Cam's Superlite SLC

We’ve been getting into the high heat months in San Diego and I’ve been splitting my weekend time between popping by the local Cars & Coffee events and taking the SLC out for drives on the back roads.  I’ve found a local loop that’s about 100 miles and if I leave early enough the roads…

I came across @SquishMyRide’s instagram account and was really impressed with Eric’s work.  I commissioned him to Squish the SLC and I think it turned out great! OK, so when last we met I was feeling a bit down about the fuel system.  I’d gotten burned a few times and was feeling pretty beat up…

So after my last post I was feeling pretty defeated but I spent some time in the garden which helped get my mind off the car and show for a while. After getting a few tomatos and zuchinni planted it was time to think back on my morning issues to figure out what was going…

WOW.  I’m stunned.  No words.  This thing is cursed. So I have an explanation for my weird fuel and startup issues and it’s such an incredible story I feel the need to share it.  There are nuggets of knowledge sprinkled herein but most of it is just me sobbing at this point. So a few…

It seems I’m cursed when it comes to high pressure fuel pumps. The FiTech integrated surge tank/HP pump assembly I received broke before I even got the chance to start it up!  I had just completed plumbing the new fuel system – which was a task in itself (these hoses and fittings aren’t cheap so…

With the SLC down for fuel issues I thought it would be a good time to knock another item off my to-do list.  Something I wasn’t keyed in on when I originally installed my engine was the fact that these LS motors are somewhat notorious for oil ingestion via the PCV system. The LS3 has…

OK, so I’ve pretty much decided that my Bosch 044 pump is a counterfeit – a very good counterfeit.  I did a fairly thorough websearch trying to find out as much as I could about these counterfeit pumps but most photos/comparisons are a few years old.  I purchased this pump within the last year and…

The teething issues continue… I recently started shooting a few segments to post on YouTube.  I have no starry-eyed dreams of becoming an “influencer” (I hate that term) but I thought it was about time to get some fresh SLC content onto the second most visited website on the World Wide Web.  What’s it saying…

As I’ve been driving my car more I find myself slightly irritated by cabin noise.  It’s primarily engine/exhaust noise that I believe is coming in through the rear bulkhead.  It’s no surprise really, the engine is about a foot behind your head and the total exhaust from manifold to tips is about 3 feet long….

It’s time to shake things up a little.  My time working on the SLC as a full-time project is coming to an end and I’ve had some ideas about how I would like to leave this site.  I’ll continue to write blog updates as I find time to update folks on how the car is…

It seems like it’s customary for builders to put together a completion announcement and I haven’t done so yet.  So … here’s mine! SLC Chassis #269 is officially complete.  You can read more about how I came to decide upon building an SLC in my very first post. It seems like forever ago that my…

… they were wrong. I’ve picked up on some chatter here and there about tinting the side windows of an SLC. The chatter summed up in 4 words is “it can’t be done”.  I didn’t quite understand why but I endeavored to find out.  The earlier generation side windows were tinted but didn’t have the…