THE REAL COST OF THESE NPK STYLE CARS!!!!

[@johnhughes2760]

If you remember, I commented once that "If I had an extra $200,000 to $300,000, I know where I would spend it!" And I wasn't even talking about a No Prep car...I was talking about what I would want to be THE MOST BADASS `66 Chevelle SS Cruiser IN EXISTENCE...!!! Cameron, you and your crew are "THE TITANIUM TEAM" of car builders. It's obvious that people get more than their money's worth having seen the quality of work that comes out of your shop! I gave PRENUP a really close look last season and was beyond impressed with your work. I drag raced, starting in the mid 80's, and have been involved as a HUGE FAN since I stopped racing in the late 90's. I've seen A LOT of race cars, of all types, and would match your shops quality against anyone elses!! Keep up the GREAT WORK and keep cranking out those videos...! Be Well!

[@HOAOffender]

As a person that has been blessed enough to provide for my family with my two hands...I have the UPMOST respect for y'all, what you do & cannot stress my opinion that it's almost impossible to put a price on true SKILLED LABOR. How do you put a price on CJR's?? Thats upper echelon...can't be taught in a class or found in a book. Worth every penny.

[@CJRaceCars]

🙏🏻 thank you.

[@Tigman396]

Doing the math makes dinner a pack of ramen, LOL!

[@808bigisland]

Those are drag cars...not race cars. 150000$ - 200000$ and 2000 h for 2 mins of driving per season? I build my own hill climb cars. Some of those privateers cars run for 30 years and are superb and built on very small budgets.This here is amateur c.p for mo..one🌞

[@toyotaecw]

I was thinking at least $250,000 minimum… and that was before you talk about new motors and transmissions.

[@joshuaaho920]

Notice most guys here are older and masters of their trade, I think motorsports has grown in the last few decades so we should be getting a lot of younger guys getting to that masters level. CJRC LEGENDARY STATUS is a rarity and will remain that way basically because of the unattainable cost to build/own these cars limiting their production numbers.

[@SosopChabot]

Nice to actually put the truth out there, most people don't realize the dedication it takes to build/run a car like this. Thanks

[@CJRaceCars]

Definitely a lot of money being spent by these teams

[@nikhayes3396]

I think a lot of guys jump in because it looks like a beautiful warm pool, but once they get their head underwater they realize its a big, deep, sometimes dark and dangerous ocean.

[@FloridaManRacingChannel]

Great video! I appreciate the transparency about the pricing - something I think everyone guesses about or thinks they have an idea how much one costs. Keep up the awesome builds and uploads.

[@richschmelkin6035]

You know I feel lucky that you guys did my Monte Carlo. It’s close to finally hitting the track by the way. I’m really pleased with how it came out for a door slammer. Bet you little one is getting big by now. Best to you Cam. (Rich)

[@CJRaceCars]

Thanks for the opportunity Rich. Can’t wait to see you out enjoying it 💪🏻

[@bubbakushingtonIII]

You don't have any videos on your channel wish you did.

[@MyTragicAngel]

Been watching yall for a couple months. Love the content! The craftsmanship, the knowledge shared, and the humor. Just subscribed. Keep it up CJRC!!

[@CJRaceCars]

Thank you for watching. 🙏🏻

[@JohnW1711stock]

For some strange reason a lot of people think racing is supposed to be cheap! When the engine builder, or whomever, gives them a price, they act surprised! LOL! Keep up the good work.

[@kansasspeedperformancellc6670]

those are the people on the outside looking in. It is different for sure when you are on the inside looking out. Things become a whole lot more clearer. If you want to win you need to keep getting better. The only way to do that is spend to produce more power and then balance it so it can be handled.

[@godsson273]

Love the video, I almost spit my soda out (from laughter) when someone offer 30 grand or something. I build rc drag cars and they're getting expensive. I figured the ball park number was around $200 grand. Beautiful work guys.

