The Jeep Build: A Journey of Discovery and Creativity

As I embarked on this project, I had a clear objective in mind - to build a Jeep that would not only meet my expectations but also exceed them. I wanted to create a vehicle that was both functional and visually stunning, with a unique character that would set it apart from the rest. To achieve this, I spent countless hours researching, planning, and executing every detail of the build.

The journey began with the purchase of a Jeep, which was initially purchased for $720. However, as I soon discovered, the real cost of the vehicle was much higher than that. The soft-top, which was a relatively minor addition, ended up costing $300. This set the tone for the rest of the project, as each component added to the overall cost. But, as I would later learn, the true challenge lay ahead.

The first major hurdle was installing the upgraded suspension system. The fabtech 4-inch lift kit with the upgraded shocks proved to be a significant expense, costing $850. However, it also provided a level of stability and control that I had been missing in my previous vehicle. But, there were still more components to add - fenders, metal like skeleton style fenders, light bar, light pods, and mounts, all the brackets, everything. The total cost for these additions was $280.

The next major component was the wheels and tires. Pro Cop 252 bead-lock steelies, which are 15x10 inches in size, were purchased at a cost of $65 each. This meant that I had to buy five sets, totaling $325. However, this was not enough, as I also needed five sets of 4.5 D tires. The total cost for these came out to be $230 each, making the grand total for the wheels and tires $1150.

At this point, it seemed like the project had reached its breaking point. But, I still had a few more components to add - window tint, which cost $100. This was the final major addition, bringing the total cost of the Jeep build to $16,179. However, there were also some smaller costs that added up quickly - a little antenna for 14 dollars.

Now, it's time to get a bit tricky. I mentioned earlier that I could sell the hardtop, which initially cost $300. If I did, this would bring the total cost down to around $15,000. Additionally, I had sold the stock wheels and tires for a total of $350. So, if I subtracted this amount from the overall cost, it would bring the total down to $14,829.

But, here's where things get really interesting. If I sell the hardtop, which was initially estimated at around 500 dollars, this would bring the total cost down even further. According to my calculations, if I sell the hardtop for 500 dollars, and subtract that amount from the overall cost, the new grand total would be around $15,329.

So, did we come in under budget? Unfortunately, it seems like we didn't quite make it. The original estimate was around 16,000 dollars, and even with some minor adjustments, we exceeded that by a thousand dollars. However, as I mentioned earlier, there is always room for negotiation when it comes to costs.

In the end, despite exceeding our initial budget, we still ended up with a vehicle that exceeded our expectations. The Jeep build has been an incredible journey of discovery and creativity, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to share it with all of you.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood afternoon everybody and welcome to the channel hope you guys are having a great day now here I got a little message for you I'm sure if you guys watch old send it Steve you've heard of knives deal calm but what I did not know is that knives deal calm is actually run by our good friend Vince the guy with the shelby gt350r and the big Ford van that or notes a Chevy van he just bought on that huge band that he bought over there at Steve's house he sent me this awesome stuff this is the jungle master machete you can see that thing is pretty sick you have this thing it's a giant like tactical knife and I was genuinely surprised by the quality of them because this thing weighs about 10 pounds Raptor tactical survival knife survival is the only thing that matters em tech USA this thing is freakin sweet its epics just a little like pocket knife here and this one says USMC on it right there little Marine Corps knife and I think it has the Eagle Globe and Anchor on the blade it does and there you go so really cool stuff check them out knives deal comm you got our own promo code boys use promo code Street speed 7 1 7 for 10% off I can't believe I'm now I'm now part of knives go calm but it's an awesome guy so check him out knives deal calm promo code Street speed 7 1 7 all one word this thing is actually pretty sharp check this out so the little bushes we got covering the pool filter it just slices it right off oh yes now with all that crazy stuff aside today I'm giving you a build breakdown on the beep because the beep is about done boys I am pretty much done with the build this is what I envisioned for it when I first got it this is what I wanted you know I wanted something pretty basic but also something that would look really cool and once again it was meant to be a budget build and