Dave Forster
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After 4 years of building, my SLC just received its license and registration and is now free to roam the streets.
I'd like to thank everyone who posted on this forum - it was tremendously valuable during the build.
Some of the details for the car include:
- License plate backup camera that feeds to a cellphone for video display
- Remote bluetooth stereo/amplifier, also using the cellphone as music source
- Passive alarm/disarm with passive-enabled pushbutton start.
- The center console, steering wheel shaft cover and lower instrument cluster cover are 3 D printed
- I used my cellphone to take the interior pictures; there's an open area in the center console
where it would normally mount magnetically.
- The instrument cluster is from Dakota Digital
- Electrically adjustable side mirrors, adapted from Corvette.
- A reverse gear lockout was added to the gear shift (Graziano transmission), which prevents reverse from being selected unless the lockout is pulled out.
- Interior tub and leather upholstery with blue accents
- Polished aluminum Forgestar F14 wheels.
- Aluminum plate in the front compartment which ducts hot radiator exhaust up to the air exit at the top of the hood and keeps the hot air off the firewall.
- Insulation wrapped sidepipes, mounted with standoffs to keep them clear of the side of the passenger compartment (limited heat transmission)
- Lightweight sound and heat insulation
- Front clip is hinged, with lower splitter permanently attached to the front clip
- Lowered seat pan and extended footwells, but still no foam on the bottom of the driver's seat in order to have enough headroom (I am 6'4").
- Engine oil cooler, but no transmission oil cooler.
Obviously, the car is intended primarily for the street. Drive testing has just begun, but so far, everything seems to be going well. I won't know until next year whether the air conditioning and engine cooling will keep up with a Houston summer, but at 75 F, it seems to have no problems and everything is well within the green and the cockpit is staying cool, even in bright sunshine.
I'd like to thank everyone who posted on this forum - it was tremendously valuable during the build.
Some of the details for the car include:
- License plate backup camera that feeds to a cellphone for video display
- Remote bluetooth stereo/amplifier, also using the cellphone as music source
- Passive alarm/disarm with passive-enabled pushbutton start.
- The center console, steering wheel shaft cover and lower instrument cluster cover are 3 D printed
- I used my cellphone to take the interior pictures; there's an open area in the center console
where it would normally mount magnetically.
- The instrument cluster is from Dakota Digital
- Electrically adjustable side mirrors, adapted from Corvette.
- A reverse gear lockout was added to the gear shift (Graziano transmission), which prevents reverse from being selected unless the lockout is pulled out.
- Interior tub and leather upholstery with blue accents
- Polished aluminum Forgestar F14 wheels.
- Aluminum plate in the front compartment which ducts hot radiator exhaust up to the air exit at the top of the hood and keeps the hot air off the firewall.
- Insulation wrapped sidepipes, mounted with standoffs to keep them clear of the side of the passenger compartment (limited heat transmission)
- Lightweight sound and heat insulation
- Front clip is hinged, with lower splitter permanently attached to the front clip
- Lowered seat pan and extended footwells, but still no foam on the bottom of the driver's seat in order to have enough headroom (I am 6'4").
- Engine oil cooler, but no transmission oil cooler.
Obviously, the car is intended primarily for the street. Drive testing has just begun, but so far, everything seems to be going well. I won't know until next year whether the air conditioning and engine cooling will keep up with a Houston summer, but at 75 F, it seems to have no problems and everything is well within the green and the cockpit is staying cool, even in bright sunshine.
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