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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 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 that 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 find that the beauty of a kit car is in its flexability of construction, the LS-powered Cobra is nothing less than a mechanical masterpiece.

As electronically-governed systems become more prevalent in hot-rodding, so does the incorporation of GM’s LS engine. At PowerTV, we see a good deal of LS-motor swaps in old cars, but as far as high-quality Cobras with the LS mill under its bonnet, MWS has, without a doubt, the most glass-quality “snake” known to the kit market today.