evan

I had an ea with a cabriolet conversion. It lost the roof and back window, but kept the door frames (and where the top of the door meets the roof). It had strengthened B pillars and a roll bar running from b pillar to be pillar. I talso had extra bracing accross the back of the rear seat and thicker a pillars. When I finally sold it, every commented on how tight and rattle free it was compared to a hardtop, they never expected it to be so tight. I never mentioned it had another 80kg of steel roll bars and bracing.

The ea was a pretty loose car to begin with, so it wouldn't take much to impress people. A ba is pretty rigid and has airbags and other stuff to worry about (plus 550+ NM of torque vs approx 340-350 for my ea).

It depends what you want. I bought mine for $4000 with minimal klms and absolutley immaculate (no resale), with body kit, sound system, wheels eb gt suspension, remapped ecu exhaust ...etc etc with less than 100klms. Chicks loved it and it got lots of looks and even scored a few trophies. When I went to sell it, only no hopers and has-beens looked at the car. It was not easy to sell or insure (2k a year). Your resale will most likey dive too.

Another point is the cost. In 1990 my ea conversion (still a four door remember) cost 15k according to receipts from Roman autotek and balatira engineering. How much now with side airbags and other assorted stuff.

Still, you have never heard your exhaust better than with your roof down, you will get looks and have something different. Your call, mate, and if you like it then go for it.

 

SOCHMYDOCH

any pics mate?

XRacer

You would be mad to do it to a F6 as already stated you will devalue it.

Go buy a base model ba from a wrecker/auction that has had a roll over but can be fixed.
Then buy a F6 body kit and stick a intercooler in for the look.

At least going this way you may increase it's value.

atec77

you have a spare 15k ?

mrs xr8rebel

i rekon u will rek the whol idea off a mad car and turn it into something really fake but thats just my opinuon i like every thing to be original and neat not dodgy but if u could do it properly with no set baks it would look preety mad