evilstuie
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Hi All,
I was wanting to buy a wrecked LS1 commodore or ute and accidently ended up buying a VE 07 V6 ute at an auction late at night by mistake. It only cost me $1250 and repairable writeoff is just a bent rear bar that my mate can fix up.
I've found a '03 LS1 Calais in good shape for $3000 and was wondering if, instead of getting the repairable writeoff fixed up, if I instead took the LS1 out of the Calais for my project car, and then put the V6 into it?
I know V6 to V8 you need to do suspension, brakes, engineering certificate etc, but the other way around can I just do it and let QLD Tranport know its had an engine change?
This way instead of a mistake I end up with the donor motr and trans for my car and all the fancy of a calais with the fuel bill of a 6 to sue as a second daily driver.
Is there any issue with doing this? (Other than the fun of wiring from VY to VE, but I'll probably swap the dash etc over where needed)
I was wanting to buy a wrecked LS1 commodore or ute and accidently ended up buying a VE 07 V6 ute at an auction late at night by mistake. It only cost me $1250 and repairable writeoff is just a bent rear bar that my mate can fix up.
I've found a '03 LS1 Calais in good shape for $3000 and was wondering if, instead of getting the repairable writeoff fixed up, if I instead took the LS1 out of the Calais for my project car, and then put the V6 into it?
I know V6 to V8 you need to do suspension, brakes, engineering certificate etc, but the other way around can I just do it and let QLD Tranport know its had an engine change?
This way instead of a mistake I end up with the donor motr and trans for my car and all the fancy of a calais with the fuel bill of a 6 to sue as a second daily driver.
Is there any issue with doing this? (Other than the fun of wiring from VY to VE, but I'll probably swap the dash etc over where needed)