Front End Swaps
05-17-2013, 07:16 AM
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Re: Front End Swaps
Buy cutting tools, buy welder, do it yourself, learn, profit. Have tools later on for more projects. Or risk paying someone to do it cheap = shitty work, or quality work = lots of money
05-17-2013, 01:04 PM
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Re: Front End Swaps
To do the firewall swap properly, I would be insulted if someone offered me only a grand. Plus, if you're trying to fix structural frame damage with this, which is what you're making it sound like, I wouldn't touch the car for a grand. It's a pretty extensive job to rework structure and keep everything lined up properly. I hope you're good at wiring, too. You're not just going to simply lay the JSpec harness on your USSpec car and expect it to match up and work. Every RHD swapped s chassis I've worked on has had wiring gremlins out the ass.
05-19-2013, 10:17 AM
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Re: Front End Swaps
The 240 I have has a front end that is not repairable, I have a front clip from the same year silvia siting around. I think that if someone would do the cutting and welding to put the silvia front end on it for around $1000 or so it would be the same price as finding another 240. Plus it would be different to have a RHD 240.
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