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Car
Shelby Cobra
The Shelby Cobra is a classic sports car that is famous for being fast and exciting to drive. It was made in the 1960s and is now very rare, which makes it special to car collectors.
Term
dry sump motor
In a dry sump motor, the oil is kept in a tank instead of the engine itself. This helps keep the engine lighter and ensures that oil is always available, which is important for performance cars.
Term
camber
Camber is how the wheels tilt when you look at them from the front of the car. If they lean in or out at the top, that's called camber, and it can change how the car drives and how the tires wear out.
Part
shocks
Shocks are parts of the car that help make the ride smoother by absorbing bumps from the road. They keep the tires on the ground and help the car handle better.
Part
A arms
A arms are parts that connect the car's body to the wheels. They help the wheels move up and down while keeping everything in the right position.
Part
suspension
The suspension is the system in a car that connects the body to the wheels. It helps the car handle bumps and keeps the tires on the road for better control.
Term
quad disc
A quad disc clutch has four parts that help connect the engine to the wheels. It's used in powerful cars to handle more power, but it can make driving a bit rougher than simpler clutches.
Car
Cobra
The Cobra is a special version of the Ford Mustang that is designed to be very fast and powerful. It's popular among car fans for its performance and style.
Part
clutch
The clutch is a part of the car that helps you change gears. It lets you connect and disconnect the engine from the wheels so you can shift smoothly.
Part
brakes
Brakes are the parts of the car that help it slow down or stop. They work by pressing against the wheels to create friction.
Term
dry sump oiling system
A dry sump oiling system is a way to keep the engine lubricated using an external oil tank. This helps prevent oil from sloshing around and ensures the engine gets the oil it needs, especially during fast turns.
Term
transmission
The transmission is a part of the car that helps it move by transferring power from the engine to the wheels. It helps the car go faster or slower depending on what you need.
Term
manifold
The manifold is a part of the engine that helps move air or exhaust gases in and out. It helps the engine get the air it needs to run and lets out the gases after the fuel has burned.
Term
prime the engine
Priming the engine means getting oil into the engine before you start it. This helps keep the engine running smoothly and prevents damage when you first turn it on.
Part
speed sensor
A speed sensor tells the car how fast it's going. It's important for the car's computer to know this information to help with things like fuel efficiency and safety features.
Concept
settling of the car
Settling of the car is when the car's suspension changes height after you adjust it. It happens because the parts move and settle into their new position.
Part
roll bar
A roll bar is a metal bar added to a car to keep it safe if it flips over. It helps protect the people inside by keeping the car's shape intact during a crash.
Term
fire extinguisher
A fire extinguisher is a tool that helps put out fires. It's important to have one in cars, especially when racing, to keep everyone safe in case of a fire.
Term
master cylinder
The master cylinder helps control the brakes in your car. When you press the brake pedal, it sends fluid to the brakes to make them work.
Term
break-in period
The break-in period is the time you need to drive a car carefully after getting new parts installed. It helps the new parts settle in properly so they work well and last longer.
Car
Suzuki Samurai
The Suzuki Samurai is a small SUV that people liked because it can go off-road and handle rough terrain. It's not very big, but it's tough and can be a lot of fun to drive in the outdoors.
Term
tilt column
A tilt column lets you change the angle of the steering wheel so it's more comfortable for you to drive. It helps you see the road better, especially if you're shorter or taller than average.
Term
drift brake
A drift brake is a special brake that helps drivers slide their cars around corners. It's usually pulled by hand and helps keep the car stable while drifting.
Part
wire separator
A wire separator is a small part that keeps wires organized and prevents them from getting tangled or damaged. It's important for keeping the engine's electrical system working properly.
Part
throttle linkage
Throttle linkage is a part that connects the gas pedal to the engine. When you press the gas pedal, it helps open the throttle, allowing more air and fuel into the engine to make the car go faster.
Term
brake booster
The brake booster helps you press the brake pedal easier by using air pressure, so you don't have to push as hard to stop the car.
Car
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a famous sports car that people love for its speed and cool design. It's been around for a long time and is often seen as a symbol of American cars, which is why it's often talked about.
Part
TKX
The TKX is a manual transmission that helps cars shift gears smoothly. It's popular among car enthusiasts because it can handle a lot of power and is lighter than some other options.
Car
BMW M3
The BMW M3 is a special version of the BMW 3 Series that is designed for performance and sportiness. The E46 is one of the older models, loved by fans for how it drives.
Car
Dodge Dart Super Stock
The Dodge Dart Super Stock is a special version of the Dart car from 1968, built for racing. It was lighter and faster than regular Darts, making it popular among drag racers.
Car
Shelby GT500
The Shelby GT500 is a super-fast version of the Mustang that is built for racing. It has a really strong engine that helps it go from 0 to 60 miles per hour very quickly, which is why people love it.
Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 Turbo is a fast sports car that has a turbocharged engine, making it more powerful. The 1992 version is part of a series called the 964, which featured updates to the car's design and technology.
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CarEdge
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Hello, welcome to CarCast.
I'm Matt, the moderator, DeAndre here with Bill Goldberg.
New location, new chair, rolled out into the garage.
How are you doing?
Same chair, different location.
My office is getting too claustrophobic for me.
It was claustrophobic in the beginning, but then I did the smart tent.
That opened it up.
But man, it's just I'm crawling over stuff in there.
So yeah, I think it's if the if the fans can deal with the sound, then this is the new
podcast location.
Yeah, it's just it is what it is.
All right.
So I saw I saw you post recently had the car out of the garage, the Cobra out of the garage.
