FTO AUSTRALIA

ok i have been driving the car around for abit now.

i went on the high way and all i can say is that i need a 6 gear. when i get to 100 in 5th the damn car is making boost.

it sucks i get to 95 and take my foot of the pedal and get pshhhhht lol it sucks.

car runs fine now just cant leave it stationary for like 10 mins or it overheats.

The damn clutch is damn hard my leg gets saw after using it through town haha.

i will try and get some videos up when i gt a camera.

awesome man glad you enjoying (like as if you werent lol)

SHould of kept it tip lol

Oh and what was the final bill or are they still adding it up?

not yet lol the owner isint back to make up the bill.
no i am happy with the manual thank you very much haha.

ok i found a little problem with the new motor, ben i dont know if you have got this problem to.

when i drive around and boost it the intake plenium hits the bonnet and is wearing the plenium away.

i put 3 washers under the back screws to try and raise the bonnet a little bit.

anybody else got ideas.


Also who makes bigger radiators for the Fto.

I would say to check your engine mounts....

Maybe go for something stiffer ...

does this info help? -

just to let people no that if you want to upgrade your engine mounts on the cross member the evo 2 & 3 rear engine mount will fit straight on with aboult 1mm difrents

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php? ... s2280p9110

the front one is bigger and would need modifying abit to fit

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php? ... s2280p9109

there stiffer then the fto mounts because there full rubber not half

I just did the lower rear one - as its the weakest. If you do them all, you may end up vibrating other bits off the car. Mine was a modified Suzuki Swift GTI mount.

And yeah, we came across the bonnet rubbing issue, but instead of raising the bonnet up with washers, we lowered the whole cross member with washers.

ok ben will look into doing that mate or I am getting a cbf ab bonet soon 2.

ok I did what aza did ripped off both black bits of rubber.
Now I have smoke coming out the bonnet near the windscreen.
I have looked for leaks but can't find any and it smells like radiator fluid but them temps are fine and I cnt see any leaks their either.

nvr2low wrote: ok I did what aza did ripped off both black bits of rubber.
Now I have smoke coming out the bonnet near the windscreen.
I have looked for leaks but can't find any and it smells like radiator fluid but them temps are fine and I cnt see any leaks their either.

You have a warranty right?

ok jacked the car up and found out that one of the hard metal pipes has a small crack in it. These are the pipes ben and I had to move so know they have to fix that.

ok had some bad luck today the power steering hard pipe must have let go and hit the exhaust and started a fire in the engine bay. I was lucky I was at the peformance shop and got a extinguisher and put it out. Their wasn't any damage thank god. they are going to work on it to fix all the pupes and leaks so their is no more problems.

sorry to hear bro

yeah it is ok now no damage and they are going to fix it so all good.

Bugger... oh well, Im expecting similar sorts of odd things to happen to mine before i iron out all the bugs.

ok ben beware mate make sure u move the brake lines along way away from the turbo. I have broken the brake line bad and that is what leaked all over the turbo and exhaust causing the smoke and fire mate.

I made a heat sheild for the rear turbo for that very reason *taps nose*

f**k me i would be wrapping pretty much every component on the firerwall, in heat sheild tape. Have you wrapped anything up?

this wasn't from heat it was from the actual turbo hitting the brake line.

Hey ben what did u make urs out of mate. I told them to try and make some kinda shield up.