unless you have the money to cut your car in half and have its welded back together at a frame shop i would say go ahead ..but if not its better to do a firewall conversion ..plus when you pull your motor you can clean the bay and tuck away some wires.and its a good learning experience

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by velocitytrends &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">When i first got her, put a few things on her and cleaned her up!







The way she looks now after changing a few things.





I won hottest JDM at this event!







My hatch was a firewall conversion. I do NOT recommend the front clip conversion. Have fun and enjoy! It is really fun driving, but drives thru's suck!

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Nice hatch! but ARGH nothing bugs me more then RHD convertions with the radio antena STILL ON THE LEFT!!!! gives it away!

 

lol...I know!

 

weve done it, the best way i believe is to cut through the floor pan mid way in the door, and @ halfway up the a-pillar, we inserted some tabs inside each section on all sides of the boxed sections. then a decent cage that ties the firewall and foor together on each side. with my 10 years of autobody experience the car will never be strong enough without the cage. since uni-body cars have multiple layered sections pretty much everywhere.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aksr20det &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">weve done it, the best way i believe is to cut through the floor pan mid way in the door, and @ halfway up the a-pillar, we inserted some tabs inside each section on all sides of the boxed sections. then a decent cage that ties the firewall and foor together on each side. with my 10 years of autobody experience the car will never be strong enough without the cage. since uni-body cars have multiple layered sections pretty much everywhere.</TD></TR></TABLE>

How is that better than swapping firewalls?

Yager-

 

way too many layers in the floor section of the firewall/ thats the most structural part of the entire car.

 

cutting and pasting cars together (whole clips) are illegal now in florida i believe, theres a guy in miami that does rhd conversations in miami at east coast mayham (sp?). i think he does it by way of the firewall but the work is clean from what ive seen.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by eg cookiemonster &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">cutting and pasting cars together (whole clips) are illegal now in florida i believe, theres a guy in miami that does rhd conversations in miami at east coast mayham (sp?). i think he does it by way of the firewall but the work is clean from what ive seen.</TD></TR></TABLE>

It is clean...ask for powder wen you call!

 

how much does a front clip cost?

 

the guy with the turbo car, is that a show car, becuase u got all that nice stuff and ur runing a POS FMU

 

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honestly if i have a problem with the e-manage, ill upgrade to aem or uberdata, but i have no problems with it at all. maybe once i get a t3/t4 and build the head ill stick something "better" on it, but if it aint broke, don't fix it

 

love the right hand drive but why go all out jdm with a rhd conversion and buy a fake mugen valve cover PS good luck bojo with the conversion it should look sweet

 

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You have no idea what your talking about so please hush.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by robtheslob &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">love the right hand drive but why go all out jdm with a rhd conversion and buy a fake mugen valve cover PS good luck bojo with the conversion it should look sweet</TD></TR></TABLE>

Because 900 dollars for a valve cover is ****** retarded... 99% of the people in the world cant tell the difference anyhow

 

hmmm, yea the fmu is pretty weak.. did you do the conversion yourself.. can we see pics of the weld quality.. i would be nervous myself.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aksr20det &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">weve done it, the best way i believe is to cut through the floor pan mid way in the door, and @ halfway up the a-pillar, we inserted some tabs inside each section on all sides of the boxed sections. then a decent cage that ties the firewall and foor together on each side. with my 10 years of autobody experience the car will never be strong enough without the cage. since uni-body cars have multiple layered sections pretty much everywhere.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Im sorry but this post makes me luagh inside....

We have done firewall swaps....and it is by far the best and strongest way to do the conversion.... this will keep the uni-body frame rails intact and free from any cutting.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by aksr20det &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">way too many layers in the floor section of the firewall/ thats the most structural part of the entire car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

The fire wall has one layer on the floor....dont know where or who told you that there is multiple layers at the floor of the firewall....


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and why would this happen......the first car we did has seen the track (road coarse) and put down better times then most of the race preped cars at the track that day.....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by deepgreengsr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Body shops weld in fromt clips to fix broken cars. like if they have 2 cars one smashed in the rear and one smashed in the front. No im not talking about what I saw on the Red Green Show.</TD></TR></TABLE> Lmao i thought i was the only person to see that show before.. That old dude cracks me up

 

i have seen firewall conversions that come out perfect and clips 99.9% of the time come out junk

 

all i know is if he does do the front clip way i would get extra reinforcement like a roll cage or something just to make the frame more rigid.

 

as EallmotorF was talking about we build it together in a single car garage...just alot of measurement and it came out mint....look up the honda tuning issue

heres a pic, hope it works...first time posting one



and

 

You made a cam holder?

 

plenty of pics here of the whole build

http://www.jdm.plex.nu

 

you just ruined that car

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by bagpipe goatee &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">on the ef forum, someone did this with two usdm crx's just to solve rust problems

granted some places don't appear to line up, it seems to in the last pic.

its off the topic here https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=881836&page=3

i have no idea how that turned out, but i have seen that done with two totaled newer passats, and it was like brand new.</TD></TR></TABLE>


God I hope that car never got on the road......becasue even I know thats the total wrong way to do it ( and I am not a bodyman). It has to be seperated at existing spot welled joints and not butt welded the way that appears to have been done.

 

i cant see why go through all the trouble for a rhd