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You need to decide what you want from the car when it's finished mate, Track only, track and road use, or just full road use, what's the end look, full sleeper, ERST look or full on Gartrac type arches etc, what motor you want, what power etc as this can change a budget massively.

I'm building my own and set myself a target of 3 years due to being very busy, that was 4 years ago but the only thing I budgeted for was the paint work, everything else was if it needs it it'll have it.

If you want cossie power then a full running saff is the way to go but then at this point in time they fetch good money so there's a massive chunk of your budget gone straight away.

If your going to have to pay some one to do the fabrication then honestly I'd just buy one already done.

Mine is just a full road use so had to think about it differently than most as I want it to look like the original ESRT S2 that I started with inside and out, full interior, standard (looking) exterior apart from the wheels and lack of sunroof etc, but even then a 6 point cage was a must just for the strength side of things.

Have a good look and read at how others have done there's first before making a decision.

I can see where Jay is coming from about the price of them if sold on, but I really do think the value depends on the car, for me (if I was buying a ready built one) a full on track car would be worth less as I wouldn't want to have 6-8 or 10k tied up it that type of car, but then on the other hand I wouldn't mind 10k sat in the garage if it was a full road car like Cutches S1 (or mine when finished) as it is a more usable could be used every day if I wanted type of car.

I honestly couldn't say how much I have spent so far, but that said every single thing on the car has been done by me, I've not paid out anything on fabrication work etc just parts and I havn't gone mad, just sensible.

Billy's quote of 15k is a good ball park figure but expect it to be more.



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