27th July 2012 – Silicone water pipe arrived
We received all the water pipes and T-bolt clamps. A few week before we had used some old off cut pieces of pipe to make templates of the sizes and angles we required. [...]
8th June 2012 – Making the dash
While Mark was sorting out the coolant system and pipes, I took on the task of making the dash. We are making this dash to suit our standard Hawk Loom. All of our [...]
8th June 2012 – Fitting the radiator fans
The radiator fans arrived from the supplier. We original spoke to Gerry about what to go for and he suggested getting twin 10 inch blow fan kit from Pacet that would sit at [...]
31st May 2012 – Making coolant and heater matrix pipes
Mark has been busy over the last week or so getting things welded and made. This included the coolant pipe to link the radiator to the header tank and also the heater matrix [...]
31st May 2012 – Water temp gauge & heater outlet union
We look at fitting the water temperature gauge and heater matrix pipes but before we could do this we needed to get some new unions in order to fit them. The problem we [...]
6th May 2012 – Throttle linkage (final modifications)
As we had decided to adapt the lower bracket for the throttle linkage mechanism back on 20th April (link to post), Mark had polished the bracket up so it was ready to fit [...]
6th May 2012 – Mounting the header tank
As Mark had spent the time polishing it up we now thought about mounting the header tank into the engine bay. It sits in the space between engine and radiator and the chassis [...]
21th April 2012 – Polishing bits up
Mark had bought a new polishing set from the internet and decided to put it to work by polishing up the newly wielded throttle linkage bracket and header tank. They look amazing and [...]
20th April 2012 – Throttle Linkage adapting bracket
Once we had done the final fit of the throttle linkage, we looked at it once again and thought to ourselves that there might be a problem with the lower bracket once the [...]
31st March 2012 – Wiring loom (part 1)
We had now got to a stage where we could start thinking about the wiring up the Cobra. So we got the wiring loom out of the box in the shed that it [...]