Ford Fiesta ST Rally Build

[Arwel]

Hi guys. As some of you would have seen, the Pug was sold back in April and since then we bought a house so its all been going on and causing a bit of a distraction. But we are now moved in, the house is pretty much finished inside so the time was right to start a new build.

I opted for a Fiesta St as their pretty reliable and pretty quick in standard for and there is loads of bits available for them. We shall hopefully get cracking on the build in the next few weeks now so keep an eye on the thread. The plan is to do the same as the Peugeot, build it up in stages and develop it as we go along. It will be based as a road rally car but will be logbooked for stage events as we plan on doing a few different events next year.

Here is the first pic having just brought it home.


cheers
Arwel

[marchy]

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It will be good to see out on the stages again mate :-)

[Paul C]

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Nice choice! I look forward to watching this build.

[Arwel]

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It will be good to see out on the stages again mate :-)

Cheers Lyndon, we'll be back next year. Hopefully we'll do a bit of forestry and tarmac aswell as night events next year so we'll have a good go at it.

[Arwel]

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Its been a bit quiet on the car front the last few weeks due to lack of time and the house taking priority. Last night I managed a few hours though and started stripping the interior as it'll hopefully be going in for a cage to be fitted in the next couple of weeks. I must say that coming from being used to building and prepping a Pug 205, stripping this was simply fantastic. All the panels came off without bending or breaking and none of the clips broke so its a case of so far so good with the little Fiesta. Quick pics of progress are here

[madragon199]

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looks a good car...watching with intrest....cheers mark

[Arwel]

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Little more done today. Passenger airbag removed, radio removed and some more sealer removed from the floor where the cage will be mounted. Next big update will be when the cage is fitted.

[lukem30]

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nice, seeing more and more of these lately, must be some goodies out there with all the msport cars

[Arwel]

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nice, seeing more and more of these lately, must be some goodies out there with all the msport cars

There are some nice bits out there but with the ST Trophy gaining in popularity at the moment the nice bits aren't that available at the moment. All new stuff is out in Msport Poland too so a little difficult to get hold of however there are some alternatives that we are looking at.

[Arwel]

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Got sent through some photos last night from the fabricator. Its not quite finished yet but it gives you the idea of what it's going to look like.

[Arwel]

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Not had a little update in a while. We had the car back form the fabricator a few weeks ago but with lack of time we haven't had a chance to do much untill last weekend. We took the cage back out to paint it so thats all been done. Here is a sneak pic of the rear part of the cage.



Next job is to weld in some seat rails for the bucket seats and make a bracket for the cylinder to convert the handbrake to a hydraulic one. Before we re fit the interior we will also fit new fuel lines and brake lines which will run inside the car so their nice and protected.

[Arwel]

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It's been a while since the last update but we are still plugging away at it slowly. This weekend we've put seat rails in and the roll cage is back in loosely for now but we're going in the right direction.

[hfcworks@gmail.com]

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looking good! but dont you think that for rally it'd be good to extend the cage to the front schock mounts?

[Arwel]

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looking good! but dont you think that for rally it'd be good to extend the cage to the front schock mounts?

It was an option for us but for the level that the car is going to be used for we decided against it. We had previously a bolt in cage in our old 205 which didn't go to the top mounts and that worked fine so decided to stick to that plan again.

[Arwel]

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Managed to get a few hours on the car this morning. Got her in the air, wheels
Off and gave everything a check over. Few little niggles to sort on top of what is getting
changed anyway but nothing major. Hydraulic handbrake has been put in
Place but will be properly fitted later. Also dropped the fuel tank ready to re route the fuel lines inside the car. Progress should speed up in the new year now as we are sourcing the replacement parts required.