roybacer

I would have done a serch, but errmmmmmm

Pls can u tell me everything you can about racing puma's

What engine do they use??

Power as standard????

They all came with the wide arches + sparco seats as standard???

17's as standard???

am i right in thinking about 500 were sold in the UK???

People's general opinions on them???

Dan

Try checking out www.pumaspeed.co.uk, think thats the site, should be alot of info on there for you mate, but just to answer a few questions

Engine, Think there a 1.8 but not sure on that one

Power, again not sure but think there about 160bhp

Yes they ALL came with the wide arches and sparco seats, I believe these were done especially for this model

Yes they have 17's as standard.

God knows how many were sold in the UK but it wasn't a vast amount!

IMO there nice cars, but I wouldn't have a puma or a racing version myself

HTH

Billabong

Fun car, handles well apparently - a good match of power to the chassis.

http://www.fasterfords.com/puma/index.htm

http://www.clemente.co.uk/puma/html/racingspec.htm

http://www.puma-web.co.uk/

Dan

Well done Bill, wasn't the 1.6 engine in the Zetec-S a Yamaha developed engine aswell?

roybacer

Thanks for them links, will have a look

Been looking at a new car for while to replace my 206, looking at audi a3's, golf gti's, seat ibiza's, 2.0 focus's, astra coupes, just noticed the racing puma in the for sale forum, never really noticed puma's before and was just wondering what there like

Dan

Think they go pretty well really for what they are, like Bill said there a fun car to drive and nice and rare!

You'll have alot of road precense aswell with those big wide arches! I'd have a puma over any of those car's you've listed, mind you its a ford!

Billabong

Not sure Dan, my memory is failing me always fancied an FRP with 330bhp 4x4 Cossie conversion

Dan

I think its Tony at Pumaspeed that has done this conversion hasn't he? Not sure on the power of it tho, seem to remember that its abit more than 330bhp

roybacer

Im sure fords in general are better made and more reliable then Peugeot's though

Mines a 02 reg (41000 miles) and its already had

2 new front wishbones
3 sets of front drop links
new front shocks due to leaking
new rear shocks, again leaking
new flywheel due to the old one cracking
new clutch
its on its 3rd gearbox
bearings went on the rear trailing arms, so ended up needing a new rear beam

and it failed its 1st MOT last week, thus wanting to sell it

Billabong

Aye, 400+, but 330BHP / 803's would be okay I reckon, otherwise your back into hunting down expensive transmission parts It's still double the original output

Roybace - The Puma was originally based on the Fiesta if my memory serves me correctly, but beware of FRP bumper/body parts, they ain't cheap - brakes also expensive from Ford.

steve211

hope this helps mate engine is the 1700 cc zetec se tuned to 155 bhp
they came with wider alloy front wings and wider rear steel wings
sparco ford racing blue seats as standard with same colour rears
17" wheels as standard on 215/40/17 tyres
suspension,driveshafts etc all completely different from the standard puma
alcon racing 4pot calipers fitted as standard
handling is awesome and the car is quite quick for what it is too
500 were sold originally tho theres been quite a few destroyed over the yrs
hope it all helps

roybacer

Did'nt realise they came with 4pots as standard, bonus

Where they all sold in/around 2000 ???

steve211

they were sold from the jan to december of 2000 mate