I’ll admit it – I’m struggling.  I’m experiencing some kind of “builder’s fatigue”.  For the past month or so now I’ve been doing nothing but bodywork – and it just doesn’t seem like I’ve been making all that much progress. Typically, I have a rough idea of what I want to do over the next…

As if I haven’t already talked enough about carbon and my obsession with it, here’s another post dedicated to the subject (it’s basically what I’ve been working on for the past 2 weeks). Carbon.  It’s #6 on the Periodic Table of Elements.  It adorns in the form of diamonds and in patches of woven strands of…

If you’re building an SLC and you’ve opted to go with the race tail one of the more popular modifications is to add a fresh air scoop at the back of the car to feed your air filter.  Placing the air filter right below a center-mounted scoop is especially popular for those running LS based…

The tub is the master key to the body fitting puzzle.  It sets how the spider sits relative to the chassis, which sets where the front and rear clams are positioned.  Way back, I had positioned my bodywork relative to the chassis by shifting it forwards and back until I was able to achieve the…

Sometimes it seems like it’s one step forward, two steps back with this project (Okay, a LOT of times).  As I’m approaching the last few turns and headed for the finish line, it’s time to start closing out the interior.  Most everything is at 80-90% now and I’ve mounted just about everything that needs to…