FTO AUSTRALIA

Looks like a fake or photoshopped plate...

Yeah, I'm guessing a fake plate too.

Haha yeah it's a fake plate. I've got 3 years till license back, no point in paying rego till then.

Removed the spacers for now and gave it a splash of black paint to see if I like. Suits it well imo.

JMO... I always preferred as 1 colour though ...

Refitted the calipers, which stopped the wheels from fitting . So back on went the spacers, clearing the calipers by about 2mm.
Also found another problem when I tried to roll the car back. The lug nuts are too far in (because the steelies have a smaller gap than the original wheels) & are hitting against the brake shoes, stopping the wheels from spinning.

Am I able to to cut the lug nuts shorter? Or will it cause cross threading in the hub?
Spacers aren't an option because I've already had to fold in the lip on the inside of the arch to get clearance
(Last photo)
Could I remove the shoes? Because there is rear calipers as well and I reckon 4 sets of brakes on the rear is abit of an overkill...
Or what about a few washers between the the lug nuts and the wheels? Or is that dodgy as f**k

Just get the correct lug nuts ya f**ken parrot

Otherwise, looking the goods man

Daniel2019 wrote:Just get the correct lug nuts ya f**ken parrot

Otherwise, looking the goods man

You can't get them lol they are the correct ones for the car. I guess I could look into converting the hubs to studs.

Cut them shorter.

Put a nut on the thread past the cut, cut the thread, clean and slightly chamfer the cut edge with a grinder, then when you remove the nut it will clean the thread.
You could even run a die down the thread after you are done, just to make sure.

PHIL069 wrote:Cut them shorter.

Put a nut on the thread past the cut, cut the thread, clean and slightly chamfer the cut edge with a grinder, then when you remove the nut it will clean the thread.
You could even run a die down the thread after you are done, just to make sure.

That's what i wanted to hear. Cheers Phil0 !

Is this unsafe at all. I can't see how it would be, as long as the thread goes all the way through. But I saw someone write that not having that extra thread is unsafe ( there was no explanation why )

Yolo

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Parted it out and bought a fto....

haha, as you do...
What made you do that?

did you buy this fto from a guy on the fto fb group?

adzski wrote:did you buy this fto from a guy on the fto fb group?

Yeah the purple one. Foulz old car

Any moar pics? I almost thought it was Hero's car until I realised that wouldn't have made sense.

Technikhaus wrote:haha, as you do...
What made you do that?

it was becoming more of a headache than a hobby. The guys at the steel fabrication place fucked up the boot channels for the boot rubber to sit in & it was just going to leak bad. Trying to source parts like trailing arm bushes etc without haveing to pay $1000000000 for postage is near impossible. It's really hard to work on without breaking something or just really difficult in general. There's too many different makes and models, went through 4 non refundable front control arms before I got the right one delivered. Plus everyone that owns one is either an old boring fucker or someone who has enough cash to pay someone else to do it up. And I'm not either of them lol
Fto is simple. Easy & cheap. I think I might go down the same track with it, nice wheels, paint, stanced etc. just something to do for a few more years with no license

bjk wrote:Any moar pics? I almost thought it was Hero's car until I realised that wouldn't have made sense.

Yep I'll chuck some up now.