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March 13, 2000

Well, guess what, we are at the end of the Cobra project! Yes, there are a few loose ends to tie up. But more on those later. First the summary.

We installed the wind wings and note to all ... Mark and cut them before you mount the windshield. Would have made things easier. But 8 small screws and the windshield was out. We then marked and drilled the holes mounted. Made it actually quite easy to double check our lines though.

Visors have been flipped over so the mount pulls the visors upward. Helps deflect the wind up a little. More of a preference than a need. Sunglasses required on our trips!

Still to install: Wheel Spinners (alignment), Steering wheel (do not like look into dash) and center of wheel emblem (previous).

Inspection, piece of cake! Didn't have to prove too much. Lights lined up out of the box! It looks new and ran good so inspection went well.  Alignment is due next week. We've put just over 100 miles on her since completion, we want to do more before or dyno run later next week, but we also don't want to screw up any alignment specs.

Problems that have popped up: Turn signal indicator flashes as well flashes the high beam indicator. High beam turns on no light? Since we added the steering wheel restrictors, turn radius sucks. We removed one from each side to see if it helps. Speedo appears to run high, and lastly the tach light is so bright at night it makes a huge glare on windshield, we have to remove the lamp at night.

Tuning: So far the Speed brain has been great! Hooked up the computer to it and removed some of the part throttle timing, adjusted the TPS and moved the throttle stop to get rid of alot of the way too responsive throttle. Before she just did not like to run below 2 grand. Now she purrs. Running a bit rich, but I'd rather her be that way now until the Dyno run.

The drives: Yes, every run we've been on has involved a Cop eye balling us and people waving and yelling Cool.  We've been out in 40 degree whether, not using any heat and loving it. Of course we're dressed in thermals and our cool FFR jackets. We've been gentle the past few runs, but I think we will work her a bit harder this weekend, before the Dyno run, which would be a shock to the engine.

I'll be back next week to let everyone know how the alignment and dyno run goes. After that a couple updates here and there.

And now the picts: