Nothing wrong with just cutting and bolting it but I hardly see the value. Seems like you should focus on something like an engine skid if you don't have one. I dragged my stock skid for years and it looked like shit but it was never a limiting factor. Even at stock height the stock tank is tucked under the rear bumper. Sure you drop on it but lifting it isn't going to change that, you are still going to drop onto the rear bumper after the tank and get hung up on the rear bumper, so what if the tank is an inch higher or lower? You are just changing the height of the middle step, you aren't going to clear something because of it. At least that has been my experience on the trail.