Fasterpatricks Custom Cobra - Page 8

fasterpatrick · #1 (**permalink**) 04-04-2007, 09:12 PM

Tough talk for someone who's selling off alll his parts

joey_hv · #2 (**permalink**) 04-04-2007, 10:43 PM

hey now..
i see you are everywhere...
just taking a different route that's all...
i have my eye on a nice lincoln in green valley...

troll · #3 (**permalink**) 04-05-2007, 07:11 AM

about feed back.Im in awe and speachless.

fasterpatrick · #4 (**permalink**) 04-15-2007, 07:32 PM

Well, we've made a huge milestone in forum history, over 10,000 hits that puts this thread on the leader board. Thanks for keeping interested, now let's get that reply number up.

Here's an update, Body has lost it's fur, finally got around to trimming that sucker it don't look half bad but she's going to need lots of work. Bird cage is 99% fabricated just a few braces left. New parts on done list coolant fill bottle, rear bumper mounts, and hood hinges. Now here's the gratuitous pics that we've all come to enjoy.

For those whom want to see body shots minus the fur check the gallery, and there is still no vroom vroom shot. Patrick

496fe · #5 (**permalink**) 04-15-2007, 10:45 PM

If you ever get hit in that thing, I pity the poor guy driving the other car.

Brian

fasterpatrick · #6 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 04:02 PM

Just call me captain overkill. With the frailness of the bodyshell and pics of what can happen to these cars in a minor accident, not to mention the probability of my spouse and children in the car. I will gladly add a few pounds to a 300hp car if it will hold up to a hit in traffic by some guy on his cellphone in his suv, and hopefully leave a decent mark. Patrick

496fe · #7 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 04:13 PM

Great minds think alike.

RedBarchetta · #8 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 05:05 PM

Patrick,

Hi. Been following this build since the start...coming along quite nicely! I checked out the other recent photos in your gallery (with body on) and noticed one thing. That larger diameter wood steering wheel doesn't leave you with much clearance on the door side. You might want to consider a smaller leather-wrapped wheel for hand clearance. I look at all your engine pictures and ask myself "So...if the {insert name} component needs replacing or servicing, how is he going to get to it...from above or below?"

-Dean

imagine2frolic · #9 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 05:19 PM

I refuse to take back my comment on your work when I first found this site.....You're an ARTIST, and even in the pics too. Great stuff, and keep up the intensity................

fasterpatrick · #10 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 05:36 PM

Hopefully I shouldn't need to change many components. I should be able to get at the oil filter, sparkplugs, and starter, headers maybe. The tunnel is removeable so you can pull the trans right out though the cockpit. Yea it's 10 pounds of s#@t in a five pound bag.

fastraxsg · #11 (**permalink**) 04-16-2007, 07:40 PM

Patrick, the workmanship seems to improve as you go along, looking great. Was wondering what you are going to do to with the angled filler neck on the radiator? I imagine you have that figured out already but would like to see the solution. Good luck on the attachment of brackets to the body. If you are glassin' in brackets, use something that won't rust out in the future. Keep the nose to the grindstone, I can't wait to see this in the running flesh...or at least a video of it cruising along the by ways...
Ken

fasterpatrick · #12 (**permalink**) 05-31-2007, 05:15 PM

Well I cant keep you all in the dark for to long here is what I've been up to

I will try to get the bugs worked out and give more latter. Patrick

fasterpatrick · #13 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 09:12 PM

Wow, nobody piped up with the teaser photo, well then here. In keeping with the overbuilt chassis concept we have door frames. They are as beefy as the rest of the chassis.

Now we'll see if there is something to say. Patrick

BossCER · #14 (**permalink**) 06-02-2007, 10:07 PM

Patrick,
I've been enjoying your build thread since the beginning. Beautiful craftsmanship everywhere you look.
Those doors are beefy to be sure. Very nice to see, I think they have the potential to make a huge difference in the event of a side impact.
Keep up the good work and we'll continue to enjoy it.
Chris

fastraxsg · #15 (**permalink**) 06-03-2007, 12:57 AM

Patrick, a thought, you have made one sturdy frame for the door, no question there. However, if you get a side impact, assuming something with a bumper in the middle of the door, it would appear that the door would be pushed in, after breaking or bending the front hinge and the pin the door locks on. It looks like those are the only two solid points holding the door on. Would a second hinge keep the door in place along with some type of L ridgeor lip on inside rear to prevent the door from coming in? It would appear that the door will not "cushion or absorb" much of a blow, just push the entire door in on the passenger or driver, a second hinge and a metal lip at the rear would help transfer some of the impact to the door frame and onto the birdcage. I may be missing something I can't see in the photos though that may already address that. ( you must have been really tired one night, that's the first shot of your shop hasn't been spotless..

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Naumoff · #16 (**permalink**) 06-03-2007, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fastraxsg

Patrick, a thought, you have made one sturdy frame for the door, no question there. However, if you get a side impact, assuming something with a bumper in the middle of the door, it would appear that the door would be pushed in, after breaking or bending the front hinge and the pin the door locks on. It looks like those are the only two solid points holding the door on. Would a second hinge keep the door in place along with some type of L ridgeor lip on inside rear to prevent the door from coming in? It would appear that the door will not "cushion or absorb" much of a blow, just push the entire door in on the passenger or driver, a second hinge and a metal lip at the rear would help transfer some of the impact to the door frame and onto the birdcage. I may be missing something I can't see in the photos though that may already address that. ( you must have been really tired one night, that's the first shot of your shop hasn't been spotless..

..)

Ken,

It's a Cobra. Anyone who wants one has a death wish. JMHO.

joey_hv · #17 (**permalink**) 06-03-2007, 04:51 AM

still waiting for the release date on the "How To" build manual...

Michael4yah · #18 (**permalink**) 06-03-2007, 11:29 PM

Patrick, Ive been watching this for a while now and I gotta say this is one hell of a tank, and I mean that in the most admirable terms. All of us who have owned Cobras and especially those who have built them have had ideas on how to make em safer but few have done as much as you. Kudo's to you on a fine job. Like everyone else I cant wait to see it finished. If there is anything that I see that could use another look it would be the door hinge deal. I think it was Butler who built the best side impact door hinge in the industry. I think they have sold and the name has been changed to B&B (I think, but dont quote me). Take a look at their door with the side beam in it. Other than that you got it in spades. Good luck!!
Michael

fastraxsg · #19 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 09:00 AM

"It's a Cobra. Anyone who wants one has a death wish. JMHO."

For anyone who has a sports car, Boxster, Miata, or Cobra.....getting T-boned by an 18 wheeler is a sure Kiss of Death no matter how many anti-intursion bars we have ......but hey, we die happy...

Michael4yah · #20 (**permalink**) 06-04-2007, 10:58 AM

Fastraxsg. Take a look at the underside of any jap scrap tin can car. I'll venture a guess that if you weighed the frame material in this cobra it would equal 3 of those aformenttioned jap scrap tin can cars. Dont forget your physics 101 Newtonian Law that it takes mass to dissipate energy!
Michael