[@williamlannan3129]

You can't buy Liberty are a procharger for that much

[@HoonTV]

Great video. Someone asked me once how it costs over $100,000 to build a race car. I said "spend $1000 a hundred times"

[@yattaran1484]

Over 185K is alot. But watching all the hard works you guys doing , I think it is fair price. Never ending progress of CJRC is awesome !.💪👍

[@lxman4693]

Hey Cameron. Friday lunch bbq videos were fun to watch. Love the channel .

[@CJRaceCars]

Coming back soon

[@Steve_Hayden]

It all started with a $6,000 El Camino (FLIP) and a $12k nova (Murder Nova). Now we are taking about a quarter to a half a million dollar car. .............. WOW!

[@davem7722]

Ryan Martin ruined everything with his high dollar shit, now everyone is playing catch-up and somehow Big chief is still competitive with his 30 year old chassis and ole' Pontiac

[@Steve_Hayden]

@@davem7722 You don't know much about Ryan's car. He bought it used. It was a 10.5 racecar. It wasn't made for the street OR to go as fast as Ryan has made it go. ........ That's why he pushed the motor back about 8 inches, changed the motor and power adder and bought a new NPK car. Also, I love Big Chief, but he has changed his chassis and a bunch of other stuff. They had to because they are racing promods like Kry Kelly.

[@richardlay1492]

Where did the Nova that you build for npg Justin

[@Steve_Hayden]

@@richardlay1492 I'm not sure what you're asking? You said Justin. So you mean Justin Shearer .., aka Big Chief? Also, Justin never had a nova and only raced in a couple of NPK races. Justin did build a new GTO for the mega race against Gas Monkey garage (that he won). Justin still races that gto in every race that you've seen. It's the same car. I hope this helped. Let me know if it didn't give you the info you were looking for, and I'll try and help

[@franksmith2780]

The only thing that was old on big chiefs car was the body after he had the promod. Ever since to stay competitive they all went with tubular chassis and basically full blown racing parts. That's when I stopped watching Street Outlaws and been waiting for them to return to street but they really never have cause everyone else is running tubular chassis and full blown racing parts with engines on the streets. Now I don't think anyone I'd streets racing other than JJ Da Boss and even he has the tubular chassis. I personally don't think cars with tubular chassis is street cars. To me a street car is a car built with a frame and a race engine, transmission, rearend put into place.

[@randyhodson2517]

Cj please show the Chevy 2 when finished. I am a chevy2 freak thanks. Keep up the good work.

[@Jvcomet]

Awesome video people have k no o clue the amount of work involved. Thanks for being a professional voice of knowledge. And you guys do a great job on these builds. 👍

[@timmytornado2171]

Corki one of my favorite dudes ever So good seeing him couple weeks ago

[@bristol831]

I just about fell out of my seat when you said someone said 35 to 50! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@CJRaceCars]

Lol me tooooo

[@Roakt]

Il take two cars for 50 k 😆

[@brandenreagin3550]

Enjoy Troy in these videos. So much knowledge and experience, cool to see!

[@CJRaceCars]

Lots of years in the industry for sure!

[@kene6838]

I think the phrase goes, if you want to be a millionaire start out as a billionaire and build a racecar . I wished I could build that car in 1200 hours. Beautiful work guys.

[@CJRaceCars]

Lol that’s accurate. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@carrierguy1]

Id just like to finish my c10 i have. Lol. The ammount of work yall put into these cars is amazing. Worth every penny that they spend to buy em! Keep up the good work!

[@rcrocker2197]

Anything I have seen come out of this shop is always first class, I would love to be able to afford to get one built, but me and my buddies have to build our own, if I ever hit the lottery I'll be seeing you.👍

[@robertstenger952]

Had no idea what struts and shocks cost and was under that total cost quite a bit. Anyway, big boy toys are priceless. Who would think you would put 30,000 to 70,000 in a radio controlled turbine jet for a hobby. Cam and the crew, keep up the excellent work.

[@CJRaceCars]

Thank you 🙏🏻💪🏻

[@jblaze0382nj]

Id love to see a video on the install of those Menzer strut cups

[@mikemaccracken3112]

I was looking to buy a 481x from Proline about 7 years ago and it was 75k for the engine and 65k for the power adder pkg. Nobody ever said racing was cheap!

