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Originally Posted by enkeivette
Realistically too I would need a pipe bender. And I'm afraid to ask how much those cost.
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It's tubing, not pipe.
So let me prepare you for some of the costs you are going to be looking at. First off, heims. You will need 8 just for the inside mounting points of the upper and lower arms. They run around $100 each for good ones in the size you will want. Then you need 4 uniballs at about $150 each. So you have now spent about $1600 with tax and you haven't even started to fabricate anything yet. Now for the chromoly tubing. Well that's around $120 for a 20ft. section. You probably need about 100ft to do the front with an engine cage so there's another $1200. Then you'll want to get a set of coilovers. I'd go with a set of 2.5 Kings. So that's about $700 each without hardware. So add another $100-$150 for harware and then another $150 for dual rate springs. So that's around $2000 for the front coilovers. But then you'll want to have a bypass shock to tune the front. I'd use a 3 inch bypass with at least a 3 tube design for tuning. so there's another $2000 for two of them.
Get my point? Keep the boat and enjoy it. Wait to build an allout desert truck after you're making bank.