i have a 85 trans am and want to know if parts from a 86 camaro would fit the trans am

 

most stuff works other than dash and some body panels but a camaro nose would replace a firebird nose

 

I'd love to see a picture of that. Does anyone have one??

 

I dont but I have seen a camaro nose on a firebird & a firebird nose on a camaro not pretty at all

 

im pretty sure the fenders need to be swapped as well

 

the fenders have to be changed to i saw one on craigslist a while back a camaro with a ta nose i looked back and couldnt find it

 

The problem with swapping fenders from a Firebird to Camaro or Camaro to Firebird is the fender flairs and wheel openings are quite different.

At a glance they look to be the same, but a Camaro wheel opening is about 1" or so longer than the Firebird. Also the Firebird is more round where the Camaro is more elongated in shape.

The fender flairs on a Camaro have a more definate line where it meets the body, but the Firebird is more soft and rounded.

I think it would be easier to take a Firebird nose and put it on a camaro and then fill in the rear quarter flairs to match the front wheel fender flairs...

John

 

You can do that but you need to swap out the entire front end. Everything ahead of the doors would need to be replaced. However, like okfoz said, the wheel openings are quite a bit different and it's really noticable once on the car. The only body panels that are the same between Camaros and Firebirds are the doors and hatch and even those have different holes for the ground effects and spoiler. As far as the interior goes, all the dash and console parts are different but outside of that everything is more or less interchangable.

 

to go back to the original post, what parts were you interested in swapping? And welcome to the site! You'll find a wealth of knowledge here about these cars.

 

i need the drivers door , back seat, and maybe a few small parts inside

 

SHould be no problem, those parts are typically all the same... Except the small parts inside some things are either Firebird or Camaro specific, typically trim, the exception is the dash is obviously different between models... Like Thirdgen ranch said tho, you may have to drill new holes in the doors for the ground effects to work... But the door will fit on the car.

Also if you have a one piece rear seat it will fit in any car, but if you have a two piece, it will only fit in a two piece equipped car... The center for the 2 piece seats is a tube that was welded to the transmission/driveshaft tunnel.

Does that make sence?

JOhn

 

ya that makes sense thanks for the help

 

Just so you know, the Trans Am ground effect holes are quite a bit higher than the Camaro ones. If you put Camaro ground effects on a Trans Am door the top half of the Trans Am ground effect holes will usually show so you would have to fill those holes. I don't know if you would want to go to that much trouble when you shouldn't have much of a problem finding a Camaro door.