1993 Mustang Cobra

[fantacmet]

This is for the Corvette/Mustang GB over on the FSM website. The funny thing is here I'm not a Mustang fan I'm a Vette fanatic, but there were no good Vette kits at the shop last week.

So here is my progress so far.

Front end is OOB

Rear is OOB with an aluminum license plate courtesy of soda can and laser printer.

Here is the engine, with a detail master distributor kit, I made angled plug boots for the distributor as per typical Ford, and the firing order is correct. The braided line I can't remember where it came from but the fittings are scratch and the core is solder. I think this engine is undersized as the valve covers are from a different kit and are WAY oversized but the engines and scale are supposed to be the same. I wanted the ribbed valve covers that said COBRA on them so I went with these.

I am adding fuel lines, brake lines, battery cables and possibly throttle lines.

I'm making resin copies of these wheels to go on it.

Last but not least here is the interior so far with custom floor mats. Again Ironic as I am a huge Chevy fanatic, even have a bowtie tattooed on my left ankle. This is just a great kit though. I'm doing similar stuff with my Vette kit that I'm gonna grab for it.

Edited November 24, 2013 by fantacmet

[PappyD340]

Very NICE detail, love the floor mats, what paint did you use i like that shade!!

[fantacmet]

The gray is rattle can. HD Designs primer gray. Can be bought at Fred Meyer (most of the country called Kroger). Oversea's it won't be available, but basically it's general purpose hardware store rattlecan. Same with the black. The floormats I made in photoshop using photo's of real floormats, in high resolution(300 DPI) then added logo's and printed them out on plain paper with a laser printer.

[Johnny1973]

Great start!Nice interior and great engine work.

[slusher]

Looks great so far...

[PappyD340]

Hey Michael, I meant what paint did you use for the blue, sorry my mistake

[cobraman]

Looking good !

[fantacmet]

Ah ok it's um lemme go grab the can.

Testors Customer Laquer system, Royal Blue Pearl.

[Ford guy]

Nice build so far Michael. I love the Royal Blue Pearl, the licence plate frame and the floor mats. Very cool touches! The engine detail looks good. It looks like the upper manifold is covering the "COBRA" on your valve covers. BYW, you should dap a little silver on the end of those valve covers where you clipped them off the tree. Awesome work, can't wait to see it finished!

[fantacmet]

Yeah the intake is over them little bit, but no helping that. Store more interesting then the generic looking smoothies. I generally only like the smoothies on dodge engines. Plus it's a hint that maybe someone has done some work internally even if everything else looks stock. I plan to include an engine build sheet with this build, along with a Dyno readout for it.

Since I do touchup with Acrylic I wait until the engine is installed before touching up the valve covers but good lookin out.

Edited November 24, 2013 by fantacmet

[Abell82]

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing more... but be careful, soon you may need a blue oval on your other ankle.

[Ford guy]

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing more... but be careful, soon you may need a blue oval on your other ankle.

That wouldn't be bad would it? LOL

[fantacmet]

Nah reserved for Nissan/Datsun my other vehicular love aside from lambo's countach

[fantacmet]

Some minor updates. Though not glued together yet. I'm going to see about getting the windows in tomorrow and get the interior up in there. Going to try and make some bluckles and seatbelts as well. Oh yeah the plate frame says, "Have you chased a FORD lately?"

[JTalmage]

Looking good!

I built a '93 Cobra a few years back and had the correct teal mixed up at a paint shop and sprayed it with my paint guns.

[Johnny1973]

The cobra is coming along real nice there.

[slusher]

Mustang is looking great so far...

[midnightsteele]

What a detailed engine! How did you make the spark plug/distributor boots?

James