Owner built on a budget;

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Progress Report: Nov 16th, 2009. Logged in about 150 hours, balance remaining on estimate of hours to build is 350. And now about 90 days exactly to have it completed.

The budget at the start was to spend 3K to finishe it. This morning I had spent about 460.00 before today. Today I added in my recent expenses as follows: Used coilover front shocks from Kenton 125.00, will order upper tubular a-arms from southers rods for about 150.00. Spent 25.00 on gas lines and fittings for power steering. Went to paint shop and spent $600.00 for the base coat, clear coat, primers, sandpaper, hopefully most all the stuff needed to paint it. This leaves 1640.00 to finish it out.

Big ticket items that I can think of now are, roll bar. Got a quote from sk steel to make me one for about 200.00. .125 guage 2 pipe steel. (I think that was what I needed, someone please correct me if thicker is needed.
Hopefully, money for the vintage heat and defrost unit maybe 600.00. I am sure other small ticket items will get the rest.

I got canyon red firemist for main color, and heather firemist for the strips. I also am going to paint the firewall and inner fenders the heather firemist, that is a somewhat silver with plum red tints to it. I thought the canyon red would be too dark for the firewall and inner fenders. Looking for opposing thoughts on this.

So far today was chasing materials all day and just now heading out to shop to clean up and organize things a little.

With my latest comments from DV on fit and finish I am approaching things a little different. I was going the clean, paint and reassemble the chassis, run my wiring, then mount body and then paint body on car. Now I will paint frame, firewall, inner fenders of body, run wiring, then install body, then do all fittings of doors, hood, trunk, secure everything down, then install the motor as most of the accessories, then do the last block sanding and mask and paint. I know this requires tons of masking but I would rather mask than fit the body twice. we will paint it with the hood, doors, trunk off of the car. then install them for final time.

as always I welcome other view points and suggestions. Stay tuned. on the 11.5K built cobra.