Project FTO Black Hole

Post by **Vectose** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:43 pm

I bought the same fog lights a while back, bought a HID kit separately for them.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 7:05 am

I just used the bulbs out of my old fogs.

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:57 pm

So as some of you would know, my rear suspension is sagging quite badly, it's lower than Nicks' ("The rear technikhaus") and his is lowered...

This is the rear as of this evening:

The front:

The replacement shocks for the rear that I purchased today for $110 NZD:

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:46 am

All done, looks much better, and the driver's side rear strut was completely stuffed!

vanadinite · Post by **vanadinite** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:01 am

why no coilovers?

Post by **bjk** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:05 am

vanadinite wrote:why no coilovers?

Costs moolah to get them certified in NZ.

vanadinite · Post by **vanadinite** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:14 am

so you can basically import any car in existence but you cant use coilovers, What an odd little country

Post by **bjk** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:27 am

You can use them, but if I remember it being mentioned before it would cost about $600.

vanadinite · Post by **vanadinite** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:35 am

for compliance?

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:06 pm

Yup, if the coilovers are 1200, that's reasonable, but you have to get them certified, and that's 450 I think.
I was talking to the lady at the suspension shop when I picked up the springs yesterday, she said when she got the coilovers in her S13 certed it was 350 (a few years ago).
The only annoying thing is that when you get certed, they don't just cert the coilovers, they will also cert the wheels and tyres, and any other modification.
Then they cert the wheels and tyres, if you change wheel size, or tyre size, you have to get re-certed...

Edit, will get pics of the car this afternoon with the new springs in

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:05 pm

Here's one pic...

Post by **bjk** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:08 pm

Sweet shot!

Lowered at the front now I assume? How much gap have you got?

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 3:21 pm

bjk wrote:Sweet shot!

Lowered at the front now I assume? How much gap have you got?

Yeah show us your box gap

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:25 pm

lowered about 30mm, not too sure how much of a gap there is, I will have to find a tape measure...

destinationtoby · Post by **destinationtoby** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:02 pm

Nice

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:30 pm

So, some pics.

The new shocks for the rear, $70 each:

New Srings, $440:

The rear before lowering, on the collapsed side...

Front side before lowering:

Rear after lowering:

Front after lowering;

The gap missing here is where the wheel was scraping earlier, and I think it is still slightly scraping now since removing that too...
The cleaner part is where it was scraping after lowering...

A couple of random pics...

On another note, what's this?? the little round thingy on top of the Intake manifold...

Sahin · Post by **Sahin** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:53 pm

That round thingy is on all the facelift intake manifolds...
Different mould I think, it does nothing

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:04 pm

Hmm. I'm not facelift....

Website · Post by **Lawso** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:21 am

I'm interested in the indicators, and how well they fit, want to put a set in my FTO when it gets facelifted.

what did they set you back? how well do they fit?

Technikhaus · Post by **Technikhaus** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:35 pm

$134 NZD I think it was for the indicators, they fit really well. I can get a close-up pic of them if you want?

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