Screen demist pipes

Weather was rubbish today so spent some time inside putting some waste pipe together for the screen demisters. These pipes which I made into "T" pieces, take the warm air from the heater and split this to the screen demisters and the footwell, one for each side. The "T" pieces are joined to the various components by flexible tubing. I found a website which allowed me to print some templates for joining two pieces of pipe together.

It was actually designed for much more complicated joins that I was attempting i.e different sizes, angles, offset etc. but very handy nonetheless.

After cutting out the template and marking the pipe accordingly, I made the cuts and glued them together. Once dry, I'll rub down the joints a little and paint them black...... don't know why, you'll never see them but it just seems like the right thing to do :-)

A little bit of plumbing

Grabbed a little garage time today and started to put the main hoses together for the cooling system.

Before..



After...




I still need to run some additional hoses for the heater pipes but got drawn in and bought the bling polished pipes from GD. These mount to the chassis rails and just need hose connected at each end rather than a continous run of hose all the way round the front of the engine. I'll need to fix these solidly to the chassis so I'll do a little planning where to drill the holes and fit these next time.

Few more pictures...

Ta Daaaa....

My new arrival... !

GD Euro chassis with LS3 engine and Tremec t56 Magnum gearbox

Andy kindly lent me the "factory" wheels while waiting for my wheels and tyres to be delivered.

All tucked up safe and sound

I'll post some further pictures and a few more details once I've had a chance to take it all in... !

Merry Xmas...

Merry Xmas. I had hoped to post details today of a major step forward in this project but Santa was unable to fit my Xmas present on his sleigh... The latest details from Santa's workshop suggests I'll be getting my present some time during the second week in January.

Best wishes for Xmas and the new year.

Just keep chipping away...

No pictures this week, not really much to show. Just grabbed an hour or two in the garage today and finished of the wiring for the other front headlight/indicator. I also drilled the holes through the floor for the seatbelt mounts. This is just a matter of holding the mounting plates in place and using the them as a guide for the drill. I've also completed the electrical connection to the heater and began marking the dashboard ready for cutting out. The heater has three speeds but there's only provision in the GD wiring loom for two so I've connected the fastest and slowest speed terminals. It seems that later dashboards have the locations for the guages pre-marked, mine hasn't but with a bit of hunting around the other blogsites and a bit of help from the guys on the cobra club forums (www.cobraclub.com) I've got all the dimensions I need to mark them out myself.

Chassis complete

I spoke to Andy at GD last week and my chassis has been built and was being sent away to be powder coated. This next part of the build should see some major progress and it's fair to say this is the quick but expensive part. I'm busy putting together a list of things to be done before the body goes on. If everything goes to plan I aim to collect chassis, engine, gearbox, propshaft, exhaust system and a few other bits on a Friday and by Sunday lunchtime have all this bolted together with the body on... Wishful thinking ? maybe, but working in a single garage with no room to store both body and chassis seperately kinda makes it a necessity, nothing like a bit of pressure to sharpen the mind eh !