[@ZZ430T56]

Don't forget the Trans and rear :)

[@danmyers9372]

I’ve heard that Steve Morris’s SMX billet water jacketed 481X type engines (alone) are well over $100K.

[@darrellwilcox6212]

I love to watch the car being built and you all doing great work on them because it come to together

[@regomatic300]

I was close. I figured 150-200K rolling. Been around custom builders all my life and I know what I takes. It takes 1,000 hours just to restore an old Nova or Camaro back to factory.

[@CJRaceCars]

Very true

[@crazylarryjr]

185K sounds cheap, I was thinking 500K, but was considering spare parts (Engines, trans, rears) toter and vehicle to pull it . This wasn't even considering entries and lodging, Darrell Waltrip once said "To make a small fortune in racing, start with a large fortune"

[@easye9-21]

185 is just the roller. Your looking at well over a million if your including everything, including the toter. It's definitely a rich man's game. I'll stick to playing guitar. 😂

[@crazylarryjr]

@@easye9-21, Same ,except i'll just build a simple street car that can run decent as well

[@mcb0b1]

@@crazylarryjr that’s a really good point. It’s always expensive to try and be the fastest. If a person is ok on having fun on the weekends and not being the best, it can be done much cheaper. Let’s face it, an old tube chassis car and a strong crate motor can go 7’s nowadays. That can all be had for far far less money, but you aren’t going to win your class. Remember when running 10’s took money? Now people are buying junkyard motors and dropping a little nitrous to do that.

[@crazylarryjr]

@@mcb0b1, Now a days you can do it on stock chassis with bolt-ons, don't even need a tube chassis. Kevin At KSR is hitting 7's with stock alumnium block LS and leaf springs with that blue camaro he races. He is on the ragged edge of the engine, but it does it

[@mcb0b1]

@@crazylarryjr yeah but weight equals broken parts. I would think a 15 year old tube chassis car and 600 horsepower would get you in or near the 7’s. I haven’t really looked up the math on that stuff in a while. Could literally make pass after pass, have fun, and just change the oil.

[@chopper1168]

You guys work is great. Didn’t Troy build the chassis for mullet. I remember him being on cleetus channel a while back when he was going to put a jet engine on mullet. It’s crazy how these guys can build these cars being how expensive they are.

[@CJRaceCars]

He did do a lot of work on it.

[@danmyers9372]

Unfortunately a lot of Troy’s work had to be torn out and replaced when Garrett pulled the plug on the jet engine platform.

[@mwhitelaw8569]

It's crazy the misconceptions people have about the cost of racing. This will be ultra educational for those folks Keep buildin' those monsters y'all

[@jamesplotkin4674]

A Pro-Mod program with all the goodies will eventually cost around $2M for the serious team.

[@dwlaboy]

We Watch your channel because we always learn something from it thank you keep up the great work🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@CJRaceCars]

Thanks fir always watching 💪🏻

[@Puropichepaisa]

troy use to be with ProfabPerformace right

[@weaverfromtha913]

Haven’t watched the channel much the fella in the hat is that the famous Troy from profab? Looks familiar

[@CJRaceCars]

Yes sir

[@BillTrys]

Honestly I love that Justin isn’t doing a nova. Gives him a chance to make another modern style car like the Lexus. I can see you making him a benze, or Audi, or bmw npk car. Love the innovation of the Lexus, it’s totally Justin.

[@racingdesire]

it's awesome because a lot of these guys live in states with cheap real estate and just the car is probably worth more than there house

[@DodgyBrothersEngineering]

I don't think it is so much the price that shocks, as much as it is the amount of hours that go into building something like this that causes the price to be what it is. Precision takes time. I am helping a friend build an ICV (Individually Constructed Vehicle) at the moment, and some days we only get a few bars done on the chassis in a day. A lot of time is spent measuring and discussing the best way to achieve the end goal. Custom is exactly that custom, not an assembly line.

[@JTB75]

That doesn’t include finding a decent steel body to start with, so you have that to add on.

[@Krush_267]

How much does it cost for a car like eagle with the same engine combo and paint ?

