fitting bumper IN FTO

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fitting bumper IN FTO

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Is it possible to fit a front bumper IN the FTO?
if so, does the passenger seat need removing?

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I have had to transport a rear bar from Brisbane to a little past Newcastle in my Fto just need to recline passenger seat and should fit from foot well to the back to the driver seat I think it will make it
gotta get there one day :)
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Yeah they fit on the diagonal... just
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Awesome, thanks!
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Yep!

It'll be going in from passenger's door with the windows fully down, and passenger's seat fully reclined flat down to the back seat.

the bar will go high up into the backseat of driver's side with the other end down to the footwell of front passenger seat.
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Just don't do what I did

Rocked up to the Startrack Express depot to pick up my bars with my work car. Being a Ford I thought sh*t yeah, they'll fit, if they can get them into FTOs i'll fit them in here like a piece of cake.

An hour later after becoming really frustrated and giving the security guard something to laugh at I realised I couldn't even get one into it....

So I left them behind to get put back into storage..

Moral of the story, make sure you can fit them before you pick them up ;)
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Haha, ended up fitting in fine :)
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The good thing with an fto is, that the parts of it, can always fit somewhere else within the car itself and still be driveable. :lol:
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haha, even the engine?
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Yeah back seat
But not safely lol
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Or boot.
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Good luck lol
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Sahin wrote:Good luck lol
It's been done.
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Fair enough
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Astron_Boy wrote:Or boot.
Wouldn't fit in my boot :lol:
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Technikhaus wrote:haha, even the engine?
I can say a big yes to that, also the gear box, side skirts, front and back bars, doors, boot lid and wing, rims and tyres the list keeps going :twisted:

But before any one asks no the bonnet will not fit :( .
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aza013 wrote:But before any one asks no the bonnet will not fit :( .
I'm kinda thinking it could, depending how exactly it was done.

I'm not going to grab the CF bonnet to test my theory however.
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It won't fit in the door.
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cover in a bed sheet and strap down to the roof? probably illegal and unsafe but its a way to do it :lol:
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on an angle hanging out the boot?
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