docs drb ac cobra

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anyway getting back to the rebuild of the cobra,when we bought her she had been underwater for 5 days during the brisvegas floods in 2011.previous owner bought her with a 351 cleveland stuffed into her bowels and left the water in it till i bought her 18mnths later.....yeah the donk was cactus shame too as it had been a good rebuild with some good gear by the looks


we drained almost 6 of thes out....doc

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there was no way we were going to put the clevo back into her as u can see there was no room to get at back 2 plugs either side,u couldn't even get plug leads off rear plugs,so we decided to put it back to the way it was originally built

we found an au2 efi windsor and went about taking off unwanted efi bits

so when we got all that off we sourced some goodies to put it on gas

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we had a fun time cutting the au's serpentine pully system down to ma useable size in the ac,we spoke to peter from drb but little knowledge of any au2 windsor motors in drb ...so we went about the job

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to catch up on some of the other problems ....well the pics tell the story...

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all looked worse than wot it really was,no structual damage and paint was fine ,we sourced some vdo guages

a steering wheel that suited the ac was abit harder to find,the one previous owner had on it looked like it belonged on a ricer

with a lot of work the surface rust was removed and treated ,cant find pics but rust looks like errr.......rust
we went to dayleys apholstery and got similar type interior carpet and vinyl,and except for the seats which i am planning on changing when i can find lower type ,and centre console area which we were having thoughts of going manual (staying auto now .....i think )but will get to that bit soon...doc

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this is just about at the stage of finished ...so we thought ...the gm wiring kept giving us problems so ....got removed .....then the 9' clutches were not realeasing then the bearings went in diff ,the headers were built to tight so leads touching had melting probs ,the brakes were not errr braking ,then wouldnt stop braking the dizzies were all too tall and still i have a touching bonnet issue but it closes etc etc etc lets just say i nearly rang the insurance company and told them it accidently burnt to the ground .....lots of little problems came home on tilt tray once or twice...all good now ...for now although i am getting a complaint from bearings in front pullies...the joys...and that was basically the rebuild on this ac which we registered on my birthday in april......cheers doc

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helps when u actually add the pic........doc