We left it last week that you guys had it fired up.
You were hoping to get it at least movable under its own power.
Yeah, I mean, I, you know, in this world of social media, I mean, and trying to get
stuff out there and get anticipation and get as many people to view it, I can't keep up, right?
So I'm not going to sit here and get all this video produced before I tell people what actually
has kind of happened.
So I can't do it, right?
So you saw the shot the other night.
It was the night it was Friday before I left to go to to go to Colorado.
We got it to a certain point.
We ended up overfilling the so when we when we started the when we started it the night before,
we only had a run for a very short period of time because the fuel pressure gauge wasn't
reading and so I didn't want to take any kind of chance, obviously.
And so ran it for a minute, right?
Came the next day and opened up the sump and it was completely empty, right?
And none of us really have a lot of experience with a dry sump motor.
And so we obviously after running it for the first time had to top it off with oil,
you know, because it distributed, right?
And got to top it off.
So we topped it off, but we topped it off a little bit.
So remember when you were in your science class as a kid, you did the volcano and it
Mount Vesuvius go in and it just started.
Man, that's what the sump tank looked like.
And thank God it's a quote unquote race car because there's nothing under the sump.
So it's not like you're going to get, you know, anything nasty except for the floor.
And Clint and I are sitting in the car and man, he's, you know, right on the sump and all of
a sudden it's this real quick.
We can see it and I videoed it all and I got a shot from behind.
And the only thing, my only reaction was this because I can see it.
And there were three courts that just shot out, right?
Yeah.
So obviously that's a red flag.
So that took a little while to clean up and then our headlight switch was not working.
And so obviously if you're doing electrical, you want to finish up your job before things
get started.
So they're trying to work on that.
And I'm like, Hey, let's just get the car running.
Let's work on the fuel pressure or the oil pressure.
And once we get that, then let's run it.
And my goal was to get it because I do these subliminal messages to these guys,
like taking it off the lift completely before they get here the next time.
Obviously them knowing that I want to drive it today.
So we got it to that point, extremely long story short.
And it was towards the end of the night, we rectified the wiring issues.
We ran through it was a, it was a, they're all settings.
That's all it is.
We have to run through everything with the Dakota digital.
Yeah.
We get everything running and go back in and set everything.
Right.
So the, I drive it for two seconds and the, the, we get the fuel pressure going and we
get the fuel, the fuel template went boom immediately.
So the, the, the, the warning light pops on.
So we pulled it right in the garage.
Well, the warning temp light was set at 130, 130.
Right.
And so obviously it's going to pop off, but you know, in, in that situation,
when you hear something like that, you think the worst.
And so we rectified it just little tiny issues like that.
Yeah.
So we got everything working and if you look at the camber of the car, I mean,
yeah, you can kind of see it on camera, but cause the car is behind you in this, in this
picture.
Oh yeah, you can see it on camera for sure.
But the shocks weren't set.
The A arms weren't set.
Everything was just tightened.
And so we got it running, pulled it out.
I got it 10 feet.
Shocks had to be adjusted in the front, pulled it up in the air, adjusted those,
pulled it out again, got it 20 feet.
The rear shocks, it was rubbing, pulled it back in.
So we went through that for a period of time.
Yeah.
And kind of to be expected.
Like every single, nothing was set, nothing on the suspension, zero was set.
I mean, it was literally stuff was just hanging on.
And so we're trying to fine tune to where we can actually get it to go around the garage
without, so I had no headlights, right, in the beginning.
So the maiden voyage around the garage, I get one loop in, it's not rubbing.
It's fantastic.
And I have to say a side note is that the only more terrifying feeling in driving that car down
the road than normally driving it down the road is driving it with no doors.
Yeah.
We kind of knew that going into it.
You were talking about it going, ah, we could get the doors on later.
But yeah, you got to go easy.
At night with no headlights and no doors.
No roll bar.
And no roll bar.
So and the pedal assembly is not set correctly, right?
Okay.
My brakes halfway down, you know, the throttle.
The throttle stuck on the peephole.
So the people remember the.
Yeah.
In the tunnel where you can access the plugs and stuff.
Yeah.
So when I depressed the throttle, it hit on the cover, right?
So I had to pull the throttle away from the wall, the clutch.
Obviously it's a it's a quad disc.
So I mean, it's not the smoothest thing in the world and it's not set properly.
So I'm dealing with all this little stuff and driving around the garage in an.
Eight hundred horsepower of Cobra with no doors and no lights.
And I get around the back and my second, my second circle.
All of a sudden I see this frickin elephant jump out and it wasn't an elephant.
But it was Presley was hiding behind the generator.
And the second time I came around, she thought it was some kind of a game.
She jumped right in front of the Cobra.
Nothing's broken in brakes.
Obviously I'm trying to get the handbrake.
She's a frickin giant.
She's weighs like 400 pounds.
This car is so low.
It's the lowest Cobra I've ever seen.
It's so low.
I'm right in her stomach.
You know, so I would hit her.
She would have rolled right back and probably chopped my head off.
But talk about a terrifyingly startling experience in the worst case scenario.
That was good.
But we got it running.
We got it.
We got the lights on.
After that terrifying experience, because I didn't want to go through it again.
Obviously we need to run it and shake it down.
There's a lot of things going on.
But we succeeded, man.
I mean, it was a bit of a laboratory night in that it culminated with us driving it around the garage.
And that's what I've been wanting to do for a long time, obviously.
So, man, it runs great.
It ran great before I took it.
You know, I tore it down, but that clutch feels good.
Brakes feel great.
