Alloy Hi-Tech Build

Stargazer · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2018, 12:36 PM

If i may ask, what is the thickness of the aluminum used?

cobrakiwi · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2018, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Stargazer

If i may ask, what is the thickness of the aluminum used?

Aluminum used is .062 to .065.

Test fitting the new 850 hp engine!

Finishing up the floors.

cobrakiwi · #3 (**permalink**) 01-30-2018, 02:58 PM

More work completed on this one, finished the transmission tunnel and fire wall panels.
New Dash panel fabricated and fitted, we now have all the alloy panels from the firewall back finished up and fitted.

1795 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-30-2018, 03:48 PM

Looking great! It's not that far away from getting the rubber on the road. Just in time for nice weather.

cobrakiwi · #5 (**permalink**) 01-31-2018, 06:27 AM

Next up on this build we would like to get the exhaust fitted, this entails cutting big holes in the side of the car

I went ahead and installed Kevin's engine just to make sure everything was going to lineup and work.
Well we hopped that anyway as a lot of $$ was spent at the previous shop on the header and side pipes, well no surprise really that the exhaust was not going to work.
In the pictures you can see the primary pipes are just to far off to work with the slip joint, the welding is junk as well.

(just unbelievable what some people pass off as work)
We are going to start from scratch and build new headers and install a set of nice flowing mufflers.

cobrakiwi · #6 (**permalink**) 02-03-2018, 04:04 PM

Measure twice, cut once!
Time to start the exhaust.

Blue66 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-04-2018, 08:03 AM

Craig are you goin to make a jig for the headers ?? Sad when ya pay for something an it comes out like that. I got a set for my original 427 years ago from Gordon Gimbel / Cobra Performance . They fit like a glove.

ACademic · #8 (**permalink**) 02-04-2018, 11:23 AM

I’d pay money just to observe you working. No questions, no interruptions and I would stay out of your way. Could learn a ton just watching HOW you fabricate every corner of the car, the tools and techniques utilized, etc. The photographs are wonderful but don’t tell the whole story of the craftsmanship.

Mongoose930 · #9 (**permalink**) 02-04-2018, 03:43 PM

Craig has done an excellent job in repairing my sidepipes and fabricating new primary pipes. I was hoping that I would be able to salvage some of the parts that I paid for, but sadly, that has not been the case at all. I paid good money for new Red Shark primary pipes and was told by my former "fabricator" that they were fitted and welded. I then paid more good money to ship them to Nitroplate for high temp ceramic coating only to find out now that they are pretty much scrap. Same for the sidepipes. They were dented, had the wrong size mufflers and the turndowns were incorrectly welded. I have attached some pictures of Craig's work which has once again put this project back on track.