1993 Astro Van Dropped Family Hauler

[JagRacer]

Well, sold the van, wife wanted me to build another "newer" one....

Sounds like you married a keeper. Sweet van.

[notabmw1]

Sounds like you married a keeper. Sweet van.

I can't complain, last year I had 13 Mini's in the driveway at one point. Went through 46 cars, and 3 bikes in that time frame. Down to 5 vehicles now. Basically the "necessities". Trying to make room for a boat now.

[scotto]

The 98 front looks a lot better than the 93 front did. Good choice on keeping the wife happy.

[notabmw1]

Been thinking about maybe doing the spurs for the winter? Would it look right?

[speakerboy]

I kind of like the Bentley wheels better than the Boyd Coddington/torque thrusts. Aren't they 20's?

[notabmw1]

The Bentleys are 19x9, was thinking of running 255/40/19 on it. They will fit with an adapter and be flush. If I could find the right deal I may do it. I'm running currently 18x8 and 18x9.5 and the rear just squeaks in. I will be rolling the fenders this week.

[Chigga]

I think the Bentley would require solid color on the van to make it look good, but I can already see it.

I've love those Astro vans since the 90's, I just want a silver late model one, lower, Impala SS alloys and LQ4 swap and I'll be happy.

[notabmw1]

You mean like this:

[notabmw1]

Another busy weekend of pulling the entire interior and putting new carpet in and started on dying the panels black. Will take pics of that later. Also installed my Billet Specialties wheel, smoke the turn signals with VHT, lowered the front with belltech spindles, and did the flip kit on the rear. Some other stuff got done as well, don't remember everything, spent close to 20 hours working on it. Currently getting aligned this morning after my home brew alignment to get to work.




















Extra hole I drilled to move leaf back and raise up rear, hopefully get other side done this week so I can get rear raised up a little.


My cheesy front end alignment after spindles.


Lowered and smoked signals.

[P78]

i like this, but i would've kept the grandpa colors

[notabmw1]

Part of me wishes I would have painted the lower two tone black instead of white. But eh, it's growing on me. Can't wait to get the interior done, and stereo installed, and a bunch of other small details.

[milano_red]

Those original colors looked dope! It would have been awesome if you had kept them!

[notabmw1]

Not the best pictures, but this will be a tease for now. The black looks a little funky in pictures probably due to lighting but it is all the same, not spotty, etc. Anyway, I did the headliner, most of the side panels, overhead console and dash. Hopefully finish the rest tomorrow/weekend. It took atleast 5 cans to do the headliner, I think maybe more. Multiple coats, the cloth stuff just absorbs it more. Also the carpet on the side panels and sliding door took a few more coats. Will hopefully get some good shots this weekend when it's all done. Will hopefully also be installing the double din headunit this weekend as well. Thinking about doing a downfiring sub under the bench seat as well....

[notabmw1]

Okay to continue on with the interior. I got my double din installed Friday. I took a few pictures so you guys can get an idea of how to do it, it turned out quite easy once I used the stock radio bracket to mount the new unit. Just fits in the height wise and depth wise. Also got a few more panels dyed.


DOUBLE DIN INSTALLED!!! Here is how I did it.....


Remove stock bottom of the radio via 4 screws or so, that will then let you be able to slide the new unit in once you drill 2 holes in it to mount it to the double din.


Here it is in, very snug.




Enlarged the stock opening with a grinder.


Wife came up with a great idea from our baby gate believe it or not. It came with this self sticky foam textured pieces. These fill the gap up.