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hey all we are starting to collect parts for building a new cobra

our only prob is talking our friend into funding most of it

but luckily his wife said its ok to have one and since we brought our friend down to the nationals last year he has wanted one so we offered to build him one

we have all the electricals and can get an l98 at very good price and with people we know they can throw in afew parts for free
hopefully get a nice cam and tune which should make 320 to 340 kws at the wheels

since where i work is a japanese importers of performance parts i can grab a good pair of skyline gtr front and rear brakes and a good pair of rims of a gtr too hopefully at right price

i have a vz commodore dash to fit and will hook up all the factory immobilser and central locking and what ever else we can run thru the bcm and pim like cruise control and stuff

if it all goes ahead it will have alotofnew and modern features depending what silly ideas my brain comes up with but should be fun

10 yearsas a mechanic and 4 years as an auto elct should make it easy to build

now i just have to learn how to paint

Sounds like the perfect project Jim - building a Cobra with someone else's money!

Any idea which kit you'll go with? The Harrison uses R32/R33 rear end and you probably know Craig (400TT) has fitted Skyline front brakes to one of his cars in the past. He'll probably chime in here soon.

Paul

Sounds good Jim.

As Sambo has mentioned, you will need to decide on a chassis and body to go with before buying too many bits.

A custom chassis can be made, but you will have a lot more work to do for engineering.

Cheers,

Ben

Have fun Jim with the build.

Yeah, we fitted Skyline R32 GTR front alloy uprights/hubs & brakes to Harrison cobra. We ordered the chassis to also accept the Skyline rear and used matching R32 GTR rear.

You could fit the brakes quite easily to most kits. I'm guessing you would probably have picked up R33 GTS-T brakes as they are the most common around now. They are virtually the same as R32 GTR brakes, if not better.

cool

just went it to work today to finish of phills rewire

and asked guys there if they can get me a gtr rear end

they should have some there but they are goin to japan in a week so ive put an order in for afew things

i got gtst r33 brakes for my hilux awhile ago got them at very very good price hehehe

and this gtr rear aint too bad either

we will prob refiberglass the top of dash to fit the vz dash cluster

theres pics of a rodeo with a gen 3 and matching vx dash

a friend of mine does awsome plastic welding and metal fabricating stuff
he did the dash for this customer

as a mechanic i used to work on rally cars and race cars and do conversions from start to finish so mounting enignes and stuff aint to hard

and after looking at the stuff that was done on the red willys coup i did last year i have some more ideas