Car built, prepped, setup, repaired and maintained by Luke Thornton


131bhp @ 6303rpm
121lb/ft @ 4500rpm
736kgs
178bhp per tonne



Engine:

• 1679cc Zetec S VCT
• Tape Ecu
• custom engine wiring loom
• Piper 4-2-1 manifold.
• Custom Piper race exhaust system.
• Powerflex poly exhaust mounts
• 5w30 Fully Synthetic Oil
• Braided fuel lines
• PiperX Cone
• 60mm Cold Air Feed
• 8.5mm Man HT Leads

Transmission:

• Ford IB5 Gearbox
• 1.6 fiesta gear ratios
• 75W-90 Fully Synthetic Gear Oil
• Standard 1.7 Clutch
• Standard Slave cylinder

Suspension:

• Spax Vsx Shocks
• Gmax 60mm Springs
• Compbrake Camber Ajbustable Wishbones
• Fiesta Zetec S Rear Beam
• Fiesta Zetec S anit roll bar
• Powerflex front anti roll bar bushes
• Rose jointed front wishbone front bushes
• Rose Jointed front wishbone rear bushes
• Powerflex rear beam bushes
• 25mm Front hub centric wheel spacers
• 20.5 Rear Alxe spacers
• Omp Strut Braces Front Upper/Lower And Rear

Brakes Wheels and Tyres:

• Focus ST170 front callipers
• 300mm grooved and drilled Black Dimoand disks
• DS2500 brake pads
• Front brake ducting from fog lights
• Custom rear drums
• Ferodo brake shoes
• Dot 5.1 brake fluid
• HEL stainless braided hoses
• 15 x 7” Team dynaincs Pro Race 1 Dry
• 195/50 Toyo Proxies R888 Dry


Interior:

• Fully stripped interior.
• Corbeau Bucket seats
• Corbeau Seat Bases
• Sparco 4 point harnesses
• OMP 300mm steering wheel and boss
• FIA cut off switch
• Lifeline 2.25 litre fire extinguisher system
• LT Racing custom fiesta lightweight wiring loom
• GoPro Hero3+
• Vi Performance data logging system
o 3 Axis G Sensor
o Data Logging
o Lap Timing
o Real Time BHP Readout
o Wheel speed And Rpm sensor
o Extras- Dyno Test/0-60 timer/brake timer/1/4 1/2 and 1 mile timer/OBD Faul code Reader/ Mil Stats
• lightened dash
• Puma Gear Knob and Surround
• Alloy Door Handles and Cut off pannel



Exterior:

• Fiesta Flight Shell
• Lightened doors
• Lightened Zetec-S bumpers
• Lightened bonnet
• Lightened boot
• Ford Racing Bonnet Spacers
• ACW Poly Windows
• Fia Cut offs outside Windscreen
• Anodised blue aluminium bonnet and boot pins
• Luke Blue front and rear tow straps
• Uprated Light Bulbs All round
• Battery relocated in FIA Battery Box
• Fully Undersealed Floor Pan

Coming Soon:

• GAZ Gold Coil Over With Custom Spring Rates
• New Engine Or Pumped Up Current Engine
• Custom Graphics Design
• Roll Cage

 

yay mk5 haha

 

Much easier to get a carbon bonnet for mk5s and much cheaper lol.

its somewhat stripped now just alot pulled apart mostly, ill be starting stripping her tomorrow but I think im gonna keep the turbo

 

Well ive been busy today.

Start with this.



Remove all of this.



And what im left with

 

Well after a quick look about my fiesta is a heavy bitch! 1040kgs! So got some massive weight to lose lol, after look this dull mk5 has a fly by accelerate pedal so ive got to pull the pedal box out of my mk4 as well

I wounder how much weight ive removed from the car so far? I know ive doubled my suspension hieght! My feet now fit in between the wheel and arch now lol.

 

Y reg and fly by wire on a fiesta? really. What engine is/was it?

Scrap that! 1.8d. didn't know they used FBW

 

Funny enough neither did I till I tryed pulling the old loom out after I disconnected everyting and wasn't to happy as it got to dark in the garage to see so I had to snip the wires off and call it a say, lucky bagings something said there just like a pin holding them in so an easy swap for me

just got the turbo lump to come out and ill be very happy.

not to happy the lad I bought it off rounded off some on the nuts! Lucky some were easy but still got two rounded off that anit plaing ball. Why don't people use the correct size torx bits?

