But it is very an affirmation of Makerism. Now that you’ve made those, there is probably a lot about design, tooling and fabrication. Future builds will incorporate that knowledge/skill set … plus you have pride of craftsmanship. Get with some of the engineering types and see where you can safely remove some weight form the existing configuration. They live for this stuff, they get to apply their knowledge to something other than a dry class paper. Of course it is your car at risk!