COBRA's First Real Wash! (8 Pics Inside)

330CubeGt · Jan 25, 2012

Cars been a dirty mess since i brought it home in November but yesterday i spent about an hour on the Exterior and close to the same on the interior. Even laid under the car to scrub the gas tank and tail pipes

New pedals and black carpet waiting to go in, so i didn't bother to clean the nasty carpet.

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330CubeGt · Jan 25, 2012

Pics do this car some justice, its not that great with the clear coming up on the exterior and few minor issues on the interior but hopefully it only gets better from here, Need a saddle pass side a/c vent if anyone has something cheap! This black one has to go...

Mustang Mark · Jan 25, 2012

good looking cobra. needs some black carpet and seats to break up all the tan. what shifter/handle setup is that? looks super short.

mygreengt · Jan 25, 2012

it looks good man! get some wax on it to protect it from that florida sun!

Slykin · Jan 25, 2012

I miss my peanut butter/black interior

. Opal Grey is cool I guess, but not near as classy.

330CubeGt · Jan 25, 2012

Mustang Mark said:
good looking cobra. needs some black carpet and seats to break up all the tan. what shifter/handle setup is that? looks super short.

Thanks, Its a Pro 5.0 Base and handle, Knob is a stock knob but is getting replaced by a 2 1/4 ball so it might be just a tad shorter.

Might be going back to a stock handle with the pro 5.0 base tho to bring it up a little higher and back.3rd is a little bit of a reach for me with these seat extenders moving me back 4"

mygreengt said:
it looks good man! get some wax on it to protect it from that florida sun!

Think its worth waxin? The pass side of the hood the rear bumper and the RR 1/4 above the body line is missing clear where it had previously flaked off. I used a clay bar on the car and it knocked some of the light chips down and its not as noticable unless your next to the car, but the paints only good on the drivers side

mygreengt · Jan 25, 2012

some wax might help prevent more of it from failing.

duh09 · Jan 25, 2012

You know what would make your car look great? A little moar low and painting your wheels like JB's. The gold would set off perfectly with the green paint. I love the color on it, a shame that the clear coat is flaking off. And man, these stock leather seats just do NOT hold up.

CC'S95GT · Jan 26, 2012

Wingless and FR's look great.You'll love the way the interior looks with the black carpet.The black and grey was way better once I got the stained gray carpet out.

HuskerGT · Jan 26, 2012

Man, it cleaned up really well. I agree with meangreengt, get a light coat (or two) of wax on there to help protect the finish for now. It will help with the shine too!

miss2slocoupe · Jan 26, 2012

Looks great! I love DFG with smoked headlights. It gives them such a badass look

v8powerv8jim · Jan 26, 2012

Looking good man,post some pics up when you get the black carpet fitted,as i'm thinking about changing mine to black & not sure how good it will look.

Jamie

C.Moser · Jan 26, 2012

Looks great! I love Pacific Green cobras. That black carpet will look real nice in there

98Viperblue · Jan 26, 2012

The paint looks like if yor were to polish it out it would look brand new again. Looks real clean, kind of reminds me of my old cobra.

JiMi_DRiX · Jan 26, 2012

330CubeGt said:
Pics do this car some justice, its not that great with the clear coming up on the exterior and few minor issues on the interior but hopefully it only gets better from here, Need a saddle pass side a/c vent if anyone has something cheap! This black one has to go...

I have a mess of parts to put up for sale really soon, including quite a few saddle parts! I've been so busy and away from the forum lately, but I've got plans to get all this extra stuff GONE asap. I'll make sure you get a link when its listed.

Car looks great by the way!

DFG_magic · Jan 26, 2012

Looks good 330cube! I spend 1 1/2-2 hours on mine every time I clean it so I feel your pain!

94MustangGtChick · Jan 26, 2012

Looks really good, But HOLY TAN BATMAN!!!.... Tans not bad, but needs more black to take the overwhelming tan down a little.

I have tan and black interior with tan cloth seats and tan carpet..... I want black leather seats , and I have black carpet that I have to shampoo then get in my car.

drewpeltier · Jan 26, 2012

You will like the black carpet.

330CubeGt · Jan 26, 2012

The cars sitting on H&R Race springs in the back for a 03/04 Cobra in the 04 cobra IRS buckets with ISO on bottom only.And the front are steeda competion springs.The car has a monster front Eibach sway bar so i left the softer springs up front for a better ride/weight transfer and it still corners like a beast although i have considered taking a half a coil or so off the front when im up there working on the front end but im not able to drop the ass end down any right now. Taking corners with the IRS is alot of fun but sadly the fender lip did a number on the 315s side wall. And even if i rolled the fender the IRS Magnaflow Cat back already scrapes going in and out of parking lots, speed bumps/humps or bad dips on the roads.

So in other words im giving up a little bit of looks but with IRS paired wth Sub Frames and Derlin and Poly bushings throughout i feel like if its not broke don't fix it. Id hate to start cutting springs and have the car bottom out worse then it already does..

As for the wheels there 3 Years old and still look like new and was thinking of painting them a gun metal color but there just to clean to do it. Maybe if the clear messes up or they get messed up id strip them and paint them. But idk how that gold would look, Might be a little to much of a tuner look like a STI for me

These stock seats do suck, My cars at 84k a and the drivers seat has a tear and the others are wore out