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Went to the steel shop today and ordered the stuff I needed. I ended up with 1.9" .130 tube for the main frame rails, 1.5 for the roll bar and some 1" for random suspension mounts and brackets. I also got about 40ft of 3/4" square to use for the body mounts and other random junk. Metal is getting expensive, it was $380 for everything. More than double what it cost for the kit car's frame.
I guess even if you add up all the costs of everything it is still cheaper to build your own chassis than have one built. $750 for a plasma cutter, $200 for a tubing bender, $600 for a mig welder, and the 380 for the metal still works out cheaper than ~$2100 the shop told me it would cost for them to build me a chassis. I had all of the tools already so it wasn't that expensive for me to just do it all myself.
Now I just need to find a few sheets of abs plastic so I can make plastic inner fenders and a few other things to keep the weight down.
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