15th October 2011 – CAD HeatShield modifications – Part 2
As mentioned in the previous post, having seen Andy Gordons FIA Cobra at Silverstone, one thing we really liked with his car was the way he had fitted the metal cladding in the [...]
15th October 2011 – CAD HeatShield production – Slipstream Design – Part1
The metal cladding heatshields for the engine bay is something we've been working on for some time. Fortunately we have brother in law Phil Wilson who has an engineering, design and CAD (computer [...]
24th September 2011 – Extra fibre glass on the pedal box
Mark decided to add some extra fibre glass to the floor where I had made the cut out for the pedal box. He cut a piece of fibre glass matt to bridge from [...]
10th September 2011 – Painting engine bay footwell white
It’s perfectly OK to leave the engine bay as it is, although the original Cobras had white footwells inside the engine bays. We are taking an educated guess this may have had something [...]
10th September 2011 – Extending the pedal box hole
Due to the modification Mark had made to the pedal box by wielding a new flange around the edge, we had to spent a couple of hours cutting and extending the hole. The [...]
20th August 2011 – Pedal box adapted with new flange
After seeing Andy Gordons FIA Cobra at the Silverstone show, Mark decided he would like to make a modification to the pedal box by welding an extra flange around the edge. By cleverly [...]
13th August 2011 – Exhaust manifold modifications
This is something we did a few weeks ago, but haven't written it up until now. Original we had some real problems getting the exhaust manifold bolts in and tightened up (read post [...]
22nd July 2011 – Cutting the hole for the pedal box
After cutting the side vetns, next was the pedal box hole. This was a little more fiddly due to its position at the end of the foot well. Again the position for the [...]
8th July 2011 – Exhaust arrived back, then PROBLEMS!
We received the exhaust back from Camcoat who had done the ceramic coating. This acts as a thermal barrier and will stop them corroding and but more importantly make them look really nicely [...]
May 2011 – Exhaust manifold – down pipe problems
We received the exhaust manifold and down pipes, we ordered from Gerry. The pics show both sides loosely bolted to the engine. The problem we noticed was that the down pipe was sitting [...]