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Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:27 AM
I've always liked the cavy rear end much better than the Sunfires and I have a 1997 Sunfire (SE body)

I was thinking about just slapping a Cavy trunk and rear bumper on there but I'm wondering if the tailights in the fenders would line up with the ones in the trunk at all, or at least enough to look right..

Has anyone tried this or have pics... I would love to do this but it's not worth replacing the fender skin or fiberglassing.







Re: Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:06 AM
the sunfire tails would be at the same height (or close) as the cavy inner tails on the trunk lid, if thats what youre asking. but to do this swap (since you have a coupe) you would need to weld in new quarter panels from a cavalier as the sunfire ones have very different curves to them.

take another look at a sunfire rear and a cavalier rear and youll see the differences.




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Re: Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:24 AM
Ya I guess your right.... I forgot about that..

I'm just not a big fan of how the car looks from the back...... it would be nice if someone made a CF replacment for the inner plastic like they do for the newer sunfires or something.... there just isn't a whole lot of love out there for the early model 3rd gen Sunfire..





Re: Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:31 AM
cant you update your trunk and get that carbon fiber filler i thought i seen that discussed some where.



Re: Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:00 AM
i thought i seen somewhere that i THINK cf-tec was making a one peice sunfire trunk which is oem truck without the spoiler and the filler plate was built into the trunk as one peice, not 100% on this though. i think there may have been a GP on the jco on them



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Re: Strange trunk swap question
Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:07 AM
I'm not a big fan of a Sunfire trunk without the stock spoiler...

Who knows.... maybee it would look better with some sort of decklid..... maybee an aftermarket one for a cavy or something..





Re: Strange trunk swap question
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:28 AM
i do know that the 4dr sunfires can interchange with a 2 or 4dr cavalier trunk and tails but 2dr sunfires are way different i have a 4dr 95 sunfire with an 02 cavi front clip and a 97 cavi trunk shaved emblems and its nice im thinkin bout leaving the sunfire on the door just to say it is a sunfire and not a cavalier
Re: Strange trunk swap question
Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:57 PM
im impressed kevin... sarcasm, post a picture if youre cars so great.. you always talk about it but noones ever seen a good picture


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Re: Strange trunk swap question
Sunday, March 02, 2008 10:04 AM
03+ rear end swap FTW! Do it, i did. It looks better then the older style in my opinion.
Re: Strange trunk swap question
Monday, March 03, 2008 6:07 PM
Kevin Fowler wrote:i do know that the 4dr sunfires can interchange with a 2 or 4dr cavalier trunk and tails


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