Fiesta ST

[foxdie]

i like the look of them especially on cossie wheels but id have to have the focus st over it. if im getting a newer car i couldnt settle for something i didnt want as much. with an old car it doesnt matter so much.

 

Bit of a price difference though, Decent FiST's facelifts can be had from £5k now. You're still looking at £9k for an FociST

[KNITERIDER]

Oh definately. I suppose most newer cars in lower price brackets don't appeal to me. I like my older motors, 150bhp just isn't enough for that kind of money, granted the reliability mod cons and handleing make up for it. I suppose il never know what il drive till the day I have 5-10grand to spunk on a car, il stick with my 500 quid 170bhp beasty for now

[RobMk6]

my housemate had one till some wiener in a 206 pulled out.......

 

acceleration and handling were great, however i feel it topped out at far too low of a speed.

[foxdie]

Yes, theres nothing past 110.

[Black-ice]

Standard wise, its a great little car, superb handling, with rs2000+ performance. Crap for cruising on the motorway as it'll sit at 4k rpm at 80mph as it has no 6th gear and the gears a little close together. but per tank of mixed driving im getting about 32mpg on the onboard computer.

 

Tuning wise its fantastic, the options are endless, 200hp almost guaranteed with bolt on bits (cams, full exhaust inc manifold, airfilter, remap and cosworth inlet (all in about £1500 if you pick the bits up second hand). Alternativelt there are alot of tuning houses that do set staged pakages like mountune (recomemended), pumaspeed, pumabuild, jampsort etc.

 

As you can imagine a 200hp fiesta is a completely different animal. And will pull many car lengths from all your typical hot hatches, including the fociST up to about 110mph.

 

Jampsort will also do a bolt on roltex supercharger, when fitted on top of the 200hp bits above produce 300-350hp (on standard engine gubbings, sounds crazy to me, but there hasn't been a single engine failure in the 3 years since they started doing it) costs £4000 fitted. (if fitted to standard ST produces between 220-260hp)

 

Now, one thing that is a complaint from owners of tuned FiST's is that the fact they use a form of IB5 gearbox (thats the same as the one in 1.3 KA's (and most your escorts)) this means that they fail regulary on 200+ cars, though most replace when they go with uprated jobbies with Quaffe differentials, which transforms the handling to beyond awesome.

 

Mines running mountune stage 1 (165hp), and the remap and other little bits remove all the torque limiters, raises the rev limiter, so while its only 15hp more than standard the actuall car is almost 1.5seconds quicker to 60. And while still losing by a car length to type R's over the 1/2 mile, its does give em a scare, and put a smile on your face. Mountune stage 2 is 185hp, and stage 3 is 200+

 

Need anymore info, feel free to PM me!

 

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Thanks for that, yours sounds the dogs balls

Edited August 15, 2010 by Black-ice

[foxdie]

Mines practically standard mate. Theres some real specials ones on fiestastoc.co.uk and fordfiestast.co.uk

[RobMk6]

cant remember what his done top end but just remember on a slight gradient it would hit the limiter in 5th and for a car like that it could really do with another gear, making the existing 5 would most likely spoil the cars driveability no end....