Final Detail Assembly: Frame Paint in Front and Side Pipes
The cobra has lots of paint damage on the frame from assembly, brake fluids, painting, etc. Rust was creeping in fast so I decided to give the frame a good cleaning and scraping. I focused on the front 1/3 of the car and will work my way back.










Next I took on putting the side pipes back on. Earlier in this blog, you can read about how hard it was to install these pipes. With the lift, that all changed. I did it by myself and it took about 15 minutes each! Did I say that I love my lift? I DO! Anyway, I took some copper gasket making material and coated the inside of the slip joints for the exhaust as I noticed a few exhaust leaks. I cleaned out the inside and mating surface, put on a generous amount and it worked great. No more leaks that I can tell but will see with time.








The saga with the aluminum is still going on. I am going to try the mother's power ball with aluminum polish. The scotchbright helped some but now it looks like a 30 year old car. Painting really beat up the car. I also got RUST spots on my crome aircleaner and valve covers as well. Lame:




For next time, I will cover one big mistake I discovered....the hood scoop was put on crooked! I had to remove it to take it back to the paint shop to center it and repaint... The silver lining is that without the hood, I have better access to the aluminum pannels and I can also do some touch up paint on some rusty spots. Oh...and I am going to paint my steering shaft (total rust case now), hood prop and hood hinges with POR.