Including tools about £2000
Just wondering how much it has cost you to build just the chassis?
more than it costs to buy one thats for sure (buying welder + tools), and about 2 years longer than it takes to pick one up from a manufacturer!
Ned.
Excluding tools about £200 for materials,
Including tools about £2000
hmmmmm
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Originally posted by Gav
Excluding tools about £200 for materials,
Including tools about £2000
Martin, how did you design your own chassis?
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Originally posted by nitram38
You can buy a reasonable s.i.p mig welder for around £250-300.
The car in my avatar cost around £100 in steel.
), ive managed to stock my garage with pretty much all the equipment ive ever wanted Bassic chassis around £100 but all the 3mm plate and extras are adding up fast.
The chassis all in will cost around £250 but that incluedes £50 for the roll bar.
You cant add the price of your tools 
But if I add gas and wire and other consuamables price would be circa £350-£400 
put it like this, second chassis is much cheaper than first! Seeing as i already have a stock of metal in, its basically free 
Tool cost doesnt
count, as you need them anyway
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Originally posted by JoelP
Tool cost doesnt count, as you need them anyway
I think that unless you want to build something non-standard, it will be better and cheaper to buy a chassis
It's a little pricy in UK for tools and goods...
anyway I got all the steel for 60euro and will have leftovers
all other tools I think I got, just MIG i boroved from pal of mine... but planing to bought 160amps MIG and the price is from 350euro to 1000e for 250
amps + the CO2 tanks whish are seconhand around 100e for 40Kg
so I can export chassis ... what is the price for powercoated bookchassis
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Originally posted by ned
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Originally posted by JoelP
Tool cost doesnt count, as you need them anyway
i agree with what you're saying in principal Joel, but fact of the matter is that if you don't already have them you need to factor them into the budget or you won't be able to cut or assemble the steel that you've bought!
Ned.
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Originally posted by nitram38
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You can buy a reasonable s.i.p mig welder for around £250-300.
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Originally posted by Gav
Excluding tools about £200 for materials,
Including tools about £2000
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Originally posted by britishtrident
Buy a chassis you know it makes sense.
Amen to that Joel
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Originally posted by JoelP
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Originally posted by britishtrident
Buy a chassis you know it makes sense.
NOOO! if you want to bulid one car and drive it, buy the chassis. If you plan a lifetime of abusing homemade fast cars, start building chassis now!
Cost of stainless steel box and w/b tube £150
Less cost of shot blasting, powder coating & waxoil £150
= £0
No........ that can't be right.
Paul G
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Originally posted by 907
Cost of stainless steel box and w/b tube £150
Less cost of shot blasting, powder coating & waxoil £150
= £0
No........ that can't be right.
Paul G
I'm up to about £400 for my chassis.
That includes a full cage by MK Engineering though.
And there's no more to add to it.
Pat...
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Originally posted by andyps
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Originally posted by 907
Cost of stainless steel box and w/b tube £150
Less cost of shot blasting, powder coating & waxoil £150
= £0
No........ that can't be right.
Paul G
Nice thinking.
To follow that logic:
Cost of steel - £80
Less cost of buying a chassis - £500
= -£420
So I still have £670 to fit within Uncle Ron's budget. That is how you do it
Steel tube £86
Plate and bits £26
Brackets free off mate
Sheet for underside out a scrap pile
Angle grinder disks £20
welding rod £11
Gas £25
total £168
I bought a cheap cut off saw that wil be used for other jobs for £50
a tig welder for £120 Both off ebay
a £20 jigsaw for plate from B&Q as the *** I lent mine to still hasn't returned it!
These are investments so not really chargeable to the chassis I suppose you could add depreciation of say £20 for wear and tear so chassis total £188
+ about 50 hours. Cheepest chassis I have seen is about £280 so it paid me less than £2 per hour for all that work but I learned a lot and enjoyed
it
Caber
If your building just 1 car, sod it just buy it. You won't be waiting around for ages changing your mind roughly once a week! Just make sure you
buy precisely what you want or you're buggered. I made my chassis, but at 4" wider and longer i still want a little extra space. But i am
6'3", weigh 15 stone and am rather broad. Oh and having size 12 feet doesn't help either
[Edited on 26/2/06 by DIY Si]
My Welder is the most cost effective tool I have ever bought.
It owes me nothing. I have not built a chassis with it. however, the convenience of welding up brackets, the kids bikes, the wifes kitchen bits,
patches on the land Rover Chassis... Its more than paid for itself.
I still cant weld neatly, however, nothing has broken yet, and thats 5 years on.
Get as Big a welder as you can afford. Try for the bottom end of the Professional ranges, as they are so much better quality than the cheapo hobby
range.
Its a long term investment, especially if you are building cars and generally a handy guy in the garage.
