Hello everyone
Start by saying im new here, but i have been reading this forum for awhile now and decided to join lol though id show my first puma/fiesta swap and though id share, and get any ideas to make it quicker if anyones got any? Wouldnt mind a rear disc conversion if anyone knows what axle will fit? Sorry about lack off pictures, did this back in summer and kinda forgot to take any
Engine+gearbox out the puma


Touch off paint, several fags and some swearing later

 

Welcome mate
Power well that depends on how much$$$ you have
You can start with a 421 exhaust and a sports cat which will help it breath better ( plus you get pops and bangs if you have a tape ecu.
Then you want a panel filter, then if budget allow you can fit some cams.
As for the rear disc conversw it not necessary tbh, but you should change all the bushes for the powerflex ones makes a big difference. Im in the process of dping the same thing check out my thread

 

Thankyou mate
Yeah im looking at a 4-2-1 de-cat atm, just struggling to find them anywhere apart from ebay funny you mention powerflex bushes, they are on the list of things to do cause the rear axle bushes are shot to bits atm.
As for the filter im running a cone atm that next week will have 2 50mm air ducts running from the bumper to it, but would a panel be better still? Mmmmm think cams are sadly abit above the budget

 

Well you can buy a budget one from ebay or you can get a miltex but there about $350 so depends on the budget or biy a good second hand one the bushes make a big difference ( look at flo flex there cheaper) the filter come down to the personal preference but I prefer the oe look, plus the panel filter is cheaper then a couple nduction kit

 

Yeah thats the one i was looking at, a good second hand one will do tbh. aaah right, ill have to check out flo flex not really heard anything about them before, i prefer the cone/induction kit look and i got the kit off my old car anyway, somehwere lol

 

If you need to know anything else just drop me a pm

 

Yeah im assuming ill get stuck at somepoint, thankyou very much sir

 

A lot of fiesta puma conversions going on lol well done mate

 

I wouldnt mind a go in a fezza with the puma engine in to see how much quicker it is compared to a puma.

I love my little puma.

 

When mines done glenn you can have a go

 

Not that much difference in weight surely lol

 

Surely a fiesta with No rear seats or sound deading etc will be lighter the a puma ???

 

I thought the weight of a std puma and fiesta was roughly the same.Has to be something in it because a lot of fiesta boys are sticking puma lumps in them and say there rapid lol.i think the mk4 fiesta is roughly a Tonne and Curb weight of a puma according to wiki is 1035-1039kg

 

Curb weight on the fiesta is anything from 924kg -1465kg depending what extras it had.

 

So what weight do you reckon mine is rick?

 

The 1.7's are great motors, although at high BHP the VVT becomes redundant, plus you're only realistically looking at 10bhp at the top end over a 1.6.

Simple breathing mods really help them rev, I'm only running a Green cone on my Puma and it revs fantastically.

As for rear discs, Focus rear hubs are the done thing, but make sure you have hefty brakes at the front else you'll be over braking the rear with discs.

 

Well if the wiki are saying from 924kg it would have to be base spec at a guess,ie no electric mirrors,window regulators,bits of extras like trim or something im no expert on trim specs lol.But what have you removed now Ryan I no loads that you can remove lol.Id say at a guess somewhere at 900kg and more can be removed.But im not gonna mess this mans thread up we will talk about it on yours mate

 

It is abit faster than a standard puma, and since yesterday i decided its faster than an st fiesta, some guy round heres got one and has always been saying his is faster, proved him wrong But like Baggins said im running no back seats, sound deatening or any off the spare wheel or brackets for that now, only thing in the back is a f**king great 15" sub

 

Power theres very little difference between a stripped out puma and fiesta but there is a big difference in the way the car handles and stops with the less weight.

Fiesta can brake much later and corner harder than a puma.

but the braking mite be down to my fiesta is non abs and the pumas have abs but still running the same size brakes.

 

Petrol mk4s run between 914kgs and 1012kgs
petrol mk5s run between 920kgs and 987kgs

Popular to coman belief fiesta mk4s where fitted with everything the mk5 had and more but alot of it was extras only on most mk4 trims where it was more std equipment on mk5s.

fiesta mk5 zs is one of the heaviest petrol mk4s with a manual gearbox if fact most 5 door fiestas are lighter than the zs lol.

 

The reason people like to put puma 1.7s in fiestas is they are a better engine then anything any fiesta ever had and the fiesta is slightly lighter. nothing more than that really.

 

I wanna fit a cone filter to mine when it stops bloody raining on a weekend lol.

 

I found a big problem with fiestas ajd cones when there fitted in the place of the airbox, the bonnet allows a shit load of water in just where the cone is.

 

How does the bonnet let water in with a cone filter, it np diffrence to the airbox surely

 

It lets water in with or without the cone but the filter in the airbox is protected where the c8ne has water running all over it when it rains, my old fiesta sucked in a tone of water w7th a cone and it nearly killed the engine.

Cones have little protection from above and below in a fiestas engine bay if you just wack it back in the same place as the airbox was.