Atticus' mk5 zs

Hi there, as suggested I am starting a project thread

basically after getting sick of my focus always breaking I bought the car 7 months ago looking like this:




looked ok I suppose and was in really good condition but it just wasn't my cup of tea tbh so I set about getting some standard parts:




also de-tangoed:