[Blown353]

Concerning the body lowering, you may run into a lot of issues so plan ahead. I thought about it then didn't do it.

Here's a few problem areas off the top of my head if you use short (or no) body mounts:

Steering shaft alignment (won't be able to use the factory pot joint & rag joint if you still are, so double u-joints it is)

Driveshaft to tunnel clearance

Tranny & bellhousing to tunnel clearance

Engine to hood clearance

Tranny crossmember to floorpan clearance (the x-member is almost touching the floor with factory body mounts)

Exhaust to floorpan clearance

Fuel line clearance over the RH rear shock/spring perch (if you're still running factory-routed lines)

You'll need to trim the bottom edges of the front inner fenders to clear the frame

Inner rear wheelhouse to frame rail clearance (the frame rails are "sucked in" a bit at the top to clear the pinchweld on the wheelwells)

That's just a few I can think of, not to mention you may run into actual frame to body interference when you try it-- I never got that far!

It can be done but it's a lot of work just to drop the body by 1/2" or so-- the gains just don't seem to outweigh the effort required. If you're gonna do it, go all out and just cut out the floor completely, flush the frame even with the bottom of the rocker pinchwelds, and re-fab from there.