johnmarines
10+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 1, 2008
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houston,
Texas
Well after much debate on whether or not I should justify the expense of a conversion on my 98 spyder to AWD I went ahead and bit the bullet. I was having major traction issues and pretty tired of watching myself burn up tires while I'm standing still. I located a 95 gsx auto up north to use as a donor car and the price was right. I bought it and had it shipped here to houston texas. After alot of reading on the subect I decided to tackle most of the install myself. It didnt to look to bad. All in all it wasnt hard at all. I was completly surprised at the ease of the whole swap. I did the swap in 3 different sundays.(sunday has been my only day off) I was expecting help but as alot of people already know... friends tend to flake out at the last minute. Anyways to make a long story short I did the entire swap by myself in my driveway. I parted the donor car out and made up alot of the money that I had used to buy the donor. Total price for the swap after everything was sold was about 1k. Not to bad if I do say so myself. Anyways I would go into details on the swap but there is a GREAT writeup on her already that walked me threw it so I will just throw out some random pictures that were taken during the swap
Here is the donor car coming in on the trailer
A few pictures of the partout
Here are the parts I was after from the donor car
And some pictures of the actual swap
car as it sat for the swap
old rear end coming out
Old gas tank coming out Damn thats alot of evac hoses
One of the old bolts playing pick a boo.
AWD bolt..top... gst bolt... bottom
had to cut the crossmember to get to the second bolt
Installing the new gas tank bolts
Here is the donor car coming in on the trailer
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A few pictures of the partout
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Here are the parts I was after from the donor car
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And some pictures of the actual swap
car as it sat for the swap
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old rear end coming out
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Old gas tank coming out Damn thats alot of evac hoses
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One of the old bolts playing pick a boo.
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AWD bolt..top... gst bolt... bottom
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had to cut the crossmember to get to the second bolt
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Installing the new gas tank bolts
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