hey any body on here have a newer camaro front on thier older camaro ?? i got a 84 camaro and i recieved a 92 camaro front i want to put in i tried yesterday and i got the top n botton easy bolts but the thing was the sides bolts that go into the fender i managed to get the 3 bolts off the left side but the right side was so friggin hard so i gave up iam bout to take it to a body shop and make them put it in
had any body here done this? and if the 3 bolts on the right side taken off theres not going to be any nice lil surprise bolts waitn for me will there?

 

Dont give up and pay someone else to do that! the only other bolt that you may have to deal with other than the ones on the side are the ones that hold the light bar to the radiator support. but it sounds like you already got to those.

 

I had the same problem with my 84 when trying to put an 88 nose on it. It turned out that the honeycomb support stuff under the bumper is a little bit different but not much. The honeycomb was hitting against the bumper skin and wouldn't let one side bolt in all the way. I just shaved a little piece of on one of the ends to get it to fit. If this still doesnt work, you could also loosen the fenders a bit to help bolt the nose on, then tighten them back up

 

man this is a bitch i went to a body shop to put in my front end and they looked at me as if i was crazy im thinkin dont you guys put in front ends when theres accidents? im goin to another one probbaly

 

when we switched my brothers sport coupe front end out for an 89 rs nose we used fenders and all and swapped the whole thing at once with fenders connected.....

it wasnt too hard at all but we didnt have the nose unbolted

 

i really dont want to go thru the hassle of getting another fender n buyin them but taking off the fender with the front end was that easy??

 

or can i take off the fender n when its out i take off the front end and when thats out i screw the 92 front in with the bumper? and then with the fender and front end installed is it ready to installl from there? oh yeh i wouldnt have to buy new fenders right ?

 

no your fenders will work just fine with the newer nose

its not that difficult to remove the nose by its self thou ......just jack it up and keep looking under neath it for bolts until you have them all removed and the nose will pretty much fall off it shouldnt take more than an hour or so to remove and install the new one.....

we had the complete front clip off my brothers car ljnowell...in less than 20 min we left the fenders attatched to the nose

and reinstalling it took about an hour to realign it ...and rebolt it down ....still needs some slight tweaking but all in all it looks good...

 

i got the top and bottom bolts to come off but the thing that is holding me back is the 3 screws on the sides that bolt the nose and the fender on the passenger side i got all three bolts off but the drivers side i only managed to take out 1 bolt n the rest theres hardly any clearance to take off i think ill just go take off the fenders n then take off the nose ill probably do it @ autobody class tuesday ill keep yall updated oh and also will a front chin valance off a 89 iroc fit on the 92 bumper?

 

have you removed the plastic fender wells? To get those bolts i just removed those and then just turned the wheel ( or take off) to get my arm in there. i used a 1/4 rachet with a deep 10. Takes some time to get them all the way loose because theres not much room but its doable.

 

man there was alot of bolts mad bolts well after like the help of my 2 friends i got it on and looks great but i gotta put on the little chinspoiler wat size screws sold i buy to connect the front end with the spoiler