Originally Posted by Mrmiata
Are you located anywhere close to Tulsa? I work for a fabrication company and I may be way off base..but I'm feeling around 250-300 with a profit in there. Would love to get a set of prints and maybe see about getting a quote from the boss here. We typically do large back up generator items (enclosures and tanks..hospital..casino..etc). We also build trailers for generator systems. Even if "real prints" aren't available.. maybe some decent sketches? Part of that fee he quoted you would most likely include fees for the drafting and prints..not cheap for a small run.. which I could do on my own time!
Now if someone only had the two color slasher stripes without having to be part of a "members only" club! LOL..
I am in Alabama. I was in Virginia when I made my hitch. It is made from two SLK hitch assemblies. They were cut apart, flipped and reassembled to correctly follow the underbody of the Crossfire. It turned out that the SLK is quite different then the Crossfire when it comes to a hitch. Then I went to Fastenal to get the correct size and quality hardware. My hitch is substantially over engineered for the use and was not the cheapest or recommended route to go.
If my local machine shop comes in at $250-$300, that would be great. But you need to remember that the Cossfire is a center exhaust which requires two complete hitch assemblies and two receivers tied together with a cross bar for the ball. If the allignment is not correct the receivers will not be removable. The only other option that I know of is to re-route the exhaust so that a center single hitch design can be used.
My hitch is installed perminently. That is why both my sons car and my car will be at the Machine Shop. Mine as a print to roughly follow, I can do better on the second go-round and his for fitment. I will provide an update when I am given a final price. Again this is just a feeler thread.