Brakes and probably the brakes and the suspension completely different car.
I just tooled around here for probably five minutes.
But I am extremely excited to take that out on the road and see what it can do.
But it's a completely different feel.
And for the first time, which made this the best part of the experience,
for the first time ever, I sat in my Cobra and looked through the windshield.
Right, because you're down now, yeah.
It was a completely...
The whole thing is a different experience.
I did it columned and it tilts.
And I mean, it gives me options and it's such a wonderful experience.
Yeah, well, that's awesome.
Congrats.
You got it running.
I've got a few thoughts, a few questions.
Right, so this is, like you said, a dry sump oiling motor.
So the tank for it is under the hood.
It's not in the back, right?
It's under the hood.
It's right in between the engine and the radiator.
And it's five quarts?
How big is the tank?
I'd say...
It can't be a huge tank.
There's no room in that car.
Oh, it's freaking huge, bro.
It's huge.
Yeah, it's at least...
So, eight quarts.
Okay.
Twelve quarts, probably.
It's huge.
The tank is humongous.
It's this big.
It's not a small tank.
It's huge.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't know if it needs that much.
But yeah, let's take a look at it real quick.
Let's walk over.
By the way, the garage in the background, it's looking good.
Oh, it's the whole front of the engine.
I thought it was just kind of like off to the side a little bit.
But the tank there is...
It's the entire...
Like I said, it's between the engine and the radiator.
And it's literally...
It takes up all that space.
All right, so that's huge.
Once you...
You're right.
You kind of have to prime the engine a bit, right?
You got to get some oil into the pan underneath.
You got to fill the motor.
You got to, you know, the filter and then the tank.
And yet you're right.
You're...
We didn't know where all the engine...
We didn't know where all the oil was hiding because the pan...
The pan's minimal.
Yeah.
Obviously because of clearance, because of the system.
But I didn't imagine that the pan would hold that much oil.
Well, you think about it.
It's like, the pan's going to hold some oil.
The lines are going to hold some oil, right?
The oil lines.
The engine is going to hold some oil.
The filter...
But we thought there was no way that it would hide eight quarts of freaking oil.
Yeah.
You know, or ten quarts of oil without...
Because the bottom of the tank...
It wasn't...
So you measure six inches from the top of the sump tank is the...
Pretty much the proper...
That's the fill point.
Yeah.
So there was no oil in the tank.
And so we're like, where in the hell did everything go?
No leaks, no nothing.
We only ran it for a short period of time.
So it was...
I don't know.
We were really stupid to put three more quarts in it.
But, you know, I didn't want to start it with no fuel pressure gauge and no oil in the sump.
You know?
Yeah.
But if I would have called Kent, he would have explained the situation.
And it would have been absolutely fine.
Because it probably, right as it started up, the oil shifts through everything.
I don't know.
You'd live and learn.
I've learned a lot of things throughout this project.
Like a lot of things.
And, you know, we're going to fill the void.
A lot of places along the build where we couldn't find information,
we're going to do some producing and put some cobra stuff out there.
The engine wasn't taken apart.
It was just taken out, right?
So the engine...
Engine wasn't even taken out.
It would never move.
Oh, it never moved.
No, I mean it moved when we hooked the, you know, clutch and tranny up and everything like that.
It just, it never came off the mounts.
Yeah.
The manifold is the only thing that came off.
Right.
So there's probably some people listening going,
oh, you shouldn't start the engine dry.
You got to prime the engine first.
But the engine had been run many times before.
But I primed it before.
I took the belt off and I ran oil through everything.
It was completely primed.
We did everything.
Kent walked us through every single.
And like I say, it's hard for me to be able to fill in the void of what I've told people
and what actually has happened because in this social media world,
you try to keep people at the edge of their seat so that you can deliver with the video, right?
But I had time to keep up by any means.
So there's been so much.
Well, that's why we're doing a podcast.
We had a Saturday night where I had Kent on FaceTime
while we're trying to figure what, when we started it the first time.
And he's literally walking us through every single thing that's going on.
And he's at a football game.
And I'm apologizing, you know, repeatedly.
But for him, it was, I mean, every car's got a story, man.
Yeah.
And for him, it was like, he's the teacher and I'm the pupil.
And he was proud to walk me through it because it was something that he had built, right?
And so it was a cool experience.
It was a lot of fun.
I mean, again, it's indicative of what this car culture is all about.
Again, okay.
And I'm not going to bust him because I'm not going to say any names.
But one time throughout this process, we had an issue with the Dakota Digital.
Damn, I don't know if, okay.
I'm not burying anybody, right?
Nobody.
But I have to tell this story abbreviated.
Yeah, yeah.
It's all right.
It was the weekend.
So he was not on the clock by any stretch of imagination, right?
Yeah.
So I called late Saturday night.
It was 11 o'clock at his time zone.
And I text, no, excuse me, I texted it because I didn't want to intrude.
And number one was after hours, number two, it's Saturday night.
But it's, we needed, we needed info like immediately.
First, the guy was camping and second, he goes, man, I've had a couple of beers,
but if you're willing to work with me, oh yeah.
And I felt horrible, right?
But it was hilarious at the same time, right?
I'm trying to get this car done.
It's been a 12-month process where we're inches away from firing up
and I call and I forget some info.
And the guy's out on a camping trip having fun with his buddies, you know?
I mean, it's just part of the story, you know?
All right.
So the dry sump issue you guys got worked out, right?
So it's been cleaned up.
We just saw it actually.
It's been cleaned up.
That's going.
So oil pressure is good, fuel pressure is good.
The wiring you guys are working on, you get the headlights to work.
