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    Please Graduate FFR #8352

    Huge shout out and thank you to my wife, Kay, who encouraged me to do this build (it was her idea to start with!) and supported me every step of the way. Also thanks to the forum vendors Breeze, Russ Thompson, Mike Everson, Mike Forte and Jeff Kleiner. Thanks to all the other forum members for sharing thoughts, ideas and photos - it was a HUGE help and greatly appreciated!

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    • MK4 Complete Kit shipped 9/15/12
    • All from Forte: Coyote Engine, JMS Custom tune, QuickTime bell housing, TKO 500-IRS 3.55 gears Torsen, Midshfter, Hydraulic clutch, 255 Fuel Pump, Power steering with SS tube for plumbing
    • 3/8 fuel lines 5/16 return SS tubing front to back, SS brake lines and clutch lines
    • Gas-N SS side pipes, SS ceramic coated Headers
    • E-Stop electric parking brake
    • Upgraded Willwood brakes (6 piston front)
    • Kumho Ecsta tires: 315x35r 17” back; 255x40r 17” front
    • Breeze hood hinges and SS Roll Bars
    • Chrome radiator, power steering, oil caps and gas cap
    • Flaming river steering wheel
    • Cobra Replica tail and parking lights from Shell Valley

    Items that I customized and fabricated on my own
    • Custom aluminum bent Firewall, foot box, dash, under dash, radiator cover, radiator snout, lowered trunk floor. Purchased 4X8 sheets of aluminum, with lots of trial and error!
    • Completely finished and sealed front and rear wheel wells using ABS plastic and aluminum
    • Front grill, brake ducts and hood scope vent made from 5/16 round bar and Chromed
    • Steel side vents to match grill, and chromed; Very challenging to get it right, lots of trial and error here also
    • Chrome accents on the top of the radiator cover, footwell in engine compartment to hide rivets and inside trunk. Made from 5/16 aluminum rod milled down to half thickness then chromed.
    • Electric bear claw door openers with outside door touch pad and door side panel interior switch
    • Electric trunk latch
    • Milled license plate bracket and rear LED brake light
    • 3 speed RV blower, vents going to front and bottom of the dash
    • Modified FFR seats, back of seats extended 4 inches. Heated driver and passenger seats and driver side is adjustable
    • Milled Seatbelt bezels, front, back and into trunk; all chromed
    • Glove box and glove box door handle, Ό inch steel tubing welded, tapped and chromed to match grill theme
    • Front speaker boxes in foot wells and custom fit sub-woofer box in trunk.
    • Trunk lid hinge pins to keep trunk open
    • Hidden hood latches and hood popper
    • Radiator and power steering fluid reservoir, all hose barbs eliminated and AN aluminum bung lugs fittings weld in place
    • Milled chrome accent pieces on Coyote engine cover and valve covers
    • Trunk mounted battery box.
    • SS gas petal and foot rest petal to match brake and clutch petal
    • Saab retractable cup holders in dash
    • SS 3/8-inch valve cover vent tubing
    • Head lights, blinkers and gas cap body opening have an Ό inch aluminum ring bonded to the inside of fiberglass body so the lights can use machine thread screws to attach, no metal screws
    • Custom fiberglass hood scoop attached on the back side of hood to make it look like a shaker hood scoop
    • Front and back hidden body mounts, adjustable up, down in and out. Sorry Kleiner…
    • Bent and welded aluminum lower radiator tube
    • Brake and clutch reservoir mounted above cylinders. All plumbing uses SS tubing, flexible SS hose attached to brakes and clutch cylinder

    Electrical
    • InfinityBox Intelligent wiring. Can’t say how nice this was to use - Jay is a great guy to deal with
    • Programmed Fob: Security lock, headlight, parking lights, horn, trunk pop, interior LED lights
    • Engraved dash switches from AutoLoc
    • 4 copper bus bars installed around the frame used for grounding all circuits so no grounds going direct to the steel frame, all copper buss bars and copper wire.
    • Used ½ inch PVC electrical tubing, heated and bent going from the back of car to the dash along the transmission tunnel to protect all wiring
    • Russ Thompson self-cancelling turn signals
    • Alpine stereo system with the following from Focal: 4 speakers, sub wolfer and 500-watt amplifier. Yes, you can hear it!! Bluetooth to my wife’s iPhone or by USB to stream music

