Hey everyone
I just found this website the other day and must say its fantastic, heaps of useful info. My names Daniel and I own a white 99 version R which I bought early this year (well actually mid last year but had importing issues). Its a relatively stock version R with the only mods being Bilstein shocks and springs with adjustable camber and ride height and a Blitz intake. Little things such as a speed limit remover, brake ducts (driving lights have been sacrificed) and a bracket for a fire extinguisher leads me to believe it was raced in Japan, which is a shame cause with only 50,000 k's on it the gearbox and engine mounts are feeling it already. But I intend on spending some money and getting it back into perfect shape cause lets be honest its hard to find a better looking car on the road than an FTO. Heres some photos below...
She's a manual. Unfortunately its had a hard life and the synchros into 3rd are wearing already, anything over 4500 rpm and it crunches into gear. I'm gonna try some synthetic gearbox oil to help the problem a bit but eventually its probably gonna need a re-build. Does anyone know if thats a common problem with manual FTO's?
The panel on the left side of the passenger seat leg area seems to have been replaced with a moulding allowing for a fire extinguisher or flares or something to be clipped in. Thats what my mechanic reckons anyway, for all i know its how they come standard. I'l try and get a pic up soon.
FTO99R wrote:She's a manual. Unfortunately its had a hard life and the synchros into 3rd are wearing already, anything over 4500 rpm and it crunches into gear. I'm gonna try some synthetic gearbox oil to help the problem a bit but eventually its probably gonna need a re-build. Does anyone know if thats a common problem with manual FTO's?
Hey don't despair, my 3rd gear synchroes are also going. But yours sound worse than mine. Mine only lightly crunches (most of the time) IF i goto 8200 in 2nd and quickish shift to third. It's only happened after i started modding the car...resulting in revs dropping slower and harder work for synchro if quickshifting. As for being raced...mine was only 56xxxkms when i got it but it also had a hard life (lots of touge runs i think). Bit of TLC later however, got the power output back to spec, just noisy tappets now haha.
Far as i know, it's not really a common problem.
The moulding is factory, not aftermarket. It was for a road flare required by all japanese cars.
Stick a good LED torch in there with lithium batteries. Never know when you need a good lght. I've had to use mine more than once. An Inova X0 luxeon1 with holster is a perfect fit in there but torches have moved on to better leds...
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