They're working.
So the headlights are working.
They're good.
Like the issue with the MSD rev limiter, you got to go through the settings on the
Dakota digital stuff.
You got to set the temperature for like a oil temp or oil temp light
or oil pressure light, things like that.
There's because those gauges, they got a lot of features built into them.
They have a huge load of features and they're unbelievable.
But if you don't know the process and if you don't go through everything,
then you obviously can't take advantage of it.
It's like a phone.
It's like a computer.
You know, it's capability.
You can't take it to its capability.
100% for sure.
But we didn't want to have to go through the process of setting everything.
It's like the speed sensor, right?
Yeah.
Every single time we turn the car on and try to run through everything,
the speed sensor goes off.
It's an audible alarm and we can reset it.
But it can't be shut off until it's set.
Well, we can't set it until we go at speed.
So every single time we did any kind of alteration to the gauges at all,
we had to go through the hearing that, right?
So, you know.
But now you know it's working.
100%, the first time around the garage, I came back.
We pulled it in, set the shocks and the noise was gone
because we set the speedometer already
because the car actually moved, right?
Yeah.
So it's just little things like that.
We just wanted to get it running and along the way,
there's a number of things that have to be set up, obviously,
for it to even do the minimal task.
That's cool.
So when you took it out and the shocks were rubbing, it was...
Shocks weren't rubbing.
It was the tires were rubbing.
I'll put a couple pictures out, man.
Like I said.
Was it too low?
Did you need to raise it a little bit?
We set the shocks for maximum clearance to make sure that we had that.
And we were going to alter based upon the settling of the car, right?
Yeah.
So every time we'd adjust, we'd put the car on the ground,
but it would have to settle afterwards.
So we'd lose another inch after the adjustment.
It would drop a little bit.
So you've done it before.
We've got six shocks, so we had to adjust six different times at least.
At least, right?
Yeah.
And we're still not even...
Well, now I've got to adjust the suspension, right?
So now it's the fun stuff.
You know, I got to get the doors on.
That's a pain in the ass.
I've already chipped, you know, the car a tiny bit.
But I try to do things myself and it's hard with one person.
You got to tape it all up and just try to fit it on and then...
I know, I don't want to tape it out.
I know, I know.
Don't get overzealous and try to do it without taping it up
and putting stuff down like you got to tape it all up and be careful with it.
How am I going to get the tape off after they're installed with these things?
If you get the doors on and they're taped, then you can get somebody else to come over
and be like, I'll grab an X-Acto knife and let's pick out that tape in the tight spots
and let's just do it and get it done.
But if they're on there, because you're right,
even when they're on there a little bit and the car shifts a little,
just keep the tape on around the edges for a little bit as you get the car dialed in.
Because that's not going to be...
Yeah, because I'm not taking this thing out on the road.
It doesn't have the roll bar on it yet.
Yeah.
You know, that's asking to die.
So, you know, especially when the throttle could stick at some point.
And, you know, I mean, it's, you know, I don't know.
You got to around with the fire extinguisher on my back like a backpack
and probably a helmet.
Okay, so electrical is looking good.
Engines running good.
Shocks are getting a little bit dialed in.
You'll still have to do the alignment and stuff before you finish it up.
Clutch was installed.
You guys did a lot of work on getting that, you know,
getting the quad clutch built and trying to bleed the master cylinder on that thing
and not make a mess in the process.
Yeah, I talked to our boy last night.
Yeah, Will Beatty.
Yeah, and...
Was he also camping and drinking a beer because he does that a lot?
Because it chatters a little bit, right?
And I'm expecting that.
And he said that'll go away.
Yeah, sure.
You're right.
So that's the other thing.
A lot of stuff's got to be broken in.
If you guys rebuilt the rear end, you know, that's got to be broken in.
The clutch got to be broken in.
Just look at the transmit, the clutch and the transmission because
what is it, 200 mile break-in, something like that at the least?
The fact is I got 400 miles on this car.
So nothing's ever been broken in.
When it was handed to me, everything was broken in because Ernie broke it in.
But, you know, this is a weird dilemma and it's something that needs to be addressed, right?
What do you do when you have to break in new parts on a car that you only drive sparing?
Yeah.
You know, obviously it's dependent upon the part.
But what guide do you go?
What's your guideline?
Yeah, right.
Yeah, it's going to take a couple hundred miles.
But the engine's got some miles on it.
I don't drive it a couple hundred miles.
You know how long it's going to take to get a couple hundred miles on this car?
I mean, seriously, that'd take two years or a year.
But now that it's changed, I would imagine I'll.
You can get in it and stretch its legs for a little bit and realize you just did 40 miles,
you know, by leaving the property and.
No question.
And it's more comfortable, as I said.
So I won't think about, oh, I can't wait to get out of this car.
Now it'll be okay.
There's a couple of things outside the property where you can use it as a goal.
Be like, oh, I got to run to the store for this or I got to.
I'm going to go pick up pick up some food at the place.
Yeah, going to a car show in town would would consist of at least 60 miles.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like things like that going, oh, you know what?
I want to hit that car show.
If anything, just to get some miles on this thing.
If I did one in San Antonio, it would be 120 miles.
Yeah.
You know, you got the nice the crew over at the at the school, the high school that
has the automotive program that, you know, you could maybe bring it to visit, you know,
be like, absolutely, you know, just like, I just want to have you have to plan your
route strategically so that if you break down, you have places along the way that
you can get to in a short period of time.
Yeah, that's true.
You kind of start small and work your way to longer trips as this thing's getting
getting worked out.
