Well it's been a long time since I last did anything to the Cobra. Family and Work commitment seem to have taken up a lot of my time.

I finally went out and bought a new brake master cylinder to try and get over the brake bleeding problem. System now bleeds better but still feels spungy. I'll bleed it again in a few weeks.

I also fixed the windscreen in place. First I fitted the rear-view mirrors, held the screen in place with the appropriate length stick and drilled the holes. The side supports for thewindscreen didn't seem to line-up particularly well with the plates on the body hoop. I hope this is the right measurement?

I finally got round to fitting the heater. I used some plastic pipe fittings to make connections for the heater air hoses. Then bolted the plate to the heater. The three outlets pointing the same way feed the windscreen and the drivers footwell and the single outlet pointing straight down is for the passenger footwell.

 

To connect the water pipes was a bit more of a fiddle and I had to resort to some copper pipe. This isn't a very god picture if you need a better one let me know..

 

Now the heater was fitted I could pressurize the water system for the first time. This led to two new discoveries; A) The water pump leaks B) so does the header tank :-(

I have had quite some trouble trying to identify the water pump. No one is quite sure what it is. The engine numberstarts 11A which identifies it as an early SD1, but the top-hat boss doesn't match any pump identified so far.

 

 

Started to fit some of the bright work. I finally decided to complete the car with the current Gel-Coat and once it has been running for a while I'll take it of the road and get it sprayed up. This also means I have a bit more cash at this stage of the build so I've ordered some wheels :-)

The front nudge bar and overriders went on quite easily. The tricky part was holding it all in place while I marked the holes but this was made easier wih the help of a jack and some masking tape.

The rea bar was almost as easy to fit. The only problem is there is less space to get at the nut underneath. Again I used the jack and some masking tape to hold things in place while I lined every thing up. Peter at DAX warned me that the holes required in the chassis plate on either side would be in slightly different places to get the bars to be central on the vehicle and he was right. It took quite some time to be sure the holes would all line up.

Washing-up liquid helped fitting the grommets round the stainless steel tube. By the way this stainless tube really eats up hacksaw blades!

I found using two nuts to form a lock nut was the only way to hold the studding while I fitted the nylock nut to the other end of the studding.

Only Kylie has a better rear end than this!

 

 

 

My build manual says to fix the two radiator grill bars using Wraf adhesive. I did this but they don't feel too secure. I'll have to look at some other fixing later.