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Hi Everyone,
New to the forum, but not to PistonHeads, also posted this in the "Ford" section but thought I'd post in here as well. I'm Mitch, 27, own a Fiesta ST, love my trackdays and driving in general.
I will be making a concerted effort to post on here as much as I can :-)
Owned the Fiesta for over 6 years now, been a long term project. Covered well over 50,000 miles in that time. Been to some amazing places and tracks, made many great memories with it. Thinking of it, I couldn't really sell it now haha.
Few snaps of the car;
Modifications;
- Full exhaust (Milltek Evo2 manifold, Milltek sports cat, Mountune Cat-Back)
- Whiteline RARB
- OMP Front Strut Brace
- AP Coilovers (saving for BC's or Miester's)
- 20mm rear wheel spacers
- Braided brake lines
- Motul RBF600 brake fluid
- Front pads - Mintex M1155 / Rear - Standard Brembo pads
- 300mm front brake upgrade, with MTEC groved and dimpled discs all round.
- 15" Team Dynamic 1.2's
- 195/50/15 Yokohama AD08r
- K&N 57i induction kit
- 60mm throttle body
- Dreamscience Hyper R remap
- Piper 200 spec cams (waiting to be fitted)
- Rear interior stripped
- Polybushes
- TRC Splitter and gloss black plastics and headlights.
Future plans are to get the cams fitted and have the map tweaked to suite. Bucket seats and a rear cage.
Also run my own car club called "The Chequered Flag". We're based in the midlands, and often to drives out and regular day at Curborough Sprint Course in Fradley.
Some more recent snaps and updates:
I've been on a drive into the Peak District in March 2018 with a few friends. Attended a trackday at Donington also in March. In April I ran a sprint event at Curborough Sprint Course with my car club. I have also booked a return trip to Donington for July with an evening session through Circuit Days.
I have also been tidying up the ST by replaced the broken splitter, giving it a service and repainting all the gloss black plastics.
Curborough photos:
Donington:
Peak District drive:
Shiny new front end:
Thanks for reading,
Mitch.
New to the forum, but not to PistonHeads, also posted this in the "Ford" section but thought I'd post in here as well. I'm Mitch, 27, own a Fiesta ST, love my trackdays and driving in general.
I will be making a concerted effort to post on here as much as I can :-)
Owned the Fiesta for over 6 years now, been a long term project. Covered well over 50,000 miles in that time. Been to some amazing places and tracks, made many great memories with it. Thinking of it, I couldn't really sell it now haha.
Few snaps of the car;
Modifications;
- Full exhaust (Milltek Evo2 manifold, Milltek sports cat, Mountune Cat-Back)
- Whiteline RARB
- OMP Front Strut Brace
- AP Coilovers (saving for BC's or Miester's)
- 20mm rear wheel spacers
- Braided brake lines
- Motul RBF600 brake fluid
- Front pads - Mintex M1155 / Rear - Standard Brembo pads
- 300mm front brake upgrade, with MTEC groved and dimpled discs all round.
- 15" Team Dynamic 1.2's
- 195/50/15 Yokohama AD08r
- K&N 57i induction kit
- 60mm throttle body
- Dreamscience Hyper R remap
- Piper 200 spec cams (waiting to be fitted)
- Rear interior stripped
- Polybushes
- TRC Splitter and gloss black plastics and headlights.
Future plans are to get the cams fitted and have the map tweaked to suite. Bucket seats and a rear cage.
Also run my own car club called "The Chequered Flag". We're based in the midlands, and often to drives out and regular day at Curborough Sprint Course in Fradley.
Some more recent snaps and updates:
I've been on a drive into the Peak District in March 2018 with a few friends. Attended a trackday at Donington also in March. In April I ran a sprint event at Curborough Sprint Course with my car club. I have also booked a return trip to Donington for July with an evening session through Circuit Days.
I have also been tidying up the ST by replaced the broken splitter, giving it a service and repainting all the gloss black plastics.
Curborough photos:
Donington:
Peak District drive:
Shiny new front end:
Thanks for reading,
Mitch.
pthelazyjourno said:
Nice car. Did you always have it on those wheels, or did it start off on the OEM wheels? Just wondering how much impact they had on ride quality?
Totally different car, but similar wheel difference - I had some 15" TD 1.2's on my 172 from the OEM 16" alloys and the difference was marked in every respect. Not to mention being cheap as I could use 195/50/15 tyres at £50 each instead of 205/45/16 at £85.pthelazyjourno said:
Nice car. Did you always have it on those wheels, or did it start off on the OEM wheels? Just wondering how much impact they had on ride quality?
Started with a completely standard car when I bought it. I was into motorbikes at the time so this was just an A to B car, sold the bike once my daughter was born and quickly started to modify the ST. Krikkit said:
Totally different car, but similar wheel difference - I had some 15" TD 1.2's on my 172 from the OEM 16" alloys and the difference was marked in every respect. Not to mention being cheap as I could use 195/50/15 tyres at £50 each instead of 205/45/16 at £85.
Main reason I went with smaller wheels, these are a lot lighter than standard, plus doing trackdays the tyres available are so much cheaper. 
The second photo is much better IMHO !
The black wheels suit the car and add a subtle aggressive look to it.
But then I am a bit biased.....
This is my recently acquired 'back up' car....( my 'main car' is an Alfa 156, so a second car is compulsory kind of !!)
A Grande Punto 1.9 Mjet 130 Sporting ( what a name !) with about 83 K on it; I have done about 5K since November and it still needs a few thing sorting.
I too would like to do a few track days with this Fiat, as I have with my Alfa at Croft, but a couple of things need doing first; DMF and then a remap to about 160BHP which would be nice as this has the close ratio, but delicate M32 box.
I would imaging this wee car would be great on track as it is so much more nimble than the heavier Alfa156 JTDM 150.
All I need now are the funds to achieve this..
Re your Fiesta, I have always liked the ST like yours, they look so much better than the later cars IMHO, and I really like all the mods you have done. I reckon the Mk 6 is the best design of all the small Fords.
Apologies for going a bit OT above !
The black wheels suit the car and add a subtle aggressive look to it.
But then I am a bit biased.....
This is my recently acquired 'back up' car....( my 'main car' is an Alfa 156, so a second car is compulsory kind of !!)
A Grande Punto 1.9 Mjet 130 Sporting ( what a name !) with about 83 K on it; I have done about 5K since November and it still needs a few thing sorting.
I too would like to do a few track days with this Fiat, as I have with my Alfa at Croft, but a couple of things need doing first; DMF and then a remap to about 160BHP which would be nice as this has the close ratio, but delicate M32 box.
I would imaging this wee car would be great on track as it is so much more nimble than the heavier Alfa156 JTDM 150.
All I need now are the funds to achieve this..
Re your Fiesta, I have always liked the ST like yours, they look so much better than the later cars IMHO, and I really like all the mods you have done. I reckon the Mk 6 is the best design of all the small Fords.
Apologies for going a bit OT above !
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