Fiesta ST MK7.5 Track car

Fiesta ST MK7.5 Track car

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kaveney

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1,286 posts

156 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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I have been running my 2016 Fiesta ST MK7.5 daily for the past 3 years and have just ordered a new car for daily duties so i will be turning the Fiesta ST in to a track car and will look to get this all done and on track for the mid / late part of this year .

This is how the car was when i got it in 2016 .







I have all ready done a few bits to the car but will look to upgrade the drive train , suspension , cooling and braking system before i get the car on its first track day .


Krikkit

26,500 posts

180 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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Good idea for a project, especially a car you know so well already.

What might be an idea is to track it before you touch it, then you know the weakest areas.

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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I have had it from 0 miles so you are correct i know the full history of the car and will be a good base to start from .

Not many week points apart from the brakes but i have a plan for that .

Regards

Krikkit said:
Good idea for a project, especially a car you know so well already.

What might be an idea is to track it before you touch it, then you know the weakest areas.

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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I have all ready upgraded the engine and power and started with the exhaust .

Milltek 200 cell sports cat and milltek 2.75 inch exhaust system along with Mountune exhaust hangers


Milltek exhaust Front box







Milltek exhaust rear box




Join link pipe




Rear tips




Milltek 200 cell sports cat




Mountune uprated exhaust hangers



kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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Old stock 2.14 inch system



Old 2.14 inch system and new 2.75 inch system





Stock cat removed



Old stock cat







New Milltek 200 cell sports cat





Rear tips






PaulD86

1,651 posts

125 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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Sounds like a great project! I was out with a couple of mates for a run on Sunday in my Cayman. One of the guys had a Nissan GTR and the other had a modified Fiesta ST. The ST held its own incredibly. Massively impressive things, especially with some performance mods. His had an LSD in it and seemed to put down power fantastically well.

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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They do go well from stock and after a few upgrades go even better .

PaulD86 said:
Sounds like a great project! I was out with a couple of mates for a run on Sunday in my Cayman. One of the guys had a Nissan GTR and the other had a modified Fiesta ST. The ST held its own incredibly. Massively impressive things, especially with some performance mods. His had an LSD in it and seemed to put down power fantastically well.

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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I have also fitted a Mountune Induction pipe to the intake system .




kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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Then I have installed a Ram Air Crossover pipe .

Old vs new bigger unit





Installed



GreatGranny

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225 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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OP, have you seen any of Spark Plug Steve's YouTube vids?

He's done a fair few mods on 2 Fiesta ST's he bought as Cat d's I think.

One he uses as his daily, the other on track.

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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Yes have seen a few of his vids and he had a ST170 Focus before that i think .

I have a bit of a plan and have done a fair bit of reading / speaking to people about the ST .

GreatGranny said:
OP, have you seen any of Spark Plug Steve's YouTube vids?

He's done a fair few mods on 2 Fiesta ST's he bought as Cat d's I think.

One he uses as his daily, the other on track.

kaveney

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At the same time i changed the intake system and after doing some reading the best gains to be had are from the ITG induction kit even tho it does add a fair bit of noise that im not a fan of














All installed





kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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And to finish off the intake system i wrapped the cross over pipe with heat reflect tape as this sits just over the turbo and does heat soak and gets warm to the touch so this should help out on a hot track day .








WCZ

10,492 posts

193 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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nice, looking forward to seeing updates.

did the Ram Air Crossover pipe make any difference?

how much weight do you reckon you can strip from the car?

stargazer30

1,582 posts

165 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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I can't tell properly from the pic but it looks like you have the old cooling system (the ones thats being replaced by the recalls) . Its a 16 plate so the lower pipes look okay, but its the old expansion tank with the thin plastic pipe comming of the top of the overflow. If you are tracking it I'd have that replaced by the fixed version as the engine will be running hot/under more load. Sudden coolant loss under track conditions would be catastrophic to the engine.

Looking good so far though, did you get it mapped yet? The CP2 map from Collins is not too agressive and works well with the ITG and exhaust mods. Perhaps a stage 2 cooler too for a track car.

Edited by stargazer30 on Thursday 16th May 15:46

mooseracer

1,843 posts

169 months

Thursday 16th May 2019
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Thought you have already done way more to it than that?

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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The Ram air is bigger and does flow better but i did this along with other bits .

I will not look to strip the car just a rear roll cage and they are only 1160 Kg so not that heavy .

WCZ said:
nice, looking forward to seeing updates.

did the Ram Air Crossover pipe make any difference?

how much weight do you reckon you can strip from the car?

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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Its a late 2016 and there were no recalls for my one and i think it is just with a build date between 2013 and 2014 and with a vehicle ID number between WF0AXXWPMACS52904 and WF0UXXWPGUEA27692

stargazer30 said:
I can't tell properly from the pic but it looks like you have the old cooling system (the ones thats being replaced by the recalls) . Its a 16 plate so the lower pipes look okay, but its the old expansion tank with the thin plastic pipe comming of the top of the overflow. If you are tracking it I'd have that replaced by the fixed version as the engine will be running hot/under more load. Sudden coolant loss under track conditions would be catastrophic to the engine.

Looking good so far though, did you get it mapped yet? The CP2 map from Collins is not too agressive and works well with the ITG and exhaust mods. Perhaps a stage 2 cooler too for a track car.

Edited by stargazer30 on Thursday 16th May 15:46

kaveney

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Thursday 16th May 2019
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Not finished updating yet smile

mooseracer said:
Thought you have already done way more to it than that?

mooseracer

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169 months

Friday 17th May 2019
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Ah ,fair enough smile

What has replaced it for daily duties?