OZVENOM - you'll be proud!

[750hp]

I made the Cobra 200 pounds lighter today. Yep, I worked on the car today - actually got out some spanners and did something! Too bad it's going the other way, and pulling the Car to bits...

Sidepipes, headers, radiator, intercooler and piping, Accusump, gauge lines and fittings, breather box and fittings - GONE!

Fuel cell and pumps unbolted. I can't for the life of me remember how the fuel pumps / swirl pot / filter on the tray found their way up onto the shelf. Man, the swirl pump is tight up there!!! Do you remember? I can't get the bloody thing out! If you remember, you're a genius, because it's not like it was done yesterday.

[OZVENOM]

Hi Craig nothing come to mind except that i think it all comes apart and you unbolt the swirl pot off the tray slide it to the center .
i am on the wrong side of 40 to remember stuff from6 years ago.

good luck.
oz

[Towmaster]

Craig,

What are you doing with it all? Putting it in another car i am guessing? What's to happen to the body etc?? You getting it regoed again with standard motor?

[spookypt]

Towmaster wants a race car!!!!! He he he

[750hp]

Thanks Scotty - I'll give that a crack on the weekend. You had some flash castellated style bolts securing the swirl pot, and none of Dad's sockets fitted on them. Was the swirl pot so valuable that you had to put security bolts in place?

Yep, the motor trans and 35 spline diff parts are most likely going into the XY.
XY motor going into the Comet
Comet motor being attached to a chain at the front of a boat somewhere (actually, I'd better not make it a boat anchor - it's a '63 coded 260 cubic inch Windsor motor ala the first Cobras...)

The painted body / chassis / Wilwood calipers, pedal box, composite master cylinders, braided brake lines / alloy dash with Autometer gauges, trimmed interior with poly race seats, quick release steering / coil overs / windscreen / maybe 17x9&11 Racing Hart wheels, etc, etc, etc is most likely to be sold in one go as a race car project

[NASSTY]

It was such a bugga when your cobra was forced off the road. The drive around the backroads of the Cove that you took me on will forever be etched on my mind. I have never been in anything, either before or since, that offered so much straight line performance. At the end of the drive you looked at your datalogger and it showed that you ony ever opened the throttle to 63%! OMG!!!! Glad to hear the engine will live on in the XY.

[OZVENOM]

Gee Craig you would think by now you would own your own tools instead of borrowing your dads whitworth sockets which are FYI not used any more except for the restoration of old pomy cars. or to pull out the wiper motor as its the only part you could ever use on a cobra cause it really dont need to work any way. i use metric or A/F sockets .
they may be 1/4 unf 12point bolts in which case you will need a 5/16 af double hex spanner or socket .
Or in your case Craig a pair of visegrips will do just fine.

oz

[PCC]

I own a full set of Whitworth Sockets thank you very much

But I am a Pommie - what would you expect

[750hp]

Yeah, nice one Scotty! You're on the mark, but I pinched all of Dad's A/F stuff for myself and the Cobra's still at his place...! I was thinking an oxy would blow them off - no problems. Not like it's anywhere near the fuel system...

PCC - why I am I not surprised you have Whitworth tools. Only a mad or proud pom would allow them to clutter up a toolbox!

Nassty - yeah, it was fun while it lasted. The XY won't know what hit it - I'm still tossing up whether to go with a wider and smaller blower pulley (to take it from 12lb boost to 22lb), or to ditch the blower and spin up a couple of hairdryers instead. If Scotty can make a dirty old Toyota motor make power with them, imagine what they could do on a real engine