Next time your at your steel place get a price on some 1 5/8x0.95 chromoly tubing and some 1 3/4" and 2" .120 wall DOM you’ll have a stroke when you hear the price they want for a foot of it.
Five years ago you had to be a high roller to come in and ask for 2" 7075 machined aluminum links for your suspension but now with the price of thick walled DOM its really not that big of jump anymore. The thing with aluminum you can buy it by the inch so If you needed a 37" link you pay for 37" but DOM its all by the foot so your paying for 48" and it comes in all random lengths so the waste adds up and you end up with 2 bucks worth of scrap that costs $200.