Front end swap 81 to 83-87

[Carlosg254]

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?

[Irish_Alley]

so you want to swap the dual head lights and what?

[Carlosg254]

Right now it has single headlights and fogs on the bumper but I want to make it dual headlights like from 86

[zieg85]

It is going to take a complete core support to do the swap and new front bumper

[Carlosg254]

Why a new front bumper? How hard will it be to swap the core support

[zieg85]

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

[Carlosg254]

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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[zieg85]

Not hard if you aren't working with a rust bucket.

[81_Chevy]

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.