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Originally Posted by chevy6998
Check jimmy p's thread on stock floor bodydrop in the tech articles, Basically (its harder than it sounds) you raise the bed floor which drops it over the frame, cut the frame underneath the cab and reinforce with new tube stock, raise the tanny hump in cab, notch fire wall for wheels(if needed), and drop the front frame horns, lower the cab body mounts. In reality there are alot more details and little specifics. I would recommend a stock floor over a traditional. As far as how much, to get it done at a shop look for anywheres from $3000-$4000 at some of your higher end shops, As far as work involved, All I have to say is that it is a labor of love!!!!!!
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This pretty much covers a stock floor bodydrop.
For a traditional bodydrop, you need to strip the interior, cut the firewall under the windshild cowl, cut the back wall, cut out and raise the floor your desired height(generaly 3"), after that you do the bed the same as above, aswell as the frame horns you'll also have to do some relocating of underhood items. ANything on the inner fenders will have to be relocated, because the iner fenderswill have to be removed, and new ones built or you can go without them, If you run 22s the firewall will have to be tubbed and the batter may have to be relocated and the fuse box moved to the baterys stock location, wires and hoses may need to be lengthend. There's also probably 100 other things I'm forgetting.
I used to say if i were to bodydrop another truck I'd go stock floor, but recently I've had a few safty concerns about cutting the frame that much. Even with reenforcement I have concerns about what would happen in a crash. I'd recomnd doing a complete frame or atleast a new frame from the firewall back as opposed to sectioning the stock frame.
Either way your looking at 3500+ and I wouldn't really expect to pay much less than 4000 relisticly to have a good shop do the work.
Here are a few shots of my truck getting cut up.
