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Great story!! I live in Texas but have a long connection to Indiana, went to Purdue undergrad and spent 4 years in Indy at the School of Medicine, downtown. Butler is a great school , and very expensive LOL . Glad you are enjoying the car experience with your son, my son helped me a lot with...

Thank you Howard. Always superb information. The street setup recommendation is exactly what I was looking for . Hector

Excellent question Joel, yes please share with us Frank, if you want a street driven car with just occasional spirited driving would you recommend no toe in at all? and how much camber? I have mine set at zero for everything right now, getting ready to start driving. Thank you .

could not have said it better Mesa, that is my license plate cover "built not bought"

Scott: You have all the cool tools, I need one of those manual drill thingies with screw driver handle. and your rivet - floating nut plate combo is just fantastic. Hector

And here is the final product, again, cosmetically challenged but functionally acceptable .I tried to have the air foils follow the opening curvature, which was not easy at all. I am not too happy with the air foils so the opening will be covered with black wire mesh. Of note, the original...

Also had to add an air foil the the rear surface of the opening I made so that the air would not hit a flat surface at a 90 degree angle

Decided to create some air foils, to better direct flow and also to block the view into the duct The air foils were curved on two different planes , I should have done straight foils like Allan does, but decided to get fancy, I believe that was a mistake, very difficult to accomplish with...

2. Manufacture the intake duct. I chose to reverse the shield that came with the kit, never understood the original design. the fans push the air at close to a 90 degree angle , creating a massive amount of turbulent and reverse flow. had to have room on one side for the fluid reservoirs and the...

I am way behind on my updates, here is a little progress I did a little research on trying to maximize cooling while minimizing drag, making a very long story short , you want inlet area to be around 60% of the radiator core and you want the outlet area to be around 120-130% of the inlet area...

Kurt Elegant solution as well, I did not know about those rivet nuts either, thanks , hope this is super helpful to other builders early in their process. the only downside to the rivets is that they are specific to certain thicknesses, and the fiberglass parts we have vary so much in...

Neil: I had no idea those existed, the floating ones are awesome, would have saved me tons of re-dos, I had to redo most of them due to using the wrong screw (fine vs coarse thread) and popping them off. Thanks for the tip, too bad came almost at the end of my build . Hector

Yes I added 4 screws along there , JB welded weld nuts to the bottom surface of the tub . I believe I used 10/32 flange screws Hope this is helpful . I can post pictures if you are going that route,

Ouch!! High bar for a novice,

Thank you, working on it every day, we will see how the black goes, I hear you about the upkeep, I will add a few golden accents and golden wheels to distract attention form the few blemishes and dirty spots LOL !!!

I appreciate the reply, and your perspective, totally agree about the intensity and excitement of the journey, I am just hoping that leads to intensity and excitement driving it . I certainly learned so much about so many things. who knew I could become a fiberglass fabricator, upholstery and...

free bump for a great car and just a simple question if you don't mind. Why selling it with only 1400 miles over 5 years? I have been building an SLC for the last 3 years and wondering why so many people sell their kit car after completion and not drive it at all . Thank you .

Nothing earth shattering, just what I mentioned above , just to mention a few items, not happy with the finished product for some reason, concerns about reliability. Comfort issues such as: hard to get in and out, noise, heat. The fact that does not have power brakes or power steering, windows...

I just remembered, Howard Jones , that has a track only SLC, also previously owned a 911, I think he can give you the perspective you are looking for.