Moving Right Along

One of the things that this build has taught me is patience, no not true, I have learned that over my almost 65 years but this time I find that I do not get flustered if things do not work out as I expect. Previous cars that I have built I find that I would get impatient and take short cuts that ended in disaster but this time it's slow and easy and quality all the way. I would like to think that this is a training ground for things to come like a GT40, my ultimate car.

Anyway, back to the Cobra build...

Since getting my car back home I have been able to get into the build with gusto and have all the suspension components assembled and it looks a treat

Removing the body has made the assembly so much easier and I am not banging my head every time I try to do something. I must say that buying a mobile seat from Super Cheap has been the smart thing to do so now I rip around my workshop at high speed without shifting my butt.

Anyway, on with the build. I have assembled the front suspension and steering along with the rotors and calipers.

The beauty about this build is that I seem to be making great progress with the big items, like suspension, brake components and other items but it includes a lot of mucking around getting things to work such as the steering which really took a lot of thought.

When it came to the rear axle, it was all very strait forward apart from the omission of the crush tubes that hold the diff shear plates to the chassis rails. With a little bit of thought and some help from Pace we were able to come up with a solution that allowed the installation of these tubes so we got the job done. I finally got the rear suspension together including the axles and brakes.
Hope you are enjoying my build of a Pace427 Build No.31

Cheers

Russell

Assembly Starts

I now have my Cobra home and sitting on the trestles I made for it.

The big issue was sorting out all the components and where they go so the logical thing to do was to reduce the amount of components into sub assemblies such as all the suspension components an put all the fasteners with the corresponding bits which made the search for parts much easier.


I decided that as the bell cranks form part of the asthetics of the engine bay, I would give them a brushed appearance. I made a jig to hold the bell cranks then taped a variety of abrasive grits to a flat marble cutting board and rubbed them to a beautiful brushed look


Once I had the sub assemblies together it was time to assemble to the chassis, this took no time at all. As the nuts are all Nyloc type, a 1/2" ratchet was a great investment cutting the time down no end.
As I started to assemble the Front suspension I came to realise that the body had to be removed from the chassis so I made a movable trolley to sit it on and this has made life so much easier.


Lifting the body of was easy, I just rounded up the guys next door and the job was done, them we had a party

I will leave it here for tonight as there is lots more to come

See you next time