Ken's SLC build thread

[Ken Roberts]

and another....

 

[Troy Truglio]

Ken. Amazing car and thank you for confirming my color choice as White. I go back and forth on different colors, white, red, green and white keeps on coming out on top and this makes it that much better. Looks really good.

Do you still plan on putting on the headlight covers?

 

[Ken Roberts]

Yes Troy the headlight covers are still a planned addition. I will remove the headlight covers and side windows during registration process as they are not DOT/SAE compliant.

 

[KevinV]

Ken... very nice job... she's a beauty:thumbsup:

 

[Alex]

That looks really good!

I was reading the thread backwards and was thinking that looks too good to be a wrap, haha

 

[Ken Roberts]

Thank you fellow Canadian SLC owners!

 

[Jim T]

Thank you fellow Canadian SLC owners!

Ken, I'm not a Canadian, so I hope that its all right me to say that I too think that your SLC is absolutely gorgeous....”A”!


Jim

 

[Ken Roberts]

What a great bunch of fellow SLC builders! Thanks Jim.

 

[Will Campbell]

That really looks great!

Do you have interior pics, or isn't that finished yet?

Thanks for the motivation- I was in the shop all day today working on my car. From the looks of things, you are much faster than I will ever be!

 

[Grant S]

Hay Ken looks good, is it at a state where you can drive it yet?
Cheer's

 

[Ben Whittle]

Damn...... That's hot.

 

[Yos]

Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! :thumbsup:

I'm into the color big time Ken. You mention it's a pearl Cadillac color...would that be the famous Cadillac White Diamond?

Looks great man. Congrats!

 

[Ken Roberts]

I'm not sure of the technical name for the Caddy pearl colour but I can find out for you.

The interior hasn't been started yet. Next will be the wiring, then bumper design and finally the interior layout and the custom dash to house the C6 Corvette instrument cluster and HUD.

The car show just ended and the car also won the "master builder" award. I'm a little bit shocked at that as it's only 60% complete.

My goal is to be able to start it this summer without the interior being finished. The "money well" is drying up fast for this year unfortunately.

Thanks again for all the compliments!

 

[Ricardo Montalvo]

That looks fantastic Ken! I flipped a coin to choose between a Kandy Red color and a Pearl white. I can see I would have been happy with either. I love it.

Do you have any pictures with the rear clam showing your exhaust exit?

 

[Ken Roberts]

That looks fantastic Ken! I flipped a coin to choose between a Kandy Red color and a Pearl white. I can see I would have been happy with either. I love it.

Do you have any pictures with the rear clam showing your exhaust exit?

The car will be coming home late tonight or tomorrow. They are having trouble getting the Batmobile display loaded tonight....lol

I'll post some pictures of the exhaust from the rear. Also the rear window I added actually works quite well too.

The Lamborghini Balloon white is the colour I really wanted to use but the cost of the paint is steep. It's very unique and gets rave reviews and is a satin finish.

 

[Ken Roberts]

Here's a picture of the rear. I used a Ford Taurus Wagon third brake light up high on the spider. 1/4" rivet nuts hold the license plate on. You can see the Austin/BMW Mini side marker lamps installed for registration approval. The mufflers were able to be installed with the tips poking through on each side of the license plate. Don't attempt to use 6" mufflers. They will not work if using the street tail. The slots cut in the black panel will be for the external bumper that will be installed. It will look similar to the Ford GT bumper.

 

[Ken Roberts]

I like the look of the Katech coil brackets. The brackets have been shortened so they don't stick up as much and riveted to the smoothed stock valve covers.

 

[Ken Roberts]

The rear window does give you a bit of a view from behind. The mirror will need to be mounted low however. It will be mounted on the dash. I'm in the process of coming up with a cool way to mount the license plate lamps that are also small and DOT/SAE approved.

 

[Jim T]

Ken, very classy! I love the 3rd. brake light, it truly looks like it belongs there!
Jim

 

[Ken Roberts]

I think I've been given the wrong rear window. This one looks like it's shaped for the race tail or am I required to cut it to fit?