FTO AUSTRALIA

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

I just used the bulbs out of my old fogs.

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:

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

why no coilovers?

vanadinite wrote:why no coilovers?

Costs moolah to get them certified in NZ.

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

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

for compliance?

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

Here's one pic...

Sweet shot!

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

bjk wrote:Sweet shot!

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

Yeah show us your box gap

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

Nice

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...

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

Hmm. I'm not facelift....

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?

$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?