runfan1600

Ok so i know that you can swap a 4th gen dash with a 3rd gen, but about a week ago a new well was new 07 corvette got totalled(front end basicly gone from a semi)

Basically do you think it is in anyway possible to do a swap? The interior of the car is perfect

Darkshot

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I have a feeling you won't find a lot of people with experience, not a lot of C6 dash boards just hanging around without a home.

All the little technicalities can be figured out, however you are going to have to look at the physical dimensions of both cars and decide if it's going to work. I know nothing about a 2007 Corvette but I can see how depending on the design it just would not be possible due to different body characteristics. You could however get lucky and find that little modification is necessary.

Before you turn a screw, start observing closely and take some measurements!

xlwhellraiser

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Everything is possible.

With some ingenuity you will be able to make it work.

The worst thing you can do is dissmiss it without trying.

ParkerTPIz

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i agree with xlwhellraiser, anything is possible...but im pretty sure it would take tons of fab work and mock up time.

it would be awesome if it were completed successfully!

runfan1600

so you guys want me to try it? i was about to do a 4th gen swap but i need a place to get the parts and the junk yeard would sell me the corvette dash and console for only $220!!!!

ParkerTPIz

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i think so, wouldnt it be awesome to be the first???!!!!

runfan1600

K ill try i should have the money next pay check just got a $1200 exhaust.

Stephen

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For that price, I'd be real tempted to try!

Tape a tape measure to the depth, height & width of the dash & console, and see how close it is...and let us know!

toxik IROC

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do it!

runfan1600

i plan on trying it. if it doesnt work does any1 know were i can get a 4th gen 97-02 firebird/camaro dash and console. But only trouble i think about the corvette dash other then some trimming would be the air flow and the center screen wireing

xlwhellraiser

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Here is how I would attack it.

Measure it, measure measure measure . Then see where you have to cut. Buy some very low profile soft foam. Get some semi glossy leather fabric (any fabric store would do). Cut everything to fit, use the foam under and fabric over with a heat gun and cover it up nicely so it looks professional like on most new cars.

From there you will have to figure out how to wire the vette dash with the sensors you have. However, by then you will have the drive to figure it out.

Its definitely unique and possible. Plus if you fail you know that you've tried your best.
There is no shame in that.

bryan89

I say do it. Ive been thinking about doing the swap myself but havent found any wrecked C6s around here.

drknow90rs_ss@y

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I woud love to have the opportunity to try the swap. anything can be done with a little time and patience!! The junkyards around here want 1800.oo for one with the airbags intact. (When the pass side airbag goes off it usually destroys the dash!!) GO FOR IT,MAN!!!!!

runfan1600

GOD DAMN IT!!!! ok so i had the dash hooked up and the guarges working(yes even the center screen) and then i got the console to fit and as i was wire the console i hear a little cracking sound and then i look at the dash and it seemed good. so i hooked up the whole console and dash, trust me u got to be very accurate with ever measurmeant. i dont have a cam yet it comes in the mail next week and so i figured i would show off the car and drive around. new exhaust made it sound amazing and having the feeling of the completion of the swap looking stock other then the steering wheel(kept old one) so the 1st day of friving was awsome and people just looked at me with mouths dropped to the floor. so the next day i went to school with it and every1 saw it. man was i happy. after sports i went and got in my car and started the engine and drove aorund and went over rail road track and then all the sudden the dash is in my lap. i took the dash out and was crack in half from left to right. trust me i tried fixing it

God i wish i had pictures of it. it was so nice and one of a kind swap, pretty sure im the first whos done it.

Now just got to wait for another corvette to get wrecked.

so now im doing a 4th gen console swap with my 3rd gen dash. any1 know were i can get a firebird radio pod for cheap?

Thanks for all your support.

80schild

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Damn, I would have freaked out. lol

AC

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Runfan, was there any trimming or filliing needed to fit the C6 dash? The vettes are a wider car than ours. How did the front edge look on the dash. Did you need to use a heat gun anywhere? I need details!!!

runfan1600

Heres the steps i did.

