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Greg
10-26-2007, 01:23 PM
Okay, the cold weather is here, and I am ready to garage the Cobra, and start the winter upgrades. Last year was bolt-on performance stuff, and now that I've put every N/A performance part available on the engine, it's time to make it look nicer. Here's how it looks today (yuck!):

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/gbranham/Kids001-3.jpg

It just doesn't match the nice, clean, simplistic approach to the exterior:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b302/gbranham/Kids001-1.jpg


Soooooo, I'm looking for ideas, and the Scion guys/gals usually have great ideas for engine bay dress-up. I don't want neon or flashy colored lights, but I do want to hide as much of the EFI harness as possible, to give it a nice, clean, simple carbureted look. I'm thinking about fabbing an aluminum box on the firewall, to hide all the wiring, and then just running the absolute minimum of wiring out of the box to the injectors and sensors. But beyond that, I really want something unique.

If anyone has any ideas, or if anyone local wants to come help fab/polish/rivet some aluminum (which I really enjoy), lemme know.

Thanks all!

Greg

burstaneurysm
10-26-2007, 04:25 PM
Well, first off. Damn! If I were you, I'd leave it. Otherwise, I'd go with some stainless parts.

Check this out...
http://www.scionpro.com/cart/images/complete_xb-007.jpg

That's pretty complete, I don't know if pieces like this are available for the Cobra, but it'd certainly look nice.