Riggers' Track Fiesta ZS...

[jamie rigby]

Got bored so thought id post up my car seeing as ive been on here a few days posting now and i already know a few people so...

Its a Mk5 zetec s, which i bought last february totally standard...

Heres the full spec and my plans over the next 6 months or so...

Engine;

• Re-Built 1.6 16v Zetec SE (at 110.5k 2650 miles ago).
• New clutch, cam belt, fan belt, water pump, all filters and battery,
• Polished & skimmed head,
• Piper 285 fast road cams,
• Collins powerchip,
• Milltek 4-2-1 manifold,
• Milltek hi-flow sports cat,
• Piper cat-back with mid-silencer removed, 3.5" rolled out tail,
• K&N universal air filter with samco induction hose,
• Heat shields & cold feed pipe with trumpet,
• Pipercross oil breather filter,
• FSE power boost valve with silicone vacuum pipe,
• Denso iridium spark plugs,
• Magnecor HT leads,
• Ecotek valve,
• Run on tesco 99 octane.

Exterior;

• Laguna front splitter,
• Single wiper conversion,
• Bonnet raised,
• Smoked headlights & side repeaters,
• Ford towing eyes with stickers,
• Smoothed boot handle,
• Black sun strip,
• De-badged & de-wipered boot lid,
• Removed bump strips, front grill, rear arch linings, spare wheel & jack and fog lights.

Chassis;

• 16" team dynamics pro race 1.2s in gloss black,
• G max -40mm springs,
• Dot 5.1 brake fluid,
• Uprated brake shoes,
• Painted drums black and calipers red.

Interior;

• Stripped (carpets, rear seats, sound deadening, door cards and inner door skin, radio and speakers, head lining, plastics) and re-sprayed,
• Sparco sprint 5 buckets with runners,
• Sabelt 3-point harnesses,
• Fusion fabrication bolt-in half cage powdercoated red,
• Flocked dash lightened with painted heater surrounds and black heater panel,
• Battery in the boot,
• OMP steering wheel,
• OMP footplates,
• Fire extinguisher,
• 8 ball gear knob,
• Richbrook tax disc holder.

Power -128.4 bhp @ 6200rpm, 132.2 lbs ft. @ 4600rpm, in 3rd gear with the piston riongs and valve stem seals gone. It produced 119.4bhp @ 6400rpm, 118 lbs ft @ 4100rpm in 4th gear at RST in leeds. Should be around 130-135 bhp now with the chip on!

Weight - 896kgs with 1/4 tank of petrol, lost 80kgs from standard.

135bhp and 896kgs = 150bhp/tonne!


The future mods are;

• Toyo T1rs (205-45-16),
• Powerflex polybushes allround,
• Black diamond drilled and grooved discs & EBC Greenstuff pads - got the pads just need the discs,
• AP coilovers,
• Puma gearbox with a Shawspeed lightened flywheel,
• Samco coolant hoses (red),
• Uprated coil pack.

When tyres, brakes and bushes are done then trackdays at oulton park!!

heres just a couple of things ive been upto over the past 3 months or so...

had a crash on valentines day -

Overtakin 2 vans and a car on the A49 on the way back, got past the 2 vans then the car decided to put its indicators on to go right, so i slammed on, locked up did a 180, bumped up the kerb and slammed into a fence, damaged the front wing, side skirt, wing mirror, rear quarter panel, front grille, needed a new rear beam, needed a new tire and trackin doin, cold feed trumpet snapped off

, or well sh*t happens, gotta love the steely

then there was a rolling road meet at Rs tuning and i was having alot of trouble through pumabuild with my chip si i had to run with cams and no chip or map...

Rather disappointed with the result as were everyone else apart from the standard cars, happy with the smooth curve tho, but ill say it again when i get my chip the power should keep goin UP... lol

119.4 bhp @ 6400rpm, 118 lbs ft. @ 4100rpm at the fly.
96.5 bhp @ 6400rpm, 96.5 lbs ft. @ 3400rpm at the wheels.

They were defo runnin LOW! didnt help that the cars were run in 4th gear instead of 3rd.

heres a pick on the M62 on the way home...

Then started stripping out the soun deadening...

sprayed up -

to be continued...

 

[Whiteley]

Suits your name TBH, riggy!

 

[jamie rigby]

continued...

just a quick pic from a meet at the end of march...

then a few days later finaaly got my chip...

It feels alot quicker now, especially in 2nd and 3rd

When it was on the rollers at RS tuning it revved to 7100rpm cos of the standard limiter was removed and ready on the chip which was fault and this is my replacement, now it bounces off the standard limiter at 6800rpm

Quick one of the front end -

At oulton park with a mate with a standard ZS -

Then a few days later i decided to get rid of the headlining, door cards, radio, spare wheel...

then attacked the doors with a grinder -

All sprayed up with new handles -

to be continued...

