Make the hood open from the rear.Attachment 185522Quote:
Originally Posted by speedfreakcobra;[URL="tel:1352752"
Cool build!
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Make the hood open from the rear.Attachment 185522Quote:
Originally Posted by speedfreakcobra;[URL="tel:1352752"
Cool build!
cool !
I'm in for updates.
I thought you were wondering about how to close the hood with the turbos up in it. My suggestion was going to be to rotate them about 200 degrees so they land inboard and down, and extend the exhaust pipes a bit. That would have them sitting in front of the suspension, in line with the engine, and lower down. How far forward and how far around would depend on how far you had to go to clear the suspension. That way the hood would close all the way down. If you want to make it open non-stock that would still be an option, but from the picture the hood wouldn't be able to close at all without making hood bulges to make room. As hot as turbos get, that would likely burn the paint off being that close.
Ohh haha I'm sorry guys. I'm revising the engine cradle location to push the engine up and forward. I think I can rotate the turbos down at that point and still clear the suspension.
I haven't posted in almost a year. Just thought I'd swing in and say the project isn't abandoned. I'm building a house and large shop so all my funds go to that. But by December I'll have plenty of space in my 60x80 ft shop.
So glad you checked in, thank you.
Thanks for thinking of us. Love the projects and hope to see more updates!
I went through this over 4 years ago. Built the house and then the shop. My only advice would be to completely finish the shop the way you want it before starting on the car again.
I agree, It's a touchy subject but I've been waiting for this for a long time.
Well guys. I've had one hell of a roller coaster ride these last 18 months.
All in all its been terrible. I got promoted to Company 1SG and had no time for anything else. Then the Army put me on orders to San Diego? There's not even any army base there! I told my home builder that we needed to speed up the building process, and just when I got all my permits back the home builder breaks contract because I wouldn't be living in it for the first year. It doesn't stop there. The last 18 months I have been paying for not one, but two mortgages. What's funny is I can't afford to live in San Diego because the price for rent is around 5k, so we have to live 90 minutes away. On a high note I got to put the engine back into the Cobra and trailered it down to sunny CA 4 days ago. Here's to hoping the next 3 years aren't like the the last 3. Cheers. Attachment 206354
Thanks for the update although it does not sound fun. Hope things start going smoother.
Wow, you manage to pack alot of action into a short amount of time!
Yeah, it wasn't all bad. The shingles I got at 36 years old didn't take my eyesight.
On a high note, I got tired of my staring at my daily driver so I painted it. As with anything that I do, I let it spiral out of control and made metal fender flares which turned a 1 week job into a 2 month job. But atleast it looks good-ish.Attachment 206411Attachment 206412Attachment 206413Attachment 206414
A Courier! Had a friend in high school who had one of these with a Buick V6 in it. Not super fast, but decent.
Yes! I'd like to put an ecoboost 4 in this but that's for another time.
Nice Courier!
Had an 81 Luv. I put a Buick V6 in it in the late 80's, Should have changed the rear end. Pics are from the around 83.
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That luv is badass! Hard to find these days
It's been about a year since I've been on here. I haven't forgotten about the Cobra, I actually stare at it almost every day. In the last year I bought a small cnc machine with 4th axis, a 3d printer and 3d scanner to mess around with and I've finally gotten the hang of the printer and scanner atleast. So what better way to test my newly found skills than to print a car panel. Attachment 212625
3d scan, it'll be a 2-piece print (skin & inner door)Attachment 212626
Neat. Tell us how it's working. :)
Wow! Very cool.
What kind / type of scanner? Does it just import as a stl file or does it translate into a solid for CAD manipulation?
Just read through the whole thread and WOW what a project! Love the Courier too, I learned to drive on a '73
it worked really well, there are some thin spots, but it gave the overall shape I needed to use a copy. In my head, I thought plastic would be alot easier to work with than steel. I'm not really sure If I'm going for a CFRP style door or use it for a mould to make a lighter CF door.
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I use a Peel3 3d scanner which is light based instead of laser. It can scan small fine details all the way up to whole cars/trucks. It comes with cad software that allows transfer to solidworks. I actually go from peel.cad to solidworks as a mesh file and change it to an STL file, then I transfer it to meshmixer and extrude the surface to about 1.2-1.5mm depending on the gauge of steel. from there I export it to solidworks as an OBJ file and save it as an STL file again. From here I can Transfer it to Cura which is my 3d printing software and turn it into G-code for print. In peel.cad or solidworks you could set all your planes and dimensions around the part since its only a mesh and reverse engineer it from there and add what ever you want to it.
Here's the inner door in cura, which im about to print as we speak.Attachment 212664
Mistakes mistakes mistakes! I went to change the filament on the printer and I accidentally moved the print head a couple mm. 12 hours of printing down the drain.Attachment 212701
For reference this is how far you get after 90 minutes Attachment 212702
Inner door structure is finished. I thought encapsulating the PLA in Carbon Fiber was going to be the move, but I honestly think I will use these to make molds and go strait CF instead of CFRP. I've been debating this for a while. I could use someone's common sense input though. Thoughts?Attachment 212791