JamieM

I'm not really a new member on here but I didn't post much at all abit more of a lurker viewing progress threads etc however I thought I'd post up the progress of my Fast Ford.

It's a 2007 Focus ST, I have owned it since 6 months old with a 3 yr gap in my ownership I sold it to my mum as I quit my long term job at the time to change my direction in life and went to uni.

Anyway enough waffling on, pictures are why people pop in to threads and I have a few .

The car has always been known as 'Tango' lot's of imagination went in to that I know lol..

I don't have many pictures from back when she was stock unfortunately just the one decent one from before I started to ruin it with modifications, although as you can see I'd already added a DMB custom badge lol.



From then on, I added a Dreamscience DSCI map, a mongoose decat back, K+N panel and a Baileys DV26 dump valve. From these modifications the car made 280.3 bhp (it's all about the .3) and 314 lbft. We all know by now the RR is a lottery, however on the day it was one of the highest yielding making more than cars with quite a few more bolt ons.





A video of the day,


As you may notice some nice blueish tinged smoke at the end of the run. Well for those familiar with the ST won't be surprised when I mention the fact that shortly after this, the car cracked a liner. Probably did it on that RR lol.

As the car was basically new at the time it was covered under Ford warranty. Yay! certainly yay for me as the garage that undertook the job (Gates) said they were going to replace a lot more than necessary due to the fact it was a big job and they could make more with bread and butter jobs. So free stuffs.

They apparently replaced the Turbo, block, clutch and pretty much everything the bill coming to 13.5k. Ouch. As the stuff was replaced under warranty it didn't need to go against the car I was informed.

So since then some 7 years the car has just crossed the 52K mark. It's been running the same setup since and been fine. Interestingly, I never got the block mod done despite my brush with the liner issue and it's been fine since.

SO after my essay, I'll start with the latest on the car.

Firstly a set of decent mats, que the Mountune mats, they look nice.





After I decided it was time to get that gear change to have that more precise sporty feel to it;

Only one thing for the job, a Bryshifter



I also fitted one to my mates ST at the time hense two



Fitted;



Next up was to add a more aggressive look to the rear, which came in form of an RS parts diffuser;



Followed by some cleanage;



I waited for as long as I could for the weather to improve enough to fit it but the weather was relentless for months on end so I fitted it in the pooring rain one evening late at night lol! Note I added my private plate by this time.





This proved to be a bugger and it would not take hold, obviously to do with the temperature and the fact it was raining. Then one day, the sun came out!



While it was taking hold I found some Mushrooms and took a picture of them;



Later that evening... it was on



I then got bored of the stock sounding exhaust and thought I would go to the other extreme and got myself a Turbo decat back Cobra sport Venom system.

Holy moly.







Stage 8 dp bolts



As you can see, it's a straight through non res all the way back to the turbo with the tiniest excuse of a mid section box.

Picture of it boxed;





Annoyingly they sent me the wrong tips with my order, which were later replaced.

Pic of the car up to this stage;






Time for fitting at Autospecialists;







While it was in I had the torque mount upgraded and some Denso irridium plugs in place.



Is it noisy? yes.




After this I got a TurboSmart recirc valve fitted;



Next I went for a Pumaspeed plenum;



Better picture of the exhaust etc after some cleanage;





Next on the agender and oddly one of those things that should have been done from day one was an upgraded larger intercooler.

I went for an Airtec stage 2 cooler with RS scoops;



Shortly after this my front under tray flew off on the M25 lol. It can be clearly seen in the picture below.



Next I went for a AS CAIS;





And a AS ecu holder but in satin black;



Somehow I can't seem to find any pictures previously of my Zunsport grills and plate relocation so you may see it from here on in lol!

Plenum and grills;







After this I decided to clean the bay;









After;



Next the AS kit arrived;



Then promptly fitted;









Finally, concluding up to date progress I purchased a token sticker to complete the induction kit lol;




And a picture of how she stands to date;



Cleaned and gave her some protection this weekend - notice my poor front bumper?



Factory fresh orange peel lol! Ford really went with the orange theme...



Spec;

Estimated 300+ bhp and big torque no RR since it was half the spec lol.

Dreamscience DSCi map
AS Gen 2 CAIS
Denso irridium plugs
Airtec gen 3 Stage 2 intercooler with RS scoops
Pumaspeed fully tapered inlet (Larger Intake Port 68-69mm vs 65 OE and Mountune)
Baileys DV26 dumpvalve
Turbosmart recirc valve
Full Cobrasport Venom turbo back
-3" Cobra sport downpipe
-3" Cobra sport decat pipe
-3" Cobra sport Venom (no back box)- decat back


Chassis

Eibach pro kit
Bryshifter
Auto specialists torque mount
Bridgestone Potenzas

Aesthetics

Zunsport grilles
Plate relocation
RS parts rear diffuser
DMB (custom) gel ford badges

My next plans engine/ power wise are to get block mod for peace of mind. Some RS 440cc injectors, larger boost pipes, an elevate 3" cross over pipe and run either Revo software or continue with Dreamscience and go Mod XRS.

