Re: project street truck - obs lq9 swap
so now that the truck is pretty much buttoned up its time to do a cost analysis of the project. i've received several emails about this and it was discussed briefly earlier in this thread.
i saved every receipt that i could and i just went through them all and typed in their totals. i have tried to organize them by what they were mostly comprised of.
*autozone/napa hardware fluids wiring - 1,475.48
wire - 14.85
hardware - 12.24
oil - 48.39
fluid + hardware - 53.32
radioshack - 10.79
hardware - 15.91
radioshack - 4.23
hoses and wire - 111.25
hardware - 8
fluid + hardware - 40
hoses fluid batts wire - 572
wire - 94.30
fluid + filters - 104
hardware - 9.23
hardware - 117
hardware 8.97
wiring - 13
wiring fluid hardware - 238
*dealer parts - 350.84
gm hardware - 18.19
gm hardware - 6.99
gm hardware - 13.33
gm hardware - 75.13
gm hardware - 56.20
tranny parts - 181
*small tools or consumable tool parts (blades/grinders) - 291.86
tools - 50
tools - 88.52
tools - 128
flaring gun - 25.34
*restoration - 1,252.61
headlights - 210
undercoat - 63
undercoat gun - 45.61
undercoat - 117
badges - 25
shift lever - 50
u joints - 141
hood - 600
*driveline and swap - 12,628.53
engine - 3300
tranny - 3354
converter - 880
harness - 923.95
dyno - 550
detroit - 404
trans cooler - 171
injectors - 460
flexplate - 115
ac fuel sensors adapters s+p - 1109.77
spare belt - 60
o2 sensors - 154
plugs - 22
exhaust pipes and labor - 650
coil - 61.61
mufflers - 199
x pipe - 84
cats - 130.20
*interior - 1,312.79
pioneer bypass - 34
dvd player - 540
bluetooth - 119
backup cam - 31
dpic - 155
a/f meter - 262
boost meter - 55.54
pod - 57
radio - 38
radio - 21.25
*truck and legal - $1,050
truck - 600
registration - 450
*total - 18,362.11
whats missing from this is all the gas used for driving all over the place chasing down all these parts and probably a few little cash purchases that had no receipts. also the original tow home. and beer and food for my friends etc etc other things that added up to just do the job in general. also all thats in the list for the rearend is the detroit, i still need to redo the brakes and buy gears and bearings so thats going to be another couple hundred maybe even a thousand.
i have estimated that total man hours came to about 1000. i could do this in less time now that i have done it.
so once again, i would like to suggest that this can not be done too cheaply but that if you are going for minimalism you could easily skip a couple steps that i took. (but it will be tough to get this to sub-10,000 IMO)
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