1) pull out old dash and console and wireing. (not radio wireing, just for the gauges)

2) lots and lots of measuring. then see how it fits before any trimming or anything just to see were u have to cut. and i marked with a sharpie permanent marker(shows up good with a shine)

3) Measure the console and just like the dash see how it sits. Only thing i didnt like sence i drive an auto was the shift placemeant. so your going to have to move your shifter about anywere from an inch to inch and half, depends what feels comfy for you. and your shifter is going to look tall because the console sits really low.

4) were i trimmed.
i trimmed the top of the dash so it would fit like the old tash sence the dash stuck out alot more. then the air ducts/vents. i layed both dashes side by side and compared them. the corvettes air ducts(the main one that connects to the firewall) were a little longer then the camaros, and wasnt the shape for the hole. so i cut off the camaros duct and glued/molded it to the corvette air ducts. then the corvette dash was a tad wider and i trimmed it about 3/4 on both sides and then wet sanded with i think was 400 grit? then just repainted the sides. Then trimmed the bottom panals of the driver and passanger side of the old dash to fit.

5) after the trimming i test fitted and it felt good for me. took it out see were i could bolt it at. the two arm things that held up the original dash on each side work fine. after getting it bolted up were i liked how it sat i left it for a day in the garage to see if it warped. turned out it was good. then took the dash out and started wiring.

6) i dont know anything about the wireing i had a custom shop wire for me.
But i had to go back to the junk yard and rip out the wires for the gauges for the dash they chraged me $20 for it . And if u do your own wireing dont feel bad about if u have extra buttons u dont need, it still looks awsome for others that dont know.

7) Putting dash and console together (take your time, seriously)
OK have your dash all wired up. put ur dash in and bolt it. simple but dont mess up and rush it. Now the cosole. make sure its wired and then bolt it up. (just drill 2 holes were the old console bolts were in the old console. u should have measure it out) and the console hooks up pretty high on the dash. so dont freak out like i did going like the old console was all the way at the bottom etc. once you have it all in check everything and check again. try jiggling the dash to see if its lose or not.

8) start your engine and make sure everthing works. rpm. lights , radio, ac...etc.

9) Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

I still dont know how it cracked so if any1 ever does this swap again and makes it with no problems compare the steps so i can redo the swap in the future.

TIMMYS89GTA

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Any pics of the dash at all?

Sonymaster20

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I would like to see some pictures of it messed up. or pictures of the dash taken out. Its a damn good idea.

runfan1600

like i said in a couple posts above. i get my camera next week sometime, depends on how long it takes for ground delivery.

AC

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Just the fact that the speedo supposedly worked from a 2007 into the 92. I know both use an electronic VSS but whats the chances the new vettes are using 4000ppms for their guage?

runfan1600

i drive an 87 camaro so i dont have electonic gauges, i dont know how the shop wired it up i could ask, only thing i wired was the hatch release and the two windows. and those were in the console box against the wall faceing the front of the car.

//<86TA>\\

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i would really like to have a HUD.

as or the dash, you really need to get some measurements first to see if its ever remotely close to the right size and depth
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that would be easy to deal with compaired to the rest of the job

runfan1600

im lost on what you mean about the dash. i had the dash is and it cracked in half and fell on my lap

FNFAL308

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what is the name of the shop that did the wiring?

runfan1600

Accurate Auto

BMAN90RS

thats freakin awesome man, im subscribing and look forward to see the pics!

stage20

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im a lil confused. your post saying you got it in and working seems to me you did the install and all the wiring, now a shop did it?
id like to see pics of the broken dash myself.... i could cut one in half, it would still be bolted to the car in some shape or fashion.
askhole or a bubble burster? i dunno.
im from missouri. show me!

Brennan

dude no offense but the whole thing seems kinda fishy to me almost to perfect im subscribing just to see some pics if they dont show up you know you will be famous around the forum for all the wrong reasons. it would be kick *** if you actually did it but that remains to be seen please prove me wrong cuz i wanna see it bad

89RS_82Z

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im one for leaving mine all original, but dang i want to see this!!!!!

i do like custom work, would like to find a junker 3rd (not all matching) to do some major custom work to

Stevo

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I also some how find this all VERY hard to believe. Here you were asking if its possible and how to go about doing it then WAM in under a month you had a wired vette dash installed. Then it cracked and fell in your lap. I don't understand how that happens...you have no pictures...

