YoungSTa - Race & Show Build

[stadlxr]

So I’ve decided I might as well just make a build thread.

As of joining I posted my mod list:
Let me introduce my mods:
Started off with the car running Stage 2 bolt ons and no software.
First I put on Stealth Tuned software (bad rep so ditched)
Now I have Revo Stage 2 Software and over run
Revo SPS for performance A and B files
Karter Performance Stage 3 induction kit (Cross over, S Bend, Intake, MAF housing)
Whoosh Symposer Delete
SAIC Stage 2 Intercooler
PumaSpeed Short Shifter
PumaSpeed shifter bushings
PumaSpeed 30/35 lowering springs
COBB RMM
K&N 76mm intake filter
SAIC 76mm catless DP
Karter Performance 63mm Stainless straight pipe exhaust
Power flex rear upper spring isolators
3 bar boost gauge
Power brake brake pads all round
G2 Tuned Big mouth intake

Cosmetic Modifications:
Mervin Design Side skirts
Mervin Design Rear Spats
Mervin design front lip
Mervin design wing extension
G2 Tuned wing raisers
Wing riser side covers
Rear wing internal vortex generators
Custom 1 of 1, 1 piece diffuser
Cut out rear diffuser honey comb
Cut out front grill honey comb
Removed front IC cover
Gloss black fog light shrouds
White crash bar
All exterior logos have gel covers
Custom extra length sunstrip and banner
Gloss black rear diffuser
Genuine carbon mirror caps
Colour matched slam panel
Custom painted engine cover
Colour matched lids in engine bay
Rear wiper delete
Useless hole cover
Black hole handbrake cover
Custom battery tie down
Rear mudflaps
Removable number plates
3rd brake light sticker
Sequential indicators on mirrors
Front canards
Maxton eyelids
Front big mouth wrap
Front brake fender vents
Bonnet raiser kit
Interior gel badges
Door cards colour matched blue
All interior lights have blue LEDS
Blue under glow
White rims
Blue valve stem covers

Near future planned mods:
Cool boost WMI
Cool boost IC sprayer
-Hot and cold side boost pipes
-Oil cooler
-Oil catch can
-Oil temp and pressure gauges
-Rear torsion bar
Front trac bar
Engine strut bar
Boot strut bar / K bar
-Power flex mounts all round
-DV+
-Forge actuator
-Turbo blanket and wrapped manifold
-Ported manifold
-Uprated turbo elbow
-Paint back of headlights blue
-Sequential indicator on front headlight
Blackout front headlight
-Paint battery box blue
-Paint key fob blue
—Paint boot side covers blue
-Paint ECu cover blue
-Paint cubbyhole handle blue
-Custom boot lid with ST logo and blue led strips in boot
-Brake calipers painted white
Carbon front fenders
-Carbon center console
Alcantara arm rests
-Alcantara shifter boot
Alcantara steering wheel
Tint rear lights + rear fogs
-Tint windows 20%
Custom stitching on floor mats + blue st logo on recaros
-Blank pedal
-Paint mods engine bay dress up
Steel braided brake lines + RBF660
Fog light brake cooling ducts
Gloss black window surrounds
-Bonnet grills
Gloss black the side mirror arms and surrounds
-Colour match windshield sprayers blue
-Bucket seat for driver

Since then a lot has changed.
Everything on the above list marked with a dash (-) has been completed. I have picked up a Mclaren SLR carbon fiber bucket seat and a set of pearl white ST150 oem ford rims. The car is now (not yet finished on the build as of 7/19/22) full stage 3 with revo software. The car had GFB DV+, Forge actuator, Karter hot and cold boost pipes, Karter straight pipe exhaust, Karter stage 3 induction, Karter KR255 hybrid turbo, Karter uprated turbo elbow, PumaSpeed port manifold, stage 3 intercooler, oil catch on engine and intake side, 10 row oil cooler, powerflex rear spring pads, powerflex driver side mount insert, powerflex gearbox mount insert, powerflex exhaust hangers.

Cosmetically I have added rear fog light stickers, full carbon dipped interior pieces, the bucket seat as above mentioned, splitter support struts, under seat lighting, underglow lighting, alcantara shifter boot, and so many other things I can’t even remember doing.

Near future mods include mostly cosmetic mods as my car has been submitted for one of the biggest car shows in South Africa, Slammed at the lake.

 

[stadlxr]

Also did a gold heat wrap on the bonnet, white calipers, 20% tint, custom boot lid and backing, boomba Throtle body and intake manifold spacer. So much more I can’t even remember!

