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Title: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: Carlosg254 on November 06, 2013, 10:56:19 pm
I have been wanting to do a front end swap on my 81 chevy. It had a phantom grill and prefer the factory grill with dual headlights from 83-87
Which would be the easiest to do and what would I need?
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: Irish_Alley on November 06, 2013, 11:19:26 pm
so you want to swap the dual head lights and what?
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: Carlosg254 on November 06, 2013, 11:24:09 pm
Right now it has single headlights and fogs on the bumper but I want to make it dual headlights like from 86
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: zieg85 on November 07, 2013, 06:22:29 am
It is going to take a complete core support to do the swap and new front bumper
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: Carlosg254 on November 07, 2013, 03:18:25 pm
Why a new front bumper? How hard will it be to swap the core support
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: zieg85 on November 07, 2013, 05:47:54 pm
Why a new front bumper? How hard will it be to swap the core support
You don't "need" a new front bumper just that the turn signals for a 1986 is in the grill.  You don't have to keep it there, just made an assumption that you wanted to go all 1986 quad headlights
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: Carlosg254 on November 07, 2013, 05:55:32 pm
Oh okay I was thinking just keeping the turn signals on the bumper and just have the 86 grill for looks but working headlights, how hard is the core support swap?


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Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: zieg85 on November 07, 2013, 06:08:29 pm
Not hard if you aren't working with a rust bucket.
Title: Re: Front end swap 81 to 83-87
Post by: 81_Chevy on November 08, 2013, 11:31:07 am
theres litterally like 3 or 4 bolts on each side and then 2 or 3 on the bottom on each side to take it off. you can do it in about 2 hours, its just taking everything off that takes a while.