Hi all,

I'm currently in the process of building a mk 5 Fiesta Zetec S Track Car / Demo Car for my Motorsport Electronics Business - Once I have a little more progress I will start a build thread, but it's going to be built for a combination of tin top racing and maybe something like the pocket rocket class of Time Attack too, but on a budget.

I'm wanting to run the seat as far back and as low down as I can but then I run into problems of not being able to reach away to 1st gear if I use the standard mechanical linkage with the standard IB5 gearbox. If I can get a cable linkage instead then I'm thinking that this might be the easiest and cheapest solution to my problem.

From my research I've noticed that the mk6 Fiesta Cup racers, built by Ford Motorsport, run a 1.6 Sigma / Zetec SE engine (like mine) coupled to an IB5 gearbox but with a cable linkage and a racey looking billet shifter.

I'm struggling to find much online about this cable operated linkage so thought that I would try here instead.
Is the cable linkage IB5 gearbox a straight swap into a mk5 fiesta?
Is just the linkage adapter/mechanism a straight swap onto my standard mk5 box?
What Ford models run the cable linkage IB5?