c'mon guys, Ill admit, the whole thing seems a bit sketchy and too good to be true, but anything is possible. I say we give runfan the time he needs to get the pics up. after all, aren't we innocent until proven guilty?

 

I want to see it sitting in there even if it was duck taped in just to get an idea. Since it would no longer be in the car, I'd like to see some good pics of the dash even if it never was in the car - again, just to get an idea of how it MIGHT fit.

I really don't care if it was in there or not. Looking at the pic posted, i think making the dash to door fit would be rough. But, I am sure not in love with the corvette dash if the HUD windshield is $2k. The look alone is not that sweet. tho it is clean looking.

 

Ok I'll go for the innocent until proven guilty. So while we wait some more question. I can't seem to get your story straight. You said you took this to a shop to get it wired. Now that must have been some big bucks, so how much was it.

 

Not in mexico :-D lol.

 

I got excited about this thread...then...

Im calling bs on it. There is a guy on tech that put a c5 dash into a CIVIC... A CIVIC. He managed to make that work, and it hasnt falling apart. I see no way, assuming the dash was in with more than 2 bolts, that it would just fall to pieces. That just sounds silly. That plastic infrastructure of the newer dashes is TOUGH stuff.

The vette dashes are pretty electronically intense. Im doubting a joe shmo shop could get it mounted and wired and working perfectly in a month...and then it falls apart. If they were that good to get it working, they wouldnt put it together in such a way that it was weak.

Sorry man. I really want this to be true. If it is, Ill take back every word, and give you the best swap mod for 2008. BUT, its easier for me to believe that you did all of this...than it is for me to believe you have no camera, no camera phone, no friends or family with a digital camera.... Heck, go get a disposable and get it 1-hour'd at walmart. That'll take less time than waiting for your digital camera. I could imagine doing a swap like this and not documenting it.

J.

 

we're pretty rough on a kid trying to fit in the 3rd gen world. He made a mistake and it snowballed. Hopefully a lesson learned. Runfan1600, I seriously suggest you re-register under a new name and start over, this thread is on page 2 aready in under 5 hours. I suspect that we will be getting email notifications about this thread for, oh I would say the next one or two years unless it gets locked.

 

You know what, if he is full of it, get on and say so, and then I think we should leave him alone, but only if he is man enough to admit it. Or post the pics and prove us wrong. I for one will happily eat my words if he does that. Hell I will make my sig "runfan is a third-gen swap god" for one full year if he can prove he did fit the C6 dash to his car.

 

I too call BS on this phantom dash swap. I work at a custom car shop and worked on quite a few newer vettes and here is where I started calling BS from the get go.Corvette dashes dont just show up at a local wrecker...corvettes the new period dont show up at a local wrecker lol.On top of that if by chance it did it wouldnt have sold for that cheap even for having the driver airbag out.Further more its one thing to make a dash fit into a car..fab mounts..reroute ducking etc.Thats the easy part is hacking it in their..making it look good is a totally different matter.Wiring...I ask this question..how many shops do you know can gather wiring schems for a vette dash without having someone working at gm to supply you with that knowledge..for a small fee Im sure Alot of the vette electronics are computer controlled and arent just simple cut and splice..they run on certain resistances and referrence signals that our cars just dont have lol.So id love to see the bill on what he paid just for wiring alone and thats assuming it all worked and all the bcms etc are there..or you just added aftermarket guages to the dash which i would suggest if my shop had that job.I also doubt the console would line up in our cars if the dash was in place aswell unles it was severly hacked considering looking at the pic above their shifter is heavily towards the driver side.Anyway the proof is in the pudding and Im not tasting any or even smell it close by so.....BS.End rant

 

Runfan, you started something here that you should follow through with. You posted a swap that in alot of our minds is VERY difficult. Not impossible. We all know anything is possible given time, money, and skill (wether its yours or a shops). BUT, what you did again was post something that was of interest to alot of us and you provided nothing more at this point than a good campfire story.

Are some of us being harsh, hell yes. I know I'd probably get my **** handed to me if I showed up with my car at a cruise and started lighting off outlandish stories to the old timers if I didn't have anyproof.
Put it this way, what do you think of the kid that says he has a 10 second car before you see it. First thing that comes to mind is "BS, yeah right". Then you see the car and are either proven right or you see a 10 second car.
A good idea would be to post some proof of your swap attempt.

If you want to tell stories then ask the moderators to set up a "Theoretical Swap forum" that would go right next to the "Theoretical Racing" forum.

 

Well said... I dont want to be right... I really want to see this. I just see now way to believe that someone pulled off (probably the only person on earth) swapping in a C6 dash in a thirdgen...but had absolutely no way of getting a pic. Heck, the shop, assuming they were smart enough to pull this off, would realize what they were working with, and I would put money on them having a camera available. They would have snapped pics of that masterpiece.

