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    Quote Originally Posted by CobraKai View Post
    Looks good Bradyman. Where did you get the sweet fuel line clips?

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    Thanks Cobrakai, I made them. It really helps when you own a machine shop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bradyman View Post
    Thanks Cobrakai, I made them. It really helps when you own a machine shop.

    BOOO!!!! How can I copy you if you are custom making things! Not fair man.... But seriously they look good. I'm jealous.

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    2014 HB Cruise-In!

    I went to the Huntington Beach Cruise-in! Yes, that there is a Spyder! I never seen one of those in person - looked awesome.

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    QSL and Mrs QSL brought Scoopy and a Coupey under construction, as well as their miniature counter-parts. Sometimes visitors paid more attention to the little ones, but I am sure we will hear their story soon.

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    I created a gallery of photos taken at the Harris Hill Raceway track event of the Texas Cobra Club Spring Meet.

    http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/album.php?albumid=842

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    CUSTOM 66 MUSTANG DASH

    Did not do all this today more like slow over the winter.

    Any way I fitted a 66 mustang dash assembly and fabed a console extension to
    Replace the ffr switch panel.

    The steering column was way off center at first so I sectioned the center and lengthened it 1.5in to get it-
    Symmetric to the center of the car and line up close with the column then I trimmed the ends to fit close to
    Where the doors will meet, ill extend the ends after I drop the body on and fit up the doors.

    The console extension was fabricated with 1/2 square tube and 1/2 round tube to create a smooth edge, some
    1/8x1 steel strips and sheet stock. The 1/8x1 will be used to mount my switch panel and a 7in android tablet.

    I then pulled the dash out and made a clay plug for a 3 gauge cluster to cover over the mustang radio hole.
    Waxed the front with carnuba wax and glassed a mold for the gauge area. After the resin cured I marked the edges of the mold and drilled 6 1/8 holes for rivets to clamp the mold onto the dash. After removing the mold i cut thru the dash leaving about an inch around the mold edge. I then waxed the mold and riveted it back onto the dash. I flipped the dash over and mixed up some spotting putty and used it like a thin surface coat on the mold from the back, after that setup I backed that up with glass and resin.

    Here are a few pics of my results so far, it's just tacked up right now but will be fully welded in later.
    The biggest challenge was making enough space for the vintage air setup and getting the steering column to line up even close.

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    I washed the exterior and cleaned the interior. Then I took the coupe to the local Mustang and Nocal SCCA annual car show in San Jose. I would guess about 200 Mustangs and Cobras...2 originals.

    My Coupe was entered in class 34 - CSX4000 and later Cobras and Cobra Tribute cars. I took first place in class!!!!.....oh yeah, there were only three cars in the class...the other two were very nice FFR roadsters.

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    Deer strike.

    1-DSC01114.JPG1-DSC01104.JPGWell, last night around ten pm I was returning from a car show in Kerrville, Texas. I hit a deer at 70 mph. I lost all the lights on the passenger side, but after inspecting the damage at a gas station, I motored the remaining 47 miles to my house. Deer hair and feces all along the right side. Very little blood. I was wearing the racing harness. No damage to me.

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    Yeeowch!

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    Sorry to hear that. I have hit 2 deer over the years with cars. Not a good thing. Glad you are OK.

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    Finaly started wiring the megasquirt and main power I also moved my battery and installed the starter but we wont go there.

    After I get all of the wires cramed in Ill tidy every thing up looks like a total mess under the dash right now.

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    How the heck does one go about repairing that?
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    Deer-stricken coupe

    Quote Originally Posted by loeffler1 View Post
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    How the heck does one go about repairing that?
    My best guess is that you start with a new nose piece available from Factory Five at $2500 and you prep and paint. I'm happy that the car sustained no known damage to the radiator or frame and that the fiberglass held together sufficiently well that I was able to travel the 47 miles from impact location to garage. I'm still waiting for an insurance adjuster to make an appearance at my home. I'll let you folks know what I learn. The Texas Cobra Club guys here in Austin have been supportive with recommendations for shops that provide quality paint and body services. Wish me luck!