    Paint & Interior
    • Paint done by Jeff Kleiner - Thanks Jeff for your patience on color choice and all the modifications I did
    • PPG custom paint color from Randy at the PaintHouse in Texas. We called this color Berry Blue.
    • Interior was done my friend Dan Knish at Knish Kustomz. Dan did a great job covering the aluminum two-piece dash I fabricated and all the rest. Porsche carpeting throughout

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    A few additional photos... I think that about does it! Let me know if you have questions or want to see something differently. Thanks! IMG_0241.jpgIMG_0284.jpgCobra 6 8-18-18.jpgCobra 8 8-18-18.jpgCobra 8-18-18.jpg

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    Excellent job I love the color the dash and all of the attention to detail one of the best I have ever seen

    Rick
    #8475 Complete Kit Delivered Nov 2014, started Nov 2015, Street Legal Apr 2016, Paint and Interior Completed Aug 2017, 390 BBF, March accessory kit, MSD Atomic EFI and Ready to run, TKO 500 with MidShift kit, hooker headers, 3 link, track lock with 3.55, sway bars, power steering, wipers, heater

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    Unbelievable Job!

    Congratulations!

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    Wow. Now that’s a show car. Beautiful.
    MK4 delivered 2/24/2017. Complete kit #9023,IRS, Power Steering, Leather, heater, 17" wheels, sway bar ft & rr, tremec 600 and Gordon Levy Racing SBF 427. First start and go kart 8/19/2017. Graduated 1/15/2018
    MK4 #9230 complete kit delivered 1/27/2018. IRS, PS, leather, Tremic 600, SBF 427. Graduation 10/15/2018
    MK3 #5253 donor bought unfinished. SBF 331, T5 Trans.

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    Excellent. Beautiful machine. Congrats.
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    427W, TKO600, Moser 3.55 rear.
    Delivered Feb 2017, Graduated Nov 4, 2019

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    She’s a beauty, congrats!
    Kyle

    Complete Kit pickup 09/05/2015, 351w, QF680, 3.55, 3-Link, 15" Halibrands with MT's, Painted Viking blue with Wimbledon white stripes on 03/15/2017. Sold in 08/2018 and totally regret it.

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    Great looking build! Wishing you many happy miles.
    MK4 #8900 - complete kit - Coyote, TKO600, IRS - Delivered 6/28/16 First Start 10/6/16 Go cart - 10/16/16 Build completed - 4/26/17 - 302 days to build my 302 CI Coyote Cobra - Registered and street legal 5/17/17
    Build Thread http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showt...e-build-thread
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    Beautiful Dan! That’s a whole new level. One of the best I’ve ever seen. Congrats!
    MKIV Roadster - #9380 - Complete Kit - Delivered 7/17/18 - SOLD 5/2023
    Build Thread #1: https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...V-Build-Thread
    MKIV Roadster - #TBD - Complete Kit - Delivered 11/6/23 - In Progress
    Build Thread #2: https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...Build-Thread-2

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    Ah, good to finally see the official unveiling! When Dan and Kay first approached me about doing the car for them 2 years ago he told me that it wasn't going to be like I've seen before. He wasn't lying! It is exceptional. The mods he made are both well thought out and well executed (OK, admittedly they sometimes made me take a different approach and forced me to step back, scratch my head and think outside the box too!) and in fact more than a few of them should be adopted by FFR! It's one of those cars that the more you look the more you see.

    We use the phrase "Over the top" a lot and this one truly defines it!

    Enjoy it my friends!

    Jeff

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    Congratulations. That some impressive craftsmanship. Can you share a photo of the waterfall area between the seat backs?
    -Steve
    Mk IV #8901 - Complete kit, Coyote, TKO-600, IRS. Ordered 5/23/16, Delivered 7/14/16, First Start 8/13/17, First Go-Kart 10/22/17, Registered and Completed 10/18/18. Build Thread: http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showt...V-Coyote-Build Graduation Thread: https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...-Roadster-8901

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    Absolutely Gorgeous. The attention to detail and craftsmanship is exceptional.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Enjoy driving this beauty (and showing it off).
    Mk4 #9165, Base Kit with lots of options, Delivery on 08/17/2017, Coyote, TKO600, 2015 IRS, 18" Halibrands, 12.99" Wilwoods

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    Beautifully done! How about a shot of the seats?

