[Alex Evonosky]

From my expierence speaking with scratch builders the reason we decided to build from scratch is first, we have the knowledge, equipment, and most of all our own ideas. I do not believe we build to save money and certainly time. Probably, if I put a dollar in a jar for every hour spent in design, trial and error test, probably could have bought a KMP. LOL
Anyway, with materials, equipment, time, which all adds up, you have to build from scratch for the self satisifaction of building your own car with your own ideas. Same applies, even when building from scratch most builders use their own parts for suspension, either Heidt, Pole Pos, Winters, and such instead of just using a predesigned Corvette or stripping out a mustang and putting a cobra body on the frame. You get the idea.
I personally am building my own frame, designing my own suspension, building my own engine(less machine work of course) and when complete, if I do not like the way it races, I will correct what I think is the problem.
Sorry for the long reply but for me this is not a cheaper or not question or answer.

Thank you,