Noobrider
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So after a good days track driving I was hooning down the start finish straight at Croft in my little 1.7 track car and spied a Mk4 Fiesta in my mirror - I says to the passenger I'll slow down and have some fun with this car only for him to pass me like I was stood still and me unable to make any ground on him at all - I later chat to him to find out he has Focus ST170 engine in it with throttle bodies and an IB5 gearbox - I was impressed and a thought seed was planted.
Turns out ST170's are cheap and plentiful and I was actually approached by one of our car dealers that had one that had a bent chassis leg but otherwise was pretty mint - £450 later I used it as a daily for a week or two in preparation for the swap
So the big day came and we whipped the old Focus engine out and completely stripped it of everything - the plan was to pretty much transplant everything out of the Focus into the Puma - how hard could it be? Budget wise we were going to keep it simple - use the Focus engine and box, ECU and wiring to start with - no need for throttle bodies and fancy ECU's
Turns out ST170's are cheap and plentiful and I was actually approached by one of our car dealers that had one that had a bent chassis leg but otherwise was pretty mint - £450 later I used it as a daily for a week or two in preparation for the swap
So the big day came and we whipped the old Focus engine out and completely stripped it of everything - the plan was to pretty much transplant everything out of the Focus into the Puma - how hard could it be? Budget wise we were going to keep it simple - use the Focus engine and box, ECU and wiring to start with - no need for throttle bodies and fancy ECU's