Build Costings
 

Hey All

Just wondering has anyone done an excel spreadsheet of their build incorperating their costs as they go?

Cheers Sven

i did but i refused to add anything or even look at it once i reached a certain amount, iv just started acting like an osterich now regarding build costs! Its all the little things that seem to add up such as switchgear, lighting brakes etc.

best not to
 

I think that a budget for any build is going to go out of the window and if you looked at a spread sheet you will make yourself ill, if her in doors found the spreadsheet we would all be castrated. Best to keep the blinkers on and be brave .
Me thinks.
Bob

yeah i thought that would be the case lol!

When telling the wife the cost you have to convert to wifepounds.... 4 to 1 in my case :)

FM your a mathematical genius.

Bob

Yes I have a spreadsheet with almost everything on it.

Allows me to know the value I have put in, and see what's left to be spent.


Just off to update.

Liking the maths there!

Any chance of a copy Twin?

Sven

I've hit just over W£1000 (wife pounds) and maybe have W£350 to go but all depends on what bling I buy. It's all the unexpected or unbudgeted items that cost money. Also not budgeting enough (fuel cap for example)

costs out of the window
 

I dont think you could ever be accurate about the true costs of a build. There are to many things on the long road to a build that just dont get costed in. If you were lucky with your donor and didnt need to overhaul every part, the wheels and tyres were usable , then fitted everything as it came off the donor without painting and cleaning up stuff i reckon you could do a budget build. But if you want a tyre smoking track day car that looks the biz inside and out god only knows the true cost. My mate built a v8 westfield for under 4k and the other day i saw a v8 dax rush that had cost the bloke about 30k. Much the same thing on the road but one was built by my tightwad mate and the other bloke must have been an oil tycoon.

just my 2pc

Bob