front end swap 93 pro to 323 slant eye

[robertseber]

is this possible and what all will i need off of the 323 and what else would a 323 have to update or upgrade a pro thanks

[worldhazard]

either 94 protege, or 323 bg model will work.

• Hood
• headlights
• grill
  if ya wanna go all out, get the 323 front fenders aswell. specially if u have the 323 hood, it follows the lip up at the cowl and looks cleaner

[robertseber]

awesome i read earlier somewhere saying the 323 hood was narrower but this is great news yeah ill have the entire car lll for sure do this thanks man

[Turpro]

Jason- you're gioing to have this guy swapping **** over and going is worldhazard talking about. Lol


323 hood and fenders are totally different. 323 has a lip at the top of the fenders and hood. Swapping just the 323 hood would be narrower(IIRC) and if you swapped the fenders on with the hood there will be some welding of matierial and sanding at the door gap. Its not an easy swap but has been done. Look up a member here,jasonsprotege. He did the swap and after completely getting it all done and fixing the gap on the door his moulding indentations still didn't line up.

So basically if you want the 323 slant eye headlights just find a 94 protege hood. Just swap the 94 hood and headlights and poof, done.


Edit: here's jason's thread. About halfway down you'll see the body work. Yes he used the gtr clip but the fenders and hood are basically the same

http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30990

[robertseber]

crap i have done promised to buy this 323 oh well maybe i can sell a few parts off of it thanks alot turpro

[rockabilly_kid]

Bugger. I was hoping to do the swap with mine, but I'm suddenly not so keen if it requires a guard swap too.

I don't actually recall the later models having the lip on the guards and bonnet in Australia though...maybe i'll be lucky.

Someone else around here said that they didn't swap the headlights, and that the sweeping front end of the bonnet just overlayed the square headlamps. From my measurements though it'd be a bloody tight fit if it even would work. I'd be terribly worried about the hood vibrating on the headlamp glass above all else.

[robertseber]

yeah i have read of someone just using slant hood to and not using the headlights im pretty sure its on these forums, sucks though maybe ill run across a pro hood

the headlights are the same though right 323 and pro

[rockabilly_kid]

Found the thread for ya:

http://www.wihandyman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41191

Keep us posted with how ya go...I'll do the same if i start making progress before you.