nick205
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 12:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chockymonster
Are these real prices or what the wife thinks prices?
You don't let your missus on the forum do you? If one of them finds out they'll spread the word and we'll all be in big bother 
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RK
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 12:27 PM |
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About 6500 of your sterling. And not a bolt has been done up yet. I am quite far from getting all the parts needed. I have not made a good business
decision. I have paid for a course on how to put cars together and it has been instructive.
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 01:01 PM |
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I gave myself a budget of £6.5k when I started, and then got bored of counting at just over £3.5k. Like others I have a magpie-like tendency to
collect shiny tools which really isn't helping to keep costs down. I have been meaning to go through my reciepts and try and get up to date
again though, it would be nice to have some idea. Half of the problem I have is deciding whether certain things are actually direct costs for the car
or not (for example all of the shiny tools, and the parts i've been selling on not just from the donor but from my piles of bits from old
projects that i'm no longer using). I'm still pretty confident of coming in somewhere near my original budget though, even if I do have to
fudge the figures 
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coozer
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 01:05 PM |
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I've spent a catalogued £5,600 so far that includes any tools and consumables.
I don't expect that to go past 7K to get it finished but after SVA is another story
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 01:40 PM |
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SHITTY DEATH!!!!
I have just had a look at the spreadsheet i started at the beginning of the build and added everything alse I could think of....
I have no doubt there is loads that I have forgotten - and I have at least £1000 left to spend to get it on the road.......
however the CURRENT TOTAL stands at.....
 £11,108.73
subtracting tools leaves: £9,923,98
Better hope the wifey doesn't read this! I keep telling her it's about £4000
<Edited because I have just remebered another £150 worth >
[Edited on 28/8/07 by DaveFJ]
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 02:57 PM |
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Dave,
I keep telling you that gold-plating isn't required!
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graememk
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 03:15 PM |
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my mrs thinks its cost me £2500
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DIY Si
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 03:26 PM |
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I cheated and brought mine, but then blew the engine up, and then found out the new ecu doesn't work, so it's gradually going up. Given
some of the figures I'm fairly glad I brought mine at £5k! Not bad at all for a MK Indy Bird.
My next project is likely to cost in the region of £12k though, so not all good after all.
[Edited on 28/8/07 by DIY Si]
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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chrisg
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 03:55 PM |
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My original Locost was £1250 on the road.
This is because I got the donor car for nowt and all the steel for a tenner.
Plus I'm a Yorkshireman and I'd rather make something than buy it, the only bit of that car that I didn't make (excepting the bits
Henry Ford gave me) is the roll bar and that was becuse I didn't have a big enough bender (keep the jokes to yourselves!)
I found that wheeling and dealing with people is half the fun.
Its pretty easy to sit with the demon theives catalog and a credit card, If that's what you're into then you're probably better off
buying a car - it's a lot less hassle.
The Haynes Roadster on the other hand has cost me my sanity.
Wibble.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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nick205
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 06:08 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
My original Locost was £1250 on the road.
This is because I got the donor car for nowt and all the steel for a tenner.
Plus I'm a Yorkshireman and I'd rather make something than buy it, the only bit of that car that I didn't make (excepting the bits
Henry Ford gave me) is the roll bar and that was becuse I didn't have a big enough bender (keep the jokes to yourselves!)
I found that wheeling and dealing with people is half the fun.
Its pretty easy to sit with the demon theives catalog and a credit card, If that's what you're into then you're probably better off
buying a car - it's a lot less hassle.
The Haynes Roadster on the other hand has cost me my sanity.
Wibble.
Cheers
Chris
I did start out with the intention of making more myself, but sometimes time, frstration and the cost of tools gets the better of you and parts need
to be bought in.
I agree that trading and bartering with people is all part of the experience though. As is crawling around in muddy scrap yards
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 08:15 AM |
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I'm just at the start of my build and reading this thread with interest!
Got to say, a few of you are saying that £8k isn't very locost...well as a figure £8,000.00 is a lot of money, but in the context of a sports
car that can out-handle and out-accelerate some very expensive motors i'd say thats dam good going.
Agree that I do not want my wife seeing this thread though.
Will someone rename it something like...
"Forced induction, a lengthy introduction"
So I know she won't be temted to read it
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ned
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 09:55 AM |
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I recon my car must have cost me close to £200k now. That includes buying the house so I could build the garage, then all tools, parts and materials
etc.
At a guess the car owes me probably the wrong side of £10k.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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locoR1
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 06:00 PM |
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When it was first build 6 years ago it was about £4000-£4500 on the road.
That was a long time ago 2 engines later, then a change to bec and now a turbo! not to mention new wheels, lathe, tig welder ect ect
And not forgetting a house move so I've finally got a Garage!
I really wouldn't want to even try to add it all up but I think I went a bit over the £250
Dave.................
 
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richard thomas
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 07:02 PM |
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is everyone counting incidentals, such as petrol money to go pick up bits etc...?
mine has to be close to 10k
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adithorp
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 08:48 PM |
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I never intended to keep a count of the cost. I did think I'd like to come in around £7500 but £10k might be nearer the mark when its done.
It would cost close to 6 figures to get the same performance "off the shelf"!
adrian
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davie h
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| posted on 1/9/07 at 09:22 PM |
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so far mine has cost me about £350 and i havent even finished the chassis. on the plus side i already have about £3000 worth of tools from when i was
a mechanic so i wont add them to the overall cost
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PaulBuz
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 08:59 PM |
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Around 2.5k.
Not including tools
ATB
Paul
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Simon
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| posted on 2/9/07 at 10:14 PM |
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Including the SVA/RFL and (first year of)insurance, was more or less bang on £3k. However, mistakes were made along the way (like a duff engine)
meaning that I should have been well under that fig.
Once I have my new ECU, current mods will have added another grand.
So £4,000 over 5 and bit years ain't too bad
Damn site cheaper than playing golf every week, and far more interesting
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 2/9/07 by Simon]
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