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Had this Fiesta mk6 for a little while now, few years maybe. It was passed our way after the old owner, my grandfather passed away. He bought it from the local ford dealer here, Bristol Street Motors, and it was low mileage and has a full service history. Runs quite well. It is a 1.25 16v, which throws out at standard 75hp, or rather that's what they say it is anyway. I hear it is the Yamaha tuned engine, it is not so bad. Performance wise I have not done too much, but I am working towards getting the car supercharger ready.
Ok so I have done a few things to it, and there is more planned in the near future. I have done the paint job, which needs touching up. When started it I ran into some bad luck with timing issues, and the great british weather, plus the paint firms overwhelmingly bad employees sending RFU paint out, which was not RFU, all this put a hamper on the finishing of the paint work so it never got a clear coat, which will be matt. That is planned soon as I get more paint, I will have to prep it all again, etc etc. There will be metallic flakes involved, at different colours, shapes and sizes.
Not so long back I did a small project in making a, totally enclosed, cold air feed box to attach to the original snorkel at the front of the car, with a cone filter inside and 60mm cold air feed leading to the original cold air feed pipe connected to the throttle body that has been bored to 50mm. Ordered in a MSD hyper power blaster coil from pumaspeed, with some custom built Magnacor Kv85 leads to give the ignition system a boost. Adding an aftermarket Malpassi, rising rate, fuel pressure regulator to the fuel rail, has upgraded fuel delivery to the rail, and there is a stainless 200cpi high flow catalyst still to be fitted along with a custom exhaust, cat back system, being built on the car in the future. Have some bonnet vents to add, to aide in heat dissipation when the super charger is being fitted. Will need to fashion a frame or brackets out of the metal flat bars I have here. I have alu, and mild steel but the steel is very thick and weighty, so may buy some more alu. Have a remap on the mind, or a few, maybe a bespoke tune when the supercharger is on would be more suitable.Kent cams may very well be an item to be added in the future but the prices are astronomical just for the parts, and fitment is not something I would be 100% sure of doing myself, and the cost for labour would be in the 100's. The cams would definitely compliment the new sports cat, exhaust system, high flow air intake together with supercharger. I have done all the work on the car myself up to now, except the drive shafts that were fitted new by the local mobile mechanics. I have a drive torque, twin friction, performance clutch to be bolted in when needed, supplied by the lads at larkspeed.
The installation of ST spec discs, and painted calipers on the front, with performance drilled and grooved format gives the brakes a sharper feel, as with the drum to disc conversion on the rear axle. It stops very nicely. Have a, 2 way, viper 480xv alarm system, with dual zone proximity sensor to keep it safer.
I have heard so many people talking about dropping another lump into it, but that isn't all that cost reducing, and I find all this tinkering around quite enjoyable. I know it will never be a beast, but a few extra horses is what I am looking for, a long with enhanced drivability, and pleasure. It's coming along, slowly.
The AMR500 mini roots style, positive displacement SC. These are apparently on the scoobie doo's. These are penned to be universal use, and can be used on cars with stock internals to provide 5-15psi with different pulley combo's.
So I thought today I would post some pictures I took when making a build thread on the other less desired Ford owners clubs sites.
This is the enclosed air box with cone filter. I glued the mk6 fiesta snorkle/air intake tube onto the inlet side of the box to feed into it for the filter to work with.
Drive torque dual friction performance clutch.
I really like the shape of this exhaust tail pipe!
I have made a decision to attempt to engineer a water to air type intercooler, which will also operate like a water injection system to further cool, and create a much denser volume of charged air. I am no engineer and do not know every engineering method, so it will no doubt be an evolving project once I know what works well and what doesn't. It would be an advantage to have a planning session to draw up a rough sketch of a preliminary designs, and work on from there.
Inspiration has been taken from airtecs mk6 fiesta designs for the bracket, which fits over the bumper, crash reinforcement bar. The next step would be to design something that will be easily adapted to intercooler pipe work, allowing for suitable pipework to be routed easily, and to create an ergonomically compatible shape to be fitted in the region below the collision bar.
As far as I am aware no one has attempted to make this style of intercooler previously, I have not seen any on offer in performance car websites, and it may even be an idea for other engineers to adapt to different applications. The raw materials have been ordered and the project will be under way very soon, so watch this space. At the silly prices that water injection systems and intercoolers are offered at why not roll the two items into one and make a killer saving on the way, the savings will run into the multiple Ł100's.
Last edited by FiestaForever; Jun 23, 2021 at 10:54 PM.
Have received the rear bumper apron today. Came all the way from Turkey. The cost of the bumper was a fraction of the delivery fee, in TRY, or Turkish Lira. It was a pain in the arse to pay for it, the fee's were, in a word, silly!
At the end of the transaction I am left with this skirt that will need some work done to it to make it fit. It does not sit flush with the rear bumper at all. I will show a pic of how the manufacturers show it to be fitted, as well as the pics of the object. Will be a fun object to add to the project, have base coat ready, in need of a good 1k matt basecoat in 5Ltrs for spray gunning.
Need to figure out a way to modify the fibreglass mouldings, and get them even, and flat.
Manual File VS sandpaper and block VS electric sander?
HMmmm!
large triangle hole black grille with small triangle hole grille on the backside Needs modding Grilled cheese Grille clasps
Fitted by factory or photoshop hiding tape?
Ford Fiesta Project
