FS FS: WITH 2016 ENGINE!, READ MY LAST POST! 2014 Fiesta ST, 21k miles, street/track $25k in mods, just $15,9000

[dhminer]

Man I wish I hadn’t depleted my cash reserves on another house purchase. Been following this build for years, someone is going to get a sweet car

 

[Intuit]

Just noting the name difference between original poster vs latest post.

 

[RAAM]

Same guy here, for some reason I was not able to keep using my original handle.

Original owner, still only tracked two times on modded stock turbo before I went bigger turbo. Only one short street launch with the EFR, blew away an M5. Only hard launch ever done with the car as I am not into street racing, drag racing, etc. Most all miles occured just cruising, tune runs, etc. Never driven in snow or on salted roads, only driven in the rain a few times.

Now it has the GT2560R with custom billet wheel and only 2k miles on it and a bolt on upgrade to a bigger turbo then tune if somebody wanted to do that.

All new fluids just put in including SRF brake fluid $$$. New battery, have new front pads but still some life left in the ones on the car, Wildwood street pads $$$.

Engine is low mile 2016 with a new valve job and cleaning the ports, valves, etc. New water pump.

I am taking my time going over everything to ensure all up and running great, no problems.

New spark plugs with custom gap from tuner as per his request, they just arrived so putting them in today so tuning can start tomorrow.

I am taking a very good look into the value of these cars, what they have sold for highly modded, low miles, etc and may adjust the price, UP, if down not by much.

If somebody bought a low mileage car and did all the mods to this one and all the labor it would cost a heck of a lot more than what I will sell it for.

If lived in an area where I could really enjoy this car on track I would keep it, just not leaving here and not fun for me to drive such a fast car slowly, more fun by far to drive a slow car fast.

Rick

 

[RAAM]

This car was built to serve several uses, fit in the back of a bit toyhauler, site seeing, track days, grocery getter and reliable. It was not built to get people to look at it though it looks pretty good. Every mod was done for performance or reliability, handling, braking, run very clean and get great fuel mileage, it does all that quite well.

There are no "go slower" parts like chassis braces that only add unneeded weight thus take away performance. It has one small sq tube brace to tie the subframe side to side, all that was needed. The head of the Ford Racing shop at then named Miller Motor Sports park drove the car, loved it, all his techs checked it out, put it on the lift and I showed him my simple brace and he said it was all that was needed. He used to be the head of Audi IMSA race team when they ran those insanely fast diesel prototype cars, obviously know more about cars than all the rest of us here. In this thread I am sure I mentioned this info before but wanted to include it here to make sure it is known.

Stock front sway bar, upgraded end links and bushings because it was all that was needed. Again, only made mods to make it better, unfortunately many are tricked into buying stuff just not needed and almost always makes the car slower and takes funds away from actual go fast parts.

As far as I know still the first and only FiST to run 9" wide wheels under stock fenders (rolled a bit). It was a lot of work but well worth it as added -1.9 degree rear camber to help compensate the -2.5 front resulting in very neutral handling. I went with these numbers so I could just leave it there for street and track and it worked very well.

EFR turbo would of been kept if a drag racer but the torque steer was dangerous on twisty roads, I could handle it but more power is not always faster, smaller turbo with less instant torque is far easier and in most cases faster, in the type of driving this was built for. I do miss the added power, it was great fun but not practical and not for long life on stock based engine.

I will never claim to know it all, far from it, I just know far more than the average guy after successfully modify cars for close to 60 years and won a lot of events and had great reliability. I also beat hundreds of much higher cost and power cars while doing so. That said, I still watch a ton of videos to keep learning more about my all time favorite hobby which I am about 95% retired from now.

Any questions feel free to ask
Rick