Body cost

[save the racers]

Just finishing my body and I don't have to work tomorrow.Thought i would post this just for a reference.
$400+tax -- 7 sheets of aluminum
$27 -- 1 box of exploder rivets
$13-- 1 box regular rivets
$420-- md3 evolution nose, stickers, valance ,they killed me on shipping
$120 -- steel,tabs. bumpers, t-bars, extras
$50 -- 1x1/4 aluminum strap. Reused all I could
$335 -- Md3 roof. Reused my old one
$1365 -- Minus $335 (reused roof)=$1030 total

[RacerX10]

bodies were a lot cheaper when we made our own nose pieces and roofs

[save the racers]

According to my wife I might be making them next year.lol

[RW57]

We buy generic MD 3 noses 135.00 and pick them up going to attempt a roof this year made a couple practice runs with scrap looked pretty good .You are saving 6 to 8 hundred bucks labor doing it your self that's the going rate around here just for body install if new decking labor rate is from what I am told is 12 to 15 hundred bucks plus aluminum .

[Punisher88]

I typically charge 900 labor for the full decking, sides, and nose.

[hucktyson]

It's crazy how cheap body guys work ...

[25drtrkr]

$3500 is the goin rate in my area for a complete body!

[A ron]

$3500???? wow

[powerslide]

$3500???? wow

How many hours do you reckon you have in hanging a whole body?

Using the $3500 rate(not sure if that is interior). I wouldn't think it would take more than 40hrs to build/hang one. Maybe if you are putting in an interior it might take 60hrs. At 60hrs it comes out to $41 an hr. But at 40hrs they are getting $62 an hr. My hours are just guesses I might be a week or two off. I took $1000 off for materials in the example above

A lot of guys that do bodies around here do double the materials. So in STR example it would of been $2060 because the roof was provided.

[25drtrkr]

That's a complete body less (not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)pit. This is a legitimate race shop, not someone doing it at their house.

[A ron]

I would think @ $3500 buying the stuff to build your own would be paid for the first time you used it.

[Wheelman33]

I would think @ $3500 buying the stuff to build your own would be paid for the first time you used it.

But would it look as good?

[RW57]

One thing that cuts time down is having old decking for patterns.We raised cage on our car and took out drop deck and went with flat deck. Some patterns would still work also rules changed and back of car can be wider I probably have 8 hrs so far and body is not made yet deck has been a big pain in rear so far with all the changes.Last alimnum work I did on rock crawler I charged 25 dollars a hour. The 8 hrs is on deck alone still has probably 4 hrs to go then body is next will have probably 30 hrs minuminum in all of it.

[save the racers]

Those 7 sheets are with a new pit.
I want to add in all the stuff I reused just to give an ideal what a all new would cost.
$40 -- ROOF CAP
$50 -- hood scoop
$100 -- body mounts,hood pins, scuff plates, spoiler hinge,end adjuster
$20 -- body bolts jclips
$40 -- nose supports
$50 -- acess panels

$100 -- shop supplys welding gas, wire ,cut off wheels, tools you broke etc..
=$450+1365=1815 for all new

[RW57]

If you figured your time in I can easily see the 3000 dollar range for cost people who can do it themselves are very lucky in the money they can save. My son is getting his first taste of redoing the decking from scratch it has been a real eye opener for him.He is doing a good job but tends to want to rush things a bit he bought the material so every mistake cost him money he is learning though.