Next Project. Need some pics please

Post by **Supplanter** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:30 pm

Fully sick VN V8 engine RWD FTOdore... with VT SS wheels uleh.

Hmmm, Mitsi make a 4.5L V8 engine from memory...

"8A80"

http://magna.trynsave.net/index.php?title=8A80

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:42 pm

Grue wrote:um.. Putting the engine in the back? lol

Yeah just get an MR2 and get some good panel shop to hybrid FTO and MR2 front (not just the lights, like some done already) and you have the mid mount rear engine FTO

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:39 pm

Now I like the sound of a V8 FTO

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:59 pm

Grue wrote:Now I like the sound of a V8 FTO

Touche. And make it a noisy carby fed mungrel that gets 3mpg.... awesome

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:57 am

Hahaha... nah its no mitsi engine...

hahaha... and its no carby fed thing either...

Very new and from what i know, quite high tec (almost as much as mivec engine)

Righto... really over the whole secrecy thing...

So here's my plan...

Fell in love with this pic when i saw it... now i want to create it...

Post by **aza013** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:06 am

lol now that I would love to see running good luck with it

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:09 am

LOL its still carby fed mate, blown or not, the juice has gotta be mixed!

And I hope it stands up on the rear drivers side wheel when launched & it has wheelie bars

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:14 am

Im thinking of a lexus 4.3 or 5L V8 with a charger on the top...

Nice compact V8... Plus they make awesome power from standard...

Wheelies are a must...

robsta · Post by **robsta** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:47 pm

Sam that idea is so wack it just might work...LOL...

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:16 pm

You going to get the little Mad Max dog to sit on the passenger seat as well?

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:19 pm

haha... you laugh now...

Wait till u see this thing doing drifts and doughnuts...

Breza · Post by **Breza** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:47 pm

LS6?

Chris

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:54 pm

wtf?? Isnt that like a really old school 6 cyl???

Nah has to be v8... purely for the shock factor.

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:58 pm

FtoSam wrote:wtf?? Isnt that like a really old school 6 cyl???

Nah has to be v8... purely for the shock factor.

Nah mate... LS6 comes outta a Corvette! Alloy 5.7 litre V8...and you can buy them in the crate. The Holden range has been using the LS1s (the smaller version) for a few years now.

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:26 pm

Ahhh... i read L6.... Missed the S...

And the LS7 is the 6L correct???

Pretty sure that would be expensive as hell and wouldnt fit anyway...

Need a compact V8... That Alternator looks to be in firewall real estate..

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:37 pm

expensive? lol your buliding a custom car what do u care about $$ for?

Sick looking pic though!

Rims need to be TE37s now that would be hot

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:48 pm

The idea is to convert the FTO to be a mix of new school jap tech and old school muscle...

Hence the tough blower...

Not sure what those rims are kj... Got a pic??

want some tough ones that you'd see on a Torry or something...

And although would be an expensive project, the diff between a corvette motor being put in over a Lexus would be in the tens of thousands... not to mention time off road

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:00 pm

FtoSam wrote:The idea is to convert the FTO to be a mix of new school jap tech and old school muscle...

Hence the tough blower...

Not sure what those rims are kj... Got a pic??

want some tough ones that you'd see on a Torry or something...

And although would be an expensive project, the diff between a corvette motor being put in over a Lexus would be in the tens of thousands... not to mention time off road

lol what do u care? TE37s Rays. The classic rim.

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:04 pm

khunjeng wrote:
FtoSam wrote:The idea is to convert the FTO to be a mix of new school jap tech and old school muscle...

Hence the tough blower...

Not sure what those rims are kj... Got a pic??

want some tough ones that you'd see on a Torry or something...

And although would be an expensive project, the diff between a corvette motor being put in over a Lexus would be in the tens of thousands... not to mention time off road
lol what do u care? TE37s Rays. The classic rim.

I care because current project is keeping me broke as it is...

next project needs to be budgeted more carefully... anymore than $30k = cant really afford..

khunjeng · Post by **khunjeng** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:12 pm

FtoSam wrote:
khunjeng wrote:
FtoSam wrote:The idea is to convert the FTO to be a mix of new school jap tech and old school muscle...

Hence the tough blower...

Not sure what those rims are kj... Got a pic??

want some tough ones that you'd see on a Torry or something...

And although would be an expensive project, the diff between a corvette motor being put in over a Lexus would be in the tens of thousands... not to mention time off road
lol what do u care? TE37s Rays. The classic rim.
I care because current project is keeping me broke as it is...

next project needs to be budgeted more carefully... anymore than $30k = cant really afford..

how about a house?

The turbo FTO is great and we are al impressed with what u have done. I reckon you have a few years of mods left in that still!