i wanna convert my LHD AE92 GTS, To A JDM RHD AE92 Gts... what would i need to do it?steering rack and pinion, and all connects. will the tranny and everything work still?
i will need???
dash is a given, what is a "hidden" piece i would need? (a/c???)
Why on earth? Just to be different thats a shitload of work, you have to replace the firewall on the car, you need to change the panel underneath the windhield to get the wipers swapped around. Then you get the problem of body sagging, since you're gonna be messing around with structural parts, plus rust will be an issue as you're opening up factory seams. Would be easier to just import a used AE92 GTS from japan and swapping the sheet metal piece with the VIN...
for the time and money it's going to cost you to do that your better off just buying a jdm ae92. Hell they had more toy's that us anyways. Such as the rx7 style adjustable suspension where you hit a button inside the car and it adjusts the suspension for you from soft to hard. Probably an option but still cool
But yea there is ALOT more to that then people think. So like I said just import an ae92.
why import over just swapping? i'd rather swap it, and do all the work be able to go.. "there it's done" at the end. you know what i mean?
and my car is 90% done right now, so why in the world would i wanna get a new car, and have to make everything match again, swap all the interior, and change all the stereo equipment, and all that.. if i swapped the dash and all that to RHD, i could just switch the kick-panel boxes, and move all the wires to the new dash. and it's all back together again (along the lines of interior mods) i'd need to get RHD GTS seats bcuz the drivers seat and pasenger seats in my car are different. (drivers is 4x better)
i'm thinkin just cut and swap the two sides of the firewall. like passenger to the driver and so on, that way.. it'll all be there and i can fit it.
anyways wanna do up a lil mini-list on what i'll need,
dash, seats, firewall, steering components.
My friend converted his Civic to RHD and didn't swap any pieces for JDM pieces. He ahd the steering rack machined to run reverse of normal, cut a hole in the firewall..it took about 2 weeks of after work work but it got done. Civics the dahs is eays thoghu ebcause they've jsut got a pod on top so he took the pod from one side to the other.
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And in UAE they convert Skylines to LHD using all kinds of crazy shit, but if you want to do it properly you really have to do it so that you start to do stuctural work.
Don't import dude.. buy one already imported.. someone in Alberta on dorikaze is selling a 90 Levin GTZ for $6500 CDN Why go thru all the retarded-ness of converting when you can import or buy an already imported one for about the same money.
Man, If I wasn't looking for a house, this car would probably be sitting in my driveway right now.
you may think it's "easy" to do it right but as flashmn says cutting a firewall out is no simple task on a unibody. You could fuck up your car and now your out the money and still have to swap the stuff over. So either leave it LHD because I have no idea why you would want to make a RHD drive car out of a LHD where everyone else drive LHD! It looks different thats all. But doesn't truely serve a purpose. People convert to RHD because thats what we drive and make sense and is a little easier to drive over here.
and do you mean you just going to swap your existing firewall, like swtich the sides... how's that going to work? you can't just turn it over, all the spaces and indents on it will be on the wrong side, they would face into the engine compartment when you need them to face the inside...
and you say you don't want ot swap your stereo? everything in the dash will have to come out anyway. At that point whats the difference in putting it and the speakers into another car?
with the seats the drivers seat in a gts isn't all that much better than the passenger. Unless your a toothpick and need the adjustment that bad. if anything you'd only need the driver seat out of the jdm car since that would make both adjustable (y). and you'd need speedo cable, gauges (not sure if they swaped the tack and speedo to opposite sides like they did in the ae86), Throttle cable, have to fab up all new brake likes and hydrolic lines for the clutch, the swtiches behind the steering wheel since on the jdm cars the turn signal one and such are on opposite sides, stock wiring harness may not be long enough to reach cetain things so you may have to start hacking that up to extend some of the wires, or replace it with the jdm one. With all the parts you are going to need off the jdm car in the end you might as well have bought one.
Simple body work isn't cheap when done properly
Imagine what something as complex as cutting the unibody up and altering it then welding it and such will cost you
yeah just like importing a trueno GTZ and just keeping my LHD GTS, and then having the two of them, then gettin' a AE86, just for the fact that i'll have a panda someday. but i'm lookin' into an all original 71' Chevy 2 Nova, with a 427, which i'll have the three/four cars then, shit i should move to alberta and make some cash then come back and rock all these cars.
lol this is a joke.... if your really into doing this ! i mean really into this lol what i would do is buy a half cut ae92 with the 4agze motor in it. hack off your front end, and weld up the trueno front..
I think this is all a waste of time & alot of bad shit could go wrong wheather you change firewalls or cut your car in half. best bang for you buck would be to buy a whole new car an swap your parts onto that one.
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Why go thru all the retarded-ness of converting when you can import or buy an already imported one for about the same money. 
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