Ownership Log – ERA#2124

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Should be receiving my 48IDA induction system from Jim today or tomorrow, so pretty excited about that. In the meantime, I’ve been working on revising my fuel delivery from the tank replacing the ill-placed canister filter with a simple in-line and adding a fuel shutoff valve so that I can work on the fuel system in the future w/o having to drain the tank. I will be hard-mounting my fuel pressure regulator directly off the Mechanical Fuel pump, and adding a small Moroso 15psi fuel pressure gauge off the regulator for accuracy sake in addition to the Stewart Warner gauge on the dash that I detailed earlier.

Over the weekend, I sanded my headers which were black, and decided to try white just for a change of pace. I fully expect that these will yellow quite quickly, but no matter. I see the coating of exhaust as a routine maintenance item anyway. I plan on keeping the pipes black for now. I’m not sure the car could carry white sidepipes…

VHT FlameProof White on the Headers:



I also decided to freshen the competition valve covers a bit with a new coat of silver and added the “CS” and “COBRA” stickers to them. (Thanks to Chuck (ceslaw) for detailing the decal application on his set.) I am quite pleased with the result:

Freshened Valve Covers:



So aside from the 48’s I’m expecting any time, I also have a Kirkey Vintage Race seat on it’s way. With a trip to Sweden coming up this coming weekend, I hope to get the IDA’s trial fitted so that I can mock up my water bypass return modification to the FIA water neck/fuel log and get that off to my fab guy before leaving…fingers crossed.

- Allen.