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06-28-2008, 01:19 PM
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Location: Provo,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham, 427
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Here you can see the brake lines hooked up. Notice the brake lines are hard, stainless lines, and the clutch line is a braided stainless line.
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06-28-2008, 01:21 PM
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Here is a shot of the custom lower radiator tube we had to make to snake around the new billet chassis.
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06-28-2008, 01:31 PM
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Here is another one of the curve balls that always get thrown your way. Our normal radiator tank has the outlet pointed to the driver's side of the vehicle. Well, that ran right into the shocks... 
So, we had to change the outlet to face the front of the car. Here you can see the new tank. We had a lot of these little surprises on the car!
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06-28-2008, 01:33 PM
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Here is the battery getting mounted. Notice we mounted it on the right hand side of the car--to offset the driver's weight and balance out the car any way possible.
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06-28-2008, 01:35 PM
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We have a lot of friends (customers) come by all the time. They love to help out. Here is the owner of KMP530. Another Utah owner. Utah has more Kirkham kit car owners than any other state except California.
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06-28-2008, 01:38 PM
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Here is the dash set up. This is just a temporary dash. The real one is tan.
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06-28-2008, 01:39 PM
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This is a shot of the temporary shifter. There are a million things to think about and make and you don't always remember everything. But, we wanted to drive today, so we just whipped one up real quick to test ergonomics, aesthetics, functionality, etc.
Notice the top of the tunnel is slightly off. We ended up moving the engine back slightly further than we originally planned because we had more room than we originally figured. We will make a new tunnel top to fit.
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06-29-2008, 04:20 PM
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You're not putting the battery there, are you? It looks like you got the chassis almost together then figured out you'd forgotten the battery! 
I'm curious, approximately how long did it take to come up with the rough design here? It seems like it would take a few years. 
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Originally Posted by David Kirkham
Here is the battery getting mounted. Notice we mounted it on the right hand side of the car--to offset the driver's weight and balance out the car any way possible.
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06-30-2008, 04:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kris-kincaid
You're not putting the battery there, are you? It looks like you got the chassis almost together then figured out you'd forgotten the battery!
I'm curious, approximately how long did it take to come up with the rough design here? It seems like it would take a few years. |
The battery looks funny because all the interior panels aren't in yet. That is where we put our battery on all of our cars now and I think it will look fine once everything is in. What you see is just a really temporary fix so we could driver the car...and drive we did!
The whole process was about 2 years to date. About 1 year of really heavy research and 1 year of design, prototyping, and programming. There was overlap both directions, however. I guess I should add, more than one person were (are) working on the project.
David
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07-01-2008, 09:51 AM
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...and drive we did!
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I think you need to post a video of the car being driven in this go-cart state.
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