Week 8: Finding out the cost

This week I wasn't able to work on my car because the shop wasn't open. So instead of working I created a spreadsheet of all the parts I have purchased for the sand rail. Ill have a copy of this at my presentation at the end of the project. so i first started out with the chassis parts, first and foremost the tubing for the frame. I had used the tube service through my fathers work, and the amount of tubing needed was (10pcs@18') of 1 1/4" OD tubing x .095 wall, (3pcs@18') of 1"OD tubing x .095 wall. this was a little bit bigger tubing then the design called for because we wanted to beef up the frame. The next most important part is probably the suspension. For the actual shocks we went with FOX shocks, i purchased these off eBay. I bought 8.5" travel 2.0 Fox shocks for the front and 10" travel 2.0 Fox shocks for the back. This converts to over 15" of travel in the front and over 20" in the back. Now for what makes this go, The engine. The original plans for the the Sand Rail called for a 300 cubic centimeter snowmobile 2-stroke engine, but if you can tell by the trend we could settle for that. So we went with a 2008 Honda CBRR600 race street bike motor, with over 100 horsepower. this also made it so we had to go with bigger better half shafts in the rear due to the increase in power. So we got Porsche 944 turbo half shafts witch should work out perfectly. also we had to get all the parts to go with the engine like gas tank, radiator, exhaust, wirring, switches, and all the guages. all of these parts were not cheap and for this project to be properly funded i had to sell my dirtbike and use the money to buy all these parts witch is already totaled over $3,500.