 

[jamie rigby]

continued...

a few pics which f0xy taken at a local meet -

Then came a flocked dash which a mate was selling for half the price for which id pay to get mine sent away ... its ultra light as he stripped out all the matal supports and plastic brackets so now i cant have a radion anyway, also adam anderton sprayed my heater surrounds for me aswell (cheers adam)...

quick clean and polish -

and last week i relocated my battery...

then removed some of the aircon (rad and all the pipes) how the bay looks without the pipes (alot better) -

to be continued...

 

[jamie rigby]

continued...

only got the new side skirt since the crash 2 weeks ago -

damaged one -

new one -

Then last weekend i re-located my battery...

After removin the battery and filter -

then bodged up the wire temporary till i could get hold of some conduit and cut the battery mount off with a junior hacksaw lol then snaded it down and painted -

then i got some conduit of f0xy )cheers jord) -

in the boot -

thats basically it for now, oh i cut this earlier for my dash as the switches were never wired up not even in my mates car...

Old fake carbon fibre with un-wired switches compared to the new 2mm aluminium

...

hopefully jordan will rivett it on for me tmoz... cba sprayin it so might just get some kool stickers for it...

...

 

[Ian_182]

Wow.

Your certianly commited to that

 

[*Danny*]

comeing along nicely

 

[jamie rigby]

Wow.

Your certianly commited to that

comeing along nicely

aye

 

[Willy]

Liking this alot! got a soft spot for these. Not sure about the tape on your lights though!

 

[Jonff]

Like the engine bay picture. Looks alot tidier than standard.

In standard form the ZS engine bay always looks messy, wires all over the place.

 

[jamie rigby]

Like the engine bay picture. Looks alot tidier than standard.

In standard form the ZS engine bay always looks messy, wires all over the place.

looks alot tidier with the battery in the boot aswell, ill get a full pic up of the bay tmoz

 

[StevenMc29]

Nice little track car there

 

[Fred@BTM]

They were defo runnin LOW! didnt help that the cars were run in 4th gear instead of 3rd.

pardon?

 

[Barron]

pardon?

common knowledge Fred, when a car doesnt make the power the owner wants....its the rolling roads fault....clearly

 

[jamie rigby]

pardon?

every modded car on the day at RS tuning were ALOT lower than expaected but all the standard-ish cars got more than expacted!??

apparently in dyno shoot outs dyno dynamics are meant to run cars in 3rd gear not 4th, at pumabuild on their rollers (dyno dynamics aswell) in 3rd gear it made 128bhp and after the re-build it was 9 bhp less? thats defo not right so next time when i go on the rollers im going to go awesome GTI in irlam as thats where i went fdirst when i just had my exhuast and filter and it made 115bhp, which isabsolutly spot on, so next time in a couple od months ill go backj top awesome and it should be between 130-135bhp...

 

[jamie rigby]

tbh im not bothered about bhp, more bothered about 0-60 and 1/4mile times, they'll be getting done soon as i plan to go down to santa pod for 'run what yer brung' in the near future and ford fair in august they have a 0-60 strip

 

[Jay Payne]

Nice work so far. Ive read the puma 1.7 inlet manifold can help improve torque. Altho if it was me id be dropping a 2.0L Duratec in there

 

[Fred@BTM]

generally speaking 4th gear on "most" cars is as close to 1:1 ratio. If you run in 3rd gear you are giving a false reading

basically if you want to impress people you "cheat" and run the cars in 3rd = naughty

not true in all cases, and some rolling roads do things differently, but it does go on on legit RR's, as the owner of the car you should find out what gear offers as close to 1:1 drive ratio and then hence question the operator

 

[jamie rigby]

Nice work so far. Ive read the puma 1.7 inlet manifold can help improve torque. Altho if it was me id be dropping a 2.0L Duratec in there

cheers mate, yeh i would love an FRP inlet but they cost a bomb, one is going for 650quid on ebay atm... i could get hold of GSXR bike bodies with a inlet manifold for 150quid of a mate, but not payin about a grand for management and mapping...

2.0 duratecs, i love one of them aswell haha, ALOT of modding and fabricating to make that happen tho, theres only 1 person on ZSOC who has had the balls to do it...

 

[Jay Payne]

yeh i would love an FRP inlet but they cost a bomb, one is going for 650quid on ebay atm...

Are you sure?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/97-02-FORD-PUMA-1-7-INLET-MANIFOLD_

 

[Blarno]

Does the engine really run that hot that you need the bonnet raised, or is it just for show?

 

[Jamie86]

Are you sure?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/97-02-FORD-PUMA-1-7-INLET-MANIFOLD_

They the same as the Racing puma ones though?

