Let's see how she'll sit...

To C-notch or not to C-notch, that is the question.  Hamlet had it wrong...so here is the pumpkin and it is less than an inch below the frame rail height.  So if we do C-notch it, it will only be an inch or so.  We'll C, um, see...

So we put the body back on, it is nice to have a dozen teenage boys to lift this thing, it is heavy!  And we actually have a ton of room in the rear wheel wells.  I don't want to mess with the bottom of the bed, it will still be a truck after all, so we can't go so low that the pumpkin sticks out into the bed.  But it looks cool even this level.

The trouble is, we still have the monster huge springs in the front.  The Astro vans were heavy!!  Even with the engine and trans in place, and a couple of big boys on the frame, we were barely moving the front suspension at all.  So the question is, should we just get the airbag shocks, or just airbags, and remount the shocks?  The problem is the shocks have a limited amount of travel, and so the serious airbagger dudes don't like them as well.  We'll take the springs out and see what it looks like resting on the down stops.

Here it is in Wheelie mode.  Just photoshop out the jack...

OK, shocks and springs are out of the equation, sitting on the down stops, and it looks mean!!  The front crossmember is a little too low for the jack to slide under.  I think this is about right!  If the airbag shocks will allow this much travel then we are good to go with them.  What do you think?  

And here it is from the back. The wheels won't steer too far this low in the front, but that is the price that we pay for looking good.  My buddy Bob says that you just don't steer them very much with the bags dumped.  Yeah!  I might find some rims with more negative offset...I don't mean to sound greedy, but I would like to see the rear lower, maybe I can do it with tire diameter.