Shhtuarts' Engine Bay! - Progress Pics.

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Well this is about 50% of the way there so let me know what you think;

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So at the moment I have;

HKS Earthing kit.
ARC Air Box.
ARC Intake Pipe.
Blue Anodised Slam Panel.
EL Light Up Panel.
GPvR Sway Bar.
CAI Piping (can't see from pics)

I plan on the following;

Samco Radiator Hoses.
Blue Vacuum Hosing all round.
Polished Plenum.
4" blue Samco joiner for the green one on the ARC stuff. (if they make one)
General Polishing.
Cover for the fuse box.
Some sort of heat shield for under the ARC box.
Blue bolts dress up kit from RB Performance.

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me next! me next!!

Only have a HKS air intake at the moment. Your an expert would it be worth modifying the engine of an FTO thats done 200,000kms? I need new radiator hoses an all but whats your opinion on that and how much power are u planning for your car? Would love to know how it goes on a dyno!!
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Only have a HKS air intake at the moment. Your an expert would it be worth modifying the engine of an FTO thats done 200,000kms? I need new radiator hoses an all but whats your opinion on that and how much power are you planning for your car? Would love to know how it goes on a dyno!!
FTO is about 100kw at the wheels when stock. Without going Turbo or changing engine to something else, you can definitely get to 130kw . Mine is running at 133kw atw presently. Aza's is around the same. You are better off starting out with things like intake, exhaust, ECU as they will give you better gains and cost less. If eventually you decide you want to do internal mods then id be doing rings etc at the same time.

Hope this helps

BTW Stu, coming along nicely
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    Nice Stu! 8)
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    Looking good, keep up the good work :thumright: .
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    Its no dstock's engine bay, but hey it looks damn nice! Top effort mate!

    Good work!
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    There are red, blue, green, yellow colors in your bay.
    You either complete it with 7 rainbow colors, or pick a color scheme to start with.
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    Yeah whats with the random green joiner :lol: hahaha. Just picking on you shhhhhhhhtart
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    Its part of the ARC setup - thats the colour it comes in
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      Nice job looks good
      Where did you get the front blue panel from
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      UK. Topgun (forum member). makes them as well. Heres one he made fitted to mine:

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        It wasn't Top Gun dstocks.

        This one came from the FTOOC Shop. It was on clearance too so I picked it up for £25.

        http://www.fto-shop.com

        Seems they still have some more, different colours too.
        phunkydude wrote:There are red, blue, green, yellow colors in your bay.
        You either complete it with 7 rainbow colors, or pick a color scheme to start with.
        Shhtuart wrote:Well this is about 50% of the way there...

        I plan on the following;

        Samco Radiator Hoses. (blue
        Blue Vacuum Hosing all round.
        Polished Plenum.
        4" blue Samco joiner for the green one on the ARC stuff. (if they make one)
        General Polishing.
        Cover for the fuse box.
        Some sort of heat shield for under the ARC box.
        Blue bolts dress up kit from RB Performance.
        I'd say it's going to end up blue ;)
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        dstocks wrote:
        Only have a HKS air intake at the moment. Your an expert would it be worth modifying the engine of an FTO thats done 200,000kms? I need new radiator hoses an all but whats your opinion on that and how much power are you planning for your car? Would love to know how it goes on a dyno!!
        FTO is about 100kw at the wheels when stock. Without going Turbo or changing engine to something else, you can definitely get to 130kw . Mine is running at 133kw atw presently. Aza's is around the same. You are better off starting out with things like intake, exhaust, ECU as they will give you better gains and cost less. If eventually you decide you want to do internal mods then id be doing rings etc at the same time.

        Hope this helps

        BTW Stu, coming along nicely
        I have an exhaust atm and the HKS air intake so its not to bad except it needs a service but someone in the UK has taken apart an FTO and is selling all the parts really cheap so im going to buy them.. Actually speaking of parts does anyone know how to get that fading off the head lights!
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        Post by aza013 »

        yep :D

        there is a thread about it in the DIY area.
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        hey i was just wondering where do you get those ARC air boxes? coz i got defected for my box :evil:
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        not made anymore, would have to be somewhere like yahoo auctions

        Good luck finding one :roll:
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        The only reason I have that ARC intake pipe is because xj265 pointed one out to me on japan yahoo.

        Eternally grateful :thumleft:
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