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Old 09-22-13, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by stockhatch
Seriously, pretty cool though, OP. have you run into any of the RHD annoyances yet? My favorite is passing school buses on the way to work in the morning.
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I went to a parking garage at school and just to get the ticket to lift the gate, I had to get out of the car. When I was leaving the parking garage, I also had to get out of the car just to pay the clerk. I loved the confused face of the clerk tho lol.
Drive Thru , I guess will be another thing of the past for RHD cars

But good luck to you OP ... kudos for your determination.
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Old 09-23-13, 05:36 PM
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hey, ive got a question, for drilling the spot welds, do you use a metal punch in the center of the spotweld to keep the bit centered when drilling. ive always had a problem with my spotweld cutter bit to wander while drilling, but i think a metal bunch would fix the problem

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Hold on to it really tight with two hands or use one that has a drill bit center.
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Old 09-24-13, 06:34 AM
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Nice, there is nothing fun about RHD swapping anything lol
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Old 09-24-13, 10:22 AM
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That's a ton of work! Kudos for having the drive to do that
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Old 09-24-13, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jwin
Hold on to it really tight with two hands or use one that has a drill bit center.
ya, the ones i use have a circular cutting part with a metal pin in the middle that would be useful for centering it you hit the spotweld with a punch or something so you had a place to put it in. but ya, i get what your saying
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Old 09-29-13, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by gerrb
Drive Thru , I guess will be another thing of the past for RHD cars

But good luck to you OP ... kudos for your determination.
just wondering, what is OP?
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Originally Posted by scott101
hey, ive got a question, for drilling the spot welds, do you use a metal punch in the center of the spotweld to keep the bit centered when drilling. ive always had a problem with my spotweld cutter bit to wander while drilling, but i think a metal bunch would fix the problem

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Yeah did use that. i also had one of those center punchers thats spring loaded since its pretty hard to actually use the one where u need a hammer since it had some weird angles and tight places. The middle part of the spot weld bit gets really dull tho and starts to jump of the center punch... specially after doing like 200 spot welds. i went through 3 bits.
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just wondering, what is OP?
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sick man. we built a rhd ae86 and it wasalot of fun, almost made an AW11 into a one seat center drive.
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Old 09-30-13, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Pilot300
sick man. we built a rhd ae86 and it wasalot of fun, almost made an AW11 into a one seat center drive.
It is definitely fun to drive specially seeing people break their necks when they have to have a second look lol thats would be crazy tho! a center drive car

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Ah! I feel dumb... lol thanks
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Old 09-30-13, 10:31 PM
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Had a RHD EG, but i would love a SC RHD!! Good job on the swap. well worth the work at the end.
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Great job on the swap!!
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thanks for all the kind words guys

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Great job on the swap!!
your car is one of my favorite SCs and is one of the reason i just had to do the conversion
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Now time to drill the spot welds out of the firewall that was in the car. It was good that i know how to take it out already since i did it on the firewall that was out but it sucked cause it was still in the car making it have less room to work with






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