HM-2037 Build Thread

[Redstang69]

Had a beautiful week this week, got about 80 miles on now.
Getting more comfortable with it. I spent a good bit of time trying to get the alignment close over the weekend. It's better but still have too much caster and negative camber on the driver's side. I need to pull the LCA off to gain more adjustment and I just haven't felt like doing that again. The better alignment definitely helped and some of the suspension noise went away.
Everyone loves a Cobra idling video
https://youtube.com/shorts/FedvU7U2Sb4?si=53nRs8bnNAUXMRnX

[Redstang69]

Can't believe it's been this long since I posted. Haven't done a lot, winter here and motivation has been low. I put the trunk prop rod on but I may switch out to struts. I really don't like how much flex and pressure it puts on the body where it attached to the body.
Also did my side louvers. I've got a tiny bit of trimming left to do to the openings.

[Redstang69]

I glassed 3 of the elevator studs that are perforated on each side. Then you can see the picture for how I did the whole l angle brackets. Top brackets I riveted on and the bottom one I JB Welded on.

[Redstang69]

One more pic

[Redstang69]

Hey guys, I haven't done much on the car, just a little driving here and there between rains.
I need to mount my wind wings. Anyone have any advice or precautions for drilling the windshield arms and not damage the chrome plating?

[dawger]

Redstang69,
I used a layer or two of tape, used a mechanical center punch then drilled slowly through the windshield arm. I also tapped the hole for the I believe a 10/24 screw and used a nyloc nut to lock it all down. Didn’t notice if you had visors but if and when you put them on, suggestion, I used stainless square nuts and put a bevel on them so they would slide in the top channel of the windshield, trimmed the screws as not to protrude too far into the channel when tightened, then a small vacuum hose to fill in the channel. Doing it that way saves one the stress of drilling or chasing the existing holes in the frame for the visors going to far and possibly cracking the glass…as well as using too long of screws.

Michael

[Redstang69]

Thanks for the suggestion Michael. I got the wings installed last night. All went well. That was definitely the most nervous drilling I've done on the car.
I used the supplied brackets for the visors and they seemed to work out. I don't remember why I didn't slide a bracket in the top like you and others have done.
I wanted to mount the wind wings using the windshield arm mounting bolts, but the angle they are drilled at doesn't match the angle of the hole in the wind wing bracket so that didn't work.

[Redstang69]

Not much new or exciting to report here. Just putting a few miles on here and there. I did a sort highway trip last Friday and was really surprised how smooth and good the car felt on the highway and at speed. I was skeptical because of how stiff it felt on the back windy roads.
Realizing how much heat I was getting up through between the side of the body and cockpit tub, like below the door and along that channel toward the front, I started looking at putting the aluminum panels in.
I've decided that from the door latch forward, the body already has a 90° lip, so I'm going to tuck the aluminum under that lip and the lip can act as a door sill.
But from the latch up, that lip is cut off. I'm really struggling to figure out how to cleanly lay the aluminum in there, navigate around the latch, be able to finish it and it be functional in sealing the cockpit from the rear wheel well. Anyone have good pictures of this area before they carpeted it?

[Paul Proefrock]

Ben,
I used fiberglass to replicate the tube of the original style door frame above the strike and aluminum molding below the strike. The strike is mounted on a formed channel, again, like the original was. The way Hurricane did it was just unacceptable.

For the door sill, I used MD Products A813 molding

Paul

[Redstang69]

Paul, I've been thinking I need to do the same as you above the latch, to achieve the look I want at least. It is quite the mess in that area with trying to finish it.
I trimmed my aluminum pieces and fit them in. Doing this bright to light that the cockpit tub favors the passenger side and the body favors the driver's side. The passenger aluminum came out nice (first pic). The driver's side came out fare. Much wide gap. I need to run a couple screws in above the latch on the driver's side and it'll pull in a little but not much.

[Paul Proefrock]

Ben
Positioning the cockpit tub and the trunk tub has a HUGE bearing on where the body sits. And the pieces that Hurricane supplied are not correct. They've been wrong since the Lees Summit days. You would have had to do major surgery on the pieces to make them right and you probably were totally unaware of this.

Hope the new owners are able to redo these parts to make them correct. For you to correct it now, you would have to totally remove all the pieces and start over. Easier to 'make it work'

Paul

[Redstang69]

Finally got around to making the glove box door. The one supplied by hurricane was a little undersized and the small curve didn't quite match the dash curve so I made a new door. Took a lot of in and out test fitting and light sanding to get it molded and fitting properly but it turned out good.
What screws have you guys used to fasten the hinge? I used a different hinge so I could screw into the "meat" of the door instead of up into the thin edge of the door. But the screws to mount the hinge to the dash stuck up too high so I had to drill holes in the hinge for the screws to relive into.

[Redstang69]

Second pic

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Also, I got a stick of the aluminum that Paul recommended and started working on the sill. The stuff bends really nicely and easily. Will probably put some reinforcement under the fiberglass lip to give the sill aluminum something more solid to bolt to.

[Redstang69]

Continuation Cobra sill that I saw at the GT40 event.