FTO AUSTRALIA

i've sold my old fto and after much looking have decided that i want another one! so if anyone is selling or intending to sell and finds the requests below applicable, call me on 0404 233 938 abbie.

ok, well here goes the wish list...
~ 96 or 97 model
~ under 80'000km
~ NSW or ACT
~ auto/trip
~ havent been in any major accidents, body in good condition
~ regular servicing and well loved.
~~~~ additional cookie points for a body kit or being yellow in colour but thats just me and wishful thinking

thanx and hopefully someone will answer to this sooon, been with out my car for a month and i already feel so

aww i love my FTOtoo abbie
i own two cars too lol
when i bought accord i tried to trade in my FTObut they said they cant take imports
so i thought...hmm i'll sell it myself
i left it on carsales.com.au and still cant be bothered to sell it
i love my car


so what happen to buying a integra???

nahhhhh
my parents decided against me driving a stick and i didnt want an auto integra... heheheh so after much looking i've decided that the fto is the best thing for me!

haha... after all that hard work and stress trying to sell your old FTO, you then make the decision that you want another FTO

and now your gonna have to visit the "For those who missed out on the seat cover group buy" post to buy another set of seat covers

http://www.ftoaustralia.com/modules.php ... forum&f=18

well if your still interested heres a yellow manual fto

http://www.carsales.com.au/please/carsales ... istance=25

no wait.... you want auto.... so close.

GEEHHHHH
that car is nice! good excuse to make mr wildflower take me to the sunshine state!

thought you might like it... just remember that to register it in your state the car has to pass through the RTA and by the looks of it you wont get very far. For starters that body kit would have to be removed as i dont think you can have such sharp edges on a body kit.... you gotta think of that poor pedestrian your one day gunna run into .

Enjoy

That used to be a Canberra car.

And that body kit is the Veilslop kit......plenty of people have it and no one's gotten any trouble about it being too sharp.

i live in nsw at blacktown i got a 4 speed tip it a GR and it 91500km midnight blue with a Veilside side and rear bar and t style front lip look hot and it lowerd with 17" wheels so your interested

sac76@hotmail.com or 0419986379

Yes but you can get pulled over 5 times and the cop will tell you that your sports steering wheel is illegal but he lets you off then the 6th time you get defected.

All im saying is be aware of the requirements before you do anything rather than just buy it and hope for the best.

That or just wear a really really short skirt when you go to get the car registered and bend over a lot.... haha.... sexist? yes..... true? most definately

Ben

u wouldnt happen, just happen, to work for the RTA do u ???

"oops! silly me, why do i keep on dropping my set of keys today ???..." *bends ova to pick them up, for the !!!th time*

"can i go now officer?" *batter eye lashes*

hahahahaha

haha no dont work for them just have a fear of them (will be bringing a car from interstate myself soon). But SA has the most military RTA of all of them so im just paranoid.

But sounds like you have caught on there wild_flower so you should be fine .

Public transport no more! YAY!

Not another FTO....

1997 GTS-T R33 turbo charged skyline, 59'000km, gun metal grey! YAY!

$15K, Picking up this arvo ! DOUBLE YAY!!!!

hehehe thanx heaps for trying to help me out guys, been looking so hard, but its not easy to find and that FTO i long for. luckily my dad's mate now works with imports and so he got me this at wholesalers price!, man, i would onli got a hatch back for around $15k! =) if anyone wants to upgrade and has an import in mind, let me noe, and i'll give u his contacts.

very happy
abbie

Congratulations.




But PLEASE don't wrap it around anything!

Congra, & good luck with it. But as Bucket said don't wrap it around anything. Its a totally different type of car, power & handling are just so much different, so take it easy on the road.

FTO338 wrote: Its a totally different type of car, power & handling are just so much different, so take it easy on the road.

i noe what u mean! heaps more powerful, but doesnt handle as well as an fto, the corners around my place that i use to hug so well in the fto, i have to take slower in this.
and man! the interior looks and feels 10 yrs older than an fto! i was abit worried about its size, the front is a lot longer than an fto.

can u guys tell me abit about turbos? ie/ what all the parts do. things to look out for,
things that i need to maintain, how long should i set the turbo timer. etc...

keen to learn
abbie

GTsT comes with T28 turbo, which are similar to the SR20DET Silvia & GTR. But each model have slightly different compressor housing & exhaust housing.

As long as you look after your car well & no modifications (yeah right hehehe) then the GTsT is very easy to look after. I found the steering wheel on the GTsT are way too light, so i changed mine with a heavier one (i had one for a while)

With turbo timer, its really depends on how hard you been pushing it on each drive. For normal driving you don't need to set it more then 30sec, & on more "heavy" driving, then you should set it between 1 1/2 min to 2.

Any longer you really just wasting your fuel, & might even have the opposite effect. As the the idea of a turbo timer is to let the compressed hot air travel out of your exhaust, but if you leave it too long then the engine will build up the heat again, just like any car who been sitting at idle too long.

And also remember the series one & two parts are not interchangeable. Well most part at least.