But like you said, it is it's not an overly complex car.
I think once you start to get that thing dialed in, it would be fairly reliable.
I think you've got a good question on it.
You just got to get all the equipment to talk to each other, you know.
I think the electrical scares me more than anything, right?
Because I have a couple, I have a couple of safety
sequences to get this car started.
And they're quite different than any that I've had before.
So, I mean, it might lock me out, but with everything talking to everything else,
and I'm not the wiring guy by any stretch, that's the only part that scares me.
The mechanical does not by any means, because now after touching every single bolt on this car,
I can work on this car.
And that's very enlightening, you know, because I've learned a lot throughout this
process, and it's such a rudimentary car that it's a go car.
Yeah.
All right.
So you got into the car and you had cut down the seat with your samurai sword.
We got the phone down and recovered it.
You were able to sit lower.
You said it works.
It gave I swear it gave me three inches.
It really did.
But let's so let's talk about so you have the tilt column.
So you can adjust that now that you're sitting lower, you're looking through the windshield,
but you have the shifter and you have the drift brake handle, the ebrae handle.
Are they still good or are they too high?
Perfect.
They're good.
They really are.
You know, I was I was I reached in in terror for the ebrae and without looking at it.
I mean, yeah, it was an easy transition.
I didn't hit the shifter.
I didn't hit the steering wheel.
We did a lot of manipulating with the steering column.
Every single thing's custom on this car.
We had to, you know, the steering column had to move to the it had to move to the right about
three quarters of an inch because the dash everything had to line up, right?
It has to be straight with the seat, but the dash was off.
The hole in the dash was off about a quarter of an inch.
So it shot it to the right, right?
And so if I lined it up correctly with at the steering at the at the the bracket,
the bracket that holds the steering column in the dash won't fit.
The rev nuts won't don't line up.
So I've learned throughout the process what to do and what order,
but they're just little minuscule details that we have to go through.
How did you how did you get it straight?
Because you didn't want to recut a hole in the dash.
You know, all we have to do all we have to do is I have to to file the hole a little bit, right?
Not much that or I can alter it up at the bracket.
But but see herein lies the issue.
I told you how close the motor is to the to the firewall right there and the and the the foot well.
I mean, it's literally a quarter of an inch.
It's so bad that when we put the cover back on the peephole, the screws that hold the cover in
were extremely close to the plug to going into the plug wires.
So I mean, we're talking paper thin clearances on stuff.
So if I move the steering shaft over, then it hits the throttle cable or not the cable,
but the mechanism. Yeah.
Everything it's a domino effect and I have no room.
So it's finagling.
So I think we've got it.
If you a couple of thoughts is if you need to move the steering column a little bit and
make the hole in the dash bigger, you could probably just make a decorative trim piece
like a like a metal trim piece have CGC to make it that much bigger.
I literally it just it might just be fine.
That is going to be fine.
Yeah, man.
And I and I'm not worried about the aesthetic of the hole.
I'm just worried about, OK, now we got to take the dash off again.
And yeah, yeah, we've got everything finally hooked up properly.
You know, but so you were also concerned before about the throttle linkage.
You talked about it for a little bit just a second ago, but it all clears now.
So paper thin.
I mean, literally, I can't express to you how close it is.
It can't get any closer without hitting.
Matter of fact, it hits a tiny bit.
The the the little piece that holds your plug wires together.
What's it called?
The the I don't know what it is, but they're they're not decorative pieces,
but they're pieces that hold you can put all your your plug wires together.
And they it's a little like the wire separator.
Our separator, right?
So the throttle linkage is on top of that.
OK, I can't put the separator down any further.
But if I take the separator off, then the wires are going to be on that,
that, you know, they're going to melt.
Right.
It's a, you know, what do you do?
Right.
So it's literally on top of them at a quarter or at a little part of the travel for the linkage.
Yeah.
To show it to you.
I have to show it to you.
It's it's it's so far.
It looks like it's going to be OK.
It's OK because the force that is generated by your foot
pops it up a tiny bit and it sits on top of there.
Yeah, maybe something you want to address just so it doesn't get stuck or anything like that.
It can't get stuck.
It can't get stuck.
That's that's the pedal sticking on the the the cover for the people that terrified me
because that stuck the throttle all the way to the floor.
And yes, the other issue won't it won't stick.
Yeah, OK.
Because it literally sits on top of that hard plastic.
And what it does is when it goes to full throttle, it literally just
cantilevers up a tiny bit.
It pushes the whole bracket up.
That's all it does.
It can't stick.
Yeah, OK.
Well, that's good.
Maybe you want to do it so it doesn't rub, but you'll figure it out at some point.
You'll take a look at it.
But yeah, it's it's it's going to be tight.
So the seat worked out good.
The shifter worked out good.
The e-brake handles a pretty good location because we're a little
concerned like going from one to the other.
But it seems like we're not getting enough enough hydraulics to it.
I think it's low.
So we're going to have to adjust it.
You need to adjust it.
So it's not it's not hitting the brake hard enough when you pull that handle.
Right.
OK.
Yeah, but there should be plenty of adjustment.
The booster you can put on the end of the master cylinder that the the line hooks to.
Manny told me about them before it just increases the performance of the line.
So I may have to get one of those, but it's it's a simple add on.
It's very easy.
So and then so the rear end wasn't taken apart.
Right.
So the rear diffs that always had fluid in it.
It's all good.
Well, the only thing we did to the rear end was take the cover off and
serracoat it.
So we drained the fluid.
Oh, you did.
You did drain fluid.
So that's got fresh fluid and stuff in it.
