i agree with Dave on this one. I help run a shop an my car gets put on the back burner. Wednesday i had a shit load of things i need to do but that never happened. Customers car pay the bills, an get first priority.

 

I'll come back to this question

It sucks! It really sucks.

Now back to the first quesiton, I just wanted you to know that it sucks. (If you're on a buget)

This would also depend on what your plans are for the car and what you want at the end of the day and how much you plan on spending, buget or not and how long it would take you to accomplish this. I personally have always wanted to build a car the way that I wanted it. Looking back, if I had wanted a fox, I probably could have bought a roller set up the way that I wanted or pretty close for alot less. (Just saying that because sn95's aren't as popular as fox's and fox's would most likely be easier to come by)

I probably could have bought someones complete motor and went through it to make sure everything was okay alot less than getting the parts seperate myself, not to mention new.

I dunno, I'm rambling here I guess, but I think if I would have just bought a roller, bought a motor from someone who was ready to bail as well as a tranny that I wanted, I could have done it for alot less money even with going thru it to make sure everything was good to go.

On the other hand, like I said, I have always wanted to build one the way that I wanted and that is the route that I'm taking. I will confess, that I have looked back and asked myself, what the hell am I doing spending this much money on this project?. With that said, and at this moment, I am thinking that I will be very happy because I planned this combo exactly the way that I wanted with the exact parts that I wanted.

All in all, either way you build it, you will have bugs to work out and minor changes to make in the end.

Sorry for the book and I'm still not sure that I gave you an answer, but maybe my experience so far in my build will help with your decision.

Good luck.

 

91Notch,

While I agree that customer's cars should come first - I don't necessarily agree with the statement that "Customer's cars pay the bills; mine doesn't!" Why? Simply put...

Your car speaks VOLUMES about what you (Genium) can do for your customers!!

Anotherwards, if you want to go home at 10:30pm, because you've been working on customers cars all day - suck it up - stay until 11:30pm or 12pm and work on your car. Because at the end of the day, your car is going to set the tone for what you can offer your customers.

That's just my 2 cents man. If I owned a shop, I would want to make sure that my car could PROUDLY adorn my shop banners/logos/info - and be an awesome piece of marketing to generate MORE customer dollars to pay those bills

 

No I totally agree with you on that issue. And trust me there has been many of late nights here at the shop thrashing on my car.

But for me its a money issue. I have been in this business along time and I have learned to save my money and not spend every penny of it and put it away for the future.

This business is up and down. Lately the industry has been in the dumps because of the economy and I have been fortunated enough to be having work coming through the doors. And it seems to be taking an upwards trend meaning the economy might be starting to come back.

Just think what would happen if the economy would totally crash? While some shops out there who might spend all their money on shop cars (Knowone get pissy about that its just a general statement, not directed to any shop inparticular) will then struggle to keep their doors open because they might not have any money to fall back on. While me with money in the bank might be able to make it through the hard times and be able to fall back on that money and keep my doors open.

Plus after all the bills are paid and I take a pay check home I might have xxxx amount of free money. Instead of putting it in my car I am more willing to spend the money on maybe a new tool that might be needed in the shop....and all that does is actually benefit my customer cause then I would have the tool to do the job correctly.

 

I forgot to answer about coping with the car being down. Do you know how much people talked about my blue car being built? I don't mean to sound important or anything, but people talk. Drag radial = TALK TALK TALK. LOL

That damn car has been down since March, and it was only "up" for two passes! Every time I go to Sunshine, I can't go 30 minutes without being asked when my car is going to be back together. I'm talking about to the point of getting really effin irritated with so many people asking. I was ready to get a shirt made - "DON'T ASK ABOUT MY CAR - LEAVE ME ALONE." It's like dealing with NOT having a car to run AND having everyone remind you of it.

 

Can we get a 2nd print of that same shirt I'll take an XL; as a matter of fact - order me TWO - it'll be a while still

 

I'll see what i can do!

 

i've done both..an having the car instantly was nice..but like others have already said,your getting some ones old junk that they beat the fuck out of.

building is fun and you know everything about the car and its new..

buying a roller to start with is probley the best choice and then put your engine an trans combo in that you want..will save you some time

 

build ur be happier in the long run

 

If its at all possible I would build it. Then like was said, you know every in and out of that car. I have been into bikes for a long time and built them from the ground up as well and I cant tell you how many bikes I have bought that were "almost" complete to find a friggen nightmare to deal with. I have seen some of the worst rigged up wiring and put together stuff that you would not believe. In my opinion, another good thing to owning a car that you built, is that when something does goes wrong you know where to look. You are not chasing a bunch of someone elses screw ups trying to fix a small problem.