Side Pipes

I know it's been awhile since a post on here, but things are slowing down a bit with the car being almost done. I did have some exciting stuff happen today that I should write about.

A few weeks ago I took the cobra in to Merchant tire to get it aligned. They said the pipes hung down too low to get it on their machine. They were gonna try to get some ramps or something and call me back. Well, last night Brandon and I pulled the side pipes off and painted them with some semi-gloss barbeque paint. Since I had the pipes off today, I took off a little bit early from work so I could run out to Merchant and have it aligned between rain showers.

They still had to run out to home depot to get some planks of wood to keep from scraping on the bottom. But I got a little discount for going in there all the time. It's all about who you know, not what you know. Such a true statement. The car feels good with the new alignment. I'm pretty excited about it. I actually had it pretty close by eyeball. Everything was withing acceptable spec except for the toe which was off by 5/8".

Well, this afternoon Josh came out and brought over a spare J-pipe for the flange. I cut the flange off with a cutting wheel and Josh welded it on to extend my pipes a little out from the body. We mounted everything up and installed the heat shields. I think it really looks much better.

$5 Rides

Had a pretty busy, but great weekend. Went to a smallish car show Saturday morning to meet up with my buddy, Trey. He has a 91 porshe 911 that I've been wanting to check out. While I was showing him the Cobra lots of folks came over and took pictures and asked questions. I wasn't trying to be part of the car show, but hey whatever! It was kinda nice.

After that I limed, fertilized, and seeded the lawn with Diana. I had a gig that evening at Ruckus. It wwent pretty great and we had a good time. I didn't get home until 3:30 though so it was pretty exhausting. Sunday morning I got up and headed to Greensboro in the cobra. Most of mom's side of the family was there to check out the car. A bunch of folks went for rides including Uncle Mac, grandma, mom and dad.

Because the car doesn't have polish on it yet, it's very static electric and pollen just sticks to it!

Drove back to Raleigh, made dinner and went to sleep.

Louvers done

I was really getting annoyed not having the side louvers in since without them you can see inside the engine bay and can view all the siliconed up seams and whatnot. So after work today, I got those installed and got the rear splashguards done. I also sealed up a few places that road debris was making it into the cabin from.

Windshield wipers - successful test!

So, according to weather.com there was a 0% chance of rain until 10pm. Diana and I hit up a movie at the colony theater (20 miles away in raleigh). As you have probably ALREADY guessed. It started raining when we left. Successful test of the windshield wipers. Believe it or not we really didn't get too wet. At highway speed the windscreen blocked most of the rain. BUT - the rain that went in the hood scoop got sucked up into the heater motor and blew in the vents. So we had to turn the heater off...DOH. I'll have to fab up some kind of shield around the heater air intake. Also, I really need to install the rear splashguards because rocks are getting in my trunk somehow! And I really want to install the side louvers because it looks like crap being able to see in to the footbox.