Fasterpatricks Custom Cobra

[CHANMADD]

Patrick I will bet that ,that guage by your knee is going to bug the sh!!!t out of you once you are using the car. Its going to be in the way of your knee? Great thread.

[fasterpatrick]

Well, I don't know if it will be worth the effort I put in to it, but I have finally finished that crazy dash of mine. lets see eight weeks, 2 gal. of bondo, six cans of foam, countless hours of sanding, about 1.5 gal of resin, Oh and let's not forget two surgeries and a short hospital stay. but it is done for now, and it fits. Laid up two layers of glass over the plug and pulled it off and the laid three layers from the underside then trimmed.




Well, off to work on something else. Hey any Ideas on what to use to bond the hood, trunk, and doors to the metal frames. I'm thinking that goo they use to bond car panels together what is it called. Patrick

[oldboy001]

Patrick:

You may want to look at a product called Fusor. Send me an Email (oldboy001@charter.net) and I'll send to product information. A little expensive, but well worth it.

Scott

If you get a chance could you put a picture or two of your tube bender in your gallery?

[Aussie Mike]

Check out Sikaflex: Sikaflex

Cheers

[COBRANIP]

Another possibility is Norton Speedgrip.http://www.nortonautomotive.com/Medi...ves%207663.pdf

[fasterpatrick]

Hey just for a laugh I was messing around with an Item that followed me home from the latest "5-S" event at work. I was thinking of polishing it and and useing it as a pistol grip shift lever


It has room for four buttons, I figure one for the dimmer switch, two for spray (arm and blast), but what about the fourth?
Patrick

[fastraxsg]

Hey Patrick, as usual, the dash and tunnel cover is very slick but was wondering, didn't you have a provision for removing or servicing the trannie from the top side? Is that still on the cards?

[fasterpatrick]

Ken,
With all the gauges being electric and a couple of large connectors, I plan to be able to remove the whole piece as one large assembly. That way there will be nothing in the way for tranny removal. You have to think this kind of build about five or six steps ahead and sometimes thats not far enough ahead.
Patrick

[fasterpatrick]

After spending all that time making panels for my car I didn't want to simply rivet them to the tubing. Not my style plus I didn't want all those holes in my chassis. So I spent an immense am out of time making little 1"x1" tabs with threaded holes to fix the panels to with screws. I haven't put the panels back on yet, but the tabs were tacked in place screwed to the panels so they do still fit,

there are over fifty of them welded to the back half of the chassis. I can't wait to do the rest of the chassis at least that will all be metal.
Patrick

[fasterpatrick]

Have been in a slump lately and could use some encouragement that everything will workout just fine. Put the body back on the frame and wouldn't you know the door frames wouldn't fit. So after cutting out the door jams that I had done last fall I made molds in the car and glassed up some new ones.


Then back to the doors now with new jams the door frames had to be adjusted to fit again (just modified the pin catches for more clearance). Finally after getting the door frames to work smoothly again, I could make some tabs for glassing the door skins to. Now to get up the nerve to start fixing the skins to the frames.



Man this is taking way longer than I thought; Patrick

[elgecko]

Have you thought anymore about the adhesive to bond the metal tubes and panels together? I'm at that stage myself.
Dave

[mickmate]

I think the Fusor stuff that was mentioned is what GM uses to bond panels together. Supposed to be good stuff. Good work Dave, glue that puppy together!

[fasterpatrick]

Well it's been almost a month between posts without a whole lot of progress.
My guy at the auto body supply store recommended a urethane window adhesive. Said something about flexibility for differences in expansion rates.

Now as far as what to glue into place is what has been taking the most time, after one failed attempt I had to go with plan B. Don't ask for train wreck pics they do not exist, but I will not work with foam ever again.

I did manage to get the inner door panels made and the glue is setting as I type.


So tomorrow I hope to glass the seams and put these doors to bed. The skins were glued and glassed to the frames, I also coated the frames with POR15 because I will never get a chance to do anything to it again.

Give me a couple of days and I may get these done and refitted to the car and I will update you then.

Patrick

[fasterpatrick]

Da-am was that fun NOT, but hey they are done! Now I can't tell you how much filler and sanding these will take to finish but I have a base.

So here is the pics of the doors in full rough.




Now it's up to all of you lurkers to post up a comment;
Patrick

[Jac Mac]

I just hope there was no resin on the handle of that wire brush when you left it there!

[496fe]

You are going to cover this all up with upholstery panels anyway... right?

Brian

[fasterpatrick]

Well I've done it I have finished the major fiberglass fabrication of my build, panels done, dash done, doors done, hood and trunk done!


I have quite the inventory of items created with fiberglass for someone who had little expeirance with this stuff I think I did pretty good.


The body is tucked away back on the ceiling, I hope not to see it down till bodywork part of this project. I have a couple of loose ends to clean up on the chassis and it's off to powdercoat then I may get to start putting this thing together for real.

Patrick

[autoxmike]

Your project makes my 5 year basement finishing project look like a tinker toy project for a 5 year old. Good Job and very inspiring!!!

[eschaider]

Originally Posted by autoxmike

... very inspiring!!!

+1


Patrick,

I'm blown away each time I look at your pics. Awesome job and really, really inspiring.


Ed

[tcrist]

Patrick,
I wish I had the (you know whats) to take on a build like yours. I did help (minimal) a guy build a KR2 airplane once. He used what he called glass sphears for the filler. It is kind of like bondo for fiberglass. If I remember correctly (of course this was over 20 years ago) it was fairly easy to work with.
We did use blocks of foam glued together and then shaped for his engine shroud. Of course he had blue prints to go by.

Great job, Terry