not quite as bargain-basement budget has the Blazer that is a mouthful of bees not quite as bargain-basement budget like the blazer but budget nonetheless so my goal with the whole build was to come in under $15,000 with the cost of the Jeep included do you think I was able to come in under that number well we're gonna find out real quick but leave a comment below if you think I was able to you do have one final mod for the beat though and that is this long antenna right here we are going to wire ACB to it which every true off-road vehicle needs and I'm going to fashion up a little system for this because I have to get a amount I do have a mount for it which it goes right here with a spare tire which is kind of cool it actually bolts right in there which I have back in the garage but I'll have to figure out how to mount this in the slot for it because I think you can buy a kit but I bought everything separately so I might have to do a little little work for it but look at the rust that has fallen down from my my spare tire and then really this is kind of like the second-to-last mod and then the final final mod will be when we get the full-size spare on here which will match what we got on the actual vehicle I like having a pointer let's mount this up real quick and then hopefully tomorrow the wheel and tire will be in and then the Jeep will be really done but still I can give you a cost breakdown right now because I wanted to do that and the Jeep I mean is essentially done I'm not gonna make a whole video dedicated to just putting the CB on and the spare tire so that can be all part of this upload anyway let's get going here is the antenna spare tire mount little bracket thing which is nice and like I said I feel like there is a kit you get there's definitely a kit you can buy a solid but the way mine is going to be is kind of like this and it's gonna sit in here like that so I might have to buy the bottom piece for the antenna because it it just it isn't made to go with this bracket at least I don't think so I have to get a little mounting point for underneath and a wire and obviously hook that up and then we can wire it to the CB but that's where we're at on the antenna it's gonna look really freaking cool though it's gonna look awesome I think every Jeep like you guys know I like my antennas for whatever reason I think antenna I think the whips on a truck that were Jeep look really cool so I definitely had to do this and it's really cheap that I think the bracket was like 1499 or something and then you can get the antenna which a lot of people ask where I get them go to your local truck stop they will have them kind of like with the CB antenna and the CB and everything this is not you know the the absolute end of the there are still a lot of little things I want to do mostly regarding the front end of the Jeep I think I want to do the angry eyes thing which I know like a lot of people want it and some people are like no that's the mode the most basic Jeep mod like don't do it but I think if the more I look at them I think it does look pretty cool so I might go ahead and do that but again that's not like a big mod the big stuff is done you know the lift bumpers fenders winch wheels and tires all that so that's all I've done one other thing for sure is the headlight so I had a company reach out on Instagram check them out la s fit I guess it would be like lace fit but they're pretty highly regarded the reviews are pretty good on them so check them out they do LED lighting just you know simple plug-and-play stuff but the lighting on the Jeep is horrible literally some of the worst headlights I've ever seen in my life they are worse than the stock headlights were on the Blazer and that's a much much older vehicle so I definitely wanted to get some LEDs for that but you know little things so I'm gonna install these as well finally we got a little power tool on the channel a lot of you have been asking you to get one of these ever since you've seen me using my giant impact over there for little jobs my buddy Cobra built on Instagram sent me this and he's an awesome guy I told him not to I don't need like the charity and it was just fine but he said that he had to because he couldn't live with himself if he didn't so I appreciate it now I have one of these Wow I'm not gonna lie this is really nice to have mount goes on the outside of the carrier not the inside because that would they can't go on the inside because that would make it not sit flush with the tailgate so it has to go on the outside it has to go like that even though it's kind of a little weird but actually that's I think that's gonna match up well so I'm pretty sure pretty sure we got it right here never done headlights on a Jeep but it can't possibly be difficult because nothing on a jeep is looking at it and I feel like it's gonna be a lot easier if you take the grille out I don't see hardly any room here to like reach that in fact it there isn't at all now I could come in from here and get to it but even that's like it doesn't give me a lot of room so I'm just gonna take the grille out I feel like that'll be a lot easier I know the