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I always say, once you have the number in your head that you think you will spend. Triple that number.

In my case, I inherited my burb. So there was no initial outlay of cash, and I did most of the heavy lifting and time consuming work myself.

Where I spent a lot of money, was in storage of it and the parts.
For years I lived in crappy neighborhood apartment complexes with no garage, worked my butt off in a career that took all of my time and left me exhausted most of the time when I was off.

So, I used storage units as my garage or when I had body/paint work done I always told them to take their time (free storage).

If only I had the wealth of resource this website provides back then, I probably would have saved close to 5 grand in just wrong or bad idea parts.
But back when I started, dial up and mono chrome monitors were it and still kind of expensive.