Dash board part 2

after cutting 2 holes out for the heated seat switches thought better start with the Dash board .
Haven't been looking forward to this but cant put it off any more . .First I mounted the dash with the 5mm screws to make sure it still fits and then removed the screw one at a time to epoxy them in place .Once this had dried removed the dash and laid it next to the foam .Reading other blogs they glued the netting side of the foam to the dash so I copied that and seemed to work fine .
I made sure that the foam doesn't come round at the bottom but overlaps at the top as other builders.
Happy with the result so far will let it dry now before cutting out the holes .

Spray glue applied and lined p with the bottom captive bolts can be seen

This bits gone well

NumberPlate bar

Was told it would be easier to fit this bar before the body went on and then promptly forgot .
Again very difficult to try and get a measurement so opted for  the string between the 2 indicators .

string as a level

and then it was just a case of making it the same distance from the front .

Happy

Bonnet Gas struts

Fitted the bottom bracket in line with the cross member underneath the car as it was an easy way to get them the same distance from the front as finding a place to measure anything is a challenge in itself

Bottom bracket bolted in place

 then I marked were the gas strut would come to on the bonnet in its retracted position added 10mm and that is were I will but the top bracket .

All the marks made sense at the time

 then it was just a simple transfer to drill the top bracket

Fitted

I was told by Andy at GD to put one ram on ad let the gas out until the bonnet just wont stay up and that should be right when I do the same to the other one , but tats for another day

Horn

I was always going to fit air horns like most other cobra builders but also wanted to be able to use the horn at times with people dying of shock .Guessing that there will be a delay before the air horn starts hit upon the idea of having a smaller horn as well so just a blip would only sound the little one . only time will tell if this works .

Stobel Air horn ready to be fitted

Little horn fitted under the header tank

Plan to put the Air horn relay on one of the 2 spare rivnuts  in the picture

Radiator and Airbox

the Air box just jams in above the radiator and s held in place with the radiator bracket.
First fitted the air box and secured it in place with the top radiator bracket and found that it rattles which is no good took it down and placed draught excluding foam on the top ( sorry no picture ) and then refitted it with no rattle ..
when I came to fit the radiator I found that the fan housing was catching the air box and wouldn't fit .
solution was to move the air box towards the back of the car as there is a cut out that has to line up with the fan .
At the bottom of the rad I inserted some rubber sheet to make sure that didn't rattle either .

Air box fitted with foam rubber just visible
 

Once the radiator was fasten down could fit the pipework .

rad fan now clears the air box pipework