I Blame CHIP FOOSE he's making me crazy

Will I'm going for "Slammed" at the show stuff. Ride height will be higher because I live in Illinois and have a steep driveway to deal with and we know the roads in the midwest SUCK. I was thinking of reinforcing the factory rails with a c notch section of 3/16th wall stock and go from there basically doubling the size of the metal under the hood then build a "Shock tower" and eliminate the inner fenders and replace with a custom fabbed inner fender once all was built.