 

[jamie rigby]

Are you sure?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/97-02-FORD-PUMA-1-7-INLET-MANIFOLD_

yeh im sure... thats not a FRP inlet... thats just a normal puma 1.7 inlet and there alot of work for them to fit and you get NO gains with them, if anyone has one on their 1.6 its just for look as when painted they come up mint!!

Does the engine really run that hot that you need the bonnet raised, or is it just for show?

no it just helps get rid off the hot air, i had no problems before i fitted the raiseres plus i think it looks kool!...

They the same as the Racing puma ones though?

nope... this is a FRP inlet -

 

[jamie rigby]

the inlet is now on 1,010quid on ebay, fookin ridiculous, how can anyone justify that price just for an inlet plenum, crazy!

 

[jamie rigby]

couple more pics...

buckets and harnesses this pic was ALONG time ago as you can see still have the door cards in lol -

also my manifold and sports cat -

when i got the piper cat-back fitted last summer -

when it was on the rollers for the first time last september, made 115bhp and 111lbs ft. with just the manifold, sports cat, cat-back and filter, bang on! -

the graph from when it was on the rollers at pumabuild the day i had my cams fitted with no chip or map it made 128bhp and 132lbs ft. , now with the chip on the power should keep goin up no go flat after 5300rpm, as the peak power from these cams is around 6500rpm...

 

[N!CK R]

Liking this alot! got a soft spot for these. Not sure about the tape on your lights though!

:S Dont think its there for looks... its a track car.


Car is looking very smart. Loving that manifold.

 

[Inferno]

:S Dont think its there for looks... its a track car.


Car is looking very smart. Loving that manifold.

Surely the lights are plastic on a Fiesta though, like they are on the Clio. Therefore - no need for the tape!

 

[jamie rigby]

:S Dont think its there for looks... its a track car.


Car is looking very smart. Loving that manifold.

yeh the manifolds a work of art

Surely the lights are plastic on a Fiesta though, like they are on the Clio. Therefore - no need for the tape!

glass

 

[Jay Payne]

sorry I didnt read your first reply properly. I wasnt sugesting getting an FRP inlet just a normal 1.7. Ive read that it doenst gain you power just mid range torque

 

[Russ_16v]

liking it alot fella, iv always had a soft spot for the ZS, when the VW lupo came out i went on the launch day, and we got to rag a few cars around,and one of the cars to compare the lupo with was a brand new ZS, and i thought it handled superbly

 

[jamie rigby]

sorry I didnt read your first reply properly. I wasnt sugesting getting an FRP inlet just a normal 1.7. Ive read that it doenst gain you power just mid range torque

like i said theres alot of work i.e fuel rail and its not worth it tbh

liking it alot fella, iv always had a soft spot for the ZS, when the VW lupo came out i went on the launch day, and we got to rag a few cars around,and one of the cars to compare the lupo with was a brand new ZS, and i thought it handled superbly

glad you like it , yeh there renown for the handling and not power, but mine handles like a piece of sh!t atm, cos when picked up a rear beam from a salvage yard the bushes have gone and with budget tyres and the ABS not working its rather scary when pushing it, like at the EVO triangle the other week...lol

 

[jamie rigby]

Like the engine bay picture. Looks alot tidier than standard.

In standard form the ZS engine bay always looks messy, wires all over the place.

ive tidied up as much as i can, as i said ill get some pics up, here they are...

before i removed the battery and air con pipes and rad -

and how it looks now

 

[Waitey]

Bonnet raisers do the opposite of letting air flow through. Air pressure at the base of the windscreen is equal to air pressure at the front. The pressures under the bonnet equalise and flow slows.

 

[Blarno]

Bonnet raisers do the opposite of letting air flow through. Air pressure at the base of the windscreen is equal to air pressure at the front. The pressures under the bonnet equalise and flow slows.

And they make your car look broken! I thought this practice died out with RS Turbos.....



If your engine runs hot, fit bonnet vents.

 

[jamie rigby]

soz

 

[Blarno]

Your car, you do as you please.

Remember, opinions are like arseholes - everyone has one.

 

[Englebert]

Odd choice of mods for a track car... 40mm springs and all that on engine upgrades? Waste...

 

[jamie rigby]

Odd choice of mods for a track car... 40mm springs and all that on engine upgrades? Waste...

at the time last february i just bought the car and it needed lowereing so just got cheap n' cheerful springs for temproary

 

[Russ_16v]

def need the suspension sorted out fella

Also have you thought of a cold feed system for the air filter?

 

[jamie rigby]

def need the suspension sorted out fella

Also have you thought of a cold feed system for the air filter?

i know...

read the thread and see the pictures from when i relocated my battery