[@StanleyHarris-d6l]

So what was ballpark total on Eagle

[@CoryHebel]

For the type of work you guys do that’s a really good price I’ve worked on a few super late model teams and we’ve had $100,000 in just fabricating one of those cars minus motor and transmission and that’s just a straight rail chassis with a five star fiberglass body super late model so I believe 200 grand for one of your rollers is a deal

[@jamesvuxta8723]

Thanks for sharing I was wondering how much I actually thought it might be more than 185

[@pineychristian]

Wow I had in my head for a while $250k for the NPK cars and $500k turn key. So I was not that far off. My buddy and myself had tons of debates on this . I will send him this video.. I always told him when you get to this level it cost BIG MONEY!!

[@mudcat1622]

Is that. Clay coles camaro your working on the windshield area

[@bjrollick5262]

$185k that probably not including the procharger, having th car wired, The Holley, Fuel Tech or whatever your running there, and a bunch more. As Justin has shown if you think your gonna go run one of these cars and have 1 Procharger you’re gonna be sitting waiting for parts more than running it. $185k is just what CJRC does. If you get a competitive car on the track for less than $250k you’re lucky.

[@Stacked3403]

If your lucky or if you own your own fab shop, only 2 ways haha

[@waltersmith1018]

Would be neat to see you show the folks your building the car for and have their comments. For instance Monza!

[@brandonbutler7297]

This chassics stop is the real deal, if i should a procharged hemi car for no prep kibgs want would be the ideal rear gear ratio u would remember in the near future cjrc..

[@theariesexperiment4642]

I wanna see the guys car that said 30 to $50,000.🤣😂😆🤣😂🤣 My uncle builds rock crawler chassis. He charges $20,000 for a 102' inch steel tube chassis he calls the Reaper model chassis. It'll support a V8, V6, Duramax, or just about whatever you wanna drop in it. I know these cars are insane. I'd say 70 to 80% of people that watch have zero idea. They think these things just appear or some sh_t. It's way way way over the top on labor alone. Plus,....how expensive any parts are right now. And how hard most are to source is a big upcharge. The harder something is to get?? The more expensive it is on the secondhand market. Anyway. CJ brother you don't owe anybody an explanation of cost imo. You build the best rocket ships on land imo as well. Keep grinding my friend. Love the channel. 👍🇺🇸💪

[@CJRaceCars]

😂

[@johnstamos5012]

Since you guys are prepping for NPK casualties, if a wrecked car comes in, what do you think the turn around time will be on it to get it back in race ready condition?

[@Stacked3403]

I'm sure it depends on how wrecked it is those hours could very wildly

[@williamlannan3129]

My thoughts exactly I remember watching the first couple seasons and thinking all man wow that's cool and then when they started going to the quarter million-dollar cars with $60,000 roll bars in them I'm thinking their ain't street cars

[@VR6VR6]

Hiw do you keep the shop so clean? how do you deal with the dust?

[@CJRaceCars]

We have someone that cleans pretty much all day 4 days a week

[@VR6VR6]

@@CJRaceCars give that guy a raise, its damn hard to find someone to keep on top of a shop like that! looks real nice.

[@JohnClutch1]

They invite Justin over. He talks so much hot air, all they do is open the doors and the dust floats out 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@CJRaceCars]

@@VR6VR6 Jose does awesome. He is a bug help with helping everyone around the shop also.

[@missko1962]

Hello from Sweden you build awesome cars.

[@CJRaceCars]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@fastsilverado]

Going back and watching older videos while waiting for Eagle video. Holy shit Troy is standing. Nothing against Troy, the man is a beautiful fabricator, but it shocked me.

[@lgun1]

I had a pretty good idea of what these cars cost because my oldest son used to work for Tim Mcamis.

[@marklottero5345]

Love the video Any chance you'll do another run of those sweet Magnaflow 500 mounts??

[@NextEraCustoms]

what is the labor rates for this kind of builds ? is tubing fab and sheet metal fab rates different also fiberglass rates ?

