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Old 09-20-2008, 04:53 PM
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Default Homemade Touring Stabilizer *PICTURES*

Well, I'm gonna catch all kinds of heat from other stabilizer lovers and makers over this one, but I could not see spending $350.00+ on a stabilizer, so I made my own! Mocked it up with cardboard nice and tight and stuck it as close to the underneath frame as possible. There is about 1/2" below oil pan for airflow. Turned out awesome! Used 1/4" steel and stainless steel bolts. I have gotten a ton of PM's about this. Now I have to be careful to not break forum rules here w/o being a vendor, so before I decide to make them I would need an idea of how many guys on here would be interested in powder coated for $195 shipped, unpainted raw steel for $155 shipped or the emailed templates and blueprints to build your own for $49. I kinda rushed the paint on mine, but I would get others I make powder coated or chromed. Let me know.

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Sent you a pm
 
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:18 PM
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Good deal. Nothing quite like savin' $$.
 
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Old 09-20-2008, 05:24 PM
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Nice job, Im sure you will get all kinds of people wanting them. So you better come up with a price.
 
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I'd buy one...
 
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No doubt you will soon get many responses from folks telling you how foolish you are to mess around making something like this yourself. These are the folks who stand to lose money because they make them or have already spent the big bucks to buy one so they will put you down for not buying what they bought.

I say - nicely done. Wish I were clever and mechanically inclined enough to tackle something like this.
 
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Old 09-20-2008, 06:19 PM
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Man you have done a nice job, I love it.

Sending a PM.
 
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Nice job Aaron... I bet you had fun doing it too!
 
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what do you think about making some holes in the bottom to improve airflow? would it comprimise the strength of 1/4" steel?
 
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Old 09-20-2008, 06:45 PM
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Nice job!I take it your a machinist.
 


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