Building a Shelby Cobra replica in 25 minutes 

Lmao

Now that’s a practical joke we need a video for. Lol

This is an interesting comment to find, considering I own a 78 cobra II

Is your pic the DRI logo or a swastika man?

I saw a guy build a chevy motor in his kitchen one time. Obviously he wasn't married.

Crack

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@@Ken-no5ip They did it wrong: should be trained out on the sofa, and useless.

😂😂😂

Little bit of nose coffee

Yes, some ptsd will stay, but the joy is overwhelming

Well sign me up for PTSD then 😆 lol no but for real I would absolute love a chance to build one

@@lilbooderfrommaddog3760 Same, I am hoping to be able to purchase one in a year or 2

What I would like to do is to DRIVE one.

@@alexmak1 WOW! What DEDICATION! Kudos to you and your son on this build, and thanks for the video, from a fellow Pennsylvanian. 👍 I pray you two are still TALKING to each other! 😉 🙈

This is an amazing goal!

Thank you so much!

hahaha. oh well, you know, it's a big country

u have small houses then

thank you!

Thank you so much! the first start was after about 3 hours of fails, so you can imagine the happiness.

thank you!

What's a big block chassis? Any difference from their std chassis?

@@dieselyeti sorry, it’s been over twenty years since my build. It’s probably best to contact FFR

Thanks a ton!

took me 9 years to get my cobra on the road (but there was a house renovation in the middle).

Thank you!

Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it!

thanks!

Seriously though this is my dream car and I’ve watched this video so many times. Thanks for this. Your car is incredible.

@@inflaminator awwww! Thank you so much! in the final paint it's even better looking, I think :)

yeah, I can imagine how life can get in the way. for us the lockdown was a sort of big help, so we could just focus on the assembling process, working/studying from home and spending the rest of the time on Cobra. why I sometimes call the car 'quarantine cobra" ) I'm thinking on the solid viking blue, no stripes, with black exhaust pipes and roll bars. should be pretty close to what Shelby had in 1963-1964.

Amazing

Imagine a world where governments can “lockdown” free men.

Yes gotta bring the big guns for that carb! (Thanks! I still miss him)

Thanks 👍

thank you! good luck with your kit!

Also did you have to install catalytic converters?

@@cokesbr7671 nope, cars like these are excluded from environmental regulations. although if you for for a Coyote engine, for instance, the engine's electronics will demand them

thank you!

thank you!

It is, but it's also a lot of fun!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Haha! yeah, I understand, it's a bad habit. I'll make sure that in the next project I won't be doing this!

Thanks 👍

thank you!

Here you go. I’m with you! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

You need patience, skill, more patience, lots of help.

Thank you! Cheers!

Many thanks!

my idea was that at some point my wife may want to drive it, so power steering would def help her

totally agree!

I perfectly know Sir, but as Ace,the car was known only in UK an d as Cobra the cars were famous in the entire World,with tha victories in races in the States and Europe,and these cars were not comparables as theAce Bristol´s Stay safe!@@martinprice9119

@@martinprice9119 erm I think the americans and Mr Shelby only took the body from Ace,everything else, chassis,suspension,brakes,engines and gearboxes,wheels were american, at least the latest 427´s! Thank you Sir,stay safe!

Thank you! The headrests are “aftermarket”, in a sense that no, they didn’t come with the seats, the original seats and the ones that come by default are low back seats. So in order to improve the seats safety we had to do this side project where we got the head rests from a junk yard, and had to come up with a way to mount them to the seats frame. The head rests are from the 2004 Audi A4 model, I believe.

we did our best

Thanks!

but if you drink as much coffee as we did ...

@@alexmak1 I think you were gulping down energy drinks as well. Great video with really practical advice.

Thank you! Yes, they are a must, imo. Of course depends where you live, but I drove our Cobra in 30F and the seat heaters turned out to bewitch a life saver, expanding the driving season significantly

electric vest? yes?

they still have a "basic" kit that requires a donor, but fox body donors are quite expensive these days

@@alexmak1 yes the price has gone way up. I have a 83 convertable glx, a 87 gt, and a 90 lx hatch. Just a roller in good shape is around 3grand now. I bought the 90 right as prices were going up. It was running good but paint and interior were shot. They were asking almost 4 and I told my wife if I'm going to get one I better do it now bc a year or so ago I could have got a better car than this for that money. We looked it up on Kelly and she said hell no this is saying 1500 so we happen to be at books amillion I went over and got a collector car book and looked it up and the price was dead on with that book. We offered 3000 and he took it. I paid 2500 for the 83 it ran and had 96thousand miles the guy I got it from got it from the original owner. It spent most it's life in storage the top was rotted and the paint needed to be freshen up had a ding or two but a solid car. Lucked out on that one. Reason I got it so cheap was its v6 not 5.0. Year later my wife found the 87 gt on Facebook for 1500 it ran but needed a fuel pump all it would do is idle.l so seen that it was cheaper than a decent roller I snatched it up that day. My wife said no more till I get finished with these 3. I guess we all have our addiction.

No, the body is not painted yet, it's scheduled for the paint this year with a shop. they will be doing sanding the body seams, etc. Yes, the body will be removed for painting, but prior to that all panels will need to be adjusted by the person who knows what they are doing

Thanks

Glad I could help!