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    Thanks all for the kind words, and thanks again Jeff for all your talent on these cars. I will post more pictures soon “ok when my wife shows me how to post pictures”. This was my first build, I have a lot of respect for the people in FFR and on this forum that have the talent to engineer something they have in there head and make it useable. I am glad Aluminum and card board can be recycled, trying to get all the room in the footwells and trunk I could and making the engine compartment look different was a head scratcher. Ask questions and I will do my best the answer with pictures. Still have a few more things to do, but Minnesota was long winters...
    Thanks again
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    A superb car and built w/ only 41 posts here. Wow.
    FFR MkII, 408W, Tremec TKO 500, 2015 IRS, DA QA1s, Forte front bar, APE hardtop.

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    Here are pictures between the seats, I made the structure out of 1/2 inch MTF plywood then bonded 3/4 foam that was shaped to look like this. Sorry can’t find pictures showing the process.
    Dan

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    Here is some pictures fabercating the chrome side vent, the first set I made the three 1/4 inch rods were welded in place, but found out after they came back from chrome they can’t get it to look good so back to the drawing board. I then made the rods removable from the back, they are held in with set screws now. Much easier for the chrome to be buffed out.

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    The frame of the seats are FFR, if you take the padding off to show the frame there are five 3/4 inch tubes that make up the back of the seat. I cut them all about half way up, then used 1/2 inch solid rod that slips inside the 3/4 inch tubes I cutting and plugged welded in a section to raise the Bach 5 inches. I wanted a higher seat back so the seat belts could come through.

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    I wanted a simple way to keep the trunk lid open, here are the pictures. I fabricated this simple bracket that fastens to the back of the 3/4 inch square tubing just below the fiberglass body. The pin is just a 5/16 aluminum solid rod drilled at the end with a small cable attached to the screws that hold the bracket.

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    Superb!

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    Terrific build and brilliant trunk brackets. Will likely borrow the idea!

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    Beautiful job, well thought out, and lots of attention to detail. Hey, I don't need to say that, it obvious. That would have been a excellent build thread and you have some excellent ideas we all could have plagiarized.
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    Awesome build!! Love the color and high end custom work.

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    Thanks all, the wife is showing me how to post pictures. I will post more pictures of the build soon. Ask any questions and I will try to give you pictures and details.
    Thanks Dan

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    What an amazing build!
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    Wow, unbelievably clean. Amazing work. I love the engine compartment.

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    That is a truly beautiful build and inspiring for others.

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    I love what you did with this build! It's incredible!

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    Love the build. It looks amazing!!!!

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    Congrats on a beautiful build. Your craftsmanship is outstanding! Love the color, too.

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    Super Job!

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    Thanks everyone for the kind words, I will start posting pictures when I can or when my build partner “wife” helps.
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    Dan, i went ou and looked at some of your earlier posts. I saw where you had you E-brake originally mounted on the trans tunnel, but now it's obviously not there. Where did you move it to?

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    Beautiful! Nice work!
    FFR MK4 #8317, 393 Cleveland, Lunati VooDoo solid roller, CHI 3V heads and intake, TKO 600, Std roadster seats, 8.8 3.55 diff, 17" Halibrand replica wheels, Ford "Magnetic Metallic", silver ghost stripe. (Sold 10/16/21)

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    Wow, just wow! Congratulations!

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    TBull, I ditched the parking brake lever and attached an E-Brake that mounts to the top of the transmission tunnel. It has push button switch on the cover plate below the dash on the drivers side. Google it to see how it works. I will try and post pictures if I can find them..

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    Congratulations. Your fabrication work is incredible.
    build thread: http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showt...-USRRC-vspeeds

    Build School: July 14-16, 2017
    Kit purchased: July 25, 2017
    Kit delivered: September 13, 2017
    First Start: December 22, 2018
    Body painted and kit completed and drivable: July 2019 (but still not done)
    CA SB100 Registration: January 2020

    Mk4 - 289 USRRC Roadster kit, Roush 427SR with Schneider Racing custom camshaft, Fitech EFI, TKO600 (.64-5th gear), 15" wheels, stock brake calipers, under car exhaust with Spintech 7000 muffler, no roll bar, Russ Thompson turn signal, removable steering wheel, and many other small upgrades and modifications

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