Sorry for the late response. My wife just had our first baby,a little boy and ad you can imagine I've been busy.
But I'm still working on how to make these affordable and package them adorably. Shipping would kill the price on these due to them being the full length of the frame rails. I'm thinking of making them into two pieces per frame rail.
I'm using 11 gauge only to make these. This allows you to clamp them to your frame rails for welding easier and leaves space to fit aftermarket suspensions on still. Arty Morison and Auto weld chassis use 11 gauge to build there rear frame rails. I believe the 11 gauge along with the factory 16 gauge will be plenty strong.
In the pictures posted nothing is welded in. I made a bunch of rosete holes for welding and attaching along with welding along all the seams of the frame reinforcement plates.
Before I welded the frame reinforcements in i completely inspected the frame rails for rust, cleaned the coating/paint off to bare metal. I then sprayed weld thru primer on the factory frame rails and frame reinforcements before they were welded in.
I'm going to try and get prices on the water Jet cutting in the next couple of weeks so i can have a final price to sell these. Like i said they'll most likely come in 4 pieces, two per frame rail. You can pm me or post here with any questions . I'll be contacting Jody as well to see what I would need to do to offer these to members.
Ahmad
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