25th February 2012 – Throttle linkage first fit
We decided at this point to get the throttle linkage mechanism finished and fully fitted. We did the first fit back on 28th January, but now we have all the necessary bits to [...]
25th February 2012 – Fitting battery tray & reservoir bracket
The next 2 little jobs were to fit the battery tray to the nearside and the reservoir bracket on the offside of the engine bay. Gerry had made up the battery tray and [...]
25th February 2012 – New braided fuel pipe
We planned to get some more time on the car this weekend. We have planned to get most of the little job under the bonnet out of the way today. First job was [...]
28th January 2012 – Making the Throttle linkage
Once the throttle pedal and pivot where fitted, we moved onto fitting the throttle linkage to the carburettor. This is something we have been thinking about for a few weeks. We had the [...]
28th January 2012 – Fitting the pedal box and throttle pedal
We started today thinking it was about time we fitted the pedal box. As we had already cut the hole in the footwell ages ago, its a job we could now do as [...]
23rd January 2012 – Fuel pressure regulator(fuel king) & connecting to carb
Happy New Year to everyone. Just a quick update as the last post was a while ago now. The cobra build was put on hold over christmas as I was away in NYC [...]
5th December 2011 – Engine Bay
Once we had got the body back on it was really late into the evening, but these are some pictures taken the next morning in proper daylight. We are delighted to finally have [...]
3rd December 2011 – Fitting Inner wing heatshields
We fitted the remaining side panels heatshield next, which would also neatly fit over the top of the new well section panels. As we had with the other panels we used a metal [...]
3rd December 2011 – Engine bay – extra metal panels
We decided after a little discussion to make some extra aluminium panels for the well sections connecting the inner wings inside the engine bay to the pedal box and footwells. Originally we had [...]
29th October 2011 – Fitting Heat shields
We started fitting the heat shields today. We started with the bulk head panel, carefully positioning before marking up the holes, drilling and finally riveting into place. We used 4.8mm diameter rivets. The [...]