably the hardest pieces to find. They were only used on the L89 396 375Hp engines and the L88 427 engines from 67 to mid 69. Probably less than 500 sets of these heads were used in production. Also these earlier aluminum cylinder heads were easily damaged when swapping in larger solid lift cams, they usually pulled the threads or cracked the rocker arm studs bosses. From what I found out about the car the person that restored it spent approximately 10 years to locate the correct parts to do this correctly. Today I doubted you'd be lucky enough to find an unmolested or undamaged set of cylinder heads with the correct date codes to do this again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bad Company, post: 17021721, member: 141815"] Mecum sold a butternut yellow with black interior that had the original engine and drivetrain a few years ago for the exuberant price of 3.4 million dollars. The red car estimated auction price was 3.4 million also. It actually brought $2,585,000 plus buyers fees. My wife was usually with me when I stopped to look at the red car and she didn't want me to buy the car, as she knew I'd want to build the engine as close to original as possible. I made sure she watched this car go at auction, unfortunately it didn't seem to upset her one bit. The closed chamber aluminum cylinder heads to replicate the build were probably the hardest pieces to find. They were only used on the L89 396 375Hp engines and the L88 427 engines from 67 to mid 69. Probably less than 500 sets of these heads were used in production. Also these earlier aluminum cylinder heads were easily damaged when swapping in larger solid lift cams, they usually pulled the threads or cracked the rocker arm studs bosses. From what I found out about the car the person that restored it spent approximately 10 years to locate the correct parts to do this correctly. Today I doubted you'd be lucky enough to find an unmolested or undamaged set of cylinder heads with the correct date codes to do this again. [/QUOTE]
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