Oh, yeah.
As long as it was refilled.
You always got to remember the fill the fluid.
Hey, after that initial leak with the clutch, there's been not a drop.
You know, leaking from this car.
So, I mean, testament to, you know, getting the lines done properly and it functioning
correctly.
I mean, the brakes are fantastic from the short period of time I drove it.
Man, they, they hook quick.
They're really good.
What a huge.
So what what's next on it now?
You still got to dial in some of the settings on the Dakota digital.
You got to do an alignment.
The Dakota digital set finally.
Okay, it is headlights, blinkers, everything's working.
Um, I just put the, put the, you know, the headlights.
I just mounted the headlight, whatever the hell you want to call it, the, the headlight switch.
I just mounted the switch to the back of the dash, which in itself was very gratifying.
Yeah.
I've been around the thing with the, with the switch hitting the leg.
It's just a pain in the ass.
So it's nice just to get it out of the way.
It's a small little.
Oh, it was just like hanging there temporarily.
Hang on.
Cause we hadn't, we hadn't completed the wiring, but everything's done now.
Yes.
And so it's all just, just, uh, we got to get the alignment.
The first thing I'm going to do obviously is, um,
We're going to work on the doors.
And you got to do the bar alignment.
I'm scared to do the doors by myself because I'm by myself and I don't want to screw the car up.
But yes, the doors should take, I got two people here.
It's the doors will take five minutes.
Yeah.
Two bolts per door.
Yeah.
And then aligning them.
It's got to be easy because there's only two bolts and it's an extremely small door.
So how bad can it be?
We're going to change the locking mechanism because that's the, the, the,
my biggest bitch about these cars is the locking mechanism on these cobers for the doors is absolutely
trash.
It's like trash.
It's slow, flimsy.
Flimsy is an understatement.
I hate them.
So I'm going to go to a traditional lock on it.
And it's something that Manny does on all his cars anyway.
So it'll be easy for us.
And then, you know, the roll bar and then we're done.
We're done, man.
And, you know, to add insult to injury, there's a possibility that it'll be at SEMA.
Okay.
I want to get it done quick.
Well, just put the possibility of it having to be at SEMA.
Well, listen, I'll tell you, even in its current state,
other than putting the doors on it, it's already, it's ahead of the game.
Like if you think about, it runs.
So in that respect, I'm ahead of 75% of the people.
I feel like three weeks out, you're like, there's people painting the cars now.
There's people putting together the cars right now.
Yeah.
There's this stuff that's happening.
You've got plenty of time in the SEMA crunch world.
This car fired up and drove around the garage.
That's already better than so many of these cars that make it out there.
So yeah, all right, that's good.
That's exciting.
Look at what's really funny.
Look at the size difference.
I know.
So we're looking at, for those of you who pop on YouTube,
we got the wide body of red eye over there.
Oh, it's a pig, begin with, no doubt.
It's a big, heavy car, but it's a two door and it's a modern sports car.
You know, listen, by the way, we've seen pictures of the car and up close, but
the garage is fantastic.
We haven't really got a chance to really like take a look at it.
The stairs that you did in the back, you and I talked about a bunch of times off the air.
The stairs came out fantastic.
Like it's nice.
You know, it's a labor of love, man.
I know you're super proud of it.
It took a long time.
It's finally gotten to a point.
I mean, we've been thrashing here, I mean, literally, albeit two days a week for the past
six months, and Clint's been over here more than that.
And I destroyed this area, but the last two days I've cleaned it up because the car's done.
And now it's time to put a button on this one.
And I got to call our boy at Tremac, and I think the next project's going to be
dropping a four speed into that.
I just, I just spoke to my kid.
So I've been working on the SEMA trip, all the interviews, stuff.
I'm going to try to get it while I'm out there.
I'm going to sit down, ring brothers, and I'm going to talk to Mike Kidd,
because you know I reached out to him specifically and I said,
where's that Gen 2 for Lightning with the DCT transmission?
He's like, I've got it.
It's at SEMA.
It's going to be out front.
I'm going to be out there.
He's got his own Mustang out there too.
And I said, good, let's do it.
Let's get it on the books.
He's like, 100% brother, let's go out there.
So I'm going to take a little tour of that truck and interview him
for the podcast while we're out there.
And we've got quite a few others lined up as well.
We just booked Holly and a few others.
And you and I have talked about it, and it's become front and center
in building this Cobra.
Dealing with manufacturers these days is different, right?
Yeah.
A lot of corporations have bought up other corporations,
and now they have absolved the original people that you deal with
at that corporation.
And it's a different experience.
And I'm saying this wholeheartedly.
It's a different experience than I'll put it mildly.
Fast forward to dealing with a guy like Mike Kidd.
What a pleasure it is dealing with a dude that is so enthusiastic,
so knowledgeable, but yet enthusiastic in this face to where he's more excited
about a project when you mention it to him than you are actually.
And so I just want to say hats off to him along the way of the build of this Cobra.
He was more than a plethora of information.
And obviously providing the TKX for it, but man, awesome guy to work with,
awesome company, awesome product.
All right, let's take a quick break.
We'll be right back.
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Talking about that,
the TKX in that, if you think about it like you had the four speed,
it's the TKX actually worked out perfectly.
Because if you went to something like the six speed,
I don't know how it would fit.
You wouldn't be able to get it to work.
I don't forget about fit.
I don't want six gears in that freaking car.
What does Manny do now?
He just does TKX on most of them?
Yeah, he's just doing the TKX on that.
Once that transmission came out,
he must just love that thing for his builds.
