ERA 753 - Final Assembly in Progress

[fkemmerer]

Originally Posted by Chaplin

Wow is right. That really looks great. Must be one of this most hi-tech ERAs ever built. Can't wait to hear how the traction control works. One question though, why does it already have 2 miles on the odometer? Doug must have been pushing it around the shop quite a bit.

Thank you guys for the nice comments, I appreciate it. I guess that John, Peter, and Doug must have done 2 mi worth of burnouts in the parking lot as they wore the tires right down to the spindles.

Seriously, alot of the credit for my car goes to the guys at ERA who have been really great to work with in terms of all of the custom items. This is especially true for Doug - he is a real craftsman.

The other person who gets alot of credit is Ron Randall (Metalmorphous) who did the body and paint work on my car and gave me tons of great advise on how to approach building my Cobra. Ron is an ERA owner also and he steered me in ERA's direction. That was obviously great advise.

- Fred

[fkemmerer]

Well, we are almost there with ERA #753. The car will be delivered to me next Friday. I can hardly wait! As you can see from the pictures, the interior is complete at this point.





ERA is putting other finishing touches on the car as well. The throttle linkage has been modified to connect to a stainless steel braided cable which will connect to the TWM stack throttle body linkage.



Finally, here's a nice shot of the back of the nearly completed car:



All we are waiting for at this point is a set of rims to mount the Goodyear Billboard tires and our car will be ready to deliver! Thanks to John at ERA for taking these photos.

- Fred

[tuska]

Looks great! Where did you get your header tank from? Is it brass? could you chrome it? cheers glen

[fkemmerer]

Originally Posted by tuska

Looks great! Where did you get your header tank from? Is it brass? could you chrome it? cheers glen

Glen,

The tank came from ERA. Its a brass unit that has been painted black. Apparently, chroming these tanks makes the brittle and they tend to crack and leak. I kind of like the look of the black tank's contrast against the polished aluminum. What do you think?

- Fred