FTO AUSTRALIA

Look how cheap this is!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... key=398407

f me dead!
does anyone know how much it cost to ship a car from nz to here?

The compliance would be your problem, not the shipping cost

Where is that engine from and is that a better choice than an Evo engine if your gonna turbo your car?

Well you can always buy the car & then have everything converted to your own FTO.

Of course have around spare $2k for the engineer cert

thats tiptronic!!! it will fit mine

Im seriously considering this !!

If you got it over transferred engines and sold it with my old engine and mods i would probably get say $14000 and a twin turbo FTO !

barfy wrote:Im seriously considering this !!

If you got it over transferred engines and sold it with my old engine and mods i would probably get say $14000 and a twin turbo FTO !

not if someone beats you to it

barfy wrote:Im seriously considering this !!

If you got it over transferred engines and sold it with my old engine and mods i would probably get say $14000 and a twin turbo FTO !

you realise you will get bum shafted trying to import it anyway other than a personal import. even then it will still cost upwards of 6k on the road.

btw, to get it classed as a personal import, you need to own the car, and live in NZ for atleast a year

you could import it for "spare parts"

yes you could, and then you would only be paying for contianer space, warfing fee's i think GST as well.

but the car need to be chopped in half in NZ before been loaded

there is probably other restrictions as well

to4garret wrote:

barfy wrote:Im seriously considering this !!

If you got it over transferred engines and sold it with my old engine and mods i would probably get say $14000 and a twin turbo FTO !

you realise you will get bum shafted trying to import it anyway other than a personal import. even then it will still cost upwards of 6k on the road.

btw, to get it classed as a personal import, you need to own the car, and live in NZ for atleast a year

Or you can always import it as a "Race/Rally" only. That if you going to use the parts only & not having it rego in Oz ever.

damn that engine bay is so tidy!

I'm impressed!

Apparently you can get an Evo 5 in NZ for like $8k??

now i'm curious, say if i have all the part for a transplant engine, don't worry about the labour cost etc etc, what else is require (eg.compliance, engine cert) to get it legal on the road and the cost?

Ok so how much would it cost to get VR4 engine into a FTO ?

Its around $5000 to turbo a mivec engine, withough touching the internals right ?

nah its a lot more than $5000

i like how that engine bay is very stock looking... doesnt attract any unwanted attention

Hahahaha.... i knew there was a red 1 floating round chch somewhere.... f**k that is awfully tempting, i have the money and the car is 300km away.... hmmmmmmmmm come to think of it so is my fto! and scarily, my engines half out or it!


i might flick this dude a txt




so yes.... i do wish i lived in NZ...

of course you CANterbury!

Spud wrote:Where is that engine from and is that a better choice than an Evo engine if your gonna turbo your car?

From a Galant VR4, and yes because they are basically the same engine but bigger and twin turbo. although i thought the gearbox's were on the opposite sides?

Cheers Schumie thanks for that.

For us Aussies though wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy a Galant VR4 here?
I mean there's one on eBay here for $9900. This is of course if all your after is the engine.

Having another complete FTO for spare parts is also a nice idea though.

So what motor is in that FTO is it a 4G63 ? How much you think it would cost all up ??

Im thinking with my setup to turbo a GPX all i would need is the turbo,intercooler,manifold,fuel pump,trans/oil cooler. Once thats done get custom piping. I already have the computer if i bought all this seperate surely i wouldnt be looking at to much over $5000 installed...