Pacific roadster, Salem Oregon

[Sntrapp]

I am looking for a winter project and have all ways wanted to build a cobra from a kit. pacific Roadster in Salem Oregon looks to have a good kit with support within 30 minute drive to my home.

Any advise or inside to share regarding Pacific Roadster.

Thanks and make it a safe week
Sntrapp

[csingletary01]

I purchased a Pacific Roadster kit from Vui in 2006 and completed in 2008. Great car, I set up originally as a track day car that has slowly been softened up and now lives on street. I have around 30k miles on it and it is driven a lot. There is not tech support from Vui or any real instructions on assembly instructions. I went with a Pacific Cobra as with almost all replicas the builders have taken some artistic license with the body shape and I thought this was one of the best looking out there. Also I wanted an inner structure that was also Fiberglas and molded to body and not riveted aluminum panels as I knew it would be driven a lot on the street in a lot of weather conditions and did not want to do all of the sealing and maintenance on the aluminum panels and no matter how you try to duplicate the originals they are still replicas. Please feel free to contact me. I live in Oklahoma now, but lived in Bend when I purchased kit.

[Wbulk]

I was looking at the kit for a time and am still open on the car. Read what you get in detail. Like most kits a complete kit is really not a complete kit. Talk to the owner on the phone as to what each item actually is and what additionally you need. I did for clarification. I had read somewhere that he was offering Mustang II spindles now, which I believe is a good thing. Factory Five for years had problems with bump steering using the Mustang donor spindles that has since been fixed using Factory Fives own spindles. To be clear, Mustang II spindles have been around for a long time and have a proven record.

I have a friend that built a Pacific Roadster and he really likes the car. No question it is a good fit for bigger guys. I really like a lot of things on the car. One thing I would do is add some bracing in the middle of the frame. Just my opinion but look at this Kirkham below with the amount of cross bracing in the middle and compare it to a Pacific Roadsters. They both a have 4" round tube frames.

Understand that there are no kits that you put together like a model and most manuals are poor. You need tools and skills. You decide what you have.