Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast, 460 Ford Racing Crate w/ TREMEC TKO 600
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WCC Chassis 3299 - Silver Top Coat Finally
December 2014
I decided on Silver with black stripe color combo. I picked a commonly available Silver that would be easy to match in the cars future. I picked PPG brand paint and selected Polar Silver Metallic from Mercedes code #761. The color has been in use well over 10 years. It has just a little fine metallic to make it pop in the sunshine. It took 3 months of body prep to get to this stage of basecoat. It was an exciting moment.
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"...some assembly required, ages 8 and up...... well that took longer than expected......
Cobra Make, Engine: West Coast, 460 Ford Racing Crate w/ TREMEC TKO 600
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WCC Chassis 3299 - CNC machined grills
Now that the body work was making good progress in 2014, I still did not have the traditional brake cooling inlet grills, oil cooler inlet grills or the main radiator grill. So after scouting ebay and this forum I was not successful. So with the help of a tool builder and expert machinist we designed them based on my body opening dimensions taken off the car. This is my point about feeling like a scratch build some days
Here they are fitted to the car after paint. Superb!
But after writing the program and surfacing the radiator grill we learned it will take 44 hours on the Haas machining center. So to this day that grill project is on hold. My friends were not able to free up hat kind of time without charging for that time. Who kmows maybe I will decide to AM the part from powdered aluminum metal ? We’ll see.
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WCCBuild Chassis #3299 Finally Home After Paint
January 2015
The first pic Here is out of the paint booth at the body shop just after Christmas
Then back home after paint. What a long strange trips its been so far. Lol. My trunk lid sat leaning against the wall for months while I worked on the fuel tank installation
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WCC Chassis #3299 Final Assembly Begins
January 2015
Now that the car is painted and back home in the garage I could plan the next steps. By this point in 2015 West Coast Cobra was winding down operations and getting harder to get a response out of them. I was hoping to order my interior but soon realized I was marooned and would have to fend for myself sourcing an interior. In the meantime I had plenty of work to do with installing my battery in the trunk and the assembling the fuel cell and installing it. One of the first parts I installed after paint was the LeMans flip top fuel filler cap. I used a 1969 Mustang filler neck which fit nicely. Underside shown below. My fuel tank is fabricated using a poly tank inside an aluminum box that came with the ebay body purchase. I built the poly tank to be able to open it back up and upgrade to an in tank fuel injection pump for the future fuel injection I will add
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WCC Build Chassis #3299. Interior Begins
Spring 2016
So after fruitless attempts of buying the interior from the now defunct WCC in winter of 2015, the car sat for over a year. I was over budget, way over budget after the body work so decided to design and fabricate my own interior. Ive never tried this before. “Look Mom..... no hands”. I watched alot of you tube on interior builders with alot of experience. I then found an interior material supplier that made it easy to buy the stuff I needed. The seats were the easy piece. Purchased Cobra branded seats from England using Factory Five. Simple. Then I disassembled them to install the heated seat elements
Aftermarket heated seat kits made it easy to incorporate them into my build
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WCC Chassis 3299 - Silver Top Coat Finally
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