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    Luck !!

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    HCP 65 Coupe

    In that 1st photo, new kind of wipers or fancy windshield washers? LOL. Hey, nice battery install!
    Bill

    Coupe #421, Picked Up 11/15/08, started 1/1/09 - Rebuilt mildly massaged 302, T5, 3 Link, and Loads of Extras

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    Yea pretty handy little tool makes butt soldering wires easy in tight places

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    I placed an order with FFR for a new nose, mounting hardware, headlight assembly, and lexan headlight covers.

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    Dropped my engine and transmission in today, if I ever get my Halibrand wheels ordered six months ago from FFR maybe I'll get to drive it soon.

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    My new nose arrived. I dropped the BRE mirrors off at the shop along with Fluge's photo book marked to specific pages for installation and mod details. That book is a very useful item to have!

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    I Finished re-installing my transmisssion and got the car to turn over properly, I even have oil pressure glad thats over with. First start is in my sights.

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    This week I got first start accomplished and started the long ITB tuning process, getting them all balanced has been quite alot of fun. Every thing is going as expected so far,
    except I have a small oil leak coming from behind the Harmonic Balancer should only take a couple hours to install a new seal, Im not sure why the old/new seal is leaking
    but Im still all .

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    I installed my new shroud and fan's today and man it fits perfect. I only had to drill 2 new holes in the top lip of the rad, the bottom holes lined up.
    Its fairly inexpensive and flows almost 1900cfm.

    The quality of the shroud is top notch the aluminum is 3mm thick and super heavy duty. The dual fans are even less noisy than the FFR supplied one.

    The part even has a lifetime warrenty

    Here is a link to the part from summit

    [URL="http://www.summitracing.com/parts/mio-mmfs-rx-ls"]

    Its meant for a ls swamp into a mazda rx7

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    Nice setup. I will file this away in case the FFR one fails

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    ....I did the same....file it away. Looks nice though.

    Would have done this from the get go if I had seen it before my build.

    I haven't had any issues with the FFR fan though...heating issues addressed with thermostat change.

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    I did this cause I wanted to add a shroud to the FFR fan cause the temp was slowly rising when sitting still.
    It was about 85deg outside without the A/C on.
    Before I ordered the shroud from breeze that Fluge modified and used I thought I would look for something from summit and just got super lucky.
    I hope it helps others I'll repost if it develops any issues.

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    Finished mounting all the exterior parts prior to paint. This has definitely been the most trying part of the build. Just when you think you are done you find another pinhole in the gelcoat.


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    Looking Good!

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    Took my side pipes off to install the body mount screws. One of those jobs that look quick and easy. 2 hours later they are in. Now those would be helpfull cut outs to come from the factory.
    Figured the approximate area to drill, then drilled with a small drill size to locate the mount hole. Then drilled out the actual size when I saw which way to drill.
    Hardest one is the drivers side most forward one as the footbox aluminum is right against the mounting tab. Had to bend out the tab to get the clamp nut on there. Then tapped it back in place with a punch.

    I modified the dash bracing to allow for the gauges to be raised. Now that I'm using the marine wipers I need to modify the modification in order to make room on the drivers side.
    Every mod challenges your abilities to think out of the box. There's something to say for staying stock! LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Dol View Post
    Took my side pipes off to install the body mount screws. One of those jobs that look quick and easy. 2 hours later they are in. Now those would be helpfull cut outs to come from the factory.
    Figured the approximate area to drill, then drilled with a small drill size to locate the mount hole. Then drilled out the actual size when I saw which way to drill.
    Hardest one is the drivers side most forward one as the footbox aluminum is right against the mounting tab. Had to bend out the tab to get the clamp nut on there. Then tapped it back in place with a punch.

    I modified the dash bracing to allow for the gauges to be raised. Now that I'm using the marine wipers I need to modify the modification in order to make room on the drivers side.
    Every mod challenges your abilities to think out of the box. There's something to say for staying stock! LOL

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    I keep telling myself if it was easy anyone could build one. LOL. Keep up the good work.