bottom is like a little pool tab so that's out and then we got these screws on the top okay these aren't even real screws little pushpins that look like screws who know guys who new learned something new about these jeeps everyday never knew these were little pushpins and not screws Oh grill should be ready to come off yeah okay easy enough it's to me like we got four little bolts on the light as well this is actually a little bit more involved than I thought it was gonna be not that it's difficult but it's a little bit a little bit more than I thought the Duramax you just lift up one pin and slide the light out this is a little gotta do a little more work to crack open the Jeep light light is out just unplug the thing thing here and that's it putting plug in our new light here and find a spot to put the little box make sure it works real quick before we go ahead and put everything back together because that would suck which I'm sure it will but just in case and you can kind of compare the old one and the new here they'll turn on yep will turn off look how crappy that light is that old bulb and then this one is just super holy that is super bright that is gonna be awesome and by the way this is not sponsored la la s fit check him out for sure not sponsored at all like I said they did reach out but they're not paying me to say this that light looks incredible way better than the old so I can't wait to get them both in I'll put the I'll put the ball back together and then do a little side-by-side here but that does look amazing so far I think I forgot to record it but I did put the CB mount on I think I don't standing here I don't remember if I had the footage or not I really don't think I even recorded it but that's on just for the record and now let's do a little side by side here of the lights that we have one stock and one of the new LEDs door must have hit the little d-ring thing I couldn't I couldn't close the middle door but you can see just looking at it from right here the right light is a lot brighter than the one on the left and that looks I mean look at the difference way better looking at it from this angle you can even tell in the camera like as I'm looking at it that's way brighter than that one over there um but yeah the cheap little easy mod that you can do to your vehicle to make it look a lot newer and also increase the practicality this is gonna be way better at night I'm telling you like the Jeep those headlights were really bad like borderline dangerous at night and I'm excited to have the new ones love it can't wait to try it out at night but that is a massive massive improvement I mean I know you guys watching the video and this was not meant to be like a an install video by the way so sorry it's kind of going on for a while but I'm sure you're watching this right now I'm like what's the big deal but trust me like the lights were so bad and they're really gonna look good now check out the front view of this thing with everything lit up now we can see baby God said let there be light and I'm blind now epic the Jeep is looking good CB mount installed new headlights in now for the bill breakdown shut up ladies and gents now for everybody's favorite part of these builds in that is the cost rundown and I love them too because these are a really great way to kind of like sum everything up and you know when you see a build on Instagram or on YouTube or driving down the road you have no idea what all went into it and when you see this Jeep like at least I think pretty humbly I might add I feel like it's pretty cool but you don't know what all went into it but now you're gonna know exactly what went into it and if you recall when I first bought the Jeep number one I paid eleven thousand four hundred dollars for it that's important but when I first got it so that add that to the tally so far 11400 but when I first got it my goal was to build it the way it sits right now build it the way I wanted it is how it looks currently for under $15,000 and I was telling people at the beginning of the upload you know do you think I came in under budget and when I I got it for eleven four so that doesn't leave a whole lot of room to talk about $3,600 to work with to come in under 15k and it did need a few little things when I first got it that have nothing to do with the bill not cool stuff like a lift and tires it needed new brakes and other little things like that but ultimately I only spent three hundred fifty dollars on the stuff that it needed when I first got it from the auction so 350 bucks added to our 11,400 then I did the exhaust which was free if you remember and I did plan on getting a Corsa but I quickly realized that the budget was not gonna allow for that so I still might do that because I don't want it to be hacked off but you can't see it anyway and it sounds fine to me so the exhaust was free then we got the LED lights which would have been about 50 bucks again they were free for me but I'm not you know I can't cheat on the build so I'm gonna add that in 50 bucks then we have both the bumpers front and rear plus the winch the bumpers were 720 this is with shipping by the way 