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Interior, Custom Dash/Gauges, Ventilation, Seats
While at homecoming, we gave Unique our deposit and walked aware with a plain dash so I could lay out the gauges in the format/scheme I want. I started by taping paper to the fiberglass dash and drew out several layouts to scale.... then picked the one we liked best. we took into account the steering wheel (note in picture where I sketched out on the paper. Also, note we will NOT have a traditional keyed start/on/acc or a lights pull switch. I'll have a seperate switch for the acc, Ing ON, start button, park lights and head lights. After we were certain of the layout... I started cutting. Also note I added a shift light center above the steering column that tied into the tach to the right of it. And finally, take a look at the custom switch labels I had made. This company is listed in the links thread.... ask for Kyle. I had all my labels made for $25.
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Custom gauges from Speed Hut
I can't tell you how happy I am with the gauges I had custom made by Speed Hut. I worked with Aaron there. Note the red Cobra Snake on the Tack and Speedo and the red COBRA text on all the gauges. I was able to pick the day and night color combos, the reverse speedo sweep, the yellow/red tack tick marks for the "red line", the mph range, the psi's ranges, etc. They have a very good web site to help visualize all this. I also got my "no moving parts" fuel level sensor and a dimmer. All the sending sensor units were included. The have many styles and sizes to choose from. I went with the GPS Speedo... no transmission cables are needed for speed. This GPS Speedo and provides time, time 0 to 60, 1/4 mile time, trip ometer and several other funtions. All gauges have some programing to do. See Speed Hut's web site for more details or just call Aaron.
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leather seat panel and logo
The Cobra logo is complete on the center panels of the seat backs and were shipped off to Unique’s upholster, Jim Holland. He’ll incorporate these along with the seat (butt and back) heaters. We’re getting close to d-day now.
The embroider work was done locally here in Pensacola area by Something Stitchy, Lynn Skipper owner. Their web site is www.somethingstitchy.com I did all my work remotely with her, i.e, email and phone. I sent her the artwork and she digitized it for her machine. Lynn also worked directly with the Jim... the leather guy. I stumbled upon Lynn... i.e, I bought my car hauler from her husband. It made it all very easy for me !!
Mark
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Foot Box Air Vent installed
A while back, I bought a foot box air vent kit from www.cobraearl.com/products/ and as one of my winter project, decided to get it installed. I didn't use all the parts, but the kit had everything I needed. You probably could save some $$s and source the parts yourself, but I went the easy way. The 12v air blowers are boat engine compartment types. I used 3M panel bonding epoxy to attached the front ducts to fiberglass. To hold the ducts in place, I first took some safety wire and glued to the fiberglass using Weld epoxy. This allowed me to "safety wire" the ducts in place then apply the 3M epoxy using a wide wood popcycle stick. It all came out pretty good. Since my ducts had two attachment ports, I used the extra flex hose to direct the air to the disc brake rotors.
Mark