Like it or hate it, it's still a pretty cool modification to the back of your car. I like it. Nothing screams cobalt more than our rear tails anyway. Good luck with the swap, if done correctly it'll look amazing!

 

ok so i was going to do this same thing. but i have a ss/sc so i was going to put the g5 decklid on then mount 2 foglights behind the rear grilles of my bumper and wire them into my reverse light harness. wala street legal chevy g5

 

The bare trunk lid looks good, but the remaining taillights need to be bigger to kinda "fill out" the bumper.

Oh wait, that's a G5.

 

just get the g5 bumper

 

Won't work. I don't care to explain it now though

 

please do, i'm doing full G5 rear end swap, coupe to coupe, with their tail lights and everything. i've done a bit of research and its possible.

 

could mount fog lights to the bottom of the spare tire well

but I am guessing the OP doesn't want to "tack on" lights, and would want a CLEAN appearance

as for location of rev. lights..i don't think that is regulated, corvette C6 is at the bottom of the bumper (where they provide useful light)

 

From what I understand, the tailights will not fit even with the G5 bumper because underneath is shaped specifically for a Cobalt. I heard this from a guy who knows the owner of a body shop who had someone try it, so take it for what it's worth. I'm still in the process of finding the source of that info.

Someone would have to try it again for proof.

 

I seriously doubt that GM went through the expense of creating two seperate rear structural sheet metal stampings(one for Balt and one for G5) I mean ****, they did even give the G5 its own fascia, they just butcher up Cobalt ones and put on a different grille.

While I have never done it, I am gonna ay that that there is no reason you cant do a G5 rear fascia/lamp swap. You can swap everything else, and like I said when you look at the fascia issue it just seems supeduperuber incredibly unlikely that the rears are different

 

That's quite true. I would imagine all parts swappable between the Cobalt and G5.

 

why is that illegal

 

what if you use your tag light bulbs as your reverse lights and i kinda like it , and i think the regular g5 tails look more like a neon

 

You probably need reverse lights to pass inspection in states that do that, I'm not familiar. In any event, it wouldn't be that big a deal in day to day driving and even reverse lights in your rear window would be fine. A pair of them could be nicely integrated to the SS/SC rear lip.

 

do the swap and go get you a back up light off a mini cooper (the oval one they have below the tag) put the light in the middle of the lip on the back bumper, thats my plan.

 

ahhh yeah, well down here in texas they are not needed

 

there i had to use paint lol

 

you could get a white led stripe and put it where the trunk closes, kinda like the trucks that have the brake light right under the tailgate

 

i dont think there's enough room to fit one between the lid and top on the bumper plus its not a truck its a sport compact lol

 

yea but i was thinking something along those lines

like a small white led strip, it would probably glow thru enough

 

Not a bad idea at all

 

not really something i would like. but its ur car, if you do it post some pic. i would like to see it and GL

 

Just get something like this

http://www.oznium.com/led-modules

And find a funky way to implement them without being too visible

 

thats cool! i might buy some lol

 

my $0.02 = FUGLY.........

 

It's funny, cause I saw a thread on G5club about a Cobalt trunk swap. They chopped it, probably looks worse than this.