Owner built on a budget;

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Hey Dennis: Welcome back to the cobra world, of course you know my build is all because of you. Once you bought yours, then Craig started telling me how much he liked them and that he was gonna build one someday. So I did not want to be left out of the fun and had to go buy three of them. Now yours is all done and serves as an inspiration to me. So since I can blame this entire project on you how about dropping by and lending some friendly advice or a helping hand. Come get me for the next Norcal cobra breakfast.

I think Craig just could not stand letting a autorama go by without having an entry with his name on it. he has had at least one or two cars every year for the past 7 years. Of course since he is on board it will now be a thousand hour build, you know him.

UPdate for yesterday and today:

195 hours, 27 days down, 63 to display setup day.

Yesterday I got my roll bars and down tubes order, they are supposed to be ready tomorrow. I took all the gauages out of the dash but left them connected in the cowl. I wrapped them in zip lock bags and then zip tied them closed to keep dust out. Installed the fresh shocks, organized shop for better work space. Got motor on engine stand to be prepped for painting.
Today I installed a sound deadner in the firewall cowl, then installed double bubble foil for heat shield, then glued down most of the insulation that came from CR.

Here is the sound deadner, it is left overs from last years rambler build, my friend got it from the Honda dealer, it is self sticking and really forms well, expensive if you gotta buy it 100.00 wholesale for 4 by 4 foot sheet.

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I have been using this double bubble, double foil faced insulation for at least 15 years. Very light weight, the dead air space between both layers of foil really trap the heat and prevent transfer. I get it from heating and AC wholesale supply places, 125 foot roll 4 feet width is about 175.00. I use a cheap paint sprayer from harbor freight to spray on the contact adhesive, you can see both in the picture. The double bubble is only about quarter inch thich.

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Here is Craig prepping body, the outside is nearly ready for primer, he is going to work on inner fenders next and we will prime the entire body top and underneath at same time. We have been really fortunate last three days, nice weather so we could work outside in partial sun.
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