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76 its a little sad this is the trail vehicle
Jethro:
Bfit the VE Commy Wreck with 6 ltr is the way ta go and you might even be able to sell some of the pannel work off on ebay:bannana:
bfit:
Hi jethro
I am not keen on the ls2 and 3 as sold here in Aus'
they dont come with cable throttle
For the first one I am doing the LS1 is best to learn on
you can buy a commodore with under A 100K for less than the so called coversions sold by the wreackers
in fact under 3k if you wait for the rite buy.
and with some luck the 76 I have will sell with the LS1 and 4l60E as well as the original engine and trany as project to some one
If not I have some other ideas for it
Bfit
BOSCHVETTE:
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--- Quote from: BOSCHVETTE link=topic=8633.msg1045941446#msg1045941446 ---I priced this conversion up about 2 years ago and thought without engine and gearbox included it would be about $15-$18k to do it properly there is alot more work in it then people think.
I dont believe its worth it.
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$15-18 grand without engine/gearbox sounds a bit steep.
Is this doing it yourself or paying someone to do it?
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no thats doing about 60% of the work myself,but when i mean do it properly i mean brake up grade to suit, spring and shock change for the new weight up front so it doesnt sit a mile in the air and diff ratio change to suit.this includes engineers cert.
If you paid some one to do the whole lot it would be alot more expensive for sure.
Dont forget you have wiring work,new extractors/exhaust work, both cross members modified, tunnel modified, clutch conversion, fly by wire modification on late model motors, air con mods power steer mods if you choose to run these,radiator replacement and all hoses to suit these items,tacho sender mods, speedo mods, tailshaft mods intake mods and i wasnt sure if you needed to move steering components so as you can see it adds up very fast and a lot of people dont think of most of these things until they get to the problem.:drag::drag::drag:
good luck mate it is a HUGE job.
Thunder Kiss:
Here's a link to someone doing the LS into C3 swap in QLD at the moment.
Details here: LINK.
bfit:
I will post a few photos now
thanks to a call from Nick to put me straight on how its done
I am trying to work out how to post photos
Any tips
Bfit
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