mada's puma

[mada]

Hey all, bought my puma last saturday, its a t reg with 88000 on the clock with only 3 owners.

came with every mot it has been through and a pile of service history. rust isnt too bad on it, a little bubbling on the back.

will not be using it till january as that is when my insurance is up for renewal.

pics of the puma:

plans are to swap all my parts of my fiesta across to this which include:

280mm sierra cossie front brakes
260mm focus rear disks
powerflexd rear beam and front wishbones
mondeo gti wheels

heres a picture of my fiesta

 

[jboy01]

welcome to project p

Cossie brakes will be a great asset to your puma. k:
Mind you the fez looks good shame to strip it.

 

[tux]

What jboy said! Something wrong with the Fiesta or just moving on?

 

[Voa]

Why strip the fiesta looks quite nice :?:

 

[Sparx]

hey welcome to ProjP k:

I agree with Voa the fez looks great! You getting rid of it then?

 

[fatdonger]

What engine has the fiesta got installed ? Maybe a puma conversion on the fiesta instead of taking parts of it .... looks really nice...
Unless you have a genuine reason to start stripping the fiesta

 

[mada]

Fiesta is only a 1.25. It's getting put back to standardish then getting sold

Reason for not doing engine change is it's cheaper to get insured on a 1.7 puma than the conversion

Fiesta is also got slight rust on rear arches. Doors. Has a faded door.

Time to move on and up I guess.

Plus didn't want to follow the crowd with putting a puma lump in the fiesta. Will be sad to see it go as its my first car

On other notes. Servicing the puma tomorrow. So will get better pics

 

[fatdonger]

Shame :-( the colour is quite nice - but agree with your reasons , sometimes you just have to move on k:

Remember if it is the 1.7 engine you need to make sure the cam belt has been changed every 5 years and also it maybe worth getting the water pump done at the same time.

 

[mada]

Not updated for a while so will copy and past off another forum

Right todays update:

started out with one fiesta.....

and one puma

Getting access to puma rear struts

And removed the rear beam :

How low the front was:

i then forgot to take more pictures and it got dark!

we then removed rear beam off the fiesta and put in on the puma so the puma now was a powerfelx rear beam and is lowered 60mm, back is now level with the front haha

here is the picture of the rear lowered

ignore the 2 different front wheels haha, been sorted now

today managed to get rear disks on the fiesta along with the handbrake, got the manifold off the fiesta to scrap and started stripping the fiesta more.

also went on a buying spree on the internet.

bought:

Pressed Plates
6000k HID kit
Led rings for a go at something
12.5mm axel spacers
6000k bulbs for full beam
K n N pannel filter

just gotta wait for postman

tomorrow gonna strip the fiesta more and ill get some more pictures of the puma

UPDATE :

that is allUpdate

Hid kit arrived
Axel spacers arrived
300mm front disks bought
Pads bought
Painted calipers red
Going to paint carriers black

 

[mada]

Pictures as promised

this is car lowered

 

[pipcars]

Very nice looking cat :grin:

 

[Xparty]

looks nice! Those are 15' or 16'?

 

[adampuma]

looks cool beans, i like low pumas, is that lowered 60mm? you fitted the axle spacers yet?

 

[ScubaSteve]

I think you may find the fiesta beam is 11mm narrower then the puma one, might be an idea to source some axle spacers otherwise you are going backwards in the handling

 

[ScubaSteve]

sorry that was 11mm per side so 22mm totally

 

[mada]

wheels are 16's

it is lowered 60mm on gmax shocks

and it doesnt have spacers on yet, the rear disks spacer it out by 10mm and the spacers i have are 12.5mm so should be looking nicer,

will try and get them on this weekend

insurance comes through on sunday! cant wait!

 

[slayllian]

Its lowered 60mm? it dosent look that low? there is still quite a gap in the arches. Could just be my eyes playing up :lol:

 

[quest63]

Its lowered 60mm? it dosent look that low? there is still quite a gap in the arches. Could just be my eyes playing up

I thought that as well looks like 40mm to me, looks good either way though

 

[mada]

Its the day!!

get my insurance at midnight tonight! cant wait

spent today doing the following:

-de wipered
-smoked side repeators
-pressed plates
-finished off hids
-fitted stainless steel scuff plates with puma logo
-led numberplate lights
- K n N panel filter
-and a wash and a vac

here are the pics before pressed plates

 

[Ian G]

Are you stripping the Fiesta or just returning it to standard?

Probably has a shorter final drive on the gearbox, which is worth keeping if ever track the Puma.