Snake, no worries my man, the purists feel the cobra is special. Something above everything else, and hence should not be messed with. In a sense I agree, but I don't feel the cobra is the fable creature it's made out to be, and I'm not a purist to any of the SE lines on any make/model car.
What I like about the badge is it's verticle mounting position, which makes it unique on the grill and brakes up the horizontal lines of the billet grill which become overwhelming with no badge, forget about the posing and all that jazz. I obviously left the fender emblems so I wasn't posing.
Along with the verticle mount, the colors (black and gray) fit my theme of black, black, and more black quite easily.
It's funny, the majority here like the car, many even say keep the badge, but a employee of mine put a few pics of my car up on his favorite mustang site (mustangworld) and they flamed the entire car, mostly the badge. Someone went as far as stating I should have gone and done the big brake kit already, instead of the 5 dollar can of red spray paint on the calipers (when do I get to take a little breather from spending money on the car anyway) I mean I only bought the car in October and I think I got a ton of expensive crap done. Another made fun of the non functional scoops, another said I should put more fog lites on the car taking a poke at the extra piaa's cervinis puts in the fascia. Many of the mustang world jack azz's even made fun of stangnet, specifically this thread, and how the majority here like the car, but the majority there hated it. Needless to say I wasn't too appreciative of that.
Everyone is entitled an opinion, my project car isn't for everyone, I learned to let things roll off the back long before the internet came along. A good thing to.
Thanks for the many props and negative opinions the like.