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Hyper:
Thanks man.  You are part to blame for my disease.  Some of those projects we worked on helped get me to the point of being willing and confident enough to dive into stuff.  It is tough to stand out amongst the sea of Cobras.  I still frequently see ones over on FFcars that blow me away, but many of them have double and triple what I have invested.  There are still lots of things I would do differently if starting over now, but most of it can be addressed down the road.  I hope everyone enjoys the pics.  I'm usually pretty underwhelmed by the response I get on the Cobra forum.  The mentality seems to be to ignore anything non-traditional.  I certainly appreciate a well executed period correct replica, but I prefer to pay homage to yesterday while taking advantage of today. I like to think of it more along the lines of "what would they have done then if they had known what we know now".  Anyway, more pics to come.

Stilldrillin:
By 'ek, Hyper!  :bugeye:

Did Eric ever tell you, how well you'd fit in here?  :lol:

That's a beautiful machine, developing beautifully.........  :clap: :clap:

Thanks for showing!  :thumbup:

David D

BiggerHammer:
I thought there were rules against posting pornography here? WOW! I have a fondness for the Cobra myself. Just waiting to hit the lottery.

Hyper:
Since I've moved 3 times since I started this thing, I have inevitably lost and broken some parts. One of the most infuriating was when I picked up a headlight box and it felt out the bottom, lens down.  The car came with Euro spec Hellas that had the integrated parking lamp inside.  They have to be ordered from the UK.  I liked them, but decided to go with something a little brighter and ended up with these tri-bars from Speedway.  This is also gives a good look at the hood scoop.  The combo of my poly motor mounts, phenolic spacer, and larger TB had the hood hitting the motor so a new scoop was needed to make clearance.  Didn't so much need height as width and I wanted it to be subtle.  This is one of my favorite scoop styles.  It is from a 97 SS Z28.  I think part of why I like it is that it is similar to a NACA duct and I thin it compliments the lines of the car and actually looks more at home than the original rivet on scoops...


Here you can sort of see the brushed finish of the trim here.  It doesn't stand out ( part of the point ) but I also modded the headlight and turn signal housing to tuck them as close and clean to the body as possible...


After doing that, and also after looking at the body without them for so long, the tail lights were bothering me.  They seemed very afterthought and didn't flow with the lines.  I went back and forth with what to do and was headed down this road for a bit...


But the lights were still too big for the mounting surface ( not a big deal ) but the curvature of the fender down to the top light needed work.  The only thing I could think was to move them down so that line would flow.  It would look better, but I was concerned with moving the brake lights lower out of the line of sight of the sheeple on the road....

 
 A simple request for some measurements netted a free pair of the LED lights that Factory Five supplies with their new 33 Hot Rod kit.  It will take just a little bit of smoothing under the light, but I think it fits my theme better and these things are "OMG I looked right at them" bright.  And the housing is chromed billet  :D...


Here's a comparison.


I'll have to find something to use them on.  Before I got the led's I had decided to add a halo led inside each light to use as either the turn signal or brake light which would have given me 4 separate brake and 4 separate turn signals.  Would look pretty cool I think, but the oval light just fits so much better.  I did have to use a trailer wire adapter to make it function as a run/brake/turn, but that was pretty simple and cheap.

Hyper:
The layout of the trunk panels as delivered needed some work to be more functional.  I added a storage compartment with hinged lid, an access panel for the fuel tank, and a pair of hinged lids for the battery compartment which now serves as access to the adjustable roll center of the Watts link....


The watts required an offset battery box to clear the spindle.  Since this pic, I have trimmed the top of the outer vertical panels.  This is known as the "drop butt mod".  It drops the body of the car from the wheelwells back.  This eliminates the trademark Factory Five "perky butt" and hides the fuel tank better.   


 You can see the roll bar mounts here.  The car was originally equipped with just the driver and my wife didn't think it was funny when I told her to duck when she asked where her's was.  I'm very proud of the fit of the passenger roll bar.  It matches the driver in height and angle perfectly and even installs easier.  But then I changed them  :palm:
Actually I just have a second set now.  The driver side here is the original bar.  It's 2" and very tall and straight and beefy and as you can see it has a detachable third leg for installation, which leaves a seam and exposed hardware depending on the install method...


The passenger bar is 1 3/4" and about 2 1/2" lower and it angles back slightly more.  It doesn't seem like much, but it really changes the overall look of the car.  It also eliminates the seam and hardware since it is welded.  These are the ones shown in the first pick of the car.  The safety police ( wife ) had already complained about the reduction in height, but it's still taller than my head and I haven't flipped a car yet.  I will be making them interchangeable for track days though as a helmet would be higher

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