Grant
In your very first group of Photo's in your very first post why are those rod ends and bolt so rusty??? Are those just mock up parts or is that the normal components; please tell me they are not.
I was under the impression that the SL-C kit is pretty much a giant erector set (no disrespect).
Jim,
if you follow the well troden path then its certainly more bolt together than fabrication...
We have many bolt on parts available for purchase but keep in mind what you are actually building...a complete car...that will outperform many if not all off the shelf production cars under $200k...if you want something a little more special, then that is avaiable too as others are showing on this forum daily..
Compared to the other "supercar" type self assemble cars on the market an SLC with an LS and a Porsche transaxle is about as simple as its going to get...especially with an ISIS wiring system.
You will have to drill holes, trim fiberglass, assemble lines for fuel pumps of choice, crimp lines for AC...(any local shop AC can do this for you)
There is no welding required unless you want to make custom headers/exhausts..(.we have LS3 and LS7 side exit tailpipes available.)
If you want to move the motor on the power steering column type stuff etc .....none of this is real fabrication in the true sense of the word but if you are not comfortable with this kind of thing then assembling your own car from a kit is not for you...no disrespect intended btw.
Compared to the other "supercar" type self assemble cars on the market an SLC with an LS and a Porsche transaxle is about as simple as its going to get...especially with an ISIS wiring system.
Agreed. It's not even close. Some of us builders make it hard on ourselves though.
Hello Jim, no matter what car / truck / plane / boat etc... you plan to build there will be some fabrication required. You can keep it as simple as you like and buy off the shelf parts and build this car without much problem. If you have the resources as I do you can make it much more custom or one of. I built an 427 SC cobra and had to do much more fabrication then I did on this due to the fact that all the parts sent with the car were junk and would not fit and I ended up having to rebuild most of it to make it work. The parts you get for the SL-C are very well made and they fit into each other as they should. You are likely to have some challanges but I am sure you will find the answers here on the forum or from Fran. There are more and more people building this car and posting so you will have more options avaliable to you.
Steering wheel this has been a hot topic lately on the forum. I like the old school race wheel look and could not find anything that suited my needs I wanted it to have a flat bottom for leg room and it needed to have eight buttons, horn, start engine, four for the digi dash, one for lift up and one for down. I didn’t want to have go searching for those buttons on my dash or console.
So eventually I gave up looking and just made one, here what its looks so far but it will get the buttons soon as I just received them from China a couple of days ago, good old Ebay, then I will sew some leather on to it and wire in the relays with a quick disconnect coil cord. And Hopefully everything will work as it is a Sh*t load of work for a steering wheel LOL.