The front end will end up sitting lower once the engine/tranny are in along with the fenders, hood and grille. Here are some miscellaneous photos from underneath:
Rear "cross member" of body sitting at the rear edge of the frame. I'll have to build all of my body mounts. Not sure if I'll build from scratch or just cut the mounts off the Jeep frame
This is the cross member on the Dodge frame that sits in front of the axle. In my planning, I wanted this to sit right under the front of the cargo area. It ended up right where I wanted it. There is approximately a 4 inch rise in the floor, and it sits right in front of this cross member
And that's where it sits now. I put the front doors back on. I need to do body mounts, but first I want to put the tranny/transfer case in to make sure I'm not going to have problems with where everything sits. I'd like to use the Dodge gas tank, but I doubt it will fit with the 27 inches missing from the frame. We'll see if I get lucky. With the Dodge frame I kept the rear tire carrier underneath, but if I have to I will pull it out and run a YJ tank in the back.
I got all of my engine parts back, so I'm just about ready to rebuild the engine. We found out it wasn't the original engine in the Dodge. It was a remanufactured engine that is bored .040 over. The machinist said the heads are in pretty much perfect condition. Plan is to freshen up the internals and leave it pretty much stock, except I'll run slightly oversized injectors. I got an aluminum plenum plate from Hughes, so hopefully that will prevent the plenum issue in the future.