sectioned crossmember

[evlc10]

Does anyone have pictures of how low the front will go on bags, with the 1.5 inch chopped front crossmember. Any pictures would be great thanks.

[Captkaos]

Chopped like this:
http://www.captkaoscustoms.com/chopcross.html

On the front of these trucks the lower control arm mounts are the limitation and regardless of how you drop them eventually they will drag.  When I created the chopped crossmember, I wanted it to lower the body over the suspension without having to refabricate anyting on the front.  Are you wanting to know how low it will go as in drop or how close to the ground the crossmember will be?

The 1.5" crossmember chop will drop it 1.5" from stock + whatever drop you engineer in the bag mounts.

This is the front of one I did in 2000 with a collapsed bag mocked and no spindles with 235/70/15's.

[evlc10]

Yeah with the coolride setup from ridetech this is what I acheive, same as picture, thanks Captkaos. what I should of wrote is does anyone have a side on photo of a truck with sectioned crossmember with bags collapsed, to show how close the rockers are to the ground.

[Captkaos]

This is as good as I can do, they won't be close.  Just Z it 4" like I posted in the other picture.  They are about 3" off the ground.  BTW, the frame will hit the ground first before the rocker once you move the control arms up..



reference thread:
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=2754.0