hsulaimon
08-24-2013, 08:10 PM
Hi guys,
How do you start putting together a full list of expected expenses? I have been looking around this forum. I saw the two cost analysis examples on fsaeonline but when I saw Cornell's car costing ~$24K I knew something was off. Apparently these are based off of some kind of list of minimum cost parts list that grossly underestimate the actual cost of the car. I want to show a potential sponsor our expected expenses and the last thing I want to do is underestimate and have to ask for more money.
If you have never built an FSAE car before its very hard to know what you have to even buy because we have no idea what kinds of parts are involved. There are general things. We know things we might have to buy like material for a frame, or an engine etc. But how do we know how much of all the materials nuts/bolts etc that we need. We also don't know what will get donated, what will get discounted etc. Do we have to simply sit down and just find every single part and it's cost from all the individual suppliers websites/contacts or is there a more effective way to do this?
Thank You
How do you start putting together a full list of expected expenses? I have been looking around this forum. I saw the two cost analysis examples on fsaeonline but when I saw Cornell's car costing ~$24K I knew something was off. Apparently these are based off of some kind of list of minimum cost parts list that grossly underestimate the actual cost of the car. I want to show a potential sponsor our expected expenses and the last thing I want to do is underestimate and have to ask for more money.
If you have never built an FSAE car before its very hard to know what you have to even buy because we have no idea what kinds of parts are involved. There are general things. We know things we might have to buy like material for a frame, or an engine etc. But how do we know how much of all the materials nuts/bolts etc that we need. We also don't know what will get donated, what will get discounted etc. Do we have to simply sit down and just find every single part and it's cost from all the individual suppliers websites/contacts or is there a more effective way to do this?
Thank You