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by **Wildhound** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:10 am

Does anyone know if there's any reasonably decent documentation of a successful transplant floating around the web?

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:20 am

I've half been looking as well - didn't find any..
hopefully you'll have more luck.. are you regged on ftooc ? They might have a "guide"..

by **d_dan** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:22 am

but there's one of an evo 7 conversion on FTP malasia

by **Wildhound** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:22 am

Had a snoot around over there and couldn't dig anything up. I'm not actually a member though.

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:37 am

The best person you can talk to would be Richard Batty on the UK forum. His is the only person I know of to have completed this conversion. I know it was a sizeable project though including having to put a bow in the back wall of the engine bay to make the unit fit.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:40 am

d_dan wrote:but there's one of an evo 7 conversion on FTP malasia

Pls post link or something - wouldn't mind having a look at that.

by **Myfeckin FTO** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:51 am

Muad_dib77 wrote:
d_dan wrote:but there's one of an evo 7 conversion on FTP malasia

Pls post link or something - wouldn't mind having a look at that.

There have been a few turbo FTO's that have come up for sale over the past few months - inc Evo conversions - I think you'd be far better off financially buying one of these than trying to start from scratch.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:55 am

Myfeckin FTO wrote:
Muad_dib77 wrote:
d_dan wrote:but there's one of an evo 7 conversion on FTP malasia

Pls post link or something - wouldn't mind having a look at that.

There have been a few turbo FTO's that have come up for sale over the past few months - inc Evo conversions - I think you'd be far better off financially buying one of these than trying to start from scratch.

Ah yeah - I just wanted a looksie.

by **Wildhound** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:12 pm

Myfeckin FTO wrote:There have been a few turbo FTO's that have come up for sale over the past few months - inc Evo conversions - I think you'd be far better off financially buying one of these than trying to start from scratch.

You're most likely right, I'm just curious to see what's involved beyond the actual straight swap which could be done quite cheaply.

A lot of heavily modified (and turboed) FTOs aren't to my taste visually and there isn't a great selection so I'd be reluctant to buy one.

Mainly I'm curious what kind of costly difficulties could be involved (like the bow in the wall), just toying with the idea for the minute.

by **steelroe** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:19 pm

http://www.mitsubishi-fto.net/300bhp/index.htm
http://www.mitsubishi-fto.net/main.htm

Hell of a lot of work involved. I would have thought an EVO conversion would be more straight forward and would yield similar end results

by **steelroe** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:22 pm

http://www.mitsubishi-fto.net/300bhp/timeline.htm

by **Wildhound** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:19 pm

From what I've been reading it seems like fitting a low boost turbo on the existing engine is a far simpler and cheaper option (though still costly and far from easy).

Not quite as powerful mind but it should still provide some pretty impressive results. MIVEC might complicate things though.

by CJ » Mon May 12, 2008 5:53 pm

One of the guys on the forum (ftorex) has undertaken a VR-4 conversion, he's also involved with the Irish Rotary crew, I'll email him and ask for his input.

CJ

by **miss-enzo** » Tue May 13, 2008 5:46 pm

id LOVE to do this to my car! but i cant see the money ever bein there to do it!!! if i was doin it id want a 4wd conversion too!!!

i was told would cost about 10k!

by **Wildhound** » Wed May 14, 2008 8:51 am

Yeah but you can knock a large chunk off that by doing the labour (or most of it) yourself.

by **ftorex** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:51 am

Hi all, (thanks for the intro CJ)
Yes i have started on the VR4 engine (6A13TT) conversion ages ago and still havent finished it off

Time and money... :roll:

I will try and get some pics up at the weekend of what i've done so far..

by **Wildhound** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:59 am

Brilliant, I'd love to hear a bit more about the kind of issues you've run into. I'm very tempted to give this a go somewhere down the line.

by CJ » Thu May 15, 2008 10:35 am

Fiachra, would you be willing to give a top level step-by-step guide to undertaking a 6A13TT conversion? I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when I say that theres significant interest in this topic.

CJ

by **Dragonheart** » Thu May 15, 2008 6:42 pm

I see by your user identity it says your based in cork ftorex, you still there? If so I wouldnt mind having a look at what you've done in the flesh if possible sometime.

by **ftorex** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:54 pm

Heres some photos...

by **ftorex** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:56 pm

by **ftorex** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:59 pm

More

by **ftorex** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:04 pm

I see by your user identity it says your based in cork ftorex, you still there? If so I wouldnt mind having a look at what you've done in the flesh if possible sometime.

Yes, still in Cork....

I'd love to have it up and running for the meet in september..I'll post more pics when i have more time.. :roll:

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:43 pm

Awesome shots - thanks :-)

by **steelroe** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:23 pm

Where did you pick upthe VR4 lump? What transmission are you going to use?

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