 

[stadlxr]

Planned modifications:
Lighting:
Fog light halos - solid white with diffuser so as to not see individual LEDS
Ambient Blue Lighting
Sequential switchback head lights in DRL
Blackout head lights

 

[stadlxr]

Planned modifications:
Cosmetics:
Gloss black mirror arms
Door card arm rests in seude - white stitching on edge
Center arm rest in seude - white stitching on edges
Shifter boot in seude - white stitching
White line across top of rear diffuser
ST logo on front brake calipers - black
Tire Branding - ST logo / Goodyear Logo
Blue wire covers for engine bay
Tint rear lights and fogs
Spec D Clear tail lights
Carbon and performated leather steering wheel
Wrap roof gloss black
Carbon/ gloss black roof water trimming
Carbon fenders (wrap, skin or hydro dip)
Embroider ST logo in white on front floor mats
Blue edge on front floor mats
Embroider blue ST logo on seats
CUbby filler by gearknob (carbon face with white ST logo)
Revo badge for boot
20mm spacers fro rear and 15mm for front
Magnetic front plate
Starry roof liner
Screen for center console
Bonnet grills - rolled like fav pic
Bucket seat - sparco/recaro/bride
Rewebb seatbelts - blue
Interior crevis lighting
Wrap inside of doors by windows gloss black
Dual sub setup in boot - one on either side facing each other in built in boxes
Carbon front lip
Seude a pillar uprights with stitching in white on edges
Carbon canards - real
Carbon front fender triangle like gel sticker - real
Carbon mirror hood extender
Carbon petrol tank cover
Alcantara dashboard with white stitching on all edges / Flock dash

 

[stadlxr]

Planned medications:
Performance and race car
Oil pressure gauge
Inter cooler sprayer
Water meth injection
Steel Braided brake lines + dot 5.1BF
Coolant hoses - blue
Strut bar - engine bay
Front traction bar
Cross member brace
Tubular manifold
Brake cooling ducts - fog lights

Metal expansion tank
Racing aluminium radiator
Racing thermostat
Uprated pulley
ST200+ clutch
Baffled sump
Metal intake manifold
1 step colder ruthenium plugs
Shifter base bushings
Boost tap
LSD/BBK/Clutch/Aux fueling/HPFP (doubt these will happen)

 

[stadlxr]

Planned modifications:
Maybe… :
Revo intake filter
Titanium Exhaust Tip
Akroprovic Carbon Exhaust tip
Bonnet latches (spare bonnet)
Boot latches
Rear race diffuser - from rear axle to diffuser with fins either replace stock diffuser or under it
Race wing
Top front fender vents - rolled like fav pic
Front splitter that covers underside engine bay
Fender brake ducts
Lightweight crash bar - front and rear
Vent rear bumper - rear fogs + rear honey comb grill to fill it - connect to rear tire wells
Race harness
Safety harness brace to mount behind front seats that connects to top seat belt bolts

 

[stadlxr]

Planned modifications:
Uncategorized:
Slicks/Semi Slicks
Slotted disks
Cup Spoilers
Threaded holes for front bumper in engine bay
YoungSTa back board for boot
RokBlok mudflaps
ST logos on both sides of diffuser fins
Inner door wrap with graphic
Rocket bunny light front bumper

View: https://youtu.be/DAogaE1JtK0

Vented oil cap
Digital dash from puma speed
Flock dash
Poly mounts on car
Triangle inlay for small windows unknwncarco
Gloss sparkle black instrument surrounds
Reverse camera / dash cam
Pin stripe windows?
Pin stripe wind deflectors?
Add switch to power switch push start
Move push to start to useless hole
Aircon screen surround white
Airtec logo on cooler

 

[stadlxr]

A lot is planned but just this last winter break (5 week holiday that just ended last week) I got 80+ things off my to do list.

 

[stadlxr]

Recent photo shoot

 

[stadlxr]

Planned for near future:
Fender brake vents
Cross member brace
Engine strut bar
Front traction bar
Fog light brake ducts + halos
Custom steering wheel
YoungSTa sticker for boot backboard
ST logos for calipers
Small ST logos on the diffuser fins
Carbon petrol tank cover
Blue edge on floor mats
ST logo on floor mats
Alcantara a pillars
Alcantara arm rests
Alcantara center arm rest
Tinted rear lights
Gloss black mirror arms
White line on rear diffuser
Boot side covers in white
Aircon screen surround in white
Instrument cluster in sparkle gloss black
Gloss black roof wrap

 

[stadlxr]

It’s here😍😍

 

[stadlxr]

Hybrid is in
Software loaded
Cad is feeling like another beast. It’s demonic. The spool. The flutter. The burble. It’s perfect. It’s monstrous. I’m flabbergasted. Definitely need to install my EBC yellow stuff though, stock brakes aren’t cutting it.

This weeks jobs;
Install stage 3 cooler
Install oil cooler
Install oil temp and pressure gauges
Oil catch can on intake side
New spark plugs gapped
Boomba throttle body spacer


Saturday: logging again and dyno run

 

[daloonie]

Not alot of info on that turbo. Never heard of them before. Do you have any specs on it?
https://www.karter.co.za/product/ford-fiesta-st180-200-kr255-hybrid-turbocharger/

The yellow stuff brakes a good, but doesn't have the initial bite the OE pads have. But they, from my experience build up more than OE.

