Now that the rear end of the car’s just about wrapped up it was time to shift my focus back on the center. I needed to get the doors hung and the striker pin installed so I could get another rough fitting of the door, this time with the spider on the car – recall…
Month: May 2018
38. Winging it
The Superlite SLC can be ordered in 2 configurations; street or race tail. The street tail incorporates a short duckbill wing to provide aero downforce. The race tail uses two tall aluminum stanchions attached to the rear diffuser to support an elevated wing. I opted to go with the race tail – I thought it…
37. Closing out the closeouts
Recall both my headlights and taillights required a larger closeout panel than the recessed outlines molded into the fender liners. They needed to be larger overall to facilitate install/removal and to get line of sight to the adjustment screws. They also fouled the liner contour so I had to adjust the panels by adding clearance…
36. “Brace yourself” – Cam
Cam (MacIsaac) has one of the highest, if not the highest, mileage SLCs on the road. He’s the owner of chassis #36, click here for a link to his build thread. So when he says “Listen here sonny, you pay attention to this” – you pay attention! (OK, he didn’t say it in those words,…
35. Splitting h-air-s
When I spec’d out my kit I had a really difficult time deciding between the street splitter versus the track splitter. Ironically, the higher performance track splitter is actually cheaper than the street splitter. This had me scratching my head for a bit but I eventually discovered the track splitter comes as a “skin” whereas…