FTO AUSTRALIA

meh, sure its nice .... but i dont wanna buy a car all done up

i wanna do all that stuff my self from scratch and be proud that its my work

tippin9 wrote:meh, sure its nice .... but i dont wanna buy a car all done up

i wanna do all that stuff my self from scratch and be proud that its my work

That's exactly the way I feel about it NORMALLY.

But when it's THIS car that we're talking about, the hell with doing it myself, this is a dream come true, unless you have 30-40k to spare on top, and even then there's little gaurantee that everything will be in the working order this car is in.

It's like saying "Nah I don't wanna Mine's GTR, I rather just buy a normal one and do all the work myself"

BorepYano wrote:damn, its out

i saw it he day it went up there, and didnt want to tell anyone on here about it lol, secretly low balling him at the moment... feel kinda bad about low balling him, but not much else i can do, if all i have is about $11k... (and that's not even cash, that's 'credit' - half credit card, half ppl owing me money... might have to do a round of leg breaking to start collecting now lol)

lol, that's not low balling .. that's just insulting.. did he laugh at you?

anyone else find this a little amusing?;

Engine Number: 6A12AP8214

mr-charisma wrote:

BorepYano wrote:damn, its out

i saw it he day it went up there, and didnt want to tell anyone on here about it lol, secretly low balling him at the moment... feel kinda bad about low balling him, but not much else i can do, if all i have is about $11k... (and that's not even cash, that's 'credit' - half credit card, half ppl owing me money... might have to do a round of leg breaking to start collecting now lol)

lol, that's not low balling .. that's just insulting.. did he laugh at you?

i havent actually made an offer to him or anything, i'm trying to see how the auction goes and see how much i can $$ i can raise, so far i'm sitting at $13k ($2k more than 12hrs ago... hmm... wish i could make money this fast all the time lol)

sublime19 wrote:There has to be a genuine reason why people havn't bought it. I know not everybody has $20K sitting around but there's bound to be somebody who would've had it (or would get a loan) if they really wanted it bad enough.

Is it perhaps because they're worried about it as a daily driver, having it overheat while sitting in traffic on a hot day, or is it because of traction problems?

that, & torque steer, understeer, potential for problems with g'box, axles, etc plus with that much power at the front wheels you have to be concerned about wrapping it around a tree if you're not careful .. (Not something learners & P Platers have to worry about .. they're all Superman)

Plus the massively heavy clutch wouldn't make it a walk in the park to use it as a daily driver either.. then again.. who would buy it as a daily..

I would!

The first thing you'll pop will be a driveshaft. They are the weakest link in the gearbox / diff / drivetrain assembly - and thats a good thing. A driveshaft is $100 second hand & can be swapped in less than an hour.

On top of that, the only way you are going to break a driveshaft is with traction. Ie a set of slicks, doing a take off at a drag strip. Giving it a kick in the guts on the street will only result in a mass of wheelspin smoke.