Check out the pic's of my new tie rods. Let me know what you think. I made them myself.

 

hot damn.. aluminum? those are tight... i just started a machining class for vocational and can't wait until i am out on my own making **** like this.

think i could get the blueprints for that?

 

ur using stock tie-rod ends? you should get tougher ones. the stockers bend easily.

 

Thay are made out of T6 6061 aluminum. They are 16 mm solid hex where stock are 14 mm round tubing. They are a little lighter then stock too.
Speedy all you need to do is measure your stock Tierods and go from there. The only hard part was finding a 10 x 1.25 left hand tap. I do have 3 sets fore sale if anyone is interested. If anyone is intersted send me a PM.

 

do you have aim?


i found that 5/8 hex would be perfect for this project, and it is fairly cheap too... $5 for a 4' peice

 

The materal cost me $43 for 12 feet of 5\8 hex 6061 aluminum. the left hand tap was $42.50 the right tap was $20 the reat of the tooling was the shop where i work. Making the nuts realy sucked i had to make 20 of them. Cut time on the CNC mill was 15 min for all six sides. Speedy if you have any more questions feel free to ask. I will help out if i can.
Terry

 

wow that sux... ssoo basically i can get 5/8 6061 hex for $26... crazy.. as far as taps.. the shop i am in has anything i need and if they aint got it 'll most likely make one

 

Good luck with the project.

 

this is Speedy2222, soemthing is up with my account and i am just posting this to show u my finished results... i paid $5 for 4' of 5/8 hex.. $13 for a LH tap.. and i havn't bought a RH tap.. but they are only $8.. here's some pics
http://s88.photobucket.com/alb...22/Banshee/tie%20rods/

 

They look good. You didnt even spent very much $$$$$. What took the most time on my rods were the lettering (Yamaha YFZ450)