Yes, that's how he's expressed it in its plug and play.
He's got different issues with that car
because it's stretched and it's configured differently.
So it's not as much of a size constraint as it is for me.
But overall, from what I've heard about that transmission,
man, you couldn't have done a better package at that time
for the people that are looking for the different project
specifications that we all are.
It's perfect.
There's so many reasons why I love that transmission
and I haven't even gone through the gears yet.
Yeah.
Just the fact that the shifter was moved at least eight inches
was huge.
It was everything for me, man, because this car,
it's blasphemy if you go through completely rebuilding it
and it's still as uncomfortable as it was before.
Yeah, that's the thing.
We talked about that early on.
It's just like there's been project cars
I've gotten into it.
The one that really resonates with me is the BMW M3,
the E46 Supercharged M3.
Adam Corolla had that project.
He bought that car.
They built that engine, put the Supercharger on it.
It never ran right.
It was overheating and the clutch was too tough.
And I bought it from him.
I got it running, but just a chore to drive.
It wasn't fun to drive.
Like the clutch was so heavy.
It was a pain in the ass.
Like it just wasn't ever really working well.
And it was that last like 10, 15% of like I've got to,
at the time, reach out to Will Bady.
I was like, dude, you've got to help me out.
I can't drive this goddamn car.
Like it hurts your leg.
It's uncomfortable.
You're sitting in traffic.
It makes me hate the car.
Like it has to be, I got to get it to the point
where it's drivable so it's fun and you enjoy it.
If it's a chore, then you look at it and go,
that's a bad ass car, but I'm never going to drive it
because it's too loud or too bumpy or just something.
It's just a pain in the ass.
Because X, whatever it is, whatever that reason is,
you just got to get rid of that freaking reason.
And it could be only one little thing.
And you're just like, that one little thing
just drives me nuts.
I can't drive this car.
I hate driving it.
My 68 Superstock Dart that was solid mounted
that had the Ray Barton motor in it.
Yeah.
The one thing that I didn't like about that car
is every time I went over 85, the hood wanted to fly off.
So I never drove the car because why would you,
why are you going to drive it under 85?
Yeah.
I mean, it's a drag car.
So yeah, the GT500, it was an automatic.
And I just didn't, it was automatic,
but it's arguably one of the most beautiful cars in the world.
67 GT500, Jade Black or Fathom Green.
I remember that car.
Yeah, I remember that car.
Beautiful car.
I just, I didn't like it because it was an automatic.
So yeah, whatever it is, man.
Yeah.
Or you get in the car with somebody else and some in your
like, I've been working on this car for so long.
And they're like, why is it so uncomfortable?
Why is it so loud?
And they're like, why doesn't this work?
And it was like.
I don't have that kind of friend.
It can just be like the smallest little thing.
But yeah, you want to kind of get it, get it to the point
where you do enjoy driving it.
And I think with this Cobra is because you've done so much
of the work, you've got your hands on every little thing.
And you've got some great friends local that, you know,
of Clint and Manny to come over and go, guys, I, you know,
I just went to a car show.
I did 60 miles on this thing.
I tell you what's driving me nuts is like,
it's got a vibration here.
It's got this or it's got that.
We just got a dial out and just a little bit more, you know,
even if you go at everything look great on paper, but we
got to go to, you know, a different like urethane
bushing for the coilovers.
Like it's just driving me nuts.
Like it could be something like that.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
And you, I mean, you're at least to a point where you can
fine tune it and enjoy the differences even that much more.
And you'll know what you're talking about.
When you're driving it going, this is happening or this
is vibrating and this is too stiff.
You're like, it's got to be this because you could picture
it in your head.
Yeah.
I've been empowered exponentially as to the knowledge
that's been infiltrating my brain throughout this whole
process, whether it's something really simple, you know,
that I learned from Manny through his years of experience
working on these cobras or it's a wiring issue that I learn
a little bit about, you know, through Clint.
Because I think he used to work for Caterpillar and he was
the last guy at the line.
And if there was any wiring issue, he had to rectify it
before the piece came off the line.
Yeah.
So it's, yeah.
I mean, you learn through doing.
And the only stupid question is the one that you don't ask.
Because I've stumped them a couple of times with some
questions, but it's all learning, man.
It's all fun.
And yes, I'm not going to put a hand on every nut and bolt
on this thing and have it turn out when I drive it exactly
how it was before.
There have to be huge differences and there are huge
differences.
I mean, albeit the seats a little crooked or both seats are
a little crooked and I blame myself for that.
Once you sit down and experience that car, the last thing
you're thinking about is the seat being a quarter inch off
to the right, the experience and the fact that I can
literally see through the windshield as opposed to seeing
half of the top of the windshield or having to look
over it in and of itself along with the location of the
stick shift.
Oh my God, what a difference.
I mean, this car is so much fun now.
Now I can go out and actually be comfortable and more,
that's scary, but and be more confident in the car and
actually push it even further.
And now I have another gear, right?
So I mean, I'm going to have to go to a runway to get the
fifth gear in that car.
But yeah, it's going to be fun.
OK, so now there's, I don't know, the possibility of SEMA,
like how is this coming up?
Oh, I'm not going to mention who it's with because if I
if I don't end up going, I don't want to throw them under the
bus.
But it was just a kind of a last minute inquiry.
And what better vehicle to be presented for these people
than the one that they help on a lot.
So it was just a question that was asked.
And I don't, I mean, I can make time for it if it's a day.
But you know how it seems.
Yeah, yeah.
OK, well, hopefully it works out for SEMA.
You know, we'd love to see the car out there.
