hi im tony from sunny manchester bought a o2 plate st170 last week with 25k on the clock ,just thought id say hello a post a few pic's

 

Nice car, decent mileage too, and one of my fav colours for these.

Got any mods planned ?

 

Cheers , plans are a drop of 20-30mm (speed bumps round here are killers) a decent double din ,some rs wheels maybe, a cat back exhaust , and just to keep it clean and running sweet.

 

sounds good, I want to drop mine, but the rear is higher than the front so I am debating just dropping the rear to level it out. as quite happy with the front height.

 

hmm never thought of that , what do people normally do ? drop the rear more than the front?

 

Nice looking and low mileage.
Just wait till the dash instruments start playing up and the IMRC systems starts flagging up faults.
Sump was rusty as hell on mine, lambdas faulty, maf buggered, wires corroded near battery, coil pack half died. All sorted eventually though.
Im happy to offer advice when / if it does.
The car is fun to drive though, so ive pretty much forgotten all the bad things.

 

ah well the joys of owning a ford lol

 

No i wouldnt. they have a rake for good reason. a slightly higher rear helps reduce understeer. its a design feature not a flaw. not that you cant level out the heights as some do but im more concerned with handling than looks.

 

Ok cheer's underdog went down to larkspeed in leeds and picked up a k&n flat panel filter ,also removed the resonator(spell)bit worried about heat soak now so im off to dnr performance(st and rs specialist) on mon or tuesday to see if dave will help me knock up a cold air feed from where the resonator was.
Going to route it down to the front end somewhere, if not a cut up pair of the wifes tights will be used to cover the hole up lol

 

You don't need to cover the hole as it's before the filter. Heat soak has nothing to do with filtering so tights will do nothing. Get the focus auto air defector panel, means you get the air from the grill rather than just the little gap between the grill and the bonnet, voila, cold air feed(ish)

 

It's regarded as being a good induction set up already. As above just fit the auto model deflector. Available from the main stealer for less than £20 iirc. Heatsoak is insignificant where the resonator hole is.

 

ok cheers

 

Very decent mileage for the age of the car! Mine's just coming up to 154,000 on 52 reg!

 

Looking good