FTO AUSTRALIA

I know a lot of you (in qld) havent seen my car out and about for a while...

Its been in the shop getting the rear floorpan welded... ($300 and a carton later lol)

Anyway, doing the rest was pretty easy...

The gearbox is not on yet as im going to be bringin it up from bens halfcut, but the diff and suspension is in with the tailshaft mocked up...

One of my mates built me an exhaust as well... sounds like sh*t, but does the jobb for now....

only got two pic from phone...

will post the rest up when gearbox is in...

you f**king hectic k**t

i cannot wait to get this connected up for a drive....

dude thats some seriously sick sh*t. Fuk that's gonna be a beast once on the road!!! We have to organise a cruise in honour of ftoaustralia's first awd fto!!!!!

holy crap, now with an AWD FTO ... what times would you estimate down the quarter mile sam?

Holy bird sh*t on the windscreen Batman!

How hard was it to do Ben?

More info needed!!!!!!!

yeah i gott some new rims and whacked a new engine in and gave it a respray and a kit while i was at it....




just playin....


Thought i'd post up these pics as they're much clearer than the ones from the magazine article thats floating around...

Love your work

Beat me to it as well, my rear floor pan is currently out of the car Im not using a VR4 box thou..

Also, do you need to match up the final drive ratio's on the 2 diffs?

f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k. i hate both of you

Bennoz wrote:Also, do you need to match up the final drive ratio's on the 2 diffs?

Definately....

all the VR4's are the same... so i have my choice of diffs... I dont need one from a legnum in particular...

I think now I need to look into gettint somthing for my car as I was just starting to get up with you power figers Ben and now your going and doing all this

keep up the good work Sam and Ben

Frakenstein engine....

6a13 bottom end, 6a12 mivec heads with some good porting and polishing and external go fast bits =
180kw N/A 2.5L 8,500rpm MIVEC screamer....


dooo iiittt!!!




then add nos...

and here i am still looking for a manual driveshaft end...

WTFFF...your car looks soo different...that would go hardddddd

Lol.. read the whole thread

FtoSam wrote:Frakenstein engine....

6a13 bottom end, 6a12 mivec heads with some good porting and polishing and external go fast bits =
180kw N/A 2.5L 8,500rpm MIVEC screamer....


dooo iiittt!!!




then add nos...

that sounds good to me
going to look into it as soon as my pay out comes in, that and the respray of the car candy apple blue with version R gosted along the sides in silver(you will just see it in sertan light and angles)
OK I am now putting a TM on this one so its all my own apart from anyone that has already done it that is.

aza013 wrote:

FtoSam wrote:Frakenstein engine....

6a13 bottom end, 6a12 mivec heads with some good porting and polishing and external go fast bits =
180kw N/A 2.5L 8,500rpm MIVEC screamer....


dooo iiittt!!!




then add nos...

that sounds good to me
going to look into it as soon as my pay out comes in, that and the respray of the car candy apple blue with version R gosted along the sides in silver(you will just see it in sertan light and angles)
OK I am now putting a TM on this one so its all my own apart from anyone that has already done it that is.

Yeh ok that will absolute porn. Oh I'd definitly be tm'ing it. I have ideas of my own which I'm keeping to myself... wanna it to be a first

What floor pan did you end up using Sam? If I cant do first in the world I may as well start getting bits for first in Scotland

how much sam