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09-18-2014, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: The Hills,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Absolute Pace
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Sambo,
I saw a white body just out of the mould this week. Even with part lines it looked fantastic and could pass for a glossy painted finish from 10 feet.
The hot rod and boat guys have been doing quality gellcoat work like this for years, it is good to see a Cobra manufacturer getting it right!
Ben
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09-18-2014, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by sambo
No doubt the gelcoat out of the mold looks fantastic Craig. But as I suspected the "perfect gelcoat no need for a paint job" finish takes a lot more work.
It's a shame you can't lay a few coats of clear over the gelcoat, I assume it wouldn't take properly?
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with gelcoat there is really no need to clear coat it as it's quite thick I put a reasonable scratch in my boats gelcoat all we did was rub the scratch out and rebuff and you couldn't tell there had ever been a scratch . with paints and clear coats there only microns thick gelcoat would be at least 10 times thicker maybe more . even if you let gelcoat fade think of 30 yr old boats you rub them back and buff they come up like new I cant see any reason these cobra bodys would be any different imho.
cheers dean
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09-24-2014, 02:15 AM
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Location: Ormiston,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Absolute Pace 427 SC
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Light Polish
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Originally Posted by sambo
Ahem... the "standard gel coat" doesn't look all shiny. It's more than a few extra bob for that lovely finish if I'm not mistaken - based on the options list that was floating around at Shelbyfest. Not to detract from all the great work, just saying...
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Here are some photos AFTER a light buff.
If its not shiny enough for you Sambo then I will use some McGuires polish on it just for you
Cheers All
See you at the Nationals
Brad
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09-24-2014, 06:12 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Wish I had my own PACE 427
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Brad, thought it was time to get Pete to give it a quick polish for you to take out the marks and scratches incurred during the build.
See what happens when you are not at the workshop for a day...
Enjoy.
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09-24-2014, 06:49 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Harrison, 6.0L Chev
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If its not shiny enough for you Sambo then I will use some McGuires polish on it just for you
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Looks great Brad. Would you say it's a better finish than a 10 grand paint job?
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09-24-2014, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by sambo
Looks great Brad. Would you say it's a better finish than a 10 grand paint job?
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Sambo, our bodies are not just a nice surface finish. In my experience we have produced a much higher quality body with the materials we use and construction techniques we employ. Our bodies are much, much stronger, also lighter, more durable and more consistent.
Are our bodies better than a 10k paint job? If it costs $10k to paint an average Cobra, ours will be significantly less money to paint.
Also after 6 - 12 months, the PACE 427's will be straighter, less prone to cracks, star cracks and more resistant to impact damage etc. We also fully protect/cover under the front nose and also the complete inside rear guards with our chassis.
My pet hate with all the Cobra's I have built and owned is the body quality, or lack there of.
And we just keep fine tuning the construction, quality etc. Unfortunately for existing owners we can't upgrade their bodies. But every existing PACE 427 owner does benefit from any new or upgraded parts, we retro-supply every part to existing owners. So our kits now contain significantly more parts than when we first supplied them, but every owner gets every new par even though they paid less for their original kits.
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09-24-2014, 11:03 PM
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My pet hate with all the Cobra's I have built and owned is the body quality, or lack there of.
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Craig, eventually all good lookers fade away and it's the personality we need to be able to live with.   
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09-18-2014, 03:48 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Pace 427 - completed and on the road!
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Congratulations, Brad, and all at AP. It is great to see the first AP 427 pass its road and engineering tests with flying colours.
You must be delighted, Brad - and deservedly so. After all that hard work, now you get to do the fun stuff - drive the car! Looking forward to seeing you and it in a couple of weeks at the Nationals.
And now to get the first AP registered in NSW.... I'm working hard to make that happen!!
Richard
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09-18-2014, 06:25 PM
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Location: Geelong,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Pace 427S, Coyote Aluminator
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Originally Posted by RGF
Congratulations, Brad, and all at AP. It is great to see the first AP 427 pass its road and engineering tests with flying colours.
You must be delighted, Brad - and deservedly so. After all that hard work, now you get to do the fun stuff - drive the car! Looking forward to seeing you and it in a couple of weeks at the Nationals.
And now to get the first AP registered in NSW.... I'm working hard to make that happen!!
Richard
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09-18-2014, 10:55 PM
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That's great. I wonder why Ferrari don't cover their cars in gelcoat (jokes) 
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09-19-2014, 03:59 AM
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That's great. I wonder why Ferrari don't cover their cars in gelcoat (jokes) |
I bet the best replica enzos do lol
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09-20-2014, 03:06 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Pace 427SC. LSA Supercharged with 6sp TR-6060 trans.
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I bet the best replica enzos do lol
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Actually...while I don't know about the current Ferrari models, the F360 uses a fibreglass front bumper and it's 'as supplied' quality is far from perfect. Their bumpers need a lot of work to get ready for paint. And we're talking about a $3K bumper here!
Here is the white body at Pace:
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09-21-2014, 03:02 AM
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Brad congrats, great to see the progress
That white one could possible be mine!................
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09-20-2014, 03:11 PM
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Here's a video of my 7yo son Liam starting Brad's Pace yesterday:
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09-20-2014, 03:45 PM
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09-20-2014, 04:05 PM
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Wow,
What can I say, Great photos Simon and the video of the budding Cobra driver was great.
You might have to become my official photographer
Cheers
Brad
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09-20-2014, 06:19 PM
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forgot that i took a snap of Brads' car last week....
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plus a few of my pocket rocket, it passed too!!
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09-20-2014, 10:58 PM
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great camera work Simon.
thanks for shooting a few of mine too.
Brads car looks the ducks nuts don't you think !
cheers
Chris.
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09-20-2014, 07:01 PM
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I took my camera with me when I went up but ended up taking bugga all shots in my excitement and almost left it behind lol.. I save all these pics and put them into a folder for future reference ...how pokey does your car feel with the 5 lt in it brad I bet it scoots along quite nicely .
cheers dean
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09-20-2014, 07:38 PM
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took my camera with me when I went up but ended up taking bugga all shots in my excitement and almost left it behind lol.
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ha, yeah I thought I took video too but only ended up with feet and grass 
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