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The FWD Cobra: Just one more thing then the MG gets all the attention

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Grabbing the passenger side tomorrow. I ordered them from a friend who gets a discount since he's a manager at Carquest. They messed up and sent him/charged him for two when he ordered two. So second is at a discount.

Also putting new strut mounts in Sat hopefully pending weather, going to try to get a little more low, then an alignment.

Spacers should also come in this week hopefully, shipped out today from Cali. This should hold me over till I can grab some FR500s for cheap. The guy is waiting on his new wheels to come in before he sells those.

The real last two thing I want to do to this car are some LED tails and a meth kit and pulley down slightly. Then its saving up and looking to get a Triumph TR6 by the end of the year.
 


Re: The FWD Cobra

Looks like the stock brackets can work. The seats sit up higher of course, my head will be in the roof if I basically plop these in without modding the brackets. I can make lower mounts pretty easy with some sort of angle, probably some scrap aluminum from work. The driver side maybe not, the electric controls might screw me over in lowering the mounting points, may have to go with a manual seat bracket...oh well. Pictures will be posted as I mod these of course.
 
Re: The FWD Cobra

The Corbeaus are mounted in the car, here's the obligatory shtty cell phone pics

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If anyone thinks about do this in the future I took some pics of the modified brackets. Basically I cut off the stock mounting points and some of the mechanism that the sliders operate with but left a 1" lip to which I bolted 1/8" steel flat stock to it. Of course welding is better but I don't really have access to one. I did go to a manual rack on the driver side since the electric motors don't really leave room for anything. The seats do sit a little higher and this is about the lowest I can go without completely redesigning the rails, they're already pretty low to the floorboard.

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Re: The FWD Cobra

And how do I change the title of the thread? I've never figured out how you guys do that.

Bio248 said:
im jealous. i want some nice seats.

are those fat guy friendly?
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Oh and to answer this Bio they are super comfy, I'm 6'0" 210 and they fit pretty well. Corbeau says they will fit up to like a 36" waist but I don't know about that, I'm a 33 and wouldn't want to be any bigger in these...then again they do need to break in alot.
 




Re: The FWD Cobra: Corbeaus mounted

Did some work to the rear today, put on new strut mounts, 1" spacers, and mud flaps. I also got it to go a little lower by taking out the isolators and using thin rubber sheet instead and taking out the spring block I had. In the next couple of days I should have the front done in the same fashion and maybe it'll go a little lower than the rear.

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After

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Spacer

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Mud flap

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Re: The FWD Cobra: rear lowered, spaced, and flapped

Justin where did you order your spacers from. Looks good and does scream for bigger brakes but of course options are limited.
 
Re: The FWD Cobra: rear lowered, spaced, and flapped

machinegunsquid said:
I like it, but damn that thing screams for bigger rear brakes
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Indeed it does, the front is just as bad lol. 12" eventually

REDCOMPG said:
Justin where did you order your spacers from. Looks good and does scream for bigger brakes but of course options are limited.
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Wheel Adapters, Wheel Spacers, Hub Rings, and much more! | Motorsport Tech

They do custom spacers and I am really happy with them, the rears are actually adapters and the fronts will be spacers. CNC aluminum and can do just about anything.

gtpeddie said:
do you scrape being lowered with flaps?
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I just put them on this afternoon and haven't driven it yet so I'll let you know. I'm sure they'll get torn up.
 


Re: The FWD Cobra: rear lowered, spaced, and flapped

Sandman said:
I just put them on this afternoon and haven't driven it yet so I'll let you know. I'm sure they'll get torn up.
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hopefully they dont but i scrape with mine in some spots on stock suspension lol
 
Re: The FWD Cobra: rear lowered, spaced, and flapped

Sandman said:
Well then they definitely shall lol

I did think about making them somewhat flush with the tires....
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with spacers its hard because you dont want the top part of the flap to stick out it will look stupid IMO
with a lil bit of customizing it can be done though
but i think they look good how they are i like the "Grand Prix" ones better then the "Pontiac" ones but i couldn't find all 4
 
Re: The FWD Cobra: rear lowered, spaced, and flapped

A guy on CGP popped up and had another pair. I was thinking of getting plain black ones and then just slapping on a GP decal
 
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