evansa,
Here are some pics of my 90 that I updated to the 95 body style.
I have the complete parts list that it takes to do this, but be prepared - It ain’t cheap.
First some up front info - I have a paint & body guy second to none, and the car has NOT been repainted - Just the pieces that were changed. The paint match is 100% - No excuses. Nobody who has seen the car can believe that the whole car hadn't been painted.
Now if you're thinking that this is a simple matter of swapping the urethane nose, side panels and side molding, this isn't necessarily true, and I found this out the hard way.
Here’s a short list of what needs to be replaced in order to do this the right way
1) Urethane nose
2) Mounting strip for nose between hood and bumper underneath
3) Fiberglass front bumper structure under nose
4) Styrofoam bumper under urethane
5) Fog lights & mounting hardware
6) Wiring for fog lights needs to be lengthened
7) Steel horns at the end of the frame rails (bolt on)
8) Inner fender wells forward of the shock towers
9) Front side markers
10) Side panels
11) All body-side moldings (These will be VERY VERY hard to get – I had to search the ENTIRE country!)
12) Plastic air dam that runs the lower edge of nose
13) Center air dam (under radiator)
When I did mine, I started out with the idea of using an ACI fiberglass replacement – That way (I figured) I wouldn’t have to replace a lot of things underneath. Boy was I wrong! I ordered the nose and when it got here, the first thing I noticed was that the new nose used the old style air dam. At first glance this may seem trivial, and it would work. But if you compare the nose of a 90 to that of a 95, you’ll notice that the air dam on the 95 is about ½ as tall. This is because the 95 nose actually drops down another 1 ½” lower then the 90. It makes it look really weird – The main thing I didn’t want was the 3” air dam, and the ACI turned out to be a bad choice.
After that fiasco, I decided that I wasn’t going to screw around, and I went to my GM guys and ordered EVERYTHING (including nuts and bolts) that it would take to do this. All parts ordered where for a ’95 (and I have the receipts for proof if I ever sell the car).
As it turned out, everything was obviously a factory fit, with no way to discern my car from a 95 (with the exception of the interior).
If I had it to do again, I would start at the GM parts counter.
[Modified by Avi, 9:56 AM 2/16/2002]
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