Hi from Swansea

Hi there. My name is Dan, and im from Swansea. Pretty new to trackdays but done a few. I own a Fiesta Zetec S. Done a few things to it. Nothing amazingly good.

This is me,



and this is my car



So, its a 2001 zetec s with a 1.6 lump in, has a 4-2-1 miltek manifold and a miltek system. Also has a Viscous LSD, Earls braided brake lines, dot 5.1 fluid, it did have Red Dot 20 groove discs and Track spec pads until last week finished them off on wednesday at llandow. now i have 300mm front discs. Fully polybushed and strutbraced. AVO GTZ coilovers, rear axle is widened by 25mm. Then i have Ford Rally OMP RS buckets with TRS 4 point harnesses.





standard compared to 300's



anyway. thats me and my car.

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Welcome, sounds like a good setup.

Welcome to the club.
Fez looks pretty good. Looks like you are sorting the important things before upping the power.

Yeah, id prefer to get it handling and braking ok first. unsure what route to take engine wise. there are a few options. all involving lots of money obviously.

Always had a soft spot for these.

Look forward to seeing you at a show soon

Welcome to the club.

Welcome along mate im the one that sent you the link to this mad house nice to have another Welshy on board get your name on the reserve list for Llandow

Thanks guys, Im also the regional rep for south wales on ZSOC.com which is the zetec s owners club. Also im a Staff member on another Ford orientated forum called Zippyracing.co.uk.

theres a red zs off zsoc round my way.

(Cheltenham)

What are the 300mm discs off?

the discs are off a ST170, the calipers and pads are from a mk3 mondeo.

Nice Fiesta! Suspension spec is impressive

Thanks. I've also tinkered with another mk5 fiesta. thats a bit faster than mine tho. the current engine is up for sale tho to make way for the new engine. but thats on a similar spec suspension setup to mine. although it doesnt have the LSD. it does have a 153bhp 1.7 in tho at the moment, but like i said new engine is going in which is hopefully gonna be up on 210bhp. at the mo it weighs about 850kgs.



the full spec on that is.........

Ford Racing Puma engine, supposed to be 153bhp but made 144bhp on the rollers.
Earls braided brake lines
Hi spec 4 pots with 305mm discs
AVO GTZ coilovers
Fully Polybushed
Ford Racing Puma Rear discs and calipers 250mm
Fully strutbraced
TD 1.2's in black
OMP RS buckets with Sabelt 4 point harnesses
OMP 6 point cage - waiting to be fitted
OMP steering wheel
Flocked lightened dash
Lightened wiring loom
Lexen polycarb windows


The new engine going in is specced as follows,

1.7 puma engine
Billet Cat Cams
DTA ITBS
DTA s60 pro ecu
Some decent headwork
Decent bottom end rebuild


TBH thats all i can remeber at the moment, my head is fryed.

Looks sweet as a nut man

What happend to your breaks last wednesday bud?

ohh i completly ruined one of the discs thats all. had to change them straight away werent exactly safe. lol

Dan wrote:

ohh i completly ruined one of the discs thats all. had to change them straight away werent exactly safe. lol

How come you was up there on a wed?

we normally do our trackdays on the weekdays to keep costs down. i think to hire the track on a monday-thursday its like £1500 but on a weekend its about £3k? i think.

Mon & Fri
£1500.00

Tues, Wed & Thurs
£1200.00

Sat
£2000.00

Sun
£3000.00

Plus Vat and medics mind

Welcome over

yep + vat and medics. but the medic is only an extra £100 odd aint it?

Welcome along mate. Fiesta looks nice, you've obviously already put some money into it.

Fancy running down to Cardiff on the 31st of may then headin down to Bristol to meet the lads for a bit of grub with us?

no can do unfortunatly, cant miss out on double time in work. ive had to give up my other plans for that day aswell due to work. was gutted. a friend from zsoc races in the Castle Combe Saloon championship his next race day is on 31st, so if you finish in brizzle early enough pop over and watch. but like i said i gotta work.

welcome dan, fezza looks nice and I too do like the zetec S, plus it's nice to have a ford on here aswell!

hopefully you'll be able to get your name down when we sort out our next event.

Welcome to the club