Cheapest Cars to Build?

[Ben@SpeedTech]

To build a "fun" (let's substitute that for "race" right now) car you really don't need to do a lot of fab work to make it handle well. Most parts to get your car on the autocross are simple bolt ins. Again, you can easily have that while still driving it to school. Once you have all the parts, normally a good solid weekend and you've got a whole new suspension and personality in your car. Only thing I can think of that you'd have to weld is a roll bar and frame connectors, (chime in here Fox guys). The roll bar is a safety thing and along with frame connectors help stiffen things a bit But in reality you don't need those to be competitive.

Perhaps we assumed you wanted a mainly driver/ occasional track car, sounds like the cutting and fabbing is moving you more towards the "show" end of pro touring. That's a tough one to pull off cheap, and they take a long time to build so driving it may not be for 2-3 years if you're on a really tight budget.

Clarifying what I said earlier, if you want to get some fun decent track time in with your daily driver, you can do that relatively inexpensively with the car you have. If you want a WOW! pro touring car, start saving your pennies.



Buying someone's bailed out on project is a good way to get a car already half done, you always pay less than what the other person has into it.