[@CJRaceCars]

For bigger jobs we try and make 80-100 an hour because we are able to make some on parts to make up for the lower rate. On smaller jobs we are 100-125

[@Vulcanator800]

So a turn key program like Justin's would be around 1 million usd.

[@franktaglieri4965]

Did you add tax so you would be at 475,000

[@edb6726]

Wow ! I had no clue it was that much . Thanks for the info

[@grahamerosewarne6656]

Your advise to Justin would have been the best he could have Cameron. Your looking at at least $200000 to get it all up and running down the strip. CJRC are always knock-em out perfectly. 💯😂 Aussie Fan 🤟🇦🇺🤣

[@shonuffLA]

400k to get it up and down

[@chopper1168]

People always forget to put the engine price in there which is about 100k. So your looking at 3-400k to go npk racing. Crazy how much it costs. Cjrc are really skilled guys. You Aussie guys build some great cars too.

[@grahamerosewarne6656]

@@chopper1168 we have door slammers here. Pretty much the same as a pro street. Victor Bray and his Son Ben race them. Both 50 model Chevy's. Blown motor roots style. 💯😂👍

[@chopper1168]

@@grahamerosewarne6656 I love Aussie cars

[@integrator_101]

Cameron are the NPK cars when asking to get one built considered Outlaw class?

[@mrmatt7210]

These cars are Hella expensive , but their built to compete in races, which may earn the owner 50+K depending on the event. It's totally possible that winning a few races may pay for your car, or you could wreck it on your first run.

[@scottgoodwin1073]

It was a very smart descision to sell the second car the amount of work it takes for these guys to compete at the highest level Justin was much better off sticking with one car and a car he already knows and has won races with. Smart move to Justin and im not a Justin fanboy either thanks

[@Stacked3403]

Do you know why justin wanted a new car, for the first year with the Lexus he did dam good wouldn't make sense to throw away all that progress and spend another 200grand

[@toddolsen5421]

mean builds can would you ship your titanium parts to New Zealand?

[@CJRaceCars]

Absolutely. We have shipped some light weight goodies over there before.

[@joefearnow2641]

As a fabricator myself, it's frustrating people don't understand the Labor. 1.2k-1.5k @ a modest labor rate of $50 a hour is $45k-$60k..

[@prostreethustler239]

185,000 I'll Take. Two I wish I'm a Pro street guy till I die. Put that on a Tee Shirt . But I want to print it. for you. keep up the Great builds and work you guys do.

[@joeyds]

Damnnnn So Like Ryan Martin’s car is about 400-500k? Jeezzzz ima just keep watching lol good video guys

[@CJRaceCars]

Lol that’s why I just watch 😂

[@joeyds]

@@CJRaceCars thought about putting my 5.3 out of my pick up into something light weight but nowhere near the caliber of cars you guys produce I’ll always be watching look forward to seeing all those novas lol

[@concepts_a1]

Can we get a golf cart update

[@PROSTREETS1096]

I wished I had known I know rolling around 180.000 turn key depends on motor

[@briantreherne4284]

Awesome work gentlemen

[@donsimonsen1658]

All people have to do,, Is price a Hemi from PROLINE, A Rossler Trans,, a rear end, rims, tires And Times that buy 3,, should get ya close to what one costs,, Than Price a stacker trailer,, and a Toter home.

[@briantreherne4284]

Please show some of Jeff fiachetti s Willis build 🏁

[@ste_v1983]

Is that 3 novas side by side??

[@CJRaceCars]

Nova, Camaro and Chevelle

[@601Volvo]

Nice... My guesstimates were 100k chassis, 75k engine, 25k trans.. no clue on rear end setups.. I figured ~250k was the average

[@georgef1176]

All us fabricators and techs all say more then I’ll spend on a car.. that’s why we do this cause we could never just write the check we had to learn to get by.

[@carbonconnection2480]

30k for a roller?! Do they know this is drag racing and not some hobby stock dirt car. For 30k ill damn sure buy a dozen of them!... One of the big reasons I'm not racing right now. Its hard to spend 500k to go racing and then all the money it takes to keep it moving. I did it for years out of my own pocket and just had to take a break, hats off to all of these guys 🤘

[@CJRaceCars]

Same here.

