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Week of 6/3/01 So
we got the engine put back together and installed. Then we
worked on draping the wiring harnesses over the frame to test it
out. We had a great weekend working on the wiring and
engine. We had a little trouble with the new ignition key
switch, the first one broke after 3 starts. William went out
and got another one from NAPA, and it worked pretty well for a
while, but also has a problem. This caused there to be a few
choice words around the house, but other than that we came away from
the experience relatively unscathed. It runs and sounds great,
we are both very excited about the car. | ||||
 Back at my Dad's shop... The engine was ready to start putting back together. My Dad, Tom, did a lot of work balancing and getting everything ready. |
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 Side view of the morning work on the engine. |
 It took a little while, but the pulley system is starting to come together. William and I both did a lot of work bead-blasting, but he did all the painting. |
 It's almost ready to put on the transmission. |
 It took four of us to steady the engine, and put on the transmission. (Although I'm not sure that my Mom and I count...we were just holding the engine in place) |
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 Side view of the engine and transmission. We are ready to pack it up and hit the road. |
 Here we are back at home... getting ready to take the engine off the truck. That did not concern me as much as the mosquito problem. |
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 Needless to say, it was a little more work than we thought it would be to get the engine in with the transmission attached. |
 Although the pictures certainly don't show it... I did work and help. REALLY, I DID! |
 We've almost got it! |
 Aaahhhh, there we go. Now we can relax a bit, the engine is in, and there were no fatalities. |
Time to get out the wiring harnesses... |
 Engine and radiator installed. We're getting closer. |
Drive shaft installed. William did
this on his own, so I really don't know how difficult is was, looks
good though.
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 The transmission in the tunnel fits pretty good. I think the shifter is a little forward from the cut-out location though. |
 I am arranging the wires on the dash, trying to get ready to start it up. |
So many WIRES!!! |
 We had to install the aftermarket ignition switch because the old one from the mustang was shot. |
 William made sure to check all of the fluids before trying to start it up. |
 We're ready to crank it up. Once we did it sounded great! After it got late in the afternoon we put the side pipes on because without them, it's LOUD! |
 We didn't take to many pictures while we were running it, mostly because we were too excited to think about it. This is William taking off the side pipes (once they cooled off). |
Although it looks like a mess, we had lots of fun. We're still
working on the wiring, and have a lot of work ahead, but reached a
nice milestone. |
For those of you that are on the cobra forum... We did have trouble
getting the right belt length for the pulley system since we are
going back with power steering. I believe William made a post
on the correct belt length (since it took us about 3 trips to the
auto parts store to get it right.
Now we are on to wiring. We will be cleaning up the wiring harnesses and taking out the stuff that is not necessary anymore. Also, we should have our seats in next week, which will possibly allow for a quick go cart ride. We did test it out this past weekend to make sure the drive train works, but we only went about 6" in forward and reverse (it's pretty hard to drive without a seat!). Take care and we'll update soon. |
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