I took an hour tonight and did some more work on the car. Most of my order from Summit Racing showed up today, so I was able to get some of those parts on the car. I’m still waiting on the thermostat housing and I’m not really happy with the recovery tank I bought, so I may return that.

Other than doing some cleaning in the garage, I got some of the stuff from Summit installed. The rest of the post will have pictures and what I did.

First things first, I got some miscellaneous bits for the cooling system. A 1/4 NPT petcock went into the drain of the radiator — It will make it easy to drain the cooling system. Ever since I had a quick-drain in the oil tank of the 911, I’ve been a fan of those sort of things. In fact, I want to put a quick drain in the oil pan in the Cobra, but I think it would stick down dangerously far from the pan.

I also bought a 1/4 NPT zinc sacrificial anode to put into the system. The purpose is to give an easy-to-corrode metal so that any electrolysis in the system would corrode it before the aluminum radiator or other bits.

Unfortunately, as the picture shows, the anode is too long to fit in the threaded fitting in the radiator. I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do about it — I may just cut an inch off it and put a shorter anode in there. I can use a die and thread the other piece to use in the future, I suppose.

I got a radiator cap. 16-lbs vented cap, and this particular one came with a nice polished cap which happens to match the caps on the brake reservoirs fairly well. I like it, although it begs me to polish the de-gas tank now. I may try some metal polish and the Dremel at some point.

I also got a thermostat-based fan controller. I forgot to get a photo of it, but there’s a 3/8″ NPT fitting in the bottom of the de-gas tank. The brass temperature sender is threaded into there where it will read coolant temperature leaving the engine. With the 192 degree thermostat in the engine, water will start to flow to the radiator when the coolant gets over 192. At 200 degrees, the fan will turn on. Once on the fan will run until the coolant drops to 180 degrees. I started fooling with the wiring, but I need to make a decision once and for all if I’m going to keep the I-Squared system or not. I’m leaning towards not.

I wanted to get a better picture of what I did last weekend with the sheet metal around the de-gas tank outlet. This photo shows better how I trimmed the F-panel patch and fit it with some grommet material around the outlet pipe. It looks good, I think.

I missed getting a shot of the lower radiator hose last weekend. I installed this the other day. The line leaves the radiator and consists of two different application hoses connected together with a flared metal pipe and clamps. I still need to get a support clamp I can mount on the X-member to support it in the middle.

I also got new e-brake cables in. These actually fit correctly in the caliper and do, in fact, clear the button-capped grade-10 bolts I bought from McMaster-Carr last week. The driver side wheel wasn’t on the car so I installed the cable. I need to get some circlips to hold it in place. The line snakes around the rear of the car and it affixed to the passenger side of the transmission tunnel. They fit well, although I’m debating again if I want to use the e-brake I got from Fortes, or order the stock one from Breeze which would be a lot easier to install. The Fortes one I’ve heard doesn’t work very well without extra fabrication.

I may get the water neck, thermostat and upper radiator hose in tomorrow when the part shows up, and start looking at heater positioning.

I’ve heard from the place I got the Boss-EFI system from that it should be shipping to me this week. I hope so, thats really holding things up.