So i was at the wrecker looking for torque star rims for my '98 GT, and i found a '01ish Regal GS with the rear end smashed up. Can i top swap this onto my car? What kinda hours do you think are involved in the swap by a mechanic?
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02-28-2009
So i was at the wrecker looking for torque star rims for my '98 GT, and i found a '01ish Regal GS with the rear end smashed up. Can i top swap this onto my car? What kinda hours do you think are involved in the swap by a mechanic?
02-28-2009
However many hours it takes to replace the heads. The parts should work.
03-01-2009
youre willing to pay someone to do everything for you? youre probably best off finding a local who will do it and not at a shop. youre going to get raped for labor on that.
03-01-2009
Alright, so if I top swap it, then i can put the supercharger on it too?
03-01-2009
Yes that would be the whole point!
03-01-2009
Make sure you use a supercharged PCM or get yours tuned. The PCM for the non-supercharged cars is very aggressive and you'll blow you're engine with a supercharger on it. If you use the supercharged car's PCM, you'll need your VIN programmed into it.Originally Posted by Aceoage
03-01-2009
leave the supercharged vin. cant program a supercharged motor with a non supercharged vin with hptuners.
03-02-2009
You can, once you liscence the file you can change it back, I have a S/C file with a NA VIN
03-03-2009
Can with my DHP, I'm pretty sure. Otherwise I'll have to mod a L36 file so the VIN matches what's in my BCM.
03-03-2009
i have an l67 VIN and motor .bin with an l36 tranny .bin. a friend of mine who does the tuning said they had a hell of a time getting everything straightened out with another l67 GT because he still was using his GT VIN.
03-03-2009
That doesn't make any sense. It's all one file. Maybe they copied the tables from one into the other, but it's still all one .bin.
If he's using HPTuners that may be. Never heard of that problem with the DHP PT.
03-03-2009
meh, yeah. tables are swapped over. 3.29s rule.
03-04-2009
Ok better deal $600 CDN, full top swap and pcm swap including parts from another local wrecker. A set of highly polished torque stars for $150 and whatever else i want from the car for free.
03-04-2009
Ask him how much to do a engine/tranny/pcm swap from your car to that car. He'd probably only ask a couple hundred bucks depending on the miles of each and you dont have to tear into your engine. I think you'll need the axles too. Bam, you have a gtp without a boost guage thinger on your DIC.
03-04-2009
^you could get the DIC to read boosty if you wanted
03-05-2009
I've got boost in my DIC, I know alot of them don't though.
I will definitely look into doing everything.
03-05-2009
Another question, would i need a different Ignition Control Module?
The car that's there doesn't have one anymore.
03-05-2009
nope, they are the same. you just need the coil pack bracket because the GT one doesnt have an idler spot.
03-05-2009
ICM is the same, I believe. Coils are better on the L67, but it shouldn't make that much difference.
03-05-2009
I'm still waiting to see proof of that because the internals of the coils have the same part numbers.
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