Im hoping he comes back with something. I dont like to see enthusiastic kids ran off this site. But at the same time...nothing bothers me more than someone coming up with something good, or has a solution to a problem...but then never comes through with it.

J.

 

Well, this thread got interesting!!! I have seen corvette dashes at the Junkyards (In fact theres one near me that speciallizes in corvettes) But they want like 2500.00 bucks for them, complete!!! The reason the passenger airbag might not be blown, would be that there is a weight sensor in the passenger seat that only turns on the airbag if there is a weight exceeding 50 pounds on it (Prevention against child death in the case of a car seat, or small child) You can get the "Target" film for the H.U.D. from several glass companies. they make it as an aftermarket film because the pontiac GTP had the H.U.D. for a while and the winshield with the film in it has been dis-continued. I would love to see the swap done, but I'm.....skeptical, to say the least....

 

As much as I would love to see pics, I have a feeling we'll never see any.

I put a 92 dash in my 84 and it took over a month, and that is the same generation of the same car. Took forever to find the wiring diagrams, and then getting everything to work.

I highly doubt that anyone not working within GM would be able to even get the wiring diagrams for a 07 Vette, at least not for cheap.

So if a shop did the wiring they would charge a very large amount of money to recoup the research, materials and then the actual labor of such a job.

If you want to keep any credibility on this forum, you need to post pics. Ask a neighbor if you can borrow their camera or something.

 

I'm going to call his principle and see if we can resolve this with a detention.

 

for wiring diagrams, you can go to a good GM dealer and pick up the service manual for almost any vehicle ever made by GM. They are a little over 100.00. I own several of them and, believe me, theyre worth the money!!! LOL. I imagine you could do the same for the corvette (2008 models are not all available, yet.) Complete wiring diagrams are in there, so the wiring is a snap, if you know what you are doing. To make the speedometer work you would have to use an aftermarket buffer like the one made by dakota digital.... It's possible, but is it probable?

 

you know come to think of it all the gauges are controled by the BCM, (or ECM not sure) so there for you would have to put the BCM of the vette in there, along with the sensors for the motor (ie coolent temp oil psi) the HUD would display on a standard glass, its just not as easy to see, you can tell that by the post of people using old grand prix and i think olds. HUDs on our cars

im throwing my flag i hate to do so, i never throw flags

 

Whats getting even funnier than the origional post is all of the reasons people are giving explaining why it's B.S.

 

Man ya'll need to lay the hell off. He lied .. Big whoop hes a kid and kids do stupid stuff.. do ya'll remember what crap you all did in your days? probably something much worse then lying on a forum. Probably in another form as in blowing up mailboxes or something. Leave him alone. I don't care whether he did it or not, We need to try and keep members coming back around here or it WONT be a forum anymore..

2cents...

 

lol! i'm not even going to touch this!

but yes as stated above, the 07 vette uses the CAN bus system, no way you'd just be wiring up the cluster to work without using many other modules from the car as well instead of direct inputs to the cluster, most of it is sent as information on the CAN bus to the cluster. Not to mention the HVAC module, the ducting for the hvac distribution, the actuators for the hvac. even the radio is on the bus. BS dude, I work for GM.

 

The statute of limitations has run out - so yes I blew one up right at 30 yrs ago.

I've done some things in my life and my friends immediately and brutally called me on them and didn't let up until my tail was tucked. It's called learning. Bet he doesn't do it again. The friends I have now would do the same to me right now at 45 yrs old. AND they would tell me flat out if it was wrong - that is true friends in my book. And we would get over it just as quick.

Now I don't think anyone here said he was a bad person. Just HAD a little problem stretching the truth.

 

 

how did you get pics of my GTA?

 

what are you guys talking about this is totally possible my car turns into a huge robot with asrse kicking super nukes!! c6 dash is nothing! lmao

ya i say bs on the dash. I wouldnt mind having those door panels thou bet we could make those fit.. i know c5 center consoles fit doing one right now just a lil low the whole dash... i say no. if he can prove us wrong thou then ill eat my words. and yes u do need a certain windshield/film too display the hud properly

 

I just love those 88' interiors!

The only reason this thread is still going is because we all truely want to see this done. Only wish it wasnt BS...

 

ell, we all want to see it done.....Will we ever? Probably not. Not to say its impossible.... Just improbable. It would be a hell of a lot of work. It would be easier to make a mold and produce in fiberglass, and there would still be problems.... It would be cool though.

 

Lol sorry guys went off a little last night. My statue of limitations wont run out for a while so im gonna keep the truth to be told for a while. lol

 

If I had the experience and tools customizing interiors I think I would try something similar. That does look sweet in that pic. I like the console.

