Cold Air Fab, Hanging Body Panels and the 427 Cobra!

Today on muscle car,

it's Air flow tech as Lou and Jared Fab, a custom radiator shroud and Ram Air Induction.

Then in flashback, it's the Fabled Shelby 427 Cobra

plus project crate.

Camaro gets its crate engine.

Hey guys, welcome to muscle car. Today. Our park Shag and El Camino is gonna get a serious breath of fresh air with a cold air induction set up done muscle car style and our Craig Camaro is gonna start looking like a real car. Not only are we gonna hang the rest of the sheet metal on it? We're gonna put in this baby and that's cool.

But first when you get under the hood of that El Camino, let's do it

first things first. Before we even think about that cold air set up, we need to get all the stuff on the motor that's crucial.

Yeah, like the radiator, the fan and the hoses just to make sure nothing gets in the way of our intake and we'll fab everything in aluminum.

Hey, you guys know how hot it can get under the hood. One thing we're gonna do to keep our radiator cool is build a fan shroud

for that

something. You guys gotta keep in mind the big three have been using fan shrouds for years. Tap into that knowledge base. It's a wealth of information. I gotta go build the front end, man. Yeah, you're cramping my style. Hit the road

for maximum efficiency. You're gonna wanna keep the fan blades about three quarters of an inch off the face of the radiator.

So I made these blocks,

they're gonna hold the fan in place while I take my measurements,

converting to an electric fan will give us about 10 to 15 more horsepower compared to a stock mechanically driven fan.

I'm gonna share a piece of aluminum forage

and bend some 45 degree angles that'll keep the fan the desired distance from the core.

We're using a sheet of 90,000 thick, three double 03 aluminum. It's malleable enough to give us clean bins

and that's how you make a holiday cookie treat

pan surprise.

Oh, yeah, that looks killer. It's gonna look even better under the hood of that El Camino. Now, our next step is to cut a hole in this thing for the fan and I'm gonna show you a really cool way to do that with the plasma cutter.

OK? To do this, I took a piece of aluminum and at one end I drove the hole for a center point and at the other end I drill the hole at the appropriate link for the plasma cutter tip. What I'm gonna do is take this sucker. I'm gonna lay it on our fan shroud, use it like a compass to make a perfect hole for our fans.

Going to be awesome.

Now, another cool thing is you can use this little tool over and over again, just drill different holes in it for different diameters.

Now that we've got all this newfound power in our parts, shagger, we gotta make sure it can handle as well as stop. So we're gonna take care of that with Edel Rock suspension parts and bear brakes.

This is a little tip for you guys.

I always like to keep the castle nuts on. Screw them out about halfway before I break it loose this way. Nothing scares you. I mean, if this spring pops out, you're gonna have some troubles.

Something you guys have got to do, whether you're using your old control arms over or new ones like our global West pieces here,

put your shims back where you got them from. It makes it so much easier to realign your car

stopping. This baby is gonna be a breeze with these monster 13 inch cross drilled and slotted rotors. Something you gotta remember though. You always wanna make sure that your slots are pointing in the direction that you're going. That's so you can get the heat out of the rota

we're using

of Rock's new Classic Series muscle car shops.

What I've been working on is going to be our fan bracket. This dude's going to hold the motor the correct distance above the radiator.

So the next step is to bend these arms down and weld it to the shroud

before we install this thing permanently. I'm just gonna spray the face of the flat black. So you don't see it through the grill.

Lou check this thing out, man, dude, I'm liking that. Is that bad or what? Oh, yeah, I got the suspension though. Let's slam that thing in. Let's do it, man. I

always make sure that your radiator is isolated in rubber. This is gonna keep it from getting damaged due to vibration.

Hey, you're gonna wanna make sure that fans turned in the right direction. Otherwise your car is gonna overheat and fast. So I'm gonna show you a cool way to do that.

Just hook the fan to a battery and put a piece of paper in front of the radiator. If it sucks the paper against it, you're golden. If not just reverse the motor wire.

Now that we get all this stuff buttoned up, it's time to start on that cold air project. Oh, yeah. And this baby's gonna scream

up next part five of our crate Camaro build.

Ok. Yeah. Now that gap's pretty nice though.

Hey guys, our Craig Camaro is closer to being done and we're gonna finish test fitting today. Oh, yeah.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna flip the engine and tranny in this thing and put on the rest of the sheet metal. And that's a really good idea when you're building a car on the shop floor like this. Because if you wait till all the panels are on before you put this weight in there, all that alignment could change.

Hey, I was thinking we got a serious dilemma on our hands.

We,

we only have one cherry picker and two engines. Oh my God. Hold on, let me show you how manly I am.

Go, lou go, go, go.

You're about to see a feet strength

unknown to many men.

Oh my God.

Yeah, that's kinda nice,

nice little bouncing action

a couple more hours. And we'll have this thing in the air

now that we've got the weight in the car we're gonna put on the rest of our sheet metal. But in order to hang the doors, we gotta take these fenders off.

If you guys decide to tackle something like this at home, it's a lot easier if you grab a friend or in my case, somebody like lou, hey, hey, hey, hey, calm down. It's, it's a lot easier to set the gaps when somebody else is tightening the bolts.

When we put these doors on, the main thing we're looking for is the gap along the back edge of the door and the rocker panel

that looks pretty good though. I got these bolts tighten. So let's get those fenders on. Let's do it

bull's eye.