 

[stadlxr]

Not alot of info on that turbo. Never heard of them before. Do you have any specs on it?
https://www.karter.co.za/product/ford-fiesta-st180-200-kr255-hybrid-turbocharger/

The yellow stuff brakes a good, but doesn't have the initial bite the OE pads have. But they, from my experience build up more than OE.

Yeah, they haven’t released specs due to the risk of competition copying them. A lot of local places buy the X47/X47R and then copy it at turbo reconditioning places or engineers. So I do not have any info on the technicals of the turbo.

 

[stadlxr]

So the turbo is in, software loaded etc etc.

Car is boosting 1.9 bar when it’s meant to boost 1.7, the actuator was preloaded too much so need to loosen it.

Car has 1 or 2 miss fires at the top end of 3rd and 4th.

Car also has engine light due to code P0039 and I think it also threw P0017.

I’m gonna loosen the actuator this weekend and throw in new plugs. Timing belt was done a little over a year ago so can’t be the belt. Any experience here? What could be the cause?

 

[stadlxr]

Alcantara interior is finally being done, fully sponsored. Change to the rear diffuser. Stage 3 cooler looks so boss behind the grill delete

 

[stadlxr]

Mercedes Mclaren SLR carbon fiber bucket seat will
Hopefully be going in next week. Picking up a set of what I believe to be sparco sliders that will Hopefully fit the seat and the car. Then it’s off to be upholstered. Can’t believe I got a genuine mclaren carbon bucket seat. Mind blowing. Paid 1500ZAR for , what’s that like 90$USD? Has genuine part number and the likes

 

[stadlxr]

Show season is coming up. Exam season too. Have a 1 week break starting tmr. Need to get the car in order so I can focus on exams and just show up to shows.
I’m in:
Slammed at the Lake 27 Nov
Royal Stance show 1 Oct
Spring Auto Fest 24 Sept
Killarney Motor show 8 Oct
Iconic spring show 10 Sept

 

[stadlxr]

Damn! What a busy last week…
Where do I start?
Bought sheet metal (1.5mm thick 610mmx1220mm x2 sheets) to build a “flat floor”/skid plate/underside engine cover/tray what have you.

Fabricated my own torque gusset and front trac bar combo based off of TB performances website as well as the rear axle torsion bar and center I brace. Just need to make stop strut for the engine bay and the cross member brace then it’s onto experimenting making my own rear camber plates. With the South African currency, exchange rate, customs and shipping it simply isn’t worth importing. So that’s suspension done.

Upgraded to some LED head lights bulbs

Front fog light delete in progress. Replacing with halos. Then using the center of the halo as a ducting port to allow some cooling for the brakes along with some ducting. Set my brand new EBC yellow stuff pads on fire racing a hybrid turbo polo GTI lmao

Rear fog lights removed. Matching grill to rear diffuser sourced. Venting the rear tire wells to them to release negative pressure in the rear wells.

Stock side skirt refitted as it was falling off. Maxton side skirt alignment fixed as they were angling upwards.


Rear f1 style flashing brake light / fog light installed.

RGB Bluetooth under glow installed all round the car.

Blue border stitched on front mats. White ST logo on them too.

Alcantara arm rests, center arm rest and shift boot done and installed.

Mirror arms painted gloss black to get rid of the faded plastic look.

ST150 center cape (super duper rare) finally sourced and bought, just need the pearl paint

Black wire sprag in engine bay removed and replaced with blue wire sprag / corrugated wire cover.

New tuner lug nuts installed, plain black. Steel, not aluminium

Boot backboard made and installed with my nickname on a pasted on it.

New boot back board / parcel tray being made. Better routering on the edges and neater ST logo. Perspex below the ST logo so the blue strip lights up the whole ST logo in the boot

Carbon mirror hoods / mirror extenders made.
Carbon penny hole / useless hole cover made
Carbon covers made for windows by side mirrors
ST stickers installed on brake calipers
ST stickers installed on diffuser fins

New exhaust mount installed to fix rattling issue


Mmmm… have I missed anything?

 

[stadlxr]

Busy with the following:
Interior RGB strips that can be on while driving.
Changing the ambient lighting to blue
RGB crevis / EL wire
Kill switch being added
Battery cut off being added
Changing the red ST logos embroidered on the recaros to white
Magnetic front plate
Wrapping the interior trim by the windows gloss black

Custom fiber glass subwoofer and amp display in the boot (on either side so as to be symmetrical so that I can do a hard line nos setup in 2023, need to be the fastest ST in SA)

Carbon front fender inlays like the gel ones
Airtec logo on the cooler
In the process of putting rivnuts in the engine bay to get rid of the useless plastic clips.


Also gonna see if I can wrap my roof gloss black this weekend.

First show is next Saturday and exam week is next week, EEK! Welp! And I just started a new company last week to fund the car…

Also the mclaren seat is getting quotes for upholstery