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Originally Posted by Mixer
MARC has proven you can make something look good and race fast, and still have some showroom look to it, but we're still talking a $250k car to build, right?
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IMO can't build a fully fledged racing car for much less than $100k-150k at a minimum, it's just a question of the hours involved to build it as well as the components. Not if you are paying for the labour like a professional racing team, unlike the club racers doing over a few beers with their mates.
$10k for a professional grade suspension
$5+k for brakes including calipers and rotors
$10k for a brand new production crate engine, $100k for a supercars spec racing engine
$2+k for an aftermarket engine control unit
$20k for a racing sequential gearbox
$5k for a mild steel roll cage, more for the Supercars style chrome-moly
$1k just for the carbon race seat!
Hydraulic jacking system, CNC machined uprights, fabricated control arms etc
Plus all the labour hours, shop space, equipment, overheads
It all adds up, I think? :/
Even a simple thing like springs: I think Supercars team used to use the Australian-made King racing coilover springs, $150/pair, these days at the top level they probably use the Swift springs (which are lighter and have better tolerances to their nominal spring rate) which are $400-500/pair for springs IIRC. And obviously a supercar team will carry all the spring rates from 3, 4, 5, - 17, 18, 19, 20 kg/mm... That's a lot of pairs of springs!
Even TCRs are $150k turn-key, and they are using basic stock block production engines.
A question of build quality too... If you look at Brocky's 1993 Advantage Racing VP it's pretty rudimentary, whereas this 2011 Walkinshaw Commodore is beautifully turned out:
https://duttongarage.com/Holden-VE-C...Supercar~17768 It's all lots of expensive labour hours!