Ironman Cobra Build Thread

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Originally Posted by Avmaviator

Ironman is spectacular! Like Chris said, I flew down to Birmingham on Thursday to see the car and enjoy a nice AL fall day (it was cool but much warmer then the 31* in Chicago with light snow ) Thanks again Chris!

Chris did a fantastic job putting this car together. It looks great, sounds fantastic, and it is a beast. It is quite something to be seated behind 527 screaming cids! Once the car hooks ups all the way (usually in second gear it seems, but it got grip in first too), you can feel it grip/squat down, and bang, you just got launched off a canon.

I have pictures, and good videos too, but I need to figure out how to go from a dvd to youtube.

Thanks Arnaud! It's good to have approval from a fellow car enthusiast that understands the amount of time that goes into a build like this.

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Now that i have 200 miles on the car, it is time to put on the finishing touches. I started last weekend with the tires and I have been working on the sidepipes this week as time allows. I managed to make it through polishing the 4 passenger side header tubes yesterday and this evening i spent 6 hours making the aluminum heat shields to go around the sidepipes.

First, here are some pictures of the hood scoop and hood after the stripes were repainted. The scoop pulled away from the hood this past spring when i was working on the car. Apparently the rivets were not long enough and did not fasten the scoop properly to the hood. Plus, they were painted together and paint pooled around the corners of the scoop, so when it pulled away it took a lot of paint from the hood with it. Since the underside just had an uneven overspray of blue, i decided to strip it and make it bare brushed aluminum.

Stripes repainted on the hood. I decided to buff the hood myself to save a few bucks.








Goodyear Billboard Tire lettering-The letters on the right rear tire were the most worn. I thought about making a template, but instead i just decided to tape the tires, carefully cut around the letters, and respray them.

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Sidepipe polishing and Heat Shields



Making a template for the heat shield






And installed. I am sure some will not care for it, but they are necessary. There is no way to protect the paint around the cutouts and the paint chipped a little when i enlarged them to fit the header tubes. Cinema Vehicles or Kirkham only cut them just enough to fit the non functional pipes through. It took me about 3-1/2 hours to make each heat shield.