I'm sure a lot of people would.
And you know, well, we got a few weeks to see if you work out
the details over the next few weeks and keep us posted here.
And we'll figure out what the plan is going to be.
Another cool thing, I haven't done an unveiling with this car,
like I said, because of timing and all that stuff.
But I told you that Bruce Meyers been kind of staying
along with the build because it.
I know you reached out because we saw this car.
I saw this car.
Well, it's an exact duplicate of his car.
I mean, I didn't intentionally do that, but I did see it in the
beginning and I did pattern a couple things after it because
I love the look of the car.
But my goal is to simultaneously do an unveiling of both of our
cars with the hero cover on.
Yeah.
So we're getting one made for him right now.
And it's just again, I'm going to touch on it.
It's it's another part of this cool car culture, right?
Because you've got a guy that's arguably at the top echelon in
this niche with the number with the first competition Cobra
that he owns.
Interested in what I'm doing with a replica because it looks like
his and because we're friends and because it's the car culture.
And he's not turning his nose up to it because it's a replica.
He enjoys it and he sees the fun that I'm having with it.
And again, it's a real time definition of what this car culture is all about.
Yeah.
And that kind of is I'll say I'll use that as a segue into my next subject.
Wanda's Porsche.
Yes.
The Porsche, the 911 Turbo.
What year is that?
It's a 92.
I have kind of leaned on you a lot because you know a lot more about that car and
that era of those cars than I do.
But it seems to me that it may be time to explore
making someone else the owner of that vehicle because of the current prices of them.
I would say that we have an extremely original, beautiful example of what people are paying
a lot of money for right now.
Yeah.
And I had a nice conversation with Wanda and she was the first one on board with possibly
getting rid of it and letting somebody else, you know.
Yeah.
So talking about maybe selling that car.
It's a cool car.
I've seen the car when you guys had it here.
It wasn't in the big garage.
You had it at the house.
Yep.
So yeah.
Got a peek on the car, cool car, 911 Turbo.
You're right.
They've taken off in prices.
That's not to say in 10 years they won't still go up.
I mean it's still, it's a cool car to have and people really going after the air-cooled cars
and stuff.
So yeah.
We've got 40-something cars here, right?
Yeah.
You don't sell stuff because you need to.
You sell stuff at times because it's the right time to do it.
And you weigh your options as to what you could replace it with.
And would it be more fun at this point in time?
Is Wanda thinking about something else?
Something possible?
Possible.
Well, I know she likes the Porsche but I don't think she does a lot of seat time anymore in the Porsche.
So probably driven it three times this year.
Yeah.
You know, and it's like my Yanko, right?
I never drove it.
And I wanted somebody else to experience, somebody else that maybe, it went to a guy who had like
15 Yankos.
But you want, if you're not, if you're the curator and it's not really being used to
where you think it should be used, then you let someone else be the curator of it.
And I don't want to see it go.
But reality is the price may be to a point where it's time for it to go.
And then we can replace it with something else cool that we use more and have more fun with.
You know, so I mean, who knows?
It's, as a car guy, you always look at the market and man, it's on fire right now.
So you weigh your pluses and minuses.
That's all.
Right.
And like you said, if you have your sights set on something else, so that makes sense,
then then maybe it's time to move on to another thing.
And who doesn't have their sights set on something all the time?
Yeah.
All right.
Well, listen, congrats on the cobra.
I'm glad you got it out there.
Presley got to see it.
By the way, what a weird little creature.
I know Presley like loves you, but I just don't get like so many animals on the property.
They hear a gunshot or a car fire up and they want to flee.
Presley is the only one that's like, I'm in.
Let's go.
What are you doing?
I'm getting closer.
Like I don't even know what, what is Presley?
It's like a.
Presley's a paradavid.
She's a, she's a deer that's on the endangered list and we have two of them.
And one is a bottle fed deer, which is Presley.
The other one is wild so we don't interact.
But Presley has made the garage her home and you know, I wanted to make sure the place was
clean.
I was going to drive the car around.
I was going to video it and I don't want Presley shit everywhere.
And so I literally for an hour clean up every tiny little pebble of poo that's around this
garage because dependent upon where the sun is that dictates where she stays.
And the where she stays is where she shits and she peed and then she, she's disgusting.
But the bottom line is I complain and I complain and I complain yet she's still alive.
I'm out here shooting, trying to shoot hogs all the time.
She follows you around.
She loves you.
I love her and she can obviously do whatever she wants.
Grimm's all my landscape by eating it.
I'm trying to look at the bright side.
Listen, if you're Presley, it's not a, it's not a bad place to live that property you got there.
Getting me, she's bougie is a guess.
Man, it's crazy.
But hey, it is what it is.
We had to put up an animal down yesterday, right?
So it's these, these, these animals are like our family, man.
And Presley's like, you know, part of the crew.
So, you know, okay.
All right.
I think we're going to wrap things up for today, but yeah, it's going to be an exciting
next few weeks to see if maybe the car goes to SEMA and I'm locking down interviews and the schedule
and all kinds of stuff.
There's a lot going on over there all over.
So, all right.
Yeah.
Plenty more to talk about the next few weeks.
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Bill Goldberg shares the thrilling journey of testing his Cobra kit car for the first time. After overcoming various mechanical challenges, including dry sump oil issues and electrical wiring, he finally gets the car running and takes it for a spin around the garage. The episode is filled with humorous anecdotes, technical insights, and the excitement of seeing the car come to life. Goldberg reflects on the learning process and the camaraderie involved in building the car, making it a relatable experience for any automotive enthusiast.
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