New owner

[MrT98]

Hello everyone, I recently picked up a 2019 with 28k miles. I am the second owner and previous owner did some tasteful driver mods. So far after my research they did; drilled slotted rotors on unknown calipers, mountune short shifter, radium catch can, boomba symposer delete and an aftermarket shift knob.
Im excited to start making some more power via tuning and I plan on being on stock turbo for a good while so any advice from people who went this route will be greatly appreciated. I used to daily a tuned WRX and that car did not like to be beat on but this car just feels like it wants all the abuse 😂 I have already been getting all my general maintenance stuff from whoosh just picked up the 400s oil filter and some bg synchroshift 2 for when I change the trans fluid. I do have the infamous idle stumble after fill up so I plan to change the whole evap harness to older gen when I can get around to it but any good maintenance suggestions or anything in general I want to keep building it out to eventually autox. I live in south FL so any other fiesta st owners out here feel free to reach out, let’s cruise! ✌️

 

[Grsemky]

Looks like aftermarket exhaust as well! Any pics of the front?

 

[MrT98]

Looks like aftermarket exhaust as well! Any pics of the front?

Attached one below! Also I’m pretty sure the exhaust is stock up to the muffler.

 

[M-Sport fan]

What wheels (brand, if it tells you on the caps/rims), and what size are the Firehawks on them?

 

[MrT98]

What wheels (brand, if it tells you on the caps/rims), and what size are the Firehawks on them?

Rims are “Focal” brand, never heard of them prior, and Firehawk indy 500’s 205/45R16

 

[dhminer]

On stock turbo, I’d be going with Monster adapt-x tune. Any of the major tuners flash tunes are good and plenty safe to abuse the car. They’re all going to get about the same power out of this car on stock turbo so don’t spend a ton of time deciding which tuner to use. Dizzy, stratified, tune+, EMS, tune tunewerks to name a few. Look at posts here about throttle response curves, boost by gear, etc. and use that to decide which tuner you want to go with. Also, If you don’t mind mixing E30, that’ll give you a massive torque increase and is really the major change to make to get the most power from stock turbo. You could literally do intake, intercooler, downpipe and run E30 without limiting your power by anything outside the margin of error on a dyno.

Throw up a pic of the brakes. I’m sure one of us can help with caliper identification for when you need pads and rotors.

 

[MrT98]

On stock turbo, I’d be going with Monster adapt-x tune. Any of the major tuners flash tunes are good and plenty safe to abuse the car. They’re all going to get about the same power out of this car on stock turbo so don’t spend a ton of time deciding which tuner to use. Dizzy, stratified, tune+, EMS, tune tunewerks to name a few. Look at posts here about throttle response curves, boost by gear, etc. and use that to decide which tuner you want to go with. Also, If you don’t mind mixing E30, that’ll give you a massive torque increase and is really the major change to make to get the most power from stock turbo. You could literally do intake, intercooler, downpipe and run E30 without limiting your power by anything outside the margin of error on a dyno.

Throw up a pic of the brakes. I’m sure one of us can help with caliper identification for when you need pads and rotors.

I appreciate the info! Stock injectors will run e30 fine? I’ll attach pics below of the brakes.

 

[dhminer]

Yessir no fuel system changes needed for e30, the only thing tuners will tell you is needed is an upgraded intercooler.

Those are the OEM calipers. Maybe EBC or powerstop rotors.