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Hi Wolf!
You must not sleep much ;) lol
Lookin' Great

Wolf,

Everything is looking really good.

I noticed you went with the IDF Webers? not the IDA most guys use. Actually, this is about the first set of IDF's I have noticed on a Cobra.

Have read (maybe it says this at the sites that sell Weber' ) that the IDF series is a better choice for the street than the IDA, mainly being easier to tune for smooth response in street oriented driving.

On the Weber forum here at CC it seems some of the guys go through heroic efforts to get them set up...I am assuming that is with the IDA's, not the IDF

Be interesting to hear your results, and efforts required to tune them.

Pete

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Holden (Post 1091248)

The fiberglass body "normalization" process at ERA is indeed a complex proceedure. Just ask Sammy.

Once the fiberglass shop (accross the road in the barn behind the green house) pops the body out of the mold, it is carried accross the street and left outside the door of the assembly shop, like an orphan child abandoned on the church steps, for an indeterminant period, exposed to the elements of each successive season.

It is only then that is dragged into the assembly shop and flipped on its back like a beached whale for the insertion of the inner panels. RIghted again, it is only then "married" to the chassis. This assumes the straightforward process, which, for any given body can be sidetracked while the frame is off at powdercoat or the welding shop has gotten behind or the shop is taking it's midwinter break, etc. etc. Then the body can end up on the roof of the shop or stashed in the storage trailer.

Jim

Here are a few shots from the ERA 'Rain or Shine' curing process ;) ... from my visit in August 2009 ...

- Tim

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/DSC_0699.jpg

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/DSC_0312.jpg

Hi Hyde, I am going with the understated look with the reproduction HiPo valve covers.

Hi Pete, Yes they are IDF 44, i did choose them from reading the posts and on recommendation from Top-End Performance from where I bought them. I will start tuning in the spring, as I am shutting down here to go back out sea for three months.

I have a set of ventless valve covers that could be fab'd in to something vintage cool, if you change your mind. GT40 style would look pretty awesome in there. Talk me out if them!

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Originally Posted by wolf k (Post 1091908)

Hi Hyde, I am going with the understated look with the reproduction HiPo valve covers.

Go with the steel HiPo rocker covers, Wolf; they look great.
Glen