ali-johnson

Thought it was about time i showed you lot my zetec S, it started out as a standard car back in 2008. It started of with little mods like a set of 16" mondeo wheels, and adouble din t.v and all the associated sub and amp etc and also i fitted a Mongoose cat back system.

It was a little chavy to begin with but it gets better.


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Then i improved the handling by fitting some 40mm lowering springs and some tinted headlights

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Then the stripping started

New
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Dirty
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Clean
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Seats fitted
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And some temporary nismo harnesses from my mates glanza, just until my blue luke ones arrive
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Next i got some ap coilovers. My boot was a bit cluttered so i got a rear strut brace and fitted that then tidyed the area with some carpet. Fitted a full set of powerflex bushes. And lastly i bought a brand new bonnet for £10 (no comment) and couldn't decide what to do with it so i bought a pot of chalk board paint and went for it,


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I then got some new sparco harness to replace the Nismo ones which didn't really suit a non jap car. Started fully stripping my interior.
And got my new bonnet vinyled .

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Then the proper mods start. These twin 45 dellorto's were bought from Shawspeed.



Fitted



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Then a new set of wheels and lowered

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Bay tidy up and new hoses

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It then went into the body shop for a full respray and all rust repaired etc.

What it looks like after its visit to the body shop

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And some long awaited vids





Here it is sitting with its friends lol

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At FITP 2010 on the ZSOC club stand

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And thats it so far. Let me know what you think

jonny s2

iTrader: (12)

awesome mate!
you cant beat the sound of carbs, how much they set you back from shawspeed did management come with it

ali-johnson

I paid about 1k to have them fitted including the manifold, regualtor and all the fuel lines adapeted ect and ran it like that for a while then i bought the omex for £400.

They sound amazing i love them, they pop and bang all the time and makes every1 smile lol.

jammerrs

love it

but you should take the centre caps off the wheels imo

so it ran fine on standard mangment without a remap?

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Nice little fezzer.So i take it its alot quicker then.Whats your mpg like lol.

mk2 cossie

cool!!! liking the escort rims and the urban camo bonnet is growing on me

how do you get through the emissions test with those big ole carbs on there for a BET test though?

ali-johnson

Why take the centre caps off?? I don't get it.
It ran ok on standard management but was a bit lumpy in the lower rev range.

The mpg isn't too bad actually about 25mpg is the norm unless i've done a lot of hard driving. And yes it is a fair bit quicker especially on acceleration.

And urm less said about the emissions the better lol. Lets just say i have a friendly MOT tester who believes that if the rest of the car is safe he lets me off on emissions

scottyrs

iTrader: (1)

i like that mate very nice

steve st220

looks realy good mate, love the cammo bonnet.

Twins

iTrader: (18)

I like that

Brian

iTrader: (2)

Looks very smart


Brian

luke89

iTrader: (1)

umm i like that ! what other things did you do for the carbs ? did they run on standerd managment ?

ali-johnson

Cheers for the comments, I'm a bit undecided at the minute wether to carry on with the project and build a new engine for it or just sell it and start a fresh with a frst.

Luke, To fit the carbs shawspeed had to modify the fuel lines and fit a pressure regualtor. It did run on standard management but it was a nightmare to drive very lumpy and flat.

WongRS

iTrader: (11)

nice mate, i recognised the horse shoe pass in the one pic and had to scroll back up to see where you were from!
Very nice motor that.

madfordjan

now thats cool , just a thought i wounder what the wheels would look like in a dark camo

ali-johnson

New engine bought 1.7 puma lump, FRP cam's.

Going to run it like that until next month when i get paid, then i'm getting a bogg bro's manifold and gsx6r carbs.

Will update with some pics monday when the engine arrives