AC's skids are are the stock shock perch with a piece of flat stock steel weleded over it. They actually reduce your clearnace and do nothing to protect the shock perch.

Like I said earlier, the key benefit is this... When you upgrade sping packs, you can buy another $150 worth of longer shocks, or you can but these, maintain your current set of shocks, and reap the added clearance benefits as well.

I have more pics too. There is a significant amount of time and tedious welding in making these, powdercoating, heavy duty replacement 9/16in. UBolts (those alone are almost $20 + shipping), etc which quantifies the higher cost. Let me know if you're interested.