FTO AUSTRALIA

update it

It is updated.

Latest version on the server too.

Front bar cut, removing the numberplate mount:

After like 4 months we finally got them!
A couple of crappy pics

Finally shifted the head unit into the glove box, as well as the Vac gauge, and also installed the Bee*r

mmmmm beer

Went on a auto cross yesterday for the first time, was an awesome experience!
It was a 2KM track across two paddocks at a local farm.
My first run I got a 3:25, then a 3:16, then a 3:13. I then went on one last run and got 3:06 which I was quite happy with
This is from my last run:
Skip to 3:00 for the start.

Nice!

Did you do a drift? looks like fun, though cleaning out all of that mud from under the car sounds less enthralling haha.

I did a lot of hand brakies :p
and spun out once. Was awesome fun though, seriously the best fun I've had in the car
I noticed, looking at a pic a friend took that My bumper got a bit of a workout going through one of the gates:

Cool, I like

Dwayne, you better start setting out a track for the bonfire

Hahaha looks like fun cept u took it easy, I would of been thrashing it

I could probably google it, but what does applying the handbrake do? I assume you mean around corners.

bjk wrote:I could probably google it, but what does applying the handbrake do? I assume you mean around corners.

It engages the rear brake calipers to clamp onto the brake disks causing the car to brake/slide

I was pushing it as hard as I could at the time, the tract was extremely slippery, you gun it and your wheels just spin, so the way to make up time is in the corners, which I would just under steer in, and end up in the cones each time :p

Pussy

Just shove it in 5th and do 200kph skids

I only got into 3rd once a lap... haha. I would gun it down the straight and just spin...

Here's some of my other (worse) runs:

First timed run:



Second timed run:



Third timed run:

The front bar is very near to being finished, just needs smoothing back a little more, and some paint

I thought that I would throw the side skirt on, and the front bar on to see how it looks. It currently sits around 120mm off of the ground at the lowest part of the bar, and the lowest structural part of the car is 160mm, so the car can go another 60mm which will put the front bar at 60mm from the ground
But that will require either super low springs, or coil-overs, which is the route I'd rather go. It also really needs new wheels....