New Build

[Three Peaks]

Beautiful cars. When I was building my car it was, of course, a completely different animal, having the Carbon fiber body already formed, but the parts I really enjoyed the most was the fitting of the aluminum inner fenders, fuel tank surround, wheel arches, cockpit, etc... all the little intricate pieces that made the car "work". Once you have those pieces done, one at a time you start to really see a car under all that work.
Having references like these really helped with some of the pieces I was unfamiliar with so I was able to fabricate pieces to fit areas as needed.

How many cars do you have in que right now? Are most left in bare/brushed aluminum, or do some get painted?

Bob

[cobrakiwi]

Thanks,
I currently have a few of my alloy builds going on, all these cars will be painted.
One is currently being painted at this time.
This build will be off to paint as soon as the other car is finished being painted.
New customers are always welcome of course.

Originally Posted by Three Peaks

Beautiful cars. When I was building my car it was, of course, a completely different animal, having the Carbon fiber body already formed, but the parts I really enjoyed the most was the fitting of the aluminum inner fenders, fuel tank surround, wheel arches, cockpit, etc... all the little intricate pieces that made the car "work". Once you have those pieces done, one at a time you start to really see a car under all that work.
Having references like these really helped with some of the pieces I was unfamiliar with so I was able to fabricate pieces to fit areas as needed.

How many cars do you have in que right now? Are most left in bare/brushed aluminum, or do some get painted?

Bob

[cobrakiwi]

Thanks Jeff,
This one is really starting to take shape,
I got the rear bulkhead made up and fitted, then fitted one of our hand formed alloy rear inner fenders.
We are very proud to be able to offer hand made cars and parts, made here in the U.S. with the help of some very talented guy's.
I also need to thank our customers,

Originally Posted by 1985 CCX

Sweet Jesus that is one nice car.
Awesome job!

Looking forward to next car coming north.

[cobrakiwi]

The last couple of days work, fitting foot boxes and firewall.

[cobrakiwi]

I needed to fill some orders on roll bars, so I used this car as the test bed for our new roll bars.
We are now able to offer complete roll bar setups in both original and 1.5 OD diameters.
Thanks to a forum member here on club cobra with an original csx 3k car, and with his help we have a very nice representation of the correct style roll bar setup.
Here is a picture setting up the main hoop.

[ct clint]

You should be very proud of what you put into that car the thing leaves me speechoes. That is some amazing workmanship.

[cobrakiwi]

Originally Posted by ct clint

You should be very proud of what you put into that car the thing leaves me speechoes. That is some amazing workmanship.

Thanks!
We are very proud of our products,
Next up, I built the go pedal assembly, this will allow me to setup the steering column etc.

[cobrakiwi]

Finally have the roll bar all finished, next up floors, trans cover etc.

[Cobra Chris]

Craig- Your work always seems to amaze me...Thanks for all that you have done to help me! Your work is top notch!

Chris

[cobrakiwi]

Thanks Chris, it's been my pleasure!

Got a little more time in on this one, floors, lower bulkhead panels made up and fitted.
Next up trans tunnel.

[cobrakiwi]

The last few day's I was able to finish up the trans tunnel and get the dash panel made.
Still need to make the cut outs for gauges and switches etc .

[cobrakiwi]

Time to cut more openings, hood finished up.

[cobrakiwi]

Next up I wanted to complete the steering mock up, after making most of the components and using one of our hand finished 16 inch steering wheels we can now tick that job off the list.
Also got the dash cut for switches and gauges.

[King- cobra]

Looks great you awesome work

[cobrakiwi]

Thanks Steve,
The last big cut outs for this one is for the exhaust pipes, as with the hood scoop opening we put a nice rolled edge around the opening.
In my opinion the rolled edges look much nicer than just a straight cut out.
That's just about it for this roller, time to blow it apart and off to paint.

[Bernica]

Just awesome workmanship! Looks great!!
Did you have fun cutting the oval hole for the roll bar?

[cobrakiwi]

Originally Posted by Bernica

Just awesome workmanship! Looks great!!
Did you have fun cutting the oval hole for the roll bar?

Just about as much fun as the front bumper / quick jack mount holes
actually cutting the holes is not to bad, its getting them in the right place that can be a bit tricky

Couple more Pic's just before the car was taken apart and shipped off to paint,
Rear end mocked up, and windscreen in place.

[cobrakiwi]

Pushed it outside for a look, then pulled it all apart and sent it off to paint.

[cobrakiwi]

Project fuel Cap,
my client sent me his Enots fuel cap, the base was in bad shape and the mounting holes were not setup for a cobra.

I welded the old mounting holes, cleaned up the flange in the lathe then drilled the new 6 mounting holes.

Then I made up a 4 inch fill neck to match the large 42 gallon fuel tank fill neck.

I also have the red gaskets and spacers to clock the fuel cap to the base flange available if anybody is interested for that original touch.

Nice touch for his build

[cobrakiwi]

Looks like a lot of the the pictures here are gone?
I am expecting this one back from paint any day now