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I am not overly interested in having a genuine GT coupe at all, but i would absolutely love an xb i could totally modify and go to town on.
i was wonmdering whether or not the xa / b/ c sedans all ran the same chassis? and if you can just sit a coupe shell onto a complete sedan chassis or whether or not you have to do a complete driveline swap
my idea was to buy an xa sedan to drive for now, and in the mean time organise a decent xb shell, and get it right upto scrathch the way i want it??
will this work? if i use an xa chassis i should be able to modify and get alot more out of this motor than in an xb?!?!
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Hi Ben. The XB falcon is a unitary construction vehicle and doesn't have a separate chassis. The driveline from a sedan should swap into a coupe although I'm unsure about tailshaft length as I'm not too sure if the wheel base is the same. Cheers
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Sedan and coupe share the same chassis. The running gear, including the tailshaft is a straight swap. Fairlanes, LTDs and wagons have a longer chassis so have a longer tailshaft and handbrake cable. As for bolt on panels, from the front windscreen back
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so im up for a lot of time and ****ing about to get a coupe upto nice scratch and a lot of dollars, as it isnt really possible to just body swap....
bugger
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I think what Paul351xb means is that both the sedan and coupe share the same wheel base and not the same chassis. As stated in an earlier post, there isn't actually a chassis on these vehicles. The body actually forms the chassis. The best you coul Edited by user Tuesday, 20 June 2006 5:43:20 AM(UTC)
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Thanks Munromad, that is what I was trying to say. Just didn't say it very well. Not many people realise this but even the windscreens on the coupes are a one off. They only fit the hardtops and Landaus ( which is a hardtop shell anyway ). The wipers
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um.... this may be sacreligious to some, but how hard would it be to fit a xb honeycomb grille to an xa?
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ah bugger it, how hard is it to make an xa look like an xb... i just want to be able to have an XA to stay away form the pollution laws and ****, however they just havent got the same classic style as XB's.
so hard would it be to fit the different bonn
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You can bolt the XB front onto an XA no worries. Might be a little bit of mucking about with the bumper brackets and a few other little things but nothing that can't be sorted out. With the coupes the XA tail lights will slot straight in. With the sedan
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Here's an idea Ben,
Stick with your XA front end and give the XB grille to me. :-)
I could do with one of them.
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