Chassis wise, I want Bilstein suspension and K sport 8 pots and a M factory diff. I also need a new clutch as it slips due to the torque it's now pushing out but I'm not sure if I'm going to go for an RS one due to people still finding they slip.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed it's hard to summarise what was a thread of progress in to one legible page lol!

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Cool car and top mods matey.

Jay,

iTrader: (4)

That is a nice st

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

Lovely!

makes me miss my old one

JamieM

Cheers guys,

There is something so right about the 225 the sound from the Cobra on the move is ridiculous! was yours modified or standard?

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

Mine was mostly standard - had some standard alloys black sparkle powdercoated, fitted an airtec intercooler and ran a bluefin map. Ran nicely.

Bought an airtec CAIS and didn't fit it before selling the car. As well as a Bryshifter that's still in the garage somewhere unloved and never fitted!

My mate bought it from me and still runs it now. He fitted a Milltek so sounds nice.

JamieM

Sounds nice, shame you never got round to fitting the other bits! You should find the Bryshifter and sell it still worth around what you paid for it for those who don't fancy the wait for a batch to be completed mate.

strada84

Looks really good and a nice spec.

Where did you get the Bryshifter from? As last I'd heard they were no longer available and the alternative short shifters on the market don't look of the same quality.

Cheers

Mike

EDIT: I'll take the Bryshifter of your hands for whatever they originally sold for if you want rid of it. I don't even have a Focus ST yet, but currently in the market for one for a new daily driver.

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

I bought the bryshifter in a group buy on FocusSTOC.. I'll have a hunt for it and let you know strada84

STeve

iTrader: (11)

a mate of mine bought a tango last month and is just starting out on the road to modding it, will point him in this threads direction for inspiration. nice st fella for sure

strada84

Cheers, much appreciated!

Jay,

iTrader: (4)

Here is my much missed ST I loved this car magnex turbo back exhaust , pro aloy intercooler bilstien coilovers ,GGR cais nms map ,spec r header tank and power steering tank and a AS inlet














330BHP 390LB The best alround car I have owned They are awesome

gjh

Looks really nice that!

JasonPD

Cool thread, good read Always quite like these especially in 'tango' - don't see many with 5 doors either..

Sinbad

iTrader: (1)

Great job looks stunning plus love the stick on plate, really suites the ST

gavt123

iTrader: (2)

Stunning car mate

martinmilne

Looks lovely

NobbyClark

That is stunning matey, well done!!

Lee Reynolds

Very nice mate, always liked these!

JamieM

Cheers everyone for the kind comments I had to wait til I got on a laptop to message back for some reason I0S on my 6 isn't getting on with the forum ha!

Looks nice that mate, hopefully mine will be similar power wise I'd be happy with that! I love the ST that's why I got her back in the end great all rounders, it's actually their 10th anni now and Fast ford done a special edition issue on the Focus ST haha, need to get mine good enough to be in there one day!

stuboy

very nice i like it

JamieM

Hi guys,

Little update,

Nothing too drastic going on at the minute, my car is penciled in to have the bumper sorted and a scratch on the rear bumper early next month. In the meanwhile last weekend I gave it a good detail which seems to have lasted pretty well, not that the car has seen much asphalt last week haha (probably has something to do with it).

On Saturday I decided it was time to get messy and I cut out the stock grill as much as I thought to keep the structural integrity but do away with that second grill look I had going on with the zunsport fitted directly over it. The result, I'm very happy with although it could do with some refinement but that's for another day!

(before iphone pic from the other day)







(after (slr)







Yesterday I decided to get another DS unit, mine has the basic maps best being DSCI.

My new unit has;

Performance +
Race +
DSCI
Mod B
Mod B+
Mod C

and



Mod X is basically an advanced 'stage 3' map for those who don't know, see the link for more info;

http://www.dreamscience-automotive.c...d=49&no_html=1

If this is as good as expected my next step will be to run RS 440cc injectors and get the mapped tweaked to 'Mod XRS'.

According to many accounts on the net... with Full exhaust, induction and cooler it can make up to 330 odd depending on car. So I'd like to think with my few extras like the inlet I could be around this figure maybe a little more with a big torque curve but I'm not completely blinded by figures the car already drives sublime if it can be improved by a map happy days!

Quietly excited.

fezzajsy

iTrader: (9)

Very nice

Carlos-Titx

Best car I ever had was an ST3.

The Tangerine Dream was my nick name for her

Proper nice mate.

jaiscossie

Love it mate and they are so cool in this colour, a buftys dream colour

JamieM

Thanks guys,



So, I loaded Mod X to my car yesterday evening,

First impressions are wow. I didn't know what to really expect as although it's meant to be a great map I couldn't see how they could improve on DSCI. I can honestly say I love it . The car is definitely quicker in fact I'd go as far as saying it feels far quicker. It works seamlessly with my modifications and doesn't appear to drop off the power it's relentless. I'm glad I waited a while before I changed to a higher power map as It has made me find some new love for my car.

