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Hello from Dublin Ireland

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Hi all,

I always knew that FTO Australia is the best source for anyone looking for informations on FTO engine conversions, but browsing through the forum the other day (mainly out of boredom) blew my mind, the quality of the images and posts/tutorials is really outstanding! Simply put I knew I had to register! :D

I first saw the FTOs about ten years ago at your end of the globe (during studies in New Zealand). I think it was the sound of the V6 and its curves that got my attention and made it stand out among the other Japanese sports cars.

In January I decided that life is too short to drive boring cars and went ahead and acquired manual 99 GPX in Scotia White.

It's mostly stock except for little things fitted by previous owners:

HKS Super Power Flow (mushroom) air filter
Sparco X-Fast gear knob
Razö sport pedals
and Magnacor plug leads

Every since I got the car I've been working on restoring it to it's former glory - taking apart and refreshing various bits etc. The mileage now is 118K kilometres.


Here is a few pictures:

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Few pictures with some local FTOs:

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Regards,
Jan


Btw: Merry Christmas to you all!
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Wow, that looks mint. Very low mileage too - you dont see that much anymore. Welcome to the club
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    Welcome!
    As dstocks said, very tidy!
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    G'Day Temeeo and WTTC :D

    Nice FTO you have there.

    Whats with the carpet strips in the engine bay?

    BTW, You need to polish up your intake manifold ;)
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    Thanks for the welcome!

    Not sure I can trust the mileage, the clocks (speedometer etc.) have been out previously - the housing is scratched fair bit, also the wear on the driver seat and steering wheel is worse than on some higher mileage FTOs that i've seen.

    The car has been resprayed in past (not the best job, the paint is flaking in one spot) and I hand wash it / wax it every fortnight or so that's why she looks so pretty. :D I've spent about 15 hours on engine bay detailing alone (not counting in respray of various bits like the battery tray etc. that was all rusty)

    I asked about the "carpet strips" when I was buying the car and was told that the car came in from Japan like that, it's probably some sort of noise insulation (it's on the bonnet too). I wouldn't mind getting rid of it but the adhesive that's holding it is pretty good... :(

    The intake manifold/plenum definitely needs a bit of work, it's spoiling the look of the engine bay. I kind of like the way they looked when they came out of factory, maybe I'll polish the lettering and paint the bits surrounding the text in red (and paint the rest in some sort of aluminium colour)

    I'm planning on turning my attention to the underbody next (whenever the winter is over), need to take care of some rust.
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    WTTC! I remember it was a white facelift FTO that first caught my eye when I was looking for cars to buy. Wasn't able to ignore it after that! Yours looks pretty mint, especially the lack of panel gap! Interior too.

    Have a look in PHIL069's thread for inspiration on sprucing the intake manifold up. ;)
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    Welcome to the clubs. Looks clean as ;)
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    Thanks bjk & kiz! I was in the market for passion red GPvR or GPX (after seeing pictures of this one from UK)

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    But they are hard to come by so went with white at the end. Other than that pre-facelift steel silver is starting to grow on me big time. :)

    Had a quick look at the "Member Rides" section and as it turns out I already know some of your rides! (Have good few FTO pictures saved on my comp for an inspiration)

    Think I came across your car on Stance Works when I was looking for pictures of FTOs with RPF1s bjk!
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    Not hard to find a pic of bjk's FTO...... :P
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      Not hard to find a pic of bjk's FTO...... :P
      Yup, he is doing an excellent job in promoting the FTO around the world. :)
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      Temeeo wrote:But they are hard to come by
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      WTTC mate.

      FTO Ireland seems to be down so we might be seeing more members mirating here. :lol:
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      Temeeo wrote:But they are hard to come by so went with white at the end. Other than that pre-facelift steel silver is starting to grow on me big time. :)
      The steel silver is surprisingly alluring I have found. I was fairly indifferent to being with (was happy enough to have an FTO!), but the way the metallic behaves and catches the light makes for some good photography.
      Temeeo wrote:Had a quick look at the "Member Rides" section and as it turns out I already know some of your rides! (Have good few FTO pictures saved on my comp for an inspiration)

      Think I came across your car on Stance Works when I was looking for pictures of FTOs with RPF1s bjk!
      I have the same sort of folder. :lol: Yeah, I've been on SW for just a little while, but it's good coverage there.
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      I have Flickr now too. :troll:
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      FTO Ireland seems to be down so we might be seeing more members mirating here.
      It's not down, it just takes a while to load at times, I suspect the hosting was changed. If there will be members migrating it will be because it has gone awfully quiet on the forum lately... :cry:
      but the way the metallic behaves and catches the light makes for some good photography.
      That's it! I stumbled across some pictures that make them look irresistible in this colour. :P

      I've only read the other day that you'll be getting a white one in January, dying to see it with the RPF1s fitted!
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      Temeeo wrote:It's not down, it just takes a while to load at times, I suspect the hosting was changed. If there will be members migrating it will be because it has gone awfully quiet on the forum lately... :cry:
      Well it's down for me, can't access it at all. Times out every time.
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      Well it's down for me, can't access it at all. Times out every time.
      How long has it been for you like that? Might be worth investigating - chances are you're not the only one experiencing this... :(
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      Been like that for about a month as far as I know. Hadn't tried accessing the site for a while before that.
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      Yep, down for me too:

      http://www.fto-ireland.com/
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        Yerp, down for me too
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        Hmm, isup.me says it is up, but FTO Ireland times out for me, too. DNS issues perhaps?
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        Don't think it's DNS, I can get an nslookup result.

        According to http://whois.domaintools.com/fto-ireland.com there are over 1200 other sites on that IP (83.138.8.96) and I can't get to any of them either...
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