Million Dollar Skunksworks Kirkham

[David Kirkham]

Speaking of head tubes and exhaust...the customer wanted the exhaust to run out the back...complete custom job here.

[David Kirkham]

We used 2 inch radius bends on the entire system (except the collectors). We had to keep everything as tight as possible.

[David Kirkham]

Here is a shot of the exhaust going under the car. As you can see, it is tucked right up next to the frame to clear the ground.

[David Kirkham]

Here is a shot from the driver's foot box. As you can see, we moved the engine back almost 6 inches!

[David Kirkham]

This is another shot from the driver's foot box. Everything was done on CAD to make everything fit. We digitized the body, the engine, the transmission, and the differential! We would have never got anything to fit without the CAD files in Solidworks.

In this shot, you can see the front and rear brake hard line snaking down the inside of the driver's foot box. In an original 427 Cobra, there are 6 brake hard lines. The control arms are so long on this car, we only have 2 hard lines--one front and one rear. They then "tee" to the flex lines and out to the calipers.

[David Kirkham]

We tried 3 different collector lengths until we found the perfect length/look combination.

[David Kirkham]

Here is another shot so you can see how tight we kept the exhaust to the car. I hate it when the exhaust drags on the ground.