 

I hate rounded off bolts I had many when stripping mine down, just cut them off, so arr you putting everything from the mk4 into this one?

 

Yeah but in the case of one of them easyer said than done, I think im gonna have to cut the front bumper off then cut the bolt off from the outside.

Yeap I think the mk4 had its day. Bad thing is once I stripped the mk5 out I found a split in the floor from rust and a split in the drivers door well, which I know what its caused by silly ford drainjng the roof into the cills from the sun roof at least its an easy fix just hope the mk5 is nice underneath if not im gonna start swearing.

 

Well after thinking over tonight about what im doing next with the car I realised that its got something that some of the mk4/5 lads have been doing as std.
different top plates lol.



So ill be keeping them and cleaning them up and get my painting on lol.

also forgot to say I got all the engine bay loom out aswell yesterday and lucky the lad did remove most of the pluming off the engine so all ive really got to do is disconnect he pas pipe exhuast torque link and gear linkage and she will be ready for the engine to come out.

 

Well got a little bit done today but only spent 2 hours on the car as its hard as hell to work in the dark and got abit fed up working in the dark so gave up at half eight.

Cleaned up the inside of the car abit (still needs vacuum)
cleaned up all grounds in side car.
stripped door looms out.
remove water tank and backing plate from engine bay.
removed heater matrix core.
removed torque link.
removed gear linkage and stick.
Removed cat and exhuast system.
cracked all engine bay nuts and bolts.
removed rear suspension top mounts and cracked bottom bolts.
removed two bolts and cracked two bolts/nuts for fuel tank.
removed spare wheel holder.
removed ecu holder and other little bits and bobs from inside the car.

So now all I have to do is disconnect the pas pipe and remove driveshafts and the engines free to come out, Fuel tank I need light to see the nuts on the last two for the fuel tank and that can come off and I need power so I can clean the inside properly and start bolting everyting in.

Fuel lines look like there gonna be a real git to get off whole so im just gonna snap the derv lines off and just fit all new rubber lines when I fit the petrol fuel tank.

I've nearly finshed this car but really im not even half done! As ive still got to strip the mk4 then rebuild the mk5 then rebuild the mk4 as a rolling shell so I can get it out.

 

Well some more work done today not a massive amount done just playing with some ideas.
ive refitted carpet roof lining front trim full dashboard. Also turns out I had to remove the mk5 pedal box and fit the mk4 pedal box! Which was a massive pain and for some reason ford made mk5s harder to remove than mk4s and mk4s look like thay was designed to last but mk5 looked like thay was designed to round off nuts!
also fitted internal loom and light did up grounds. Also fitted drivers seat.

 

Well abit more done today not alot on the mk5.
fitted poly windows
fitted tail lights
fitted mk4 boot with mk5 spoiler (mk4 boot in better nick but mk5 spoiler better)
fiited pas bucket seat
fitted new gear linkage and puma gear knob
fitted rear strut brace
Fitted rear zs bumper and towing eye.

I think that's about it I spent most of my time filling up the mk4 with the mk5 stuff, So now all ive got to think about on the mk4 is engine bay and suspension and brakes.

 

Should have just kept the mk4 instead of playing with a mk5.Your creating more work for yourself

 

Lol but the mk4 needed Ł600+ in fixxing rust and other than the pedal box its been fun

 

About time I got some photos (sorry its abit dark couldn't get the car out of the garage)

Cockpit looking very nice lol but needs to change.



Back end all on


New gearbox im cleaing up.

 

Cool track car. So what engine will you be using? ?

 

1.7 from my mk4 for now.
its a gutless engine but will do for now.

 

Right not much done lately but did get some done yesterday.

Started to remove all the derv fuel lines and derv tank and found two of the bolt that hold the tank on just spin around so ive had to drain the tank and im leaving it a few days then filling with water to cut the bolts off (safety first lol)
while swearing at the fuel tank and kicking the shit out of it I noticed I could still pretty much do all the undersealing so the car now has been undersealed 95% (under front sub frame and fuel tank legs not done), While under the car I only found one spot of rust thats just on a silly flap for the wheel arch liners so when I cut the tank out ill cut the flap off and paint with anit rust paint.

Also all the cars wiring is now sorted with power getting to everything as it should.

Also ive remove nuts and top plates from the front and rear shocks so there near enough ready to come off.

