ok i'm not sure how this would work or if it would work at all, but what if I swapped a 2010 interior( dash, seats and all) into my '90 camaro. would it work and what do you guys think about it?

(sorry the pic is so big I couldn't resize it)

 

I think you've got a lot of work ahead of you. It would be really nice, but idk if it would work with the lines of the 3rd gens. It would be so terribly costly too that it wouldn't even make it worth it for another 5 years. All i can say is measure twice and cut once. If the demensions are correct, then you've got something to start with.

 

Well It's your car but I'm not a big fan of the 5th gen interior. I would think that it would take a lot of work to make it fit. But like I said It's your car, If you want to put the effort into it go for it.

Mark.

 

thats one hell of alot of work to do its your choice

 

yeah you are looking at a massive amount of work, and cost. With the amount of modifying of the 2010 parts you will have to do there is no gurantee that they will end up looking like they do in the 2010 camaro. I would get out your tape measure and start doing some serious measuring of both.

 

the swap will cost more than your thirdgen...

 

i agree with what all of you say, and i wasn't actually planning on doing that i was just curious of what you guys thought

 

Wikipedia shows the 5th gen to be 75.5 inches wide, and a 3rd gen as 72.8 inches. Measure carefully.

 

I do like the center console thats about it, but it does not look like it would fit in a thirdgen very well

 

most people seems like they wouldnt consider it. I think it would be cool to see done but wouldnt be willing, myself, to put that kind of time and money into an 3rd gen.

 

i work at a chevy garage now and i see them everyday im not tooo impressed with them at all id just customize the original with your own style/ideas plus its cheaper that way

 

i agree it would be cool to see but i wouldnt do it myself, however, does anyone know if the seats will fit? and also if the steering wheel will replace the third gen wheel?

 

Sorry but I take this post offensively. Especially considering you're driving an import, no matter what engine is in it.

 

Where would you even get a 2010 Dash/Console combo?

 

I would guess a five finger discount .

 

LOL!

 

WHY??? way too much work, not that cool! I'm not a big fan of 4th gen interior swaps either! thats just me i guess.

 

I'm with you. Regardless of my record for firing people up this week, i say if you like the 4th Gen's Interior, get a 4th Gen. The Steering Wheel looks so gaudy with the Air Bag in there. I do like the 5th Gen Interior though. The only problem with that.............. I can't afford a 5th Gen.

 

My steering wheel is ugly with its big a$$ air bag but ill deal with it, as for the 2010 interior the door panels are so cheap feeling as well as the rest, high points are the center gauges like the older camaro/firebirds and the steering wheel is new and cool as well as the seats. The paint on some of the trim in the new camaro is very poorly done for such an expensive car the thirdgen interior is way better fit.

 

I've never been inside a 5th Gen. I'll have to take your word for it. I would LOVE to test drive one of them, but I'm not gonna subject myself to the sales pitch to do it.

 

Perks of working at a chevy dealer most of them are v6 ones but i get the occasional ss and rich guy with a badass z06 thats cammed

 

i think it would be cool

 

Why would you even want that? The third gen interior looks so much better then the fourth gen or the fifth gen interior (I'm actually the biggest fan of the late second gen interior. My parents had a 1980 RS for most of my early life so seeing one of those interiors makes me nostalgic).

 

See if the seats and centre console from a 5th gen would work.

Forget the rest.

 

i'll rain on the parade too, sorry

the guages to my knowledge are going to be serial bus driven, meaning unless you're doing an engine swap too, there's no direct sensor/sender connections like you have on the 3rd gens and the LT1 4th gens

 

oh come on. You know its just a matter of time till someone mods that center gauge console into their third gen

 

couldnt you swap the center gauges in if you did an LS1 swap?? correct me if im wrong, but from what ive read, the LSX engines are all pretty much the same except for displacement and a few minor things. their all the same platform. so wouldnt the sensors from an LS1 work for those gauges?? and if they wouldnt, couldnt you get the LS3 sensors and swap them to the LS1??


edit: and wiring that thing up would be a PITA. i would hate to mess with that digital info center.

 

Yeah, I know, I'm reviving an old thread.... Curious if anyone has done this yet. I've driven a 5thgen and can honestly say I wasnt impressed with the interior until I sat in it with the door closed. So comfortable! I agree the dash swap would be difficult, as it is BCM (Body Control Module.) driven. Basically you would have to swap over the entire drivetrain and ALL the wiring from the 5thgen donor car... I think. Wonder how the door panels measure up to ours....

 

hhhmmmm, interesting....

 

Wouldn't work, and looks terrible, but the latter is not surprising, GM can't design an interior that doesn't look like cheap bloated plastic to save its life, no wonder they became Government Motors.

GM continuously fails to get the memo on how to design a decent interior.

 

+1 lol

 

I think you need to check out some of their other cars. Camaro is a poor example of GM's interior design, but cars like Malibu, Cruze, Regal, Lacrosse, CTS, Equinox, and the Lambda crossovers are much better examples at interior design.

 

The new Malibu, while it looks fantastic outside for the boring A-to-B sedan that it is, has the ugliest interior I've seen of the past decade. Believe me when I say I was sorely disappointed when I saw the inside. To me, this just looks horrendous (scroll down):

http://www.rossdowningchevrolet.com/2013-malibu

The Regal interior looks like it came out of 2001, the LaCrosse wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have the typical GM bulkiness and big control blob in the middle of the dashboard,

I'll give you that the Equinox and CTS look pretty decent inside though, but for the price of the CTS it should be good. Cruze is ok for what it is.

I don't know, I'm just consistently disappointed with GM's interiors over the last 15 years. Ford used to be just as bad, but they've really turned things around; the Mustang's interior is drop-dead gorgeous and classy, and I'm really disappointed that the Camaro's interior didn't turn out better than it did. The gauge pack is cool, but that's about the only thing I like, though I don't know how much I'd like having to look there to see my car's vitals.

 

Imo definitely not worth the trouble or cost, and I agree with puma, I'll pass on the cheap plastic interior that's typical of most new american cars, now an aston or jag interior would be nice...the brits know how to build GT cars...
But imo, the 5th gen interior really any better than stock interior...just newer(ie. more modern looking), if you want to upgrade best bet is aftermarket, some new seats, a headunit, aftermarket steering wheel, shifter, LEDs in place of incandescents can go a long way....lots you can do to spruce up the interior, thing I love most about 3rd gens is they are very modifiable.

 

Everything else aside, someone always has too much money and time. Just wait someone will do it.

 

i just like the center console gauges.

 

took the words out of my mouth. I do like the gauge pod like the 1st gens though.