[@carbonconnection2480]

@@CJRaceCars. I'm too broke to race, I'll have to try using one of my food stamp cards one day to build me another car 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@JKHYT]

Honestly $80/hour is not as expensive as I thought the labor was. Seems pretty reasonable actually.

[@bozz3002]

I was thinking least 150hr

[@nvmyz1]

Same. Both comments.

[@jerrellkull5347]

In my area fab time is around 115 a hr , the same as a auto dealership.

[@CJRaceCars]

We charge more around 100-125 on hourly jobs. These jobs are more of a quoted job and we make up for some of the hourly rate on the 80k in parts

[@fastone371]

@@bozz3002 Wanna be my customer please?? 🙂

[@mattcooper4405]

Great video, keeping it real

[@davidbrand6204]

Damn. Get that guy some light in that shop. 😂 👍

[@CJRaceCars]

😂

[@joshstovall5783]

That comes to $65.00 to $81.00 per hour that's reasonable if you ask me. I charge $108 per hour to fix air conditioners...

[@thesquirrelchroniclesakare7808]

Hell yeah. I was kinda close

[@JCA-Z]

Well i guess my dreams of me dreaming i was gonna go npk racing just crashed and burned. Been a long time since we've seen some bbq content lol, take care cameron.

[@CJRaceCars]

BBQ coming soon

[@ericpark6918]

Damn i commented 183k on Facebook post! Keep up the great work boys!

[@CJRaceCars]

Barely off. Way closer than a lot of people

[@danielsmith-ze3wy]

I would think are around 200,000 for rolling chassis. total build about 450,000 but what do i know

[@danielsmith-ze3wy]

🤷‍♂️i wasn't to bad off

[@briansetter4002]

corky markwart ?

[@howardwiggin7415]

I've known about your shop for a while but I wasn't subscribed till cleetus asked me 2

[@701garage]

That one person is correct though a nova cost about 30000 to 50000. The big difference is that is just a restored car not a race car or and npk car.

[@jerrylewis4509]

Man by fare the best in the country yalls work is just bad ass man

[@CJRaceCars]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@AndyB718]

I never knew a youtube channel and merch could make that much mazooma to afford an operation unless they had like 3 million views per video and subscribers.

[@lurched668]

Are you guys gonna sell that new style window net kit?

[@CJRaceCars]

Yes it will be available soon

[@rugu6869]

The old saying is "If you want to make a small fortune racing, start with a large one."

[@TheBobmoorensons]

How much?

[@shaundavis8522]

JUST TO SAY BIG SHOUT OUT TO CJRC / after justins crash and your thrash rebuild if you want to win npk/ cjrc can put you thier awesome job on the prenup and you are just as responsible for that event win as team swangang. You build a damn good race car that thing did laps right off the jig you guys are dope god bless you and see many bright days ahead for cjrc. God bless and glad you didnt take six months to make it perfect lol

[@kansasspeedperformancellc6670]

Bickle and Haas charge about $250,000.00 average to start. Rick Jones is somewhere around there.

[@CJRaceCars]

It’s possible

[@kansasspeedperformancellc6670]

@@CJRaceCars That is just for a roller I didn't mention that.

[@bryantbrewer3014]

Going fast ain't cheap!

[@CJRaceCars]

💯

[@johnnybaysinger6429]

Tell us how much you make on each car that you got 15000 hours in

[@CJRaceCars]

Not enough lol

[@CJRaceCars]

I build cars because I love it and building quality cars helps us sell parts. There really isn’t much money in building these cars.

[@Tennessee_Jon]

And that’s why I watch racing because I damn sure couldn’t afford to buy a damn set of rings for 1 cylinder. Damn them boys have deep pockets

[@joshramey2681]

When said and price for all of your going to be very financial committed

[@HappyHarryHardon]

Hmm the tool box or a race car? Tool box or a race car. I’ll buy the toolbox.

[@rcrocker2197]

All parts you can guarantee are top of the line.

[@stevekissel605]

Great video 👍👍

[@mwrcrft]

The money gets crazy when they go pro what Americas list is without saying it.