BMAN90RS

make that 3, prove me wrong too.

AC

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Alright guys, you were obviously a little less gentle than I was trying to be. I'll be the Ahole, sorry runfan1600 but whole thing sounds and smells like horse shart. Post up a pick or two. Alot of us have been around the block and have built multiple 3rd gens, done multiple swaps. The fact that you picked the newest most hi-tech GM OEM offering out there probably SMELLS like crap when you make it sound like snip, tape, measure, cut, bolt in. NOTHING is that easy when not only are you crossing platforms but skipping multiple generations of vehicle. Pics are worth a thousand words.

Brennan

you just said what everybody was thinkin and to make it a little bit more unbelievable the dash FELL OFF THE FIREWALL MYSTERIOUSLY and he might have his old dash in before he gets a camara?

BMAN90RS

Ok. this may have been covered already, maybe I missed it, but didnt he say teh corvette was wiped out in the front my a truck? You mean to tell me an 07 vette gets smashed and the airbag doesnt go off and ruin the dash? Come on BS

stage20

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old dash.... its always been the same one!

VAN454

This all seems very sus, If it was bolted in with the stock brackets like you said, why would it "crack in half" ? I haven't had a look at a vette dash out of the car, but most modern dashes are not made of a brittle plastic that cracks easily. I would have been more inclined to believe you if you said the mounts you had to make failed, but according to you the stock vette mounts work, I call B.S. unless I see some pics.

Brennan

FNFAL308

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I kinda thought you would come back and say it was a joke.

No regular auto place will have the ability/knowledge to wire something like that up and you wouldn't have the money to pay the big dogs unless you are rich. Since you had to wait to buy the dash at $250ish I'd say you are not rich.

Either way, a great wiring shop with the ability to do this wouldn't do it in a month because they just haven't done it before - or maybe I should buy a lotto ticket tonight. And they would be busy as hell.

And the dash falling out? That was my first clue as to BS. I could chainsaw a dash in two and 95% of it would stay in. If it was that rigged and ready to fall out no one would have touched the wiring.

Unless you propped it in with duct tape and got a friend to wire it telling them you would mount it better after it was wired. If this is the case everyone was looking at you cause it looked like A$$.

runfan1600

ok i seriously had the dash in, and the driver airbag went off not the pass idk why. and they said the dash wireing wasnt to hard with the corvette electonic wireing. And if my mom doesnt throw it away when im at school and when the camera comes in ill deff take pics. And idk why the dash crack and snapped off.

Believe it or not

im going to take pictures when the camera comes in. and if i dont have pics up the 1st week of september its because im getting a faster internet connect.

Spike-Z

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Nuff said. Lock this thread.

runfan1600

what you mean lock?

RS Reaper

I'm pretty sure if the corvette was hit in the front that sucker would be torn up, my bet is the dash would have already been cracked after that. Also for how many corvette crash I've seen those things just shatter or the semi would just steam roll it. lol
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The att is a pic of a 2007 corvette dash, I have a hard time in seeing this thing in a junk yard

Brennan

lock it so nobody else can post cuz this whole thing is a crock of **** as far as im concerned

runfan1600

the car looks like a body without a front. the right(passanger) fender was actually still attatched to the body but was bent all the way back towards the door. and the drivers side was gone maybe about 2inch? inwards from the door was a gash but it was faceing away from the rear.

scribbles

Subscribe, I want to see the mystery dash. Doesn't the HUD need a special windshield that is like 2k

runfan1600

if you read abov in the steps i trimmed the dash like the old dash top so it would fit. sence the corvettes dash was longer in length/raised up more

Stevo

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the corvette elecTONIC wirEing .... as opposed to the camaro fake electronic wiring?

god i hate kids.

sailtexas186548

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hey, we're not all wack jobs like this guys turning out to be if he cant put up pics

stage20

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this is one that doesnt need to be locked.... yet!
i wanna see pics of something!!!!
hahaha.