I am probably the only person on this forum to buy a Fiesta ST and have it weigh significantly more than their previous car! I have been DD'ing a Lotus Elise for the last few years and while it is a amazing car the lack of a back seat has gotten too inconvenient. I only keep one car at a time, so the Lotus has to go. The FiST is about as close as I can come to an Elise with a back seat (for a reasonable amount of money). I found a really nice Kona Blue 2015 with Recaros and snapped it up. If Ford had any blue color this year I would have bought new.
I am a long time gearhead. I have had a 240Z, CR-X Si (still miss that car, twenty years later!), BMW Z-3, Mercedes E420 Sedan (W124 for the Benz'ers out there), built a Brunton Super Stalker:
Restored a 1995 E36M3:
Customized a 2004 Moto Guzzi V11 Sport (including major engine rework after blowing an oil filter
):
and am in the middle of building a Yamaha RD400 2 Stroke:
Still planning what to do with the FiST. I have only put about 100 miles on it today and am pretty impressed. Very surprised that an FWD has such a happy tail. The suspension seems pretty good, but not as much grip as I have gotten used to in the Elise. Short of going wide body I doubt there is much I can do about that. The power is OK, but I think I see a bigger turbo in my future. The engine is really hard to rev, I read somewhere that this thing has a 25 pound flywheel which would explain that. Light flywheel and an LSD wouldn't hurt. I need to do more research there. I am still getting used to the power band, the Elise engine hits the second lobe of its cam at 6200 and I shift at around 7800. The FiST feels like I am constantly short shifting. Probably just need to get used to that.
I will most certainly need a bigger FMIC, Tucson stays way too hot most of the year and I am sure this will be a big help.
Cheers,
Craig
I am a long time gearhead. I have had a 240Z, CR-X Si (still miss that car, twenty years later!), BMW Z-3, Mercedes E420 Sedan (W124 for the Benz'ers out there), built a Brunton Super Stalker:
Restored a 1995 E36M3:
Customized a 2004 Moto Guzzi V11 Sport (including major engine rework after blowing an oil filter
):
and am in the middle of building a Yamaha RD400 2 Stroke:
Still planning what to do with the FiST. I have only put about 100 miles on it today and am pretty impressed. Very surprised that an FWD has such a happy tail. The suspension seems pretty good, but not as much grip as I have gotten used to in the Elise. Short of going wide body I doubt there is much I can do about that. The power is OK, but I think I see a bigger turbo in my future. The engine is really hard to rev, I read somewhere that this thing has a 25 pound flywheel which would explain that. Light flywheel and an LSD wouldn't hurt. I need to do more research there. I am still getting used to the power band, the Elise engine hits the second lobe of its cam at 6200 and I shift at around 7800. The FiST feels like I am constantly short shifting. Probably just need to get used to that.
I will most certainly need a bigger FMIC, Tucson stays way too hot most of the year and I am sure this will be a big help.
Cheers,
Craig
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