FTO AUSTRALIA

Was just having a bit of a look at the photos of the old GD Galant I spent a fortune on in the 90's. Would have been nice to hang on to.

Looks mint Dwayne! You certainly like your mitsubishis

This is goin to be a painful thread for some

ZFL45H1 wrote:This is goin to be a painful thread for some

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That is f**king epic. I really want one of those!

dstocks wrote:

ZFL45H1 wrote:This is goin to be a painful thread for some

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Due to the fact that other people will have regrets as well

That was all

I had owned 5 or 6 of these (was my first car) and I decided that as no one had really done one of these up, I was going to do it. I had already dropped a 2.6L sigma engine with a 5 speed box into the one I was driving (no mods required) but decided I wanted a little more.



The front skirt is a modified Barina Skirt others are modified commodore. The air intakes were moulded using a plastic jug bought from KMart (the shape I wanted). Dash is hand carved Jarrah with custom lights in the lower panel. I blew a lot of LED's getting this right. Also had aftermarket gauges built into dash. Had sigma seats & struts.

As for Engine, 4G63 (DOHC from 1989 Galant) and a Haltech. normally powers a Front Wheel Drive car and is orientated East West. The Galant is Rear Wheel drive and this is positioned North South. Has a Mazda 323 Water pump. The firewall was reversed so the engine could fit and has a L300 flywheel (the 5 sp sigma box did not mesh with the 4G63 starter motor using a standard flywheel). Hoses were all custom. Ended up with 5mm clearance between the sump and crossmember and 5mm clearance between sump and steering rods. Both gearbox and engine fitted original mounts. Has custom built extractors with a Haltech wired up to it. Saved a lot of money by organising to do a lot of the labour myself (took time off work). Also means that you learn a bit from the exercise.

The car was in Fast Fours and Rotaries pre 2000.

That is a hot car.. Sorry to say, but I would have held on to that one..

That looks amazing!
Shame you let it go

I've got my project car sitting at my parents

1974 Holden Monaro HJ GTS - 2 door

Only has the 253 engine in it at the moment but there is a 308 engine sitting somewhere for it

But that will sit there until time and money allows

You really like blue don't you
Looks really good. When you were telling me about the Galant you had built I thought you meant it was a FWD one, didn't realize you meant the older RWD models

Formuling steering wheel... all my 90s cars had them including my Sigma!

That is a hot car.. Sorry to say, but I would have held on to that one..

Sigh.....

You really like blue don't you
Looks really good. When you were telling me about the Galant you had built I thought you meant it was a FWD one, didn't realize you meant the older RWD models

Old Skool!

Yep, like my blue. I guess thats why I wanted the blue on the FTO though.To remind me of this one.

Formuling steering wheel... all my 90s cars had them including my Sigma!

Bennoz, you know your steering wheels!

Bennoz wrote:Formuling steering wheel... all my 90s cars had them including my Sigma!

I bought a gold 4 spoke Formuling for my ZJ Fairlane

PHIL069 wrote:

Bennoz wrote:Formuling steering wheel... all my 90s cars had them including my Sigma!

I bought a gold 4 spoke Formuling for my ZJ Fairlane

I had one on my:

Nissan Datsun Pulsar
RX2
86 Corolla Twin Cam

Then switched over to Mono wheels.. Had the Momo on the RX2 and Corolla.. So alternated between the two, until the Formuling went on the Cortina..

That looks cool.
Definite pity you no longer have it.