720 and the winch was 280 then got the little antenna right up there that was $14 is where I'm gonna get a little tricky because I'm not gonna put in the cost for the soft-top because I could sell the hardtop for more that I bought the soft-top 4 on Facebook marketplace but then again I'm not gonna add I sold the stock wheels and tires also but I'm not putting that cost back in so maybe I should just add it okay I'm gonna add it the soft top was 300 bucks then we got the window tint was $100 the fabtech 4 inch lift kit with the upgraded shocks was 850 dollars the fenders the metal like skeleton style fenders were 360 light bar light pods and mounts and all the brackets and everything up there with 280 but that was a really good deal from Shane because he had them at the shop already and he wasn't using it so I got it at a pretty good discount the wheels of the pro cop 252 bead lock steelies were $65 each 15 by 10 wheels $65 each a total of 25 4 5 D tires $230 each for 5 the total comes out to 1150 for the Pro Comp 35 Pro Comp Xtreme mud terrain - tire in a 35 by 12 and a half 15 bringing our grand total to a drumroll please do you think we came in under 15k I think you can tell pretty quickly we did not the grand total is sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy nine but if you if I get tricky with the top which I could sell the hard top but I didn't yet so I can't count that but I did sell the stock wheels and tires for a total of 350 so - that brings us down to fifteen thousand and eight hundred and twenty nine and if I saw the hardtop for like five hundred we'll say theoretically I'm really only at like fifteen thousand three hundred ish so that's how I'm gonna justify it to myself but I feel like we came in pretty close so yes I am a little bit over budget for the whole thing the cost of the Jeep and everything I did to it from day one up until right now was about a little over sixteen thousand dollars so what yes I am over budget I did fail my mission I failed the objective I didn't do it but I'm not upset because number one I came in under budget for that I'm at like three thousand nine hundred for that and I gave myself five K so with that we have it we have a little cash allowance over there with the Blazer bill but yeah I mean I love the Jeep it turned out exactly how I wanted it it's freaking sick I mean I get so many you would not believe how many compliments I get just driving around with this thing people come up and ask me about it all the time no matter where I go a gas station out to eat whatever it definitely is a conversation starter and the jeeps they have a very big and very loyal audience and it's one thing I did not expect getting one like how many people would like it and how much attention I would get because to me it's like a Jeep but people love it and if I had to cut if I had to come in a little bit over budget to make it look like this that's fine with me there you go if you ever wondered what it would take to build and that's kind of the whole like idea behind the series of what I'm doing here with the Jeep and like my cheap blazer like I'm trying to show people what you can do and and I often wonder the same thing like I'll look at the Jeep like that and I would have no idea what all went into it you know how much it was gonna cost but if you ever wondered what a pretty new pretty modern Jeep would cost to build into a you know a pretty good-looking machine but not crazy you know it's not like I did crazy off-road suspension stuff or no new axles and locking diffs and all that which you could do and would be really cool but if you ever wondered what it would be like to build a pretty cool-looking Jeep that you could use as a daily driver for not a whole lot of money about 16 grand is your answer you know what I think I forgot in the video breakdown the CB mount 14 more dollars there you go the Jeep build is about 99% done now we just got to do the rap which I'm super excited for and now that the you know the actual build process is done the rap will be coming up this week hope you guys enjoyed this upload it let me know what you think in the comments below if you did enjoy don't forget to give it a thumbs up thank you for watching take care and have a great nightgood afternoon everybody and welcome to the channel hope you guys are having a great day now here I got a little message for you I'm sure if you guys watch old send it Steve you've heard of knives deal calm but what I did not know is that knives deal calm is actually run by our good friend Vince the guy with the shelby gt350r and the big Ford van that or notes a Chevy van he just bought on that huge band that he bought over there at Steve's house he sent me this awesome stuff this is the jungle master machete you can see that thing is pretty sick you have this thing it's a giant like tactical knife and I was genuinely surprised by the quality of them because this thing weighs about 10 pounds Raptor tactical survival knife survival is the only thing that matters em tech USA this thing is freakin sweet its epics just a little like pocket knife here and this one says USMC on it right there little