Big Block Street

[cobrakiwi]

A couple more small repairs,

[cobrakiwi]

Next up is designing and building the exhaust system, any of you cobra street car builders out there have any good pictures of the under car exhaust system you could share.

Also looking for pictures of the battery tray and location on the street cars, I believe it fits in front of the passengers footbox?

[cobrakiwi]

Foot box's installed so I can locate where the missing tubes need to go.
Also we can start on the exhaust.
Gas pedal support mocked up.
More unused holes that need to be filled.

[hauss]

Who ever used the mig welder, needs to go back to school. The tig welds however look great. Hope these were before and after pictures.

[cobrakiwi]

I have most of the frame corrections done, put the body back on so we can set the doors, hood and trunk lid.

[t walgamuth]

Are the original wheels aluminum?

[cobrakiwi]

Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Are the original wheels aluminum?

Yes, the original sunburst wheels are cast aluminum.

[t walgamuth]

They'll clean up nicely.

[66gtk]

Thanks for continuing to share the progress. I love the street 427 cars. Are you going to keep the oil cooler body scoop? Did you find reference photos for the exhaust yet? Hopefully you can find a way to route the exhaust while using larger diameter piping than the originals had. Keeping the heat out of the cockpit via heat shielding solutions is worthy of your efforts now, rather than later, too.

[cobrakiwi]

Yes this one will retain the oil cooler.
Trunk tray back from powder coating, (imo it turned out great)I installed the tray and now we are ready to paint the car.

[Gaz64]

God, I thought it looked good as bare aluminum, but now that looks FANTASTIC.

Gary

[krausewich]

The way they SHOULD have been made ! ! ! Maybe we will see some ally footboxes too???

[xb-60]

Great job on the trunk tray....and great to be able to follow an interesting build on this forum. Not many are coming along these days.

Building it as a roadster rather than an S/C is an excellent choice too

Cheers,
Glen

[cobrakiwi]

Drilling more holes in the body before paint.
We need a fuel filler.
Cap will be swapped out for a square button cap when car goes together.

[cobrakiwi]

Picked up this washer fluid bottle on ebay some time back, it's pretty much the same one the street car use but its too long.
The fix for this is cut it down to size, I think it should work just fine and a much cheaper way to go than buying the shorter cobra jug.

[cobrakiwi]

New top plate on the radiator for this one as well.

Once painted black should look more like the originals.

[Anthony]

Great project !!

I did kind of a similar build with an early CSX4000 car as well, with under the car exhaust, and bumpers. However, I kept the Halibrands, scoop, roll bar, flip gas cap, and dash layout, and with camel interior instead of black.

If I remember correctly, if your car has the big Girling brakes, I'm not sure if they fit under the Sunburst wheels. I'm not sure if you need to change the brakes.

[cobrakiwi]

Pumped to have this one back in the shop, started putting a few things together and installing them.

Big shout out too Jeff G for coming through with a couple very important measurements I needed, these enabled me to start in on the trunk panels.

My shop lights and camera really change the blue from a very dark to light blue.

[xb-60]

Good progress!
I really like the colour, assuming the actual colour is the dark blue

Cheers
Glen

[cobrakiwi]

Originally Posted by xb-60

Good progress!
I really like the colour, assuming the actual colour is the dark blue

Cheers
Glen

It's amazing how lighting and the camera change the color, but yep she's dark blue.

First inner panels made up and fitted.