I can see Rick was in here sneaking photos with his phone. I'll have to frisk him next time. Really, thanks for the kind words.
What may not have come across, and I haven't said as of yet...
There are actually 2 cars. Yes, two cars. We built the first car as a prototype to work all the bugs out. That is the car that I have posted all the pictures of up to this point.
We wanted the car to be really nice for delivery so we decided to make another car. Rick was one of the test drivers for the first car and we used his input, along with the other drivers' to refine the car. Frankly, we were extremely pleased. We didn't adjust anything except the shocks during our track testing. We drove the car as hard as we possibly could and kept pushing the drivers. One of the track instructors commented, "In an original Cobra you run out of chassis long before you run out of engine. In this car, never ran out of engine before I ran out of chassis."
One thing I have been most impressed with in this whole creation is how powerful the new CAD systems are. When we bolted the suspension on, the caster and camber were exactly where we designed them to be. The only thing we had to adjust was the toe and some really fine bump steer tweaks on the steering tie rods. When we tested the car on the track the tire wear was perfect. Even with all the different drivers we had drive the car, they all settled down to arguing over 3 clicks of the shocks, or 1.5 clicks either direction. In an original Cobra, you can't discern 5 clicks either direction as the chassis is so flimsy.
All in all I am very happy with how it turned out. It is the nicest custom car I have ever seen.
I will post more pics as soon as I can.
David
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