BOK's Millennium Puma

Thought I should add my Puma here seeing as it's an ongoing project.

2000 Ford Millennium Puma.

To Date:

Engine:
Satin black cam cover, anodised lightweight cam cover bolts, carbon look oil cap, black painted battery tie down.
Underbonnet resonator and soundproofing felt removed.
Latest ECU mapped for super unleaded.
Otherwise mechanically as Ford intended.

Chassis:
Weitec Hicon GT coilovers all round, lowered (estimate) 50mm front/60mm rear.
Complete set of powerflex bushes fitted.
12.5mm rear axle spacers (Racing Puma).

Brakes:
Front- 275mm Mondeo ST24 front discs and calipers (finished in yellow).
Ferodo DS2500 front brake pads.
Rear- standard drums.
Braided brake lines- yellow

Wheels/tyres:
Spare wheel removed.
Set 1: 15" Oz Ultralegerra wheels in Crystal Titanium, Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3 tyres.
Set 2 : Satin black Puma steel wheels with black steel wheel nut covers and 1981 Ford Escort centre caps.
Yellow pinstripe on rim edge.
Pirelli P6000 tyres all round.

Body:
Full Carbon Fibre Bonnet
B pillar badges removed.
Climair front window wind deflectors (Climair badging removed).
Black front/rear Ford oval badges.
Carbon fibre front splitter with steel splitter steady bars.
Black tailpipe/original Ford back box.
Rear towing eye covers painted BMW Cinnobar red.
Valeo XTRM flat blade front and rear wiper blades.
Black door mirror 'spoilers'.
Boot carpet removed.
Twin high power LED boot lights.

Interior:
Fiesta MK4 graphite heater panel.
MK5 Fiesta metallic black binnacle surround.
Escort MK5 black door surrounds/handles, sanded smooth and sprayed satin black.
Electric window switch surrounds sanded smooth and painted satin black. Momo Combat EVO Carbon gearknob on shortened gearstick.
Fiesta glovebox light with LED glovebox light array.
CG lock on driver's seatbelt.
Genuine carbon fibre door sill protectors.
Audi TT central sunvisor mounted to interior light assembly.
Very bright red LED interior light.
All interior switches/clock/dials etc...converted from green to red LED lighting
Black Fiesta dials replace white faced Puma ones, chrome rings on 3 main dials.

Lights:
Toshiba HIR bulbs in dipped and main beam headlights.
Fiat Coupé/Barchetta clear side repeaters with 1W Luxeon amber LED bulbs.
Smoked rear indicator lenses.
13W LED bulbs in front and rear indicators: 30W electronic flasher relay, 6W LED rear side/brake light bulbs.
80LED centre rear brake light integrated in headlining.
35W halogen reversing light bulbs.
1W white LEDs in number plate lights.

ICE:
Alpine iDA-X100 iPod head unit with iPod (16,000+ songs loaded) mounted in modified Puma MK1 drawer type ashtray.
Alpine KCE-300BT bluetooth kit with mic by driver's sunvisor.
Alpine SPR-13C front speakers in original door trims.

To come:
Both sets of wheels due for refurbish
Modified standard airbox
Carbon fibre mirror housings

Always wondered what the red was on your rear tow eye covers.. lol

So many mods yet it's still "subtle" k:

Yeah good work Col. Keep it up

That is so good - am well impressed! Mine would say - washed, polished and put a new drivers side air vent in. :?

caloubear said:

Mine would say - washed, polished and put a new drivers side air vent in. :?

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Funny you should mention driver's side air vent...someone told me it was a doddle to remove so I had a go at removing it on my first Puma...and it fell out with all the clips snapped off :? I jammed it back in with some gaffer tape I think...never again!

I feel dead clever now cos mine just popped out and the new one off ebay popped back in it's place. Only thing is it twists bit further towards the window than it should but actually that makes it better to direct - well that is what I say anyway! LOL

Still a long way from catching you up though.....

Bok, do the wind deflectors make much difference? I get annoyed in mine the way water drip[s into the cabin if the window is open and the body is wet, even if it isnt raining.

DradusContact said:

Bok, do the wind deflectors make much difference? I get annoyed in mine the way water drip[s into the cabin if the window is open and the body is wet, even if it isnt raining.

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Yes

As long as the looks suit you they function as intended:

You can bomb along at 70mph with the windows fully open and a lot less wind noise.
You can wash the screen and provided you don't squirt too much washer fluid it doesn't creep along your screen, around the A pillar and onto your arm when the window is open.
No water gets in when the window is open up to a couple of inches. I usually leave both windows slightly open when the car is parked up at the house during the week to prevent damp or if it's blisteringly hot when parked in the sun.

Got these stainless steel dial rings which I polished up and waxed:


Have got rid of the white dials and green lighting, now have black dials with red lighting on the dash and the chrome rings on the dials, just how I wanted it. The lighting finally matches the stereo!:




Thanks to Eldood for converting the lighting and helping out with those dial rings!

Looks cool 8)

Very nice!

Looks really good, I fancied doing this when I saw it on the fiesta forum.

Ive always thaught the chrome would go really well with the brushed metal dials....

Looks good Colin!

The 15" OZ Ultraleggera alloys are back on the car still wearing their part worn Toyo T1-Ss. I can't find these tyres new anywhere so it looks like I'll be replacing them with a fresh set of Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3s- I've had a good experience of these in the past on my FRP...superb grip and great feel.

The steelies will be refurbed in gloss black and I'll wait for a pair of part worn T1-Ss to come up on eBay to complete the set of 4. These will probably be my track/sprint wheels/tyres

My T1-S Toyos are getting to the end of their life on the back of my car - probably only about 3mm left on them. I read somewhere (Toyo stand at Motorshow I think) that they are stopping the T1-S gradually unfortunately.

The Eagle F1 GSD3s come with Bok's seal of approval then? Might need to invstigate k:

The T1-R were such a disappointment

XIIVVX said:

The T1-R were such a disappointment

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I've heard similar stories about the R..

I had the T1-Rs on the Accord- not impressed.

Hence my second choice from the T1-S, the F1s

After discussing the possibilities with eldoodarino (Chris) we came up with a plan to convert all the interior lighting to red as I was never a fan of the glary standard green lighting, especially on the glary white dials...

So having gotten rid of all the silver interior trim I set about creating a totally different interior ambience (like a pimp mobile ), finally finished the work today. Heater panel, window switches, headlight level switch, rear fog, heated front and rear screen switches and the dials were all converted. The Alpine stereo already had red lighting as an option (in fact it was this tthat started me off).

Have fully converted to a MK1 Puma ashtray now with the cig lighter AND iPod hidden away- looks much cleaner in fact- as the only the earlier heater panel design can be converted to red owing to the non-removeable green filter in the later panel. The cig lighter power lead reaches- only just- the new position in the ashtray.

having seen the pimp mobile, the red looks great!