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surprising_skoda
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I stopped in with a buddy in Wales and just before I left I asked why he had a Chevy C10 pickup chassis on his trailer and what he was going to do with it.
Find a Gen 3 Camaro body and stick it on it was the answer.
Oh! alrighty then!
Find a Gen 3 Camaro body and stick it on it was the answer.
Oh! alrighty then!
roverspeed
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Here's a before
Been having wild notions recently about putting a 306 GTi-6 engine in a 306 estate. Knowing nothing about mechanicals, (the cat escapade will testify this) the whole electrical side of it puzzles me. In simple terms what way does it work with the ecu? Do you need to use it from the donor car too? If so, if there are electrical things the donor car has that the receiving car doesn’t, do they just not operate then?
Is that a beetle wing lying there too??
zafturbo
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Many beetles as well lol.3 I think not sure .
zafturbo
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Same as a 205 engine swop .easiest way is to just buy a complete gti6 - s16 ect and use everything out of the doner car .ecu,wiring loom ect as a lot is different.it is the easiest and prob the cheapest way to go about it .
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surprising_skoda
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I've no specific Peugeot wiring knowledge but it's no easier loom swapping then just splicing in the engine loom to the existing body loom. When you're going for a different bodystyle especially - the gti6 loom is not going to reach the rear lights and hatch wiring of an estate, and wouldn't have the wiring for rear electric windows if the estate had that - for example.
Once you're into swapping an entire body loom and cutting and extending, then you may as well have just cut and joined whatever needed done at the front end. With the exception of if wiring diagrams aren't available so you can't tell which wire does what, in which case extending is much simpler with no hours needed multimetering.
The 325tds E36 coupe and the 330d E36 compact we built were both like that - the body looms would never have suited and figuring out how to get a diesel saloon loom to operate the soft-close on a frameless coupe door window (for example) was a far bigger potential headache than just using the pin-out diagrams and adapting the body loom to suit the diesel engine loom.
Once you're into swapping an entire body loom and cutting and extending, then you may as well have just cut and joined whatever needed done at the front end. With the exception of if wiring diagrams aren't available so you can't tell which wire does what, in which case extending is much simpler with no hours needed multimetering.
The 325tds E36 coupe and the 330d E36 compact we built were both like that - the body looms would never have suited and figuring out how to get a diesel saloon loom to operate the soft-close on a frameless coupe door window (for example) was a far bigger potential headache than just using the pin-out diagrams and adapting the body loom to suit the diesel engine loom.
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Retro fit projectors very nice do a write up please i love reading this sort of stuff
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My current project is in many more bits than when I got it and doesn't look like much just now.... this is the most recent photo I have of it. The rear axle is now stripped down and diff removed due to discovering a leak at the input shaft.
Might put a thread up at some stage but I bought it built but decided to strip it down for a few reasons - 1 so I know how it's been put together, 2 to refresh anything that needs it as it sat up for a few years and 3, I want to paint it. I bought it in June 2017, did 1 sprint in it and it's sat in my garage ever since. I started to strip it in September and haven't got that far yet. Hope to have it finished for March time...
Might put a thread up at some stage but I bought it built but decided to strip it down for a few reasons - 1 so I know how it's been put together, 2 to refresh anything that needs it as it sat up for a few years and 3, I want to paint it. I bought it in June 2017, did 1 sprint in it and it's sat in my garage ever since. I started to strip it in September and haven't got that far yet. Hope to have it finished for March time...
roverspeed
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To upgrade somethings I wasn't happy with, I opened my headlights up again.
Changed the main beams to higher power LED projectors, fitted much better DRLs and redesigned the indicators to 5 led pods either side mimicking the shape of the original drls.
Light output in dipped is both fantastic and well controlled, cut off is razor sharp.
Main brands are on another level, bixenons go into full beam, the inner LED main beams come on and so does the light bar.
Last piece of the puzzle on the front of 2 fold.
I want to change the light bar optics, it's is throwing a little too much light on the foreground so I'll change some of the foods for pencil beams. I also want to make it less visible somehow.
Secondly, I hate both the look and functionality of the fog lights, so I'm going to built black look fog enclosures and fit yellow 3000k LED projector fog lights.
Round the back, I'm building a custom LED reverse light low and centre and making the rear fogs symmetrical.
Then I'll be pretty happy. Ps I'm obsessed by lights and improving they functionality.
Pictures are taken in HDR so makes the lights appear less bright.
StephenMcC
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Any room in behind the grille? hide the bar in there lol
Worked with my old Leon. Didn't know it was there if it wasn't on. Still plenty of light.
roverspeed
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It's nearly touching the intercooler.
I had thought about that flyeye stuff for the lightbar, as long as it doesn't affect the output too much.
I had thought about that flyeye stuff for the lightbar, as long as it doesn't affect the output too much.
bora-gav
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Proper old school would be to put some black tights over it lol
roverspeed
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Well I got some yellow laminx for the fogs and the flyeye stuff.
I put the laminx on the fogs and then put the flyeye on the fogs and the lightbar.
I also dechromed the fog light grill surrounds.
Still have to think about the main grill, but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out.
Not sure I should post here, I've got so many ideas floating around in my head, and none of them are tame. If only I was a millionaire, there would be some crazy cars built.
One thing I'd probably only consider if I was so loaded it doesn't matter would be a RWD Civic, EF Probably, or EK, idealy using a built K24. Just something that would so unexpected.
One thing I'd probably only consider if I was so loaded it doesn't matter would be a RWD Civic, EF Probably, or EK, idealy using a built K24. Just something that would so unexpected.
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