LHD to RHD

[allan 295]

Has anyone experience at doing this and how did your conversion unfold.

What is required in the cert department.

The cost of the change over plus any other info

Your thoughts/opinons welcome.

Cheers Allan

[polley 916]

I guess that depends what you are converting?

[allan 295]

A BMW of course.

[Old_Skool_Bmw 0]

I considered a LDH to RHD conversion on the e30 M3. From memory it would have cost upwards of $10k.

Things off top of my head:

- Possible engine mod's. If you need to move the exhaust manifold, power steering etc.

- New Pedal Box

- modified firewall

- new wiring loom if the LDH one doesn't stretch across to RHD

- steering rack etc

- Low Volume cert

Hope this helps.

Laurence

[kiwi535 538]

I considered a LDH to RHD conversion on the e30 M3. From memory it would have cost upwards of $10k.

Things off top of my head:

- Possible engine mod's. If you need to move the exhaust manifold, power steering etc.

- New Pedal Box

- modified firewall

- new wiring loom if the LDH one doesn't stretch across to RHD

- steering rack etc

- Low Volume cert

Hope this helps.

Laurence

if its not a RARE car then a rhd wreck would be the go wouldnt it?

[1rotty 40]

I would think it would need to be something special or ultra cheap to justify the cost & if its special why would you lol.

From my exp with Yanks-$12-15k minimum fwiw

Edit-btw I know a guy here in HB-an engineer-who has done several Yanks.He does a beautiful job at a fraction of the usual cost

Edited October 22, 2010 by 1rotty

[allan 295]

Thanks for the input on this. As usual more to it than meets the eye.

Cheers Allan

[BM WORLD 1264]

Thanks for the input on this. As usual more to it than meets the eye.

Cheers Allan

what model and year car where you thinking of doing??

[kerrynzl 3]

Has anyone experience at doing this and how did your conversion unfold.

What is required in the cert department.

The cost of the change over plus any other info

Your thoughts/opinons welcome.

Cheers Allan

I've done a couple [ including a RHD back to LHD ] The average cost used to be $10K but I believe it is now creeping up with eletronics, airbag dashes etc [ $16k + ]

The biggest expense is time [ you are constantly tinkering with trivial sh*t ]

If you are to do an early[ish] car , try and buy a wreck for parts it will be cheaper overall

PS: on the subject of E30 M3's , from what I'm lead to believe is they're all LHD [ my brother did a RHD conversion to a Red E30 M3 back in the 90's while working at the "Healey Shop" in Tga, he said it was a time consuming nightmare ]