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It may be worth you doing a search on the Ultima forum on the UK Pistonheads site. It has Ultima builders from around the world sharing their experiences. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=20 Cheers, Tony

Hi, Try 44 1452 730500 ( the phone numbers on the products pages dont work and they dont read emails). I saw the Minilites in 15" on a Cobra and fell in love with the "meaty" look of them, especially as the Image halibrands I bought for my last Cobra corroded out from underneath me so I...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the UK company Superlite seems to be on its last legs. I too tried to buy some wheels off them but the website is 5 years out offdate so add 30% to the prices, the telephone numbers are wrong, when you get a correct number its a crappy ansaphone message...

Its a tko 600 I was talking about but which I got confused with the six speed T56. The kit costs £400 btw. Whats the torque limit on the Mk4 Supra Getrang box, guys in the Cobra fraternity have tried earlier Supra boxes mating them to 350 chevy and the like but the torque greanades the...

Thor Racing in the UK have developed a kit to mate a 1UZFE to a TKo 6 speed box. It looks like a lovely piece of kit and will be on my shopping list in a couple of years time. Cheers, Tony

Lots of kit car builders here are using electrically driven steering column shafts to get away from pully driven pumps for space saving reasons. They are typically using GM Corsa columns that have variable assistance depending on vehicle speed and the big problem is to get the ECU that controls...

Like most of you guys I'm always on the lookout for cheap 1UZfe engines to keep as "spares". As I intend putting some boost into the engine in my Cobra a spare engine will be needed in the future either to build up into a low compression/ high boost combo or just to replace the existing engine...

...........and its going in an MGBGT if I'm not mistaken. I'd like to see more of the install if possible. Cheers, Tony

Hi Cobber, Drop by when you're over here we should have at least one Cobra road legal and running by then. Your engine and gearbox seem to be a little further forward in the engine bay than mine, although to get the engine and box sitting back as far as we could we had to sacrifice some...

Hi Cobber, The kit is looking good. The front arches remind me of a kit here called the Viper, which is a nightmare to put together. The chassis doesn't fit the body and the body is too short for the doors. I kid you not. It would be great to meet up over here, I live just South of...

Hi Cobber, Tim's Cobra will be ready for the Le Mans Classic in July, mine is dependent upon my job situation. I know of one company building an open topped MX5 type kit car using the Scooby running gear and it doesn't look too bad but I haven't seen a Cobra version. I did look at...

AK Sportscars website is www.aksportscars.co.uk The Beemer engined Cobra was jointly owned and built with a mate ( who didn't have a garage and lives 90 minutes away.....not too convenient for him but great for me) so we sold the Beemer to fund the two Lexus builds so we'll have one Cobra...

Any excuse to post Cobra piccies. The unfinished Cobras are the Lexus engined ones, the finished one is my first BMW engined Cobra. All three are AK Sportscar kits who I cant recommend highly enough. Cheers, Tony

Hi Marcus, Heres the link to the ECU wiring thread. www.lextreme.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4435 Cheers, Tony

Have you sorted out the neutral start switch, and if you're running auto made sure that the gearbox is in park or neutral. There's a wiring diagram put up by Cobber in answer to an ECU wiring thread I started, if you follow that wiring diagram it should work. I'll have a look at the...

Cobras with Iuzfe's I have two in my garage.............I kid ye not. I think I'm the first in the UK but theres been loads of Aussies putting Lexus/ Crown V8's into Cobras. AK Sportscars based in Peterborough built the chassis and made the bodies and I'm well into completing the...

Do a search on the site. Cobber did a lovely schematic in a thread some time ago of the wiring needed to get a LS 400 sparked up and I used that and the wiring diagrams available on here for a 90 and a 96 LS400 to get both a 91 and a 93 engine running. If I can do it,anyone can I'm sure...

Hi, I just read the article in another thread about the speedo head in Lexus vehicles not allowing the engine to rev freely, ie the car has to be moving to enable the full rev range to be used. Could this be your problem? Cheers, Tony

Hi, I just read the article in another thread about the speedo head in Lexus vehicles not allowing the engine to rev freely, ie the car has to be moving to enable the full rev range to be used. Could this be your problem? Cheers, Tony

And then the venemous spiders scuttle in through the broken windscreen and bite the feck out of the survivors.......... I must say that the last time I was in Australia I was tanking along about 3 hours out of Perth in a hired 3 ltr Toyota at well into the 200 kms at dusk and started seeing...