April 2001
April 2 - The TWM Induction system arrived today. Very cool.
Unfortunately, we couldn't stare at it too long because I had to ship it
off to Panhandle Performance. Panhandle is porting the cylinder heads
for us.
I saw a posting on ClubCobra last month from another TWM user that
had powder coated the intake. It looked very nice, so I think we're
going to consider doing this as well as soon as we get it back from
Panhandle.
April 30 - Scratch the powder coating of the TWM. Richard from
JBL told me that the high temperatures involved in this can cause slight
dimensional changes in cast parts which will likely cause problems for
the throttle bodies and intake.
We've been on vacation for the past couple weeks, so we didn't get a
lot done. I received a call from Panhandle last week telling us that the
heads and intake were ready and being shipped. We're waiting anxiously.
We decided to trial fit the oil pan and pickup we got from Armando's
Racing Pans. Unfortunately, we have a couple minor problems. The oil
pickup conflicts with the main cap girdle from DSS. The amount of
bending required to make it fit would probably cause some structural
damage to the pickup, so we'll have to get Armando to make us a custom
pickup. We also have some interference problems with the pan (an
internal oil deflector hits the main girdle) but this should be
relatively easy to fix. The bolt holes don't seem to all line up either,
but it's possible that this is due to the interference problem.
Scott and I flew down to southern CA over the weekend to attend the
Knott's Berry Farm custom car show and the Club Cobra forum dinner on
Saturday night. We had a great time meeting some of the folks we've
chatted with on the forum and seeing lots of very nicely built Cobras.
We talked with Richard and Dave from JBL for a while about the dash,
schedule and a few other things. Scott is trying to talk me into putting
a data acquisition system in the
