The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

Hi,i know this is an Irish forum,but i hope you guys dont mind if i stay around here hehe
Im spanish living in Japan(my english level sucks btw).I have my FTO since october last year,its a 1996 GR,black.
I will be posting photos as soon as i have my apex lower springs installed soon.
Im thinking about this two options too,any advices are welcome:
1-remove the rear spoiler.
2-change it for a Version R one.

Anyways,just wanted to say hello.

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Nice to get a member from the FTO homeland

Hi & welcome .
did you buy your car from japan ?

what are the prices there like and how big is the fto scene?

happy posting

Remove the spolier, Ftos look much nicer without it in my opinion.

cullen5998 wrote:Remove the spolier, Ftos look much nicer without it in my opinion.

+1 - especially if you combine with side skirts and deeper front bumper/splitter.

Thank you for your warm welcome ^^

Sebastian

Yes,i bought it here,FTOs are cheap in Japan,you can get a GP version R in mint condition for about 5000 Us dollars,old GPX or GR are even cheaper.
The scene is not bad,there is the project F community where we make some meetings,and the Mitsubishi Motors Fan event is coming this year in october and its gonna be in Kyoto,there you can see lots of FTOs.Btw,i dont like how japanese people tune their FTOs,they are always putting huge spoilers and sometimes anime vinyls which make the FTO look like gay lol


About the spoiler,i think i will remove it for a while and see if i like how it looks,i dont like those gay-ass super big GT spoilers or the HIRO spoiler,you guys know which one is that? is huuuuuuge,and it makes the FTO look really ugly(in my opinion though).
Here is a pic.

looks like a hiro spoiler . member on here is selling his fto with one fitted to it
check link here
http://www.fto-ireland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11685

P.S wekcome to the club mate

Hiro can look well if combined with suitable mods -
heres my previous FTO (now Cullens)-



With -



Without -

Thats a sweet FTO

No way man,in my opinion Hiro's spoiler is ugly ,big spoilers are not my thing(ex.lancer evolution).
Just my opinion,not trying to offend nobody

I would tend to agree, leave the supra and alfas to that...

Nice to have someone from Japan, thought the scene would have been dead over there regards FTOs!

cullen5998 wrote:Remove the spolier, Ftos look much nicer without it in my opinion.

Totally Agree !

Aamir wrote:

cullen5998 wrote:Remove the spolier, Ftos look much nicer without it in my opinion.

Totally Agree !

Aamir just watched your black FTO and its badass,i love it!,how do you keep it so clean? my black F gets so dirty soon. ;_;
Do you use lowering springs? im gonna put new ones on mine,and then i will remove the spoiler too.You inspired me lol

Well I'm going against the grain here and disagreeing with the non-spoiler look. But for me it would have to be the GPvR spoiler. I like the spoilerless look on cullens but thats only cause of the bodykit, standard non-spoilerless doesnt do it for me.

Welcome

ultrakupra wrote:

Aamir wrote:

cullen5998 wrote:Remove the spolier, Ftos look much nicer without it in my opinion.

Totally Agree !

Aamir just watched your black FTO and its badass,i love it!,how do you keep it so clean? my black F gets so dirty soon. ;_;
Do you use lowering springs? im gonna put new ones on mine,and then i will remove the spoiler too.You inspired me lol

Thank You for your comments.
Mine is a GS, even with 50mm lowering springs it wasn't low enough, so I purchased some HKS coilovers, wound it fully down, still wasn't low enough, so I cut about 4 coils off the bottom, now it sits just right & looks slammed when on the move.

Weekly wash & polish, finished with a sealant keeps mine looking sharp at all times

Ok guys,i have to install the lowering Apex springs,but this are some pics i had on my desktop pc,so here you go.
Hope you like it.



Love the front view of FTOs



Interior,red and black scheme,MOMO stearing wheel,and the FTO logo which i painted by myself,aswell as the other red parts.


A trip i made long ago to a seaside small town in Fukui prefecture.

Tell me if the images are too big or something,im pretty new here.

Nice pics!!! Welcome!

Update:I Installed today a version R original spoiler,got painted it in black(paintjob was a bit expensive lol) and it looks so cool now,love that spoiler!

ultrakupra wrote:Update:I Installed today a version R original spoiler,got painted it in black(paintjob was a bit expensive lol) and it looks so cool now,love that spoiler!

We need pics !

Aamir wrote:

ultrakupra wrote:Update:I Installed today a version R original spoiler,got painted it in black(paintjob was a bit expensive lol) and it looks so cool now,love that spoiler!

We need pics !

Hi Aamir,ill be going to the Mitsubishi motors Fan event this sunday at Kyoto's Mitsubishi plant,ill take pictures of mine and all other FTOs.

New photo,FTO resting after some weekend Touge fun,Grip>>>>Drifting

Hate to dissapoint you,
That's not an original version R spoiler .


Looks to me more like a TopMix

I know,i had the version R,and recently changed for a Topmix one ,check out the thread where i posted my car at the MMF 2011,you can see before i had the ver R spoiler