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Atom's Amazon Wagon Project Update Thread

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Getting closer. It's a process of lower, mark, raise, trim, lower, mark, raise, trim until I get it where I want it. Then it'll be raise, grind, weld prime, lower and weld.
 
My minds eye is cutting/chopping and welding the BMW aprons. Be fun to see how far off my minds eye is.
 
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I think I'm going to bring the body all the way down to even on the lower pinch welds. That will put a fairly big step up in the interior rocker (like a Corvette), but I think that's the only way I'll be able to get the car as low as I'd like. I'm not about the off-road look.
 
Better to drop the body lower and retain suspension travel vs. slamming it after the fact. Good progress!
 
Looks like it needs moar low. Great work. I'm impatiently waiting to see it done.

Needs LOTS moar low. That is stock height suspension at the moment too. And missing all the glass and interior.

Better to drop the body lower and retain suspension travel vs. slamming it after the fact. Good progress!

Only thing I'm a little worried about is headroom. I've ridden in plenty of body dropped cars that feel pretty funny.
 
End of day pics:

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Hopefully by the end of tomorrow the two will be stuck together some amount.
 
Needs LOTS moar low. That is stock height suspension at the moment too. And missing all the glass and interior.



Only thing I'm a little worried about is headroom. I've ridden in plenty of body dropped cars that feel pretty funny.

Isn't the 122 blessed with fairly generous headroom?
 
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Well, the 206 decided to water my lawn, so the covers will stay on for now. I'm gonna chip away at my honey-do list until the sun comes out.
 
I'm just going to bring the body down to where the bottom of both pinch welds line up. That should be about right. Since the firewall isn't moving in relation to the paint should "feel" OK when driving. I'm gonna get everything cleaned up and start welding it together so I can pull the bracing out. Then I'll set a seat in and see what's what. If I have to put the bracing back in and cut it back apart, so be it.
 
I don't want to admit how long it took me to do what you just did in 3 days!

Lower pich welds lined up seems to be the best compromise. Have you considered how you are going to attach the door seal since you no longer have a pichweld to locate it? Do you even care?

I went around the car for a long time making sure that anything that was going to be easier done with the body still removable was done before I welded the two together. I rehearsed every inch of the scar to make sure I was going to be able to fabricate and weld what was required. Underdash in particular.

Question: "Was the BMW drive-able as is?"
 
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