can i put a 78 trans am on a 5th gen chassis ?
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can i put a 78 trans am on a 5th gen chassis ?
hello guys
as the title says i want to put my 78 trans am on a 5th chassis and would like to use everything from it engine , trans , diff , suspension etc
can it be done with little modifaction or is it gona be a nightmare ?
any thoughts are helpful
thanks
Ghanim
as the title says i want to put my 78 trans am on a 5th chassis and would like to use everything from it engine , trans , diff , suspension etc
can it be done with little modifaction or is it gona be a nightmare ?
any thoughts are helpful
thanks
Ghanim
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Hey, with a plasma cutter, a welder, & a crap-load of other tools (not to mention MANIAC engineering/fabrication skills), you could probably mount an Abrams tank turret onto a (massively-reinforced) Mini Cooper - the appropriate/relevant question is, "Is it worth investing the time/effort/engineering/cash that would be required in order to make it happen??"
MOST of the time, when people post these questions up here, that answer is no... (Although there have been some notable exceptions to that "rule", the Civette comes immediately to mind...)
EXACTLY.
MOST of the time, when people post these questions up here, that answer is no... (Although there have been some notable exceptions to that "rule", the Civette comes immediately to mind...)
EXACTLY.
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WestCoast Customs did a old charger on a new charger chassis and used the interior. they also did a chevelle on a corvette chassis i think, and hell they did it in a half hour show !
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I've seen people toss around the idea of doing this with a 4th gen, with most giving up on the idea (though there are a few 1st gen/4th builds). However, while the 2nd gen stuff may seem archaic by today's standards (leaf springs!), they still hold their own quite handily with "bolt-on" suspension parts... ...and appear to have more durable suspension and drive train bits than their 3rd and 4th gen cousins.
I haven't looked too closely at 5th gen, but can imagine the cost of a viable donor car would make this a non-starter for most people. Maybe, if you lucked into a car that took a bath in a lake or river, and had mad fab skillz, you could pull it off.
I'm with the others. I'd do a 5th gen drive train perhaps, but not the whole chassis.
I haven't looked too closely at 5th gen, but can imagine the cost of a viable donor car would make this a non-starter for most people. Maybe, if you lucked into a car that took a bath in a lake or river, and had mad fab skillz, you could pull it off.
I'm with the others. I'd do a 5th gen drive train perhaps, but not the whole chassis.