The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:49 pm

Was in a filling station in Citywest yesterday. As i was coming out of the shop i saw a bloke standing at my car pointing at me asking if this was mine.... got into a rant about the fto and then eventually got his name.

Apparently his name was Tom from Kerry and he owns a few fto's, GTR Skyline and does a fair bit of Quarter Mile runs, wins this and that.

He then went on to say that he has a bored out GPX which is putting out over 400+ bhp. Bored out to what like! Anyway does anyone know him? He said he was a registered member on this site a few years back and knows the main contact for Fto's in Kerry... (Can't think of name but will post later.)

Will add a few pictures of the car he bluetoothed to my phone and you can tell me what you think of the 400bhp figure, Naturally Aspirated apparently!! I asked him what mods were done to get a figure like that and he said "sure that would be telling" ... I reckon thats bull .... opinions?

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:54 pm

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:55 pm

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:56 pm

Judging from the Engine bay F all has been done to this motor to claim those figures! Red Paint on the Inlet Manifold +150 bhp.
Neon Blue lights front bumper +25 bhp.

by **Mustang** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:57 pm

RussMan wrote:He then went on to say that he has a bored out GPX which is putting out over 400+ bhp. Bored out to what like! .......

you can tell me what you think of the 400bhp figure, Naturally Aspirated apparently!! I asked him what mods were done to get a figure like that and he said "sure that would be telling" ... I reckon thats bull .... opinions?

On a 2L engine with 6 cylinders the cylinders are quite small in diameter.
I doubt theres much room on the block to bore the cylinders out by any significant amount?
400bhp from a 2l (+boring) n/a engine is impossible I'd say...

by **Mustang** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:00 pm

I've seen this one on the road a few times, nearly crashed the first time I saw it :smt078

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At least the engine matchs yer ones panties :smt047

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:00 pm

I then got some story about a 1500bhp Supra thats been worked on which is going up against East Coast Customs soon!

by **RussMan** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:02 pm

by **kevinod** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:13 pm

I'd have to question it meself, doubling the power from an already well tuned engine would take some doing and some amount of €€ I'd reckon. Especially NA, you'd expect a turbo would be included in any major power increase.

Still though, I'd be more than happy for the guy to come on here and prove me wrong!

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:32 pm

Wouldn't mind having a closer look at that - if it is indeed even close to 400bhp from an NA block the cylinder walls would be VERY thin indeed.

The wee lad in the picture with the lady looks like he's about to drop his eyes into the engine bay..

Facebook · by **Sebastian** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:35 pm

i guess the power comes from the stickers !

by **The Bull** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:47 pm

Russ,
i reckon impossible, especially due to the poor power to weight ratio achieved with gamey scantily clad chicks trying to do tricep dips off the front bumper.

When he mentioned the Supra you should have told him about your 1million horsepower Fiat Uno powered by a Scania V8 and full 16 gear auto-box :wink:

either that or a Honda 50 with a F14 Tomcat afterburner.

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:58 pm

Got any more pictures of the bird?

Not really worth talking about the 400bhp claim - if that car is even reaching standard BHP I'd be surprised - presuming he added an absolutely massive turbo and considerably strengthened the internals beyond the laws of physics and upgraded the fuel pump and added an ECU etc then why in the name of J3sus did he leave the brakes as standard? Maybe we should invite him along to a Westward engineering Rolling Road day so that we could feature this incredible feat of engineering in a performance mag. :wink:

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:05 pm

My FTO is putting out atleast 1300bhp - but I'm not telling you how..
*cough*

by CJ » Wed May 02, 2007 4:21 pm

Kerry you say? I await steelroes input with interest....

CJ

by **soc** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:13 pm

Hope it doesn't have a tip box - 400bhp down the 1/4 wouldn't be long killing it....

Like CJ I :smt046

when I read this.... Maybe he's been0 :smt033

or

or even both...

by **Bernard** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:31 pm

My cousin met someone like that at a rally... said his FTO had an EVO IX running gear, and quoted similar figures...

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:06 pm

Hey gys look at those pictures.. clearly this car MUST have atleast 400bhp - it has Purple blue and red flames down the sides AND across the bonnet... it's on fire..

Would you stop taking the mick'!

by **steelroe** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:05 am

I am going to stay out of this one other than say, the car is standard, no engine mods not even an air induct kit

The go faster stripes must work very well. enough said.

by **mcgon1979** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:38 am

all the same, the bird is quite nice.... :oops:

by **RussMan** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:09 am

Err i've no time for wafflers!!!

by CJ » Thu May 03, 2007 9:31 am

steelroe wrote:I am going to stay out of this one other than say, the car is standard, no engine mods not even an air induct kit

Very diplomatic of you Rory

CJ

by **soc** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:32 am

You up at the gym last night - car was looking VERY clean -

by **RussMan** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:10 pm

Ye twas me. Off on holidays at the mo so plenty of time for Scrubbing!!:)

by **soc** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:33 am

RussMan wrote:Ye twas me. Off on holidays at the mo so plenty of time for Scrubbing!!:)

I'll be doing the same thing meself this friday

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