[john chesnut]

It was important to me to keep the dimensions accurate. The car has the stock 90 inch wheelbase. The body is the accurate size. I am 6'2, 230lbs so I needed more cockpit room. I accomplished this by doing 2 things. The traditional Cobra uses a 4inch tall frame rail. the floor of the car is on top of that rail. My chassis has the same 5 inches of ground clearance but the frame wraps around you and the trans tunnel is a structural part. This allows my floor to be dropped by 3 inches.
I designed headers that wrap up and over the footboxes. This allowed me to move the engine further rearward, lets me have long and wide footboxes, and keeps the footboxes cooler. With the seat in the full back position I can not reach the pedals!
The front of the chassis comes to a vee. The air coming through the radiator is forced to the sides of the car. It exits out of the double stacked side vents. This eliminates the lift and heat build up that most Cobras suffer from. The second vent opening is the only "non original" aspect of the body.
With fuel the total weight is 2247lbs. With out driver it has 53.9% of the total weight on the rear tires. I wanted a front engine car with a mid engine balance.
The Cobra has almost a 4 inch narrower track in the rear and almost 6 inch narrower track in the front then the Vette. Custom rear axles were made and a new front steering rack was made that kept the correct Vette geometry. The steering in this car is incredible. It is light, quick, but not twitchy. It is completely stable at speed. It has the tightest turning radius of ANY car I have ever driven. And, It feels like it has power steering even though it's a manual rack. This is because of the position of the ball joints well into the wheel. This car with 58mm offset wheels has a Zero scrub radius.

Feel free to ask any other questions. I love to talk cars! John