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Easter `18 intro...
It`s nearly five years since I bought my little toy.
And this thread I started to chart it`s development, is a couple of years old itself.
It follows my experiments and incidents over the 45+ trackdays & sprints and multiple rebuilds I`ve done since.
Every one in the same car...
I`m a driver, not a mechanic and all the maintenance, repair and mod`s have been done on a driveway with hand tools. (I`ve learnt some lessons here!)
A lot of the mods are stuff I`ve dreamt up, some work, some don`t.
The car is finally getting to the point where it`s `nearly there`
I`m not wanting much more than a rollcage now,
and a fire extinguisher,
Oh yes, and all the other things, lol.
I am passing an awful lot of similar and more powerful tackle, so must be getting something right!
I am the 2017 Javelin Sprint class B4 champion
stomping the whole `track car` class all season (<1700cc)
The 2018 season is about to start And I`ll be defending my title.
With Fordfair and a few trackdays thrown in..
I`ll try to keep up to date with my posts!...
Hope you enjoy reading my dedicated track car build thread,
Stu Morris.
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In June 2013 I bought, what I thought would be a breaker with a few goodies to sell.
It is a 2000 moondust 1.7 Puma which had been given the boy racer treatment.
The car had no tax, no mot and no brakes!
I soon found and replaced the offending corroded brake line and took it to Fordfair in the August, did some tracktime sessions and was duly bitten by the trackday bug...
I have since given it a serious going over with the spanners and replaced a few shagged out parts (how I didn't die at Silverstone I don't know!) I did a couple more trackdays in 2013 and really got to work over the winter.
In 2014 I have done roughly one trackday a month since February and now have a quite nippy little car (which handles like a go-cart)
with more to come..
Its a bit difficult to remember every mod ive tried,
but as it stands the car is modified roughly as follows-
APEX 35mm lowering springs, koni rear shocks (*since upgraded)
Milltek 421 & system (no cat)
K&N 57i panel filter and Frp airbox mod
Bluefin superchip remap (*since upgraded)
Stripped out fully incl soundproofing (Ive even been busy with a spot weld drill)
Airbags removed & sports steering wheel
Polybushes all round (except rear beam which will be getting poweflex black asap) (*since upgraded)
Mondeo ST200 280mm front brakes
Polished TB and MAF
Aircon rad and rad fan gone
MS side skirts and spats (never seen these on another puma)
There was a splitter which I shattered doing a spot of inpromtu rallycross at Rockingham (*since upgraded)
Strut brace set
Plus other little bits ill get to...
Heres my little toy as it was in Febuary this year
Now while fiddling about underneath the engine recently I spotted a very slight water leak. so I whipped off by aux belt and found a little play in the water pump, I had a Rusty `Black` breaker at the time so I had a go at removing the water pump with the engine in situ and found it a tad fiddly to say the least (you`d need to be an umpa-lumpa to get your arms in there) so I thought about it and decided to whip the engine out and do a raft of engine bay mods all at once...
Here`s how it looks today...
My list of jobs under the bonnet are-
Replace timing belt (god knows when it was done but it looks ropey)
Replace water pump
Remove PS and AC pumps and pipework (mod rack)
Remove heater and aircon elements
Replace whichever oil seal is weeping
Remove abs pump and replace master cylinder
Strip any soundproofing
Replace rad (took a whack at Rockingham)
Damn good clean
Ill keep this thread updated as I work through these jobs and flag up any downfalls (suggestions always welcome)
P.S...
As I pulled this apart I put all the heater, PS, AC bits (and abs pump) in a Royal Mail sack and weighed it.
so far i`ve lost 22KG!!!!!! (not including fluids)
P.P.S anyone know why I`ve got mini pictures? NOW SORTED.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
It`s nearly five years since I bought my little toy.
And this thread I started to chart it`s development, is a couple of years old itself.
It follows my experiments and incidents over the 45+ trackdays & sprints and multiple rebuilds I`ve done since.
Every one in the same car...
I`m a driver, not a mechanic and all the maintenance, repair and mod`s have been done on a driveway with hand tools. (I`ve learnt some lessons here!)
A lot of the mods are stuff I`ve dreamt up, some work, some don`t.
The car is finally getting to the point where it`s `nearly there`
I`m not wanting much more than a rollcage now,
and a fire extinguisher,
Oh yes, and all the other things, lol.
I am passing an awful lot of similar and more powerful tackle, so must be getting something right!
I am the 2017 Javelin Sprint class B4 champion
stomping the whole `track car` class all season (<1700cc)
The 2018 season is about to start And I`ll be defending my title.
With Fordfair and a few trackdays thrown in..
I`ll try to keep up to date with my posts!...
Hope you enjoy reading my dedicated track car build thread,
Stu Morris.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In June 2013 I bought, what I thought would be a breaker with a few goodies to sell.
It is a 2000 moondust 1.7 Puma which had been given the boy racer treatment.
The car had no tax, no mot and no brakes!
I soon found and replaced the offending corroded brake line and took it to Fordfair in the August, did some tracktime sessions and was duly bitten by the trackday bug...
I have since given it a serious going over with the spanners and replaced a few shagged out parts (how I didn't die at Silverstone I don't know!) I did a couple more trackdays in 2013 and really got to work over the winter.
In 2014 I have done roughly one trackday a month since February and now have a quite nippy little car (which handles like a go-cart)
with more to come..
Its a bit difficult to remember every mod ive tried,
but as it stands the car is modified roughly as follows-
APEX 35mm lowering springs, koni rear shocks (*since upgraded)
Milltek 421 & system (no cat)
K&N 57i panel filter and Frp airbox mod
Bluefin superchip remap (*since upgraded)
Stripped out fully incl soundproofing (Ive even been busy with a spot weld drill)
Airbags removed & sports steering wheel
Polybushes all round (except rear beam which will be getting poweflex black asap) (*since upgraded)
Mondeo ST200 280mm front brakes
Polished TB and MAF
Aircon rad and rad fan gone
MS side skirts and spats (never seen these on another puma)
There was a splitter which I shattered doing a spot of inpromtu rallycross at Rockingham (*since upgraded)
Strut brace set
Plus other little bits ill get to...
Heres my little toy as it was in Febuary this year
Now while fiddling about underneath the engine recently I spotted a very slight water leak. so I whipped off by aux belt and found a little play in the water pump, I had a Rusty `Black` breaker at the time so I had a go at removing the water pump with the engine in situ and found it a tad fiddly to say the least (you`d need to be an umpa-lumpa to get your arms in there) so I thought about it and decided to whip the engine out and do a raft of engine bay mods all at once...
Here`s how it looks today...
My list of jobs under the bonnet are-
Replace timing belt (god knows when it was done but it looks ropey)
Replace water pump
Remove PS and AC pumps and pipework (mod rack)
Remove heater and aircon elements
Replace whichever oil seal is weeping
Remove abs pump and replace master cylinder
Strip any soundproofing
Replace rad (took a whack at Rockingham)
Damn good clean
Ill keep this thread updated as I work through these jobs and flag up any downfalls (suggestions always welcome)
P.S...
As I pulled this apart I put all the heater, PS, AC bits (and abs pump) in a Royal Mail sack and weighed it.
so far i`ve lost 22KG!!!!!! (not including fluids)
P.P.S anyone know why I`ve got mini pictures? NOW SORTED.