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29th October 2011 – Making of coil bracket and fitting
Over the last week Mark has been busy making a specially made bracket to mount the coil to the engine block. He started by making templates from cardboard before marking up the shapes on [...]
15th October 2011 – CAD heatshields production – Part 3
After the final computer drawings were complete, Dale sent them through to Mark to do final full size print outs to double check they all fitted perfectly. We had to make a small adjustment [...]
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 engine [...]
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 aided [...]
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 the [...]
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 to [...]
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 modifications [...]
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 stepping [...]
14th August 2011 – The Cobra is alive! – Starting the engine – Part 3
Starting 1st time We got a temporary 5 litre tank of petrol from the garage round the corner and put the end of the fuel line in ready. Mark then connected the fuel pump, [...]
14th August 2011 – Starting the engine – Part 2 (fitting the distributor)
We were then onto fitting the distributor. We fitted the rotor arm to be TDC (top dead centre) for number one cylinder. See diagram for the configuration of distributor cables to cylinders. Next was [...]
