The making of a 427 Narrow Hip Cobra starts now!!

[my427cobra]

Great progress on your cars narrow hip revival and the result will be a great look.

Love my narrow hipped, Sunbursted, Blue Dotted, Street version:



Looking forward to seeing yours completed.

Cheers
Greg

[Metal-morphous]

Greg very nice!!!!

I already sent out a few reproductions of Eddies reproduction seat track knobs :-) I implant a 1/4 20 nut during the casting process. The photo is what it looks like straight from the mold. The high density plastic we use is ready for paint once the flashing on the bottom is cleaned up.

[my427cobra]

Hi Metal-morphous. Like the reproduction knobs. But I don't have seat rail levers. I do have the Levelor medallions though.

Now you're going to force me to create a pair of relica levers.

Cheers
Greg

[Metal-morphous]

mickmate - Here's the fuel cap that Eddie has purchased to top the rear quarter.





Greg- As you can see they look fantastic with the ERA seats.
Eddie fabbed me up a set of if the rods he made for his narrow hip.
I'm installing mine on ERA 148 today :-)

[jolsen42]

Don't you ever sleep??

John O

[my427cobra]

So. are you making the knobs and rods available. PM me if they are and cost.

I have the same fuel cap except my release button is ribbed. I need to get around to removing the button, grinding off the ribs and getting the button rechromed.

Gheers
Greg

[Metal-morphous]

"One of the areas overlooked by replica manufacturers is the rocker panels, which tend to be straight lines, which would be hidden by side pipes." On Eddie's car we are constructing the slight belly that is apparent on the originals.

[DanEC]

That's great - looking good. How did you finish off the back side of the front wheel flares to reduce them? I know you cut some of the lower part back - did you then fiberglass the area back in with less flare to close back up the radius of the opening?

[1985 CCX]

Awesome!

[Metal-morphous]

Dan we first cut the front flare rear section using a template off my ERA 148 then glassed in a return flange again like on the earlier ERA's

Anyone know what this is? Eddie found it on eBay :-)

[my427cobra]

Looks like the correct/original Trico washer bottle for the 427 Cobras. Now you need a Trico decal and firewall mounting bracket from mickmate (Acton Custom).

cheers
Greg

[Metal-morphous]

Greg you mean like this

[mickmate]

Eddie is coming up to see me shortly. He'll have his dial calipers out to measure the belly curve on an original.

[my427cobra]

Yeah, that Trico washer bottle looks familiar. Got to put a new decal on it one of these days. But patina is good.

Now just waiting for your "production release" of seat knobs and seat levers.

Cheers
Greg

[migge]

Have done a rounded, belly bottom edge 2 years ago.

[Metal-morphous]

Now that the quarters have had time to out gas and the chassis is back at Eddies ,its time to re-enforce the back side with 4 more layers of fiberglass
ERA inpregnates a core mat material to strengthen the inner fenders and help prevent damage due to rocks being picked up by the tires, nice feature !
I like to use the same fiberglass material as used by the manufacturers, by doing so the repairs or modification are indistinguishable from the original body.
Now it's time to re-gelcoat the intire body... Getting closer :-)

[Metal-morphous]

While we are getting the body ready for paint Eddie is getting the chassis ready for a glass smooth paint job including sanding and filling,no powder coating here!!

[1795]

Impressive, will be one hell of a car when it is completed. Did you have to wait for good weather to be able to move outside, or did it time out right?

[Metal-morphous]

Delays have been an issue but the weather was not. Like stated early in this thread the project revolved around the sunburst wheels and that took some time to get worked out but well worth the delay. We got the body mods worked out while the weather was cold and the delayed spring worked out in my favor. Things will start to pick up speed now not only due to the weather warming up but also having the mods finished.

[Metal-morphous]

Now you can really see the new lines of this narrow hip,,
This is a polyester product that takes time to cure. After it's fully cured (about 2 weeks ) we will sand it down ,prime it and get it ready for color,,, now it's getting fun!!