Wow, its been a while since I've visited these forums. I' try to make up for the lost time with these:





But as you can see it's still not as I wanted, the torque is a bit off. Just a bit low with my mods.
I'll try some stuff this summer to get that extra bit of torque back. First off i'll send the sheets back to Pumaspeed and second I'll try to modify the CAI.
I currently gor the K&N 57i and have three options.
Option 1: i'll change the K&N for a Typhoon
Option 2: I'll put a box around the CAI and cut a hole in the hood, so the car will get cold air from the top of the car instead of from beneath the car, in theorie this is the most ideal option because the CAI will get cool air and it reaches the engine faster.
Option 3: i modify the CAI to get cool air from the fog light (which i smashed during a crash on the ring in Germany.

Still not sure what to do. And yes i crashed at the Nurburgring, still not sure what happend. It was pretty busy since we went during the same weekend as there was a motorshow/event on the GP track. Anyway at the corner Adenau there was a bike on my tail, so i decided to get of my line to the right to let him pass. I was traveling around 130/140km/h when the rear tried to catch up with the front of the car. At which point i lost control and scraped the right front end of the ST the left side of the track.

Damage: 2 crooked tires, broken wheelbaring? (Wiellager, cmon Dutchies help me translate this! :P ), damaged sideskirt, bended metal right side above the right front wheel, a big scratch ont the right front bumper and 5 euro's for an arrow sticker with the text "I kissed Adenau".
If it happend 200m further I would've dived nose first in to the rail. Anyway I still look forward to the next time on the green hell.

Also I have done something Unforgivable....... I have removed the white stripes, not the cd from that band, but the actuall viper stripes. But I have put on some other stripes and some of you may nog like it but I think it looks "ka-lassy". Unfortunatly there is a bit of colordifference so i will wash and wax the car tomorrow after that I'll post some pics.
And this monday, I'll hopefully get launch control on my car (don't know if Omex works on a stock ECU or in combination with a Pumaspeed custom tune? anyone that can answer this?) and a new towhook. And when the weather lets me, I'm going to plastidip the wheels black.

Last but not Least, I will go to Ford Fair this year and I'll be on the Dutch XRRS stand. Hopefully I see some of you guys there. We'll probably be in a hotel near Northhampton, don't know if there are any local meetings the day before Ford Fair? If so let me know, and I don't mean meetings filled with barryboys and chavs. I'll post some pics of the new exterior/look tommorow.

And sorry for the loooong read filled with grammar mistakes. (To lazy to change every mistake I made :P )

curious as to the stripes you have put on
the day before ford fair we usually have a meal in a place in northampton, not much of a 'car meet' really but your welcome to come. there are usually around 20 of us for the meal (although i expect the rest of the dutch contingency will be doing something together too? )

See the Pics below. I got inpired by Duff with the black on blue, but didn't want a copy so decided not to put viper stripes on them. Untill i saw a Ford Ka. So I thought Ka-ching that looks Ka-lassy.

It's our first time to Ford Fair, and the Dutch Ford comunity is not as active as the UK. So basicly we plan to be there a long weekend, 3 or 4 days. Still figuring out to do. Maybe vistit, Jamsport Burton, looking for some nice fotoshoot locations and stuff to do. we really don't know what to expact so we're gathering as much info as possible till Ford Fair.

Anyway here are some pics of the ST a few moments after the white stripes were removed :S
As you can see there is some color difference, but it looks worse 'cause of the rain:



And this is today after a good wash and polish. But 5 mins after i was done there was a hailstorm. It was only in the town where I live, lucky me.
But as you can see the colour difference is almost gone. It needs a another good wash and polish to make it look even better, but I'll probab;y do that a few days before Ford Fair ( I'm to lazy :P :




As i said, I want to plastidip the stock ST wheels as soon as the weather gets a bit better! I also managed to get a Cupra lip for around 20-25 quid. And I try to get diffirent brakes before Ford Fair. So much to do and this project will probably never end. But then again, i will never sell this car and drive it until i wreck it or till the day i die. Just don't hope those things are on the same date :P

i do quite like the single offset stripe

It's something diffirent, not everybody will like. But I do!
And if I ever get tired it's easily removed.
Can't wait to plastidip my wheels black, it will look even better imo.

Stripe looks good buddy.....

Thank you!

Anyway, i'm not that active here. But hey lets change that, since me and and a few friends are coming to ford fair. We'll be staying in Northampton.

Next update is underway for the fez. Ebc red stuf brakes and discs front and rear. I'll post pics when its fitted.

Did you get your wheels done black yet Steven?

No not yet, since my plan was to put the wheels right back on the car after dipping them. And with the weather we currently had.... Will do this before Ford Fair though.

Ow and i made a donation a few hours ago, so i'm eagerly waiting for my blue name :P

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No problem, and thank you too

Guys i need your oppinion, about to get banned on the dutch forums because i'm not affraid to speak my mind.

Anyway this is the story. We have a tuning company who specializes in chiptuning. So this guys had his st chipped there. His only mods where a k&n 57i intake and a 60mm gasket. Somafter getting his st chipped this where the results:

166 whp
183 bhp

So i told the the tuner (who is active on the dutch fiestaforum) that this couldn't be correct. I mean there not specialized in ford or anything, they probably just load a standard tune and thats it.
I think maybe the guy made a mistake and meant 166 bhp instead of whp.
But yeah there pretty popular company on the forum, so me and a friend got asked if we could remove our posts. (Which im not going to do). I mean gaing 33bhp from just a gasket and cold air intake is a lot.

But do you guys think this is possible? (Its a shame i couldn't post this in the mk6 tuning forums yet. )

Deffinatly not , maybe its a 2.3 instead of a 2.0

I just read the post, and as far as i'm concerned there would be no reason for you to remove your posts. All you're trying to do is get an explanation for the figures measured on the rolling road, which are indeed very high.

Very interested to see the printout he promised to upload.

Yeah same here, i think the company is trying to advertise their tunings and used this guys st as an example. I mean the higher the bhp the more people think: i want that too. Thus more profit for the company. If this is the case then there just scaming the customers in my oppinion.