That’s the part I’m really bad at, so we will have some professionals to do the body sanding and other prep before it’s painted. So seams will be gone and the car is going to get some proper color finally

@@alexmak1 Why not having the body prepped and painted BEFORE you assembled everything? Seing those ugly panel "welds seams", I reckon not only sanding but BRUSHING will be necessary to get a mirror like finish. Introducing dust all over the car and even within the components you want to keep clean. I am totally wrong here?

@@peterkater4292 the body has to be adjusted on the frame first - to make sure it sits properly, all the panes are trimmed and adjusted as needed. it's a fiberglass, so it's not perfect, and needs to be adjusted properly. that's why it's recommended to assemble the car first, and do the proper body fitment. Then body is removed, a lot of sanding, priming and more sending is performed, and then it's painted. after than a painted body is installed back on the frame and final assembly is done.

@@alexmak1 thanks for your long and detailed answer. I didn't know at all it was fiberglass! All the way, I thought it was aluminum or some (fine) steel sheet panels... Now it makes 2 things a lot clearer for me: 1) why those cars are so damn light! (hence the unbelievable power to weight ratio) 2) why you are looking at professionals for the prepping / sanding etc.. (without proper expertise in fiberglass, one would be either a crazy person or a genius to try and diy it..). Being the owner of a 77' Stingray and a 97' Viper GTS, I am praying all gods to never ever need to repair / touch up anything on those fiberglass bodies. It would be a tremendous pain in the a...

@@peterkater4292 part of me wishes it was an aluminum (especially polished one looks so cool), part of me thinks about perils of maintaining aluminum look and I'm like NAH! also it's super expensive. the cheapest cobra aluminum body I've seen was at least $25k. and yes, it's possible to work on FG body, a lot of people did it with their replica kits. but they also are the ones sharing stories about red dust in their nightmares.

makes me chuckle that people write off the newer reproductions as 'kit cars'. when the original Shelby was a mash-up of lots of different parts from various British cars and then an American Ford engine.

@@stuco81 have to admit greatest mash up off all time.

Hi, these are headrests from 2000 Audi A4, grabbed at a junk yard.

more like in 3 months :)

@@alexmak1 thats still really fast

Thank you! Cheers!

definitely fun!

I'd say...both. it would take me 5 years. My fear is I'd get frustrated and quit, and my wife would have to sell a half-finished car when I'm dead.

My son actually made it

it can take even less if you speed it up more!

us neither. It was challenging but not impossible.

wiring is the type of thing where once you scope it out, you'll know the basics, I know u can do it

No, it’s an extra service from a separate guy who does this for a living. It was our decision to have such an inspection, for our peace of mind to make sure we didn’t screw up anything major

Haha, thank you!

There’s a plan for this rolling pad on thefactoryfiveforum.com, so we used it, but decided to raise it so there’s space underneath to store the parts

wow, Andre, it's an honor, really! I apologize we did not go for 427 for this project! :) If you have a chance, I'd love to hear what's your thought on replicas/kits? I wish I could afford buying the real one.

@@alexmak1 that's prolly not who you think it is....sorry...

Name checks out, along with a comment. But yeah, on the internet it can be anybody

The wiring manual is included, it comes as a part of Ron Francis harness, which is the harness FFR is using in Mk4 kits. To this day I’m not 100% sure what the issue was, being torn between a bad ground somewhere and a faulty switch, which caused the harness to go haywire. (As a result, we had turn signals pulsating together with a fuel pump, which is a peculiar but not a very practical effect). Dropping the switch solved it, so there’s that

Thank you!

Да замечательно

the red color is just a gel coating protecting fiber glass, so it's what you get, there's no choice, and choosing a color and painting it is up to the customers to do later.

​@@alexmak1 Gotcha, makes sense! Is that the reason why the welding marks are still visible on the front of the car? Also, is disassemble required to paint the car?

the body is fiberglass, so these are not the welding marks, but sort of like "gluing" marks of different panels combined together. Once the body is properly adjusted and all required panels are trimmed, the body is taken off and goes to the paint place

@@alexmak1 amazing, thanks for the quick answers! i'm finishing the restoration of a 1973 Beetle and looking for the next project. this video inspired me, might take up one of these FFs!

Restoration projects are awesome! When we were considering Cobra, another option was to restore an old C3 Corvette, but we went with Cobra

Nope, we built it

Yes, I purchased all parts new. The kit with some options came from FFR, the engine-transmission combo came from BP, and I also added a lot of accessories and enhancements in the process. There’s a full list in the next video about total cost of the project

@@alexmak1 That's great! I can't wait for the next video. A lot of people source parts from a Donor car, not too many people have videos where they purchased all new. Thanks for the info. I am sure I will have more questions, lol.

pretty close to Lego, yes

It’s the jack stands that you put under a car when it is raised, so you do not keep it on the jack. I don’t know why I used the quick jack term, I probably confused it with QuickJack Lift

It is my understanding every state will register the vehicle. A donor car helps, use that title.

haha. we were refilling them as well

Crap if your car has electrical problems, you'll find out soon enough. Take a look are the wiring diagram in the service manual.