I'm soo impressed that once I have block mod done I'll be going 440cc injectors and XRS.

Once that is done, I feel it's time to start properly sorting out the chassis. Eibach springs are ok but not enough. Plans are BC coilovers, whiteline arb, polybushes, diff and ksports. It certainly won't happen over night but I think it could be a quick point to point car with those mods and the power.

djryan25

an excellent example mate.

JamieM

Thanks mate and same to you what map are you running?

djryan25

its all been done at pumaspeed,

JamieM

Nothing too exciting...

Tango vinyl warped under the extreme heat we've had recently.

Replaced it with this;



Before settling for this;





Engine bay isn't at it's cleanest at the moment went away to the cotswolds and it pegged it down lol. The trip computer after a reset said I got 36.8 mpg, over 132 miles. Started with a full tank and only used a quarter of a tank. I was driving like an absolute fannnnnnny. Unfortunately the roads up there were too good to poodle any more and I didn't continue the test to see just how much I could get out of a full tank, but basing it on that repeated it's unbelievable. Mod X is quite good on fuel.




Where I parked it for the duration of the stay lol.



I treated it to a nice clean when we got back;






The car is meant to be going in for the bumpers to be sorted before fordfair but I'm struggling to be bothered lol!

On another note, no idea if this is something good or not performance wise but on the weekend I had a wee play with a BMW 235i and was nigh on neck to neck with it until I decided enough was enough and watched the guy pull off in to the distance. All within legal restrictions obviously!

JamieM

Car is booked in on Saturday at CPSAutopaint.

Work being carried out; Front end respray & Rear bumper respray.

Consisting of;

Front bumper painted and bottom lip painted black to create a wide mouth effect (has lacquer peel) it's common on these unfortunately.
Bonnet resprayed to remove stone chips & blend
Both wings to blend

& Rear bumper being resprayed
Diffuser being fettled with to make it fit more flush

I've also purchased some DMB caliper badges as I plan on tarting up my calipers. No funky colours as they are stock parts, an OEM look with the decals in silver with orange ST badges.

As soon as she is back the following Saturday I'll be preparing her for Fordfair. I've opted to compete for the show and shine award on the stand. It's a shame my funds are running too low to get my alloys refurbed at the same time as they have kurbing.

Dal_

iTrader: (2)

Good luck with the respray - you do know how notoriously bad EO is at blending in?

JamieM

Thanks I'm fully aware, that's the reason I've never got the stone chips sorted over the past 7 years.

However the company that's being used, my friend who works for a big car garage use on far more prestigious cars. They are familiar with funky paints according to him.

One car in particular they fully resprayed was a 100k Range Rover Kahn in Ferrari pearl white. He assures me they can do it, and they say it's no big deal. If they did get it wrong, I won't have any issues telling them to sort it until it is lol.

Remember, they are respraying the complete front end.

"For all paintwork, we don’t just pick the colour match from a book, we’ll test it first and ensure that it matches by trial, using spray-out cards, ensuring a first class match every time. Our colour matching scheme is supported by a major paint manufacturer, providing us with a 50,000 colour variant library."

Hopefully not misplaced faith that gives me.

RoscoST

iTrader: (1)

Lovely motor that mate - I had one myself with similar mods - loved it !

JamieM

Cheers mate

She's in now as of Saturday morning, added a few other little bits to the list nothing too exciting but wheels will be powder coated black too. I love the clean look of silver but fancy a change.





Goodbye for a week or so lol

Fordmad!

Lovely car this. Was going to say shame its a more door but think it suits it more some how haha! Makes me want one this car!

JamieM

Thanks I think the ST is too big for a 3d at the time of ordering I was sick of people trampling over my seats in and out / folding and creasing I just thought sod it lol!

They are a great all rounder, can be made very quick/fast for not too much outlay and have most mod cons. Not to mention that 5 pot sound track it even now some 7 years on or whatever never fails to put a smile on my face .

I also purchased these;


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They arrived today, I never use my fogs anyway so I guess they may just look fresher / drl style. Seen a few people have them and as my fog lamps have seen better days (scaring) won't hurt I guess. If they look tacky fitted I can easily switch them out again.

Thanks for commenting

JamieM

Here is a video I've literally just been sent and uploaded to youtube lol! no going back now!


The guy is going to keep me posted on progress videos/ pictures so no doubt I'll bung them all in here.

Eigdoog

Oh dear, you can get all your plastics in gloss black while the bumper is getting done Looks a smart motor

JamieM

Which plastics mate? the fog inserts etc already are, if we are talking engine bay ones I'm leaving them be I don't want to go over board lol.

Cheers for ze comment