Chanelled or New Floored S10's

I've seen tons of chanelled f/s's but no S10's...

Also I saw an S10 a while back where the owner lowered the floor under his seats 3 inches...but of course now I can't find it and the search never works for me.

Just lookin for info

Thanks brothas

I personally like the look of a stock floor body drop. Just use box tubing for under the cab or shorten and box in the factory frame

The floor on my '88. I sectioned 2.5" of the frame right below the seat area and dropped the seats down that amount, plus more with the new floor. All 16ga. with 1"x1"x1/8" framing.



Waiting on my Lokar shifter to come in so I can cover the trans. and driveshaft.

Originally posted by crazyGM



I personally like the look of a stock floor body drop. Just use box tubing for under the cab or shorten and box in the factory frame

Me too, I'm with you 100% man.

Unfotunately, I have only done 2 stock floor bodydrops. One on an 05 Frontier and one on a 94 Ranger-both of which were full frame-off builds. The problem is, this truck is my daily so it can't be outta commission more than a few days...

Not saying it couldn't be done-i'm just not super familiar with stock floor's like i am with traditional's

Thats why I'm here

Thanks for the input and any more i can get i'll take, thanks guys

I built my floor like this to gain some headroom and to make the carpet lay nicely when I get to that point.

Between dropping the floor and lowering the seat mounts I gained back 3 inches of headroom with a 3 1/4 inch bodydrop.

Your truck is the one i was talking about i was looking for so thank you Chris!

Aright so if i decided to stock floor it, is there still a reasonable amount of room for exhaust(it has the 4.3)? And is the tranny tunnel the only thing that has to be raised?

I don't have any finished pics of my friend's Hombre, but this is how much needs to be cut out to channel it. He says he will never channel another truck.

Edited: 11/26/2007 3:31:15 PM by BaggedMazda87

Wow. Yeah i understand why...

So did you build any kind of frame for your floor or with all the sections it made it strong enough?

I didn't build any framework for the floor but I did make sure all the seat mounts are reinforced so there is no flex in the floor at all.

I never planned on showing anybody the floor, but my wife wouldn't take the Prelude to Drop Zone so I had to bring something.

I wish I would have just cut the whole thing out and rebuilt it. It would have been much less time consuming and it would look a lot better.

Hopefully next year I will be able to drive the truck again

My buddy channeled a newer s10, you can;t even tell w/the carpet in and it lays hard.