Marine Corps knife and I think it has the Eagle Globe and Anchor on the blade it does and there you go so really cool stuff check them out knives deal comm you got our own promo code boys use promo code Street speed 7 1 7 for 10% off I can't believe I'm now I'm now part of knives go calm but it's an awesome guy so check him out knives deal calm promo code Street speed 7 1 7 all one word this thing is actually pretty sharp check this out so the little bushes we got covering the pool filter it just slices it right off oh yes now with all that crazy stuff aside today I'm giving you a build breakdown on the beep because the beep is about done boys I am pretty much done with the build this is what I envisioned for it when I first got it this is what I wanted you know I wanted something pretty basic but also something that would look really cool and once again it was meant to be a budget build and not quite as bargain-basement budget has the Blazer that is a mouthful of bees not quite as bargain-basement budget like the blazer but budget nonetheless so my goal with the whole build was to come in under $15,000 with the cost of the Jeep included do you think I was able to come in under that number well we're gonna find out real quick but leave a comment below if you think I was able to you do have one final mod for the beat though and that is this long antenna right here we are going to wire ACB to it which every true off-road vehicle needs and I'm going to fashion up a little system for this because I have to get a amount I do have a mount for it which it goes right here with a spare tire which is kind of cool it actually bolts right in there which I have back in the garage but I'll have to figure out how to mount this in the slot for it because I think you can buy a kit but I bought everything separately so I might have to do a little little work for it but look at the rust that has fallen down from my my spare tire and then really this is kind of like the second-to-last mod and then the final final mod will be when we get the full-size spare on here which will match what we got on the actual vehicle I like having a pointer let's mount this up real quick and then hopefully tomorrow the wheel and tire will be in and then the Jeep will be really done but still I can give you a cost breakdown right now because I wanted to do that and the Jeep I mean is essentially done I'm not gonna make a whole video dedicated to just putting the CB on and the spare tire so that can be all part of this upload anyway let's get going here is the antenna spare tire mount little bracket thing which is nice and like I said I feel like there is a kit you get there's definitely a kit you can buy a solid but the way mine is going to be is kind of like this and it's gonna sit in here like that so I might have to buy the bottom piece for the antenna because it it just it isn't made to go with this bracket at least I don't think so I have to get a little mounting point for underneath and a wire and obviously hook that up and then we can wire it to the CB but that's where we're at on the antenna it's gonna look really freaking cool though it's gonna look awesome I think every Jeep like you guys know I like my antennas for whatever reason I think antenna I think the whips on a truck that were Jeep look really cool so I definitely had to do this and it's really cheap that I think the bracket was like 1499 or something and then you can get the antenna which a lot of people ask where I get them go to your local truck stop they will have them kind of like with the CB antenna and the CB and everything this is not you know the the absolute end of the there are still a lot of little things I want to do mostly regarding the front end of the Jeep I think I want to do the angry eyes thing which I know like a lot of people want it and some people are like no that's the mode the most basic Jeep mod like don't do it but I think if the more I look at them I think it does look pretty cool so I might go ahead and do that but again that's not like a big mod the big stuff is done you know the lift bumpers fenders winch wheels and tires all that so that's all I've done one other thing for sure is the headlight so I had a company reach out on Instagram check them out la s fit I guess it would be like lace fit but they're pretty highly regarded the reviews are pretty good on them so check them out they do LED lighting just you know simple plug-and-play stuff but the lighting on the Jeep is horrible literally some of the worst headlights I've ever seen in my life they are worse than the stock headlights were on the Blazer and that's a much much older vehicle so I definitely wanted to get some LEDs for that but you know little things so I'm gonna install these as well finally we got a little power tool on the channel a lot of you have been asking you to get one of these ever since you've seen me using my giant impact over there for little jobs my buddy Cobra built on Instagram sent me this and he's an awesome guy I told him not to I don't need like the charity and it was just fine but he said that he had to because he couldn't live with himself if he