Thanks for the order, anything after you is just icing on the cake. If we can get 20 orders, we can drop another 5 bucks (I'll send PayPal refunds to people for that)
Well, the group buy is free shipping. Not much of a discount like I said, but free shipping is better than paid shipping.
DC Sports sells theirs for 50 dollars in their catalog (Though you can find them for 25-30 dollars in stores) and they also look like crap. The biggest thing about a 'show piece' for under your hood is to keep it looking clean, and using your stock nuts won't do that.
Keep in mind that while it's not necessarily super-difficult to make and design the tie-down, the sleeve nuts are custom made and threaded by hand (as well as hand polished), and that's really time consuming.
Also, if you have tens of thousands of dollars invested in a HAAS mill and lathe and want to make your own, then pay a place to anodize it for you, go ahead.
In any case, if you don't want one, you don't have to buy one. No point in complaining about something you're not even going to buy, right?
There are always cheaper things to be found on the net, but I can guarantee the quality won't be as good as this, nor as much thought put into the design to make it work.
If you want some 'universal' aluminum tie-downs (may not fit correctly if at all, and you will be using stock connecting hardware to do it) look for products that APC or DC Sports sells; they're cheap and plentiful.
If you want a well made, custom fitted item, then join this group buy.
