FTO AUSTRALIA

my mate is looking at buying a 99 gr tip but wants to know if he would be able to put a 6spd manual into it and what sort of price he would be looking at to do it

..umm... why? if he wanted a 6 speed, '99 car, ask him to look into the Trueno/Levin 2 doors as they are around the same price. The 6 speeds came stock with the quad throttle 123kw 4AGE 1.6 and standard with LSD. save you from buying and converting a car into a 6 speed.

toyota. yuck. i mean come on the looks of the fto are way better, plus he already has the car lined up to buy and will probably buy it even if the 6spd box he got wont go into it

i'm not biased when it comes to cars. the trueno looks pretty nice too, especially the BZ-R's. parts are cheap as chips as there are a whole heap of them in NZ.

anyway.. not sure if there are any 6 speed FWD mistubishi gearboxes. i know with toyota they've got the celica gearbox... but the ratios are probably a bit different as well and wouldn't be completely suited for the 6A12 engine.

what's the reason for the 6 speed by the way?

hes rich, its different and he can. thats what he told me. said to him why not buy something different but he loves ftos. the one hes got lined up is worked just a bit too, 217kw @ the wheels. he hasnt gone into much detail with me just said its got a nice turbo on it and he wants to get rid of the tip box in it

ok then.
wheel spin must be his best friend hehehe.

robsta wrote:hes rich, its different and he can. thats what he told me. said to him why not buy something different but he loves ftos. the one hes got lined up is worked just a bit too, 217kw @ the wheels. he hasnt gone into much detail with me just said its got a nice turbo on it and he wants to get rid of the tip box in it

Be interesting to see what engine he's got in it

If he is so rich...
Then he can get a JDM Evo 8+ 6 speed manual gearbox, convert the FTO to AWD, and I don't know if the engine will hook up to the gearbox but if money isn't an issue I'm sure it will. And if it wont, an evo 9 MIVEC 4G63 worked would make this into a truly unbelievable FTO!!!

I'm fitting a mountain bike gearbox to mine....21 speed!

The easiest way to do it (if there is such a thing) would be to use the Evo 9 gearbox and convert it to FWD by welding up the centre diff. But I could think of better things to spend the large amounts of money that would cost on!

afterburner - cost wouldn't matter because he's rich and he can.

hes not overly rich he cant just buy all that stuff and say to people put this in now i'll make it worth your effort.

he rang me last night and told me he bought the car and is only going to put the fto 5spd into it because he wants to spend more of his money working the engine, he is taking it to the workshop next week and trying to get 300kw out of it.

300kw???? damnnnn he betta have some good traction control! FWD wont cope with all that.... the poor gearbox

ive seen fwd with more then that and handle it fine, im sure the workshop will be able to sort it all out, he is going in with a bit of money they will probably do anything it needs.

i wont know anymore info til after he gets it back.
its not cheap to ring Saudi Arabia

Yeah good luck, & tell him his not the first to try ehhehhee we will see him soon at "Want to buy" section as he will need new parts when they start to break at that level.

Seriously tell him to speak to "Dannyboiau" his one is close to 300kw, & since his a mechanic, he did 99% of the work, so he can give your mate some tips

and how many gearboxes has danny been through???

Meh... front wheel boxes are good for plenty of HP...

Its when u start looking for traction that things break. I got a 140hp mini that runs 12.89 seconds quarters. All I had to do was strengthen up the diff when launching on the sticky stuff. Biggest issues with jap boxes is main shafts being to weak - that and the bearings that hold 'em up. Some are good (heaps heavy duty) some not so good.