didn't so I appreciate it now I have one of these Wow I'm not gonna lie this is really nice to have mount goes on the outside of the carrier not the inside because that would they can't go on the inside because that would make it not sit flush with the tailgate so it has to go on the outside it has to go like that even though it's kind of a little weird but actually that's I think that's gonna match up well so I'm pretty sure pretty sure we got it right here never done headlights on a Jeep but it can't possibly be difficult because nothing on a jeep is looking at it and I feel like it's gonna be a lot easier if you take the grille out I don't see hardly any room here to like reach that in fact it there isn't at all now I could come in from here and get to it but even that's like it doesn't give me a lot of room so I'm just gonna take the grille out I feel like that'll be a lot easier I know the bottom is like a little pool tab so that's out and then we got these screws on the top okay these aren't even real screws little pushpins that look like screws who know guys who new learned something new about these jeeps everyday never knew these were little pushpins and not screws Oh grill should be ready to come off yeah okay easy enough it's to me like we got four little bolts on the light as well this is actually a little bit more involved than I thought it was gonna be not that it's difficult but it's a little bit a little bit more than I thought the Duramax you just lift up one pin and slide the light out this is a little gotta do a little more work to crack open the Jeep light light is out just unplug the thing thing here and that's it putting plug in our new light here and find a spot to put the little box make sure it works real quick before we go ahead and put everything back together because that would suck which I'm sure it will but just in case and you can kind of compare the old one and the new here they'll turn on yep will turn off look how crappy that light is that old bulb and then this one is just super holy that is super bright that is gonna be awesome and by the way this is not sponsored la la s fit check him out for sure not sponsored at all like I said they did reach out but they're not paying me to say this that light looks incredible way better than the old so I can't wait to get them both in I'll put the I'll put the ball back together and then do a little side-by-side here but that does look amazing so far I think I forgot to record it but I did put the CB mount on I think I don't standing here I don't remember if I had the footage or not I really don't think I even recorded it but that's on just for the record and now let's do a little side by side here of the lights that we have one stock and one of the new LEDs door must have hit the little d-ring thing I couldn't I couldn't close the middle door but you can see just looking at it from right here the right light is a lot brighter than the one on the left and that looks I mean look at the difference way better looking at it from this angle you can even tell in the camera like as I'm looking at it that's way brighter than that one over there um but yeah the cheap little easy mod that you can do to your vehicle to make it look a lot newer and also increase the practicality this is gonna be way better at night I'm telling you like the Jeep those headlights were really bad like borderline dangerous at night and I'm excited to have the new ones love it can't wait to try it out at night but that is a massive massive improvement I mean I know you guys watching the video and this was not meant to be like a an install video by the way so sorry it's kind of going on for a while but I'm sure you're watching this right now I'm like what's the big deal but trust me like the lights were so bad and they're really gonna look good now check out the front view of this thing with everything lit up now we can see baby God said let there be light and I'm blind now epic the Jeep is looking good CB mount installed new headlights in now for the bill breakdown shut up ladies and gents now for everybody's favorite part of these builds in that is the cost rundown and I love them too because these are a really great way to kind of like sum everything up and you know when you see a build on Instagram or on YouTube or driving down the road you have no idea what all went into it and when you see this Jeep like at least I think pretty humbly I might add I feel like it's pretty cool but you don't know what all went into it but now you're gonna know exactly what went into it and if you recall when I first bought the Jeep number one I paid eleven thousand four hundred dollars for it that's important but when I first got it so that add that to the tally so far 11400 but when I first got it my goal was to build it the way it sits right now build it the way I wanted it is how it looks currently for under $15,000 and I was telling people at the beginning of the upload you know do you think I came in under budget and when I I got it for eleven four so that doesn't leave a whole lot of room to talk about $3,600 to work with to come in under 15k and it did need a few