Getting a Little Further Advanced

The Cobra has been at the Auto Electricians now for a couple of weeks and it is ready to come home.

The Auto Elec managed to get the Ford Racing Wiring Harness through to the cabin via a large hole in the top of the transmission tunnel which will require a split cover plate with a rubber grommet to seal. One of the tricks was to split the engine harness so that it would turn back on itself to meet the ECU and also be concealed under the engine cover. I will have more picks of the wiring when I get the car home.

One other little item that turned up the other day is the headers. They are designed to join to working side pipes with the cats in the side pipes.

I will have the Cobra home at the end of the week so will post more of the wiring pics and hopefully the fitting of the headers which will be very tight.

See ya next time.
Cheers

Russell

We Are Off To The Auto Electrician.

It has been 16 months since the Cobra arrived at my garage and has been resting on 50cm high trestles ever since.
Anyway the time has come to put the wheels on and lower it to the floor for the trip to the auto electrician. I was quite stunned at how low the car is after being so used to it sitting at a good working height on the trestles.

My drive way is quite short and steep and the problem with long car trailers in this situation is the tail of the trailer sits quite high and the ramps are very steep that you loose the clearance and sprag the front panels. A good friend of mine has this really cool tilt trailer that made loading dead easy. Once the car started up the ramps, the trailer leveled out and their was very little load on the winch to the point we had to put a block in front of the wheel in case it rolled forward.

And here we are sitting at the Auto Elecs.

We are moving ahead with the wiring and I will some more pics in a few weeks.

Cheers

Russell

Electrical Inspiration...NOT!

Ok, we are in new territory now but before we get into that I had a rethink with the fuel vapor lines and decided to reroute them to avoid fuel flowing into the vapor lines.

As Pace have incorporated the tail light, indicator, stop light and reversing light into the one unit, several modifications needed to be done to appease ADR,s. Pace have provided white opaque white tail light lenses using LED lights with the various colours to meet the requirements, ie, tail light = red, indicator = amber, reversing light = white and stop light = double red. This is a very good arrangement but require some modification to the existing tail light arrangement. I have posted some pics which I hope explains the changes..

I changed the lenses from the standard red to white/clear and modified the globe carrier to take the new fittings.

Chassis and Drive Line Finally Finished.

Quite a bit has happened since my last post. I have read several article about Coyote engines passing quite a bit of oily vapor from the right hand side crank case ventilation into the inlet manifold and through the injectors. Not that a lot of oil escapes this is just something I can do without. The easy solution to this was to mount a filtered catch can in the ventilation line and catch what ever oil tries to pass through.

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As I was not going to install a heater I had to connect the heater inlet and outlet lines to continue the flow of coolant through the cylinder heads. The engine inlet and outlet in this case were 3/4" but had to be restricted to 5/16" to provide the correct coolant flow as provided by going through the heater. The heater fittings from the engine were of the quick connect type and I really needed to use this type as the connections stood straight up and I didn't have enough room to just press a hose on and loop across the manifold as it would stand too high to get the engine cover on. The only real option I had was to find some right angle 3/4" to 5/8" quick connects and connect that way, sounds easy doesn't it until you go looking for them. I couldn't find them in Australia but my local Ford Dealer offered to supply moulded heater hoses with the correct fittings which I could cut out of the hoses but at $80 each I looked for an alternative. I found the correct fittings on Amazon delivered for $30 and they arrived 6 days latter, these worked a treat.

I was supplied with a windscreen washer system comprising of a plastic bag with a motor attached similar to the early Falcons and Fairlanes, I would not be surprised if the original Cobras had this system as they were originally branded under the FoMoCo logo but their is no way this system would fit my car so I found an Aluminium unit from a local supplier at a great price so I grabbed it and set about fitting it and to say the least, I am mightily impressed with how it turned out, even more so that the chances of it ever being used is absolutely zilch. The only error I made was to have the washer hose enter the chassis right where the windscreen post sits, oh well, these things happen. I have changed the entry point to another location.

I am virtually at the end of the chassis work with the fitting of the front inner guards and the rear boot infill panels. These infills must be fitted and all holes drilled then removed prior to fitting the body as you can't get in to drill the mounting holes with the body on. This is also the time to fit the fuel vapor system temporarily as it also needs to be removed to fit the body.

With the chassis complete, I have now started on the electrical side of the build and I don't mind saying that my knowledge of electrical things is non existent. I am currently sorting out the lights and have some mods to do to the tail lights as they incorporate stop lights, indicators and reversing lights in the one unit and this requires a bit of work but all will be revealed in the next instalment.

All the best for 2016 and happy Cobra building.

Cheers

Russell