[swordtart]

Unless the car is stacked with components a cheaper way of doing it may be be a transplant of all components to a new chassis*.

If you were doing it yourself it would only cost 10% of the total value of the car less the cost of the old chassis plus the cost of the new chassis. It won't even take that long.

That is almost always going to cost less than the cost you mention.

If you got a garage to do it, you are also paying 1/3 equipment cost as the removal fee and 1/3 equipment cost +10% as the fitting fee**. This is going to be prohibitively expensive and you would probably be better off selling the entire car as salvage and buying a new one with the configuration you want. I tested this in the Shuriken Challenge.

Your suggestion at least gives us options. Now maybe those words should have been "you cannot cost effectively upgrade the chassis).


* It will depend if you count armour as a component (and how many components). By the rules as written armour is a single component and is salvageable as any other. We play that it is a component per facing.

** The rules are a bit vague on this. The purchase cost of a component includes fitting. Now if you are buying a replacement for a damaged engine does it also include the removal of the old engine? Does the salvage value of a component doesn't seem to include the cost to remove it from a vehicle (normally you strip the wreck yourself). But if it is part of a salvage car then it needn't be removed (but the cost of it being in the car should have consisted of 1/3 as a fitting fee!) S'complicated!