little things when I first got it that have nothing to do with the bill not cool stuff like a lift and tires it needed new brakes and other little things like that but ultimately I only spent three hundred fifty dollars on the stuff that it needed when I first got it from the auction so 350 bucks added to our 11,400 then I did the exhaust which was free if you remember and I did plan on getting a Corsa but I quickly realized that the budget was not gonna allow for that so I still might do that because I don't want it to be hacked off but you can't see it anyway and it sounds fine to me so the exhaust was free then we got the LED lights which would have been about 50 bucks again they were free for me but I'm not you know I can't cheat on the build so I'm gonna add that in 50 bucks then we have both the bumpers front and rear plus the winch the bumpers were 720 this is with shipping by the way 720 and the winch was 280 then got the little antenna right up there that was $14 is where I'm gonna get a little tricky because I'm not gonna put in the cost for the soft-top because I could sell the hardtop for more that I bought the soft-top 4 on Facebook marketplace but then again I'm not gonna add I sold the stock wheels and tires also but I'm not putting that cost back in so maybe I should just add it okay I'm gonna add it the soft top was 300 bucks then we got the window tint was $100 the fabtech 4 inch lift kit with the upgraded shocks was 850 dollars the fenders the metal like skeleton style fenders were 360 light bar light pods and mounts and all the brackets and everything up there with 280 but that was a really good deal from Shane because he had them at the shop already and he wasn't using it so I got it at a pretty good discount the wheels of the pro cop 252 bead lock steelies were $65 each 15 by 10 wheels $65 each a total of 25 4 5 D tires $230 each for 5 the total comes out to 1150 for the Pro Comp 35 Pro Comp Xtreme mud terrain - tire in a 35 by 12 and a half 15 bringing our grand total to a drumroll please do you think we came in under 15k I think you can tell pretty quickly we did not the grand total is sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy nine but if you if I get tricky with the top which I could sell the hard top but I didn't yet so I can't count that but I did sell the stock wheels and tires for a total of 350 so - that brings us down to fifteen thousand and eight hundred and twenty nine and if I saw the hardtop for like five hundred we'll say theoretically I'm really only at like fifteen thousand three hundred ish so that's how I'm gonna justify it to myself but I feel like we came in pretty close so yes I am a little bit over budget for the whole thing the cost of the Jeep and everything I did to it from day one up until right now was about a little over sixteen thousand dollars so what yes I am over budget I did fail my mission I failed the objective I didn't do it but I'm not upset because number one I came in under budget for that I'm at like three thousand nine hundred for that and I gave myself five K so with that we have it we have a little cash allowance over there with the Blazer bill but yeah I mean I love the Jeep it turned out exactly how I wanted it it's freaking sick I mean I get so many you would not believe how many compliments I get just driving around with this thing people come up and ask me about it all the time no matter where I go a gas station out to eat whatever it definitely is a conversation starter and the jeeps they have a very big and very loyal audience and it's one thing I did not expect getting one like how many people would like it and how much attention I would get because to me it's like a Jeep but people love it and if I had to cut if I had to come in a little bit over budget to make it look like this that's fine with me there you go if you ever wondered what it would take to build and that's kind of the whole like idea behind the series of what I'm doing here with the Jeep and like my cheap blazer like I'm trying to show people what you can do and and I often wonder the same thing like I'll look at the Jeep like that and I would have no idea what all went into it you know how much it was gonna cost but if you ever wondered what a pretty new pretty modern Jeep would cost to build into a you know a pretty good-looking machine but not crazy you know it's not like I did crazy off-road suspension stuff or no new axles and locking diffs and all that which you could do and would be really cool but if you ever wondered what it would be like to build a pretty cool-looking Jeep that you could use as a daily driver for not a whole lot of money about 16 grand is your answer you know what I think I forgot in the video breakdown the CB mount 14 more dollars there you go the Jeep build is about 99% done now we just got to do the rap which I'm super excited for and now that the you know the actual build process is done the rap will be coming up this week hope you guys enjoyed this upload it let me know what you think in the comments below if you did enjoy don't forget to give it a thumbs up thank you for watching take care and have a great night\n"