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    Big Bend Open Road Race

    I submitted my forms to participate in the GT-1 class of the Big Bend Open Road Race that takes place in April. This will be my rookie year. In my class, the goal is to achieve a precise 115 mph average for the 59 miles from Fort Stockton to Sanderson, Texas on the Mexico border and the same on the return leg. I will be participating as a newly fledged member of the Cobra Team. I met some of the team members last March at the Spring Meet of the Texas Cobra Club which was organized by my Austin chapter. Y'all need to come on down for some fun in the Texas sun!
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    @HCP 65 Coupe, Would you be able to make us a cam sensor like the one above for our BBF? This is for a project car we are converting to coil-near-plug...1400HP Kaase Boss Nine with twin ProChargers.
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    @HCP 65 Coupe, we are looking for a cam sensor like the one you have shown above for our project car...a 1400HP Kaase Boss Nine with twin ProChargers. Is that part available for a BBF? If so can you contact me with more info?image1.JPG

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    Sorry Bossnyn I only made the one for the small block 351w But it can be made fairly simple out of an old distributor and hall sensor and a little welding check out DIY auto tune and mega squirts sites there is some info there. Another option is AEM, they make cam driven pucks for alot of differant engines not sure about the BBF tho.

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    It's been a while since I posted here figured I would share some of my progress.

    I finished my cold air Intake its not exactly what I had intended from the start but will be fine for now I would like to add sheet aluminum to box in the air filter but will maybe do that some other time.

    I also started changing over to a hydraulic clutch setup. I didn't really like what was out there so I made my own. Its not finished yet but hopefully it will work right.

    Here is a link to the slave I'm using http://www.colemanracing.com/Slave-C...ype-P4587.aspx

    Here are couple pics.

    newish pics 008.JPG I machined the bracket from a Block of 6061-T6

    newish pics 012.JPG The intake tube has a ford MAF built right into it.
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    Nice mods! Car is coming along nicely.

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    Thx Wallace going slower than I would like but she's almost ready to go To paint just need to finish up the dash and fit up the elephant ears Rear glass and fit the headlight buckets. Also finish the hydraulic clutch setup. And a few other lose ends.

    On another note are most people fitting the front wheel wheels/splash guards before paint or after and how are you guys attaching the upper portion to the hood fiberglass resin?

    What are you guys leaving for after paint or for the painter to do? The manul leaves this stuff kinda wide open.
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    nice machine work HCP!

    I am putting on the splash guards before paint. I'm making metal mounting strips that will be glassed on, but mine are a little more un conventional since I added structural rails between the fire wall and the front uprights.

    Also trying to mount pretty much everything external before paint so I don't have to drill in fresh paint later.

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    Finished the "My Coupe, my way" project.

    http://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae46/jdcoupe1969/
    Coupe #386,17" Team III 245 FR 315 RR, 3-link, T5, 4 wheel disk, power brakes/steering. Sniper EFI
    First start Sept. 18 2013 First go kart Sept 19 2013

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    I mounted the front inner wheel well splash shield with 2 S/S button head screws in the radiator exhaust area. I drilled all my holes and mounted every thing before paint and then took it all apart for paint. Lots of body work done before removing body from frame though. My car took a ton of work in the passenger hood area to be correct. See my build thread.

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    I too will have to heavily modify the hood on the passenger side it's high about 3/8-1/2 in the cowl area the pontoon hits the hood way early seems like that is common with the gen2 body although I'm not entirely sure it's just the body I think the frame is slightly off where the body sits in the passenger door sill. I wish ff would scan the driver side and make a true mirror image body with a cnc machined body plug. It would make the body fit so much better but from what I hear the gen2
    Body is tons better than the gen 1.
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    Finished my push rod and mounted my Clutch Slave. Now all I have to do is setup the master and plumb it.

    The push rod is a SS 5/16-24 extension nut and a 5/8 SS ball bearing welded to the nut.

    Here are some pics from under the car.

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    Thought I would lurk here for a bit. I got my personalized tags for the coupe. I never had them before, but thought the coupe was worthy.



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