Like point out to the viewers. Lou wears a do-rag because he's too lazy to do anything with his hair.

I'm putting my fender on. I got this half inch gap. Not a problem. Bam. Use your shims. They'll save your life. You put it in,

you

gotta be careful now.

So you don't drop them. Grab your bolt.

Now that baby sits, right.

Hey, guys, when you're aligning panels, don't forget to tighten down every bolt because you'd be surprised how much leaving just one bolt loose can affect your alignment. Hey,

I'm tired of waiting for you. I'm ready to put the hood on. Are you ready? You wanna talk? You took the easy side. Let's go.

Hey, idea. I, I got it. The hinges, right?

Yeah.

Nice

hands,

hold it, I'll go get them. Ok.

Ok. I got it

here.

Ok. Yeah. No, that gap's pretty nice, huh?

Well, with the hood in place that leaves us just one more major panel,

the trunk

and you put it on just like you do the hood

man every day. This thing is getting sweeter, man. Every day. It's getting better and better. But you know what? We gotta get back on the El Camino.

I like where your head's at.

Next. A big block with bangs, the Shelby 427 Cobra.

There's a lot of debate on what truly is a muscle car. Some people say that his cars from the sixties and seventies. Other people say it's the kind of car that can knock out a quarter mile in 13 seconds.

But no matter what anyone says there is no argument.

The 427 Cobra is a true piece of American muscle

muscle car flashback this week, the Shelby 427 Cobra

beheads know the Cobra story. In 1962

Carol Shelby created the Light Car Big Motor concept by grafting small block Ford V8 in the tiny British AC sport cars.

But in 1965 Shelby raised the bar by shoehorning a 7 L Ford big block. The result absolute overkill. The brutally quick 427 Cobra C,

the sc looked fast standing still.

It was an aluminum skin, two seat sports car all juiced up on Roy.

This thing was a pure race car track ready fuel door roll bar, no door handles or side windows, wide wheel flares over a humongous

and competition side pipes that scream take me to the track

and it's long fenders feature heat relief vent and a prominent hood scoop feed the beast air

up front nerf bars accented the large open snout that helped cool down the big 427 there, an E ticket ride all the way. I mean, you get one of these babies, you just hold on.

Uh but you really, really, really need to be on your game. The Chevy sticks next to a wider tube chassis

that 70 series tires on 15 inch star

burst wheels, coil over suspension and disc brakes on all four corners inside is all business with bucket seats, top load of four speed wood rim wheel and a basic dash with oil temp and pressure gauges.

But it's the monster quad car big block that made this car a legend a good running 427 Cobra. We're talking about a car with 450 horsepower

or better

in a car that weighs 2200 or 2300 pounds.

You know, it's dangerous,

but it's a hell of a lot of fun.

I'm talking 0 to 60 in a take under four seconds and 0 to 100 and back to a dead stop in 14 seconds. It's 100 and 60 mile an hour race car with a license plate.

Hard to believe Shelby was selling that level of performance in 65 for a scot

under six grand.

Those awesome stats

and the fact that Shelby America built only 316 427

is why they are so valuable today. How valuable Colin

Kr's Cobra has history. It was Shelby's original pr car and, and the 1st 427 invoices, a street legal vehicle. It's estimated value today. 6 to $700,000 that's a 10,000% increase. So if you ever get the opportunity to drive a real 427 Cobra, you better jump on it because it's an experience, you'll never forget and that's exactly what Carol Shelby had in mind.

You guys. Welcome back. And now we're gonna get our part shagger breathing better. And to do that, we're gonna make a bad ass Cold Air induction setup.

I'm going to start this project by laying out a path from the throttle body to the fender. Well,

to get to the cold air, I'll cut a hole in the inner fender.

Could you give me a piece of tape?

I most certainly can

let me help you out.

Perfect.

Ok. Up in the air Monsour

something that we really like about this front end is we actually took out the directionals and we're gonna make scoops for our cold air package. It's gonna be so cool.

Hey, lou, check this out, man. What you got

thinking? We'll put the filter here, just run another 90 off that poppy pipe we dropped in

and we can just, we can run it more like over into here.

I took some measurements. So I'm gonna lay the scoops out on this sheet metal. Then I'm gonna cut them out, bend them up and put them on the car.

Hey, man, I just got the scoop stuff, dude. This one is ready to be welded. Cool. Looks good.

Hey, since we're moving that battery into the cab, that's gonna allow us to bring cold air in from both sides of the car. So our next step is to take these two pipes and marry them together at the throttle body.

We'll get the angles of each pipe,

so we know where to cut

the thing looks good, man, righteous.

Hey, you guys, if your welding skills on aluminum aren't that great. That's ok. You can still lay it out.

Mark your pipes.

Take it to a reputable welding shop or one of your friends who can weld aluminum

and you're good to go.

Ok. So we're ready to weld this thing together. But these two joints on either side, we're gonna leave un welded and then we're just gonna connect those with silicone hose. So this thing is easier to get in and out of the car.

D I got all the hoses and everything. Oh, yeah. Cool.

Clin,

I can hear it now. Lots of breathing.

This is a scoop that we fabricated and it's what we did was we painted it flat black. So when we put it up in the grill area it'll just disappear

and we're gonna use these high flow air filters from air raid.

This

thing's gonna sound like

this.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Youse.