But I just have to keep in mind that I can't justify that kinda money and time in a $4000 car. Even if I put $10,000 in the dash and it came out perfect like in the pic above, I might get an extra 1000 or 2000 at resale. And I could get that with new tires, wheels and an engine - and still lose money.

Yea I know its not about resale value - but dam thats a lot of work.

 

I'm glad none of this is true. 07 vette dash in a 3rd gen? Give me a break...
4th gens are bad enough

 

at least the 4th gen dashes dont say "corvette" across them.
just as bad as ls1 vette fuel rail covers.
i dont know why people wannt put something that says corvette in another make.
just me?

 

nope, i am with you

 

So I called three different shops to see if it even possible to eletronically hook everything up...all three said no way, with the whole system being way more high-tec than the camaro, the compatibility of the camaros sensors is non exsistant, and will not register on the vette's guages, plus haven't they been using the "data board" instead of wiring on the back of guage clusters for some years?? so how do you 'wire it in' Also didn't he state that the center display worked....how would that work, that reads oil temps, fuel economy, fuel pressure, etc. i didn't know that the stock camaro computer was way ahead of it's time in technology.

 

He is a punk. I hope he doesn't even have a 3rd gen.

 

it's probably one of those run down ones you see driving around that is such a sad sight.

 

Wow, you're like a third gen detective. Finally, a definitive reason why it's not possible. Maybe to REALLY get to the bottom of it you should have called 5 shops. Just to make REALLY sure.

 

well i wanted it to be true, cause that would be sweet....but no not going to happen

 

No, it's not. And I'm sure we'll never hear from him again.

 

ahh disappointing, have there have been alot of threads with someone making up huge claims lately? or am i crazy? <which is a possibility

 

nope, its not just you, just go to the thread "Phase I done, Phase II-interior almost done, and now Phase III-drivetrain (454 LSX!)" now that guy is full of crap!

 

darn, i have vette wheels on my car with the vette logo and will have vette C5 brakes with CORVETTE in white lettering on the read caliper..... i guess i just want a vette and cant afford it right now

 

Oh, it could be done... You would have to GUT a complete corvette for its entire harness, ecm, bcm, engine, etc. You would have to strip your F-body completely, run a t-56 (MOst likely) and make your f-body think its a vette. Is it worth it? Probably not. The cost would be at least 8,000 if you did it all yourself AND got good deals on the parts. Would I do it? No, but if someone wants to pay me to do it, then I will, just to say; "Yeah, I've done it" LOL

 

Accurate auto in des plaines did the wiring?

 

Horrible...why don't you just have a corvette with corvette all over it and a Camaro with camaro all over it? Be proud you have a camaro and not some car you don't.

 

It's his car, let him do with it as he pleases, who are you to tell him what he should and shouldn't have done with his car?

 

now everyone is acting like a bunch of babys the guy hasnt wrote back its crap probably, so just this stupid post

 

You're kidding, right? That guy backs it up with a running journal with pix's.

 

lol it was kinda a joke, my car is sorta saying 'corvette' with the wheels and brakes. well atleast the brakes are better than stock and the wheels look good. nothing i can do about the lettering.

 

I hope everyone realizes....That if he "lied"....The his amusement is only enhanced by the continued posting on this thread.

Let it die & remove the satisfaction of seeing it continue or being locked.

I'm getting tired of seeing the thread pop up under 'New Posts' searches.

Let it die.....

 

no Im kidding, hes doing an amazing job which kind of contradicts the image of alot of thirdgen owners... and the original poster in this thread pretty much sums up what third gen owners are thought of.

 

Stephen, if you're tired of seeing it then DON'T fricken open the thread. I'll be harsh on anyone trying to blow smoke up anyone's **** just like I said I'd expect to have my **** handed to me if I'm trying to blow smoke up anyone else's ****. For the original poster who started this thread, if people want to take turns blowing smoke and talking the "what if we built a 2000hp engine and put it in my 3rd gen" then let them ask the question. Don't let them post a thread that initially leads you to believe its been done only to waste 5mins reading to find out the whole thread is bunk.

Whatever, I personally don't mind seeing this thread show up, if I want to check it then I will, otherwise I'll pass by it.

 

Did you take your prozak?
This whole "vette on camaro" thing is annoying so I wanted to get a response on it from someone who does it, not from someone who didn't take their Prozak.

"lol it was kinda a joke, my car is sorta saying 'corvette' with the wheels and brakes. well atleast the brakes are better than stock and the wheels look good. nothing i can do about the lettering."

See Nova. Go take your Prozak.

 

i usually get a lil annoyed with the vette thing on camaros too but i like their rims and brakes thats bout it....