List of things left to do.
Cut of fuel tank
remove last of fuel lines
cut off rust
remove derv engine and gearbox
remove whole suspension
fit engine with gearbox
fit new front suspension and brakes and wheels
remove rear suspension off mk4 and fuel system
remove mk5 rear suspension and refit mk4 suspension
refit petrol fuel system
fit coolant system
fill engine gearbox brake system and coolant system up with fuilds
connect engine harness to main enginebay loom
Fit cat back exhuast.
fit side skirts
cut off old front bumper
refit new front bumper
refit gear linkage
buy mk5 pedalbox
buy mk5 headlights
buy mk5 front upper grill
buy replacement pas shock
buy replacement clutch realse bearing
fit that lot
insure car
send car for mot to fail lmfao
book trackday.

oh and do all of it over the next two weeks lmfao.

 

didnt you book a track day at combe for may?

 

I was gonna book it until I bought the new shell so thought id better wait first which lukcy I did wait or id be out Ł150 lol.

 

Well get your finger out matey.

 

Well I got most of that list done
Only got this left to do
fit engine and gearbox
Remove petrol system off mk4 and fit to mk5
remove mk4 rear suspension and fit to mk5
Remove cat bk off mk4 and fit to mk5
Then do all fuilds
then pay for trackday
then pay for insurance.

 

Just needs a good clean and a petrol engine up front for the front end to be 100%

 

Its getting there pal. I dont think you like these 1.7 pooma engines.

 

Yeap engine bay now ready to accept the shity 1.7 se engine and yes I hate all zetec-se engines lol.

 

Well it seems I forgot alot of that list that needed doing
But got it all done today and all ready now for the se shit to be fitted.

 

Underneath all thats need is 3 pipes and fuel tank and exhuast sysem


All thats need now is rear suspension and wheels and the front pas hub holes redrilled to st170 size




Engine bay only needs pas lines connected to rack and engine and gearbox fitted and connect

 

Just a bit more worl to get it up and running then.

 

Yeah, mostly now I need to rebuild the front of the mk4 so I can lower the front down and jack the rear up to get the last of the stuff I need off, which lucky it will/should slide on to the mk5 easy.

 

Well alot of swearing has happened these last few days, mk4 fuel system is totally shot! And the rear brake lines on the mk5 are shot! And my rear shocks and springs are shot after 1 trackday!

But I have got abit of work done, ive rebuilt the front suspension on the mk4 and got the rear end up and stripped all the suspension off and exhuast which all but the rear beam is now on the mk5 which im changing tomorrow when I fit the engine and gearbox, I've also put the std shocks back on the mk4 so now all it needs is the std rear beam and it can go to the scrap yard, I've also taken off the mk4 rear brake lines and fitted it to the mk5 which the mk4s are in 10x better condition.

So all ive got to do now is buy
whole fuel system
two rear shocks
One front shock
new set of springs
hire engine hoist
engine oil
gearbox oil
coolant
Brake fuild
petrol
and fit
Engine and gearbox
fuel tank and lines
rear beam
and nearly a whole new suspension
and fill up with fuilds and the cars done!

 

Everything bought but petrol and ill hire hoist tomorrow and just waiting on suspension and fuel system to turn up now. Soon she be ready for the track again as long as my missus don't find out how much I spent lol which she seen the bills for fuilds and slapped me for spending Ł95 and then hit me again when I spent Ł25 on nuts and bolts lol, hopefully the car will be running by the end of this week

 

Suspension turned up this morning and I hired a hoist today and fitted the engine and gearbox in and fitted pas lines to rack the connected all coolant hoses and connected pas lines to pump and filled up pas pump with fuild and gearbox and coolant system but couldn't do engine as wrong oil filter but got exhaust system conneted and fitted all new suspension that came bare so had to strip my shocks down first and got the pas brakes on.

only things left to do is rear beam and oil change and filled and bleed brake system and wait for the fuking fuel system!

also bad side I smashed my cooling fan fitting the engine and gearbox so got to get a new one.

 

pics luke. pics! i cant do reading i need pics

 

I was gonna take some but my hands were black and didn't want to touch my white phone or tablet lol, im going back up in the morning to swap the rear beams and do oil change so ill get some for you then

 

Exhuast linkage and torque link all connected.




Suspension and rear beam fitted



Engine.

 

looks good progress. much better with pics

 

Lol I had a small cock up I forgot to put the top clip on the pas pump feed and all the pas fuild is now in the pit lmfao so got to do that again tomorrow with oil change and brake system and only be waiting on fuel system to start the car then.

 

Top progress.Lol at at leaking pas fluid in your pit.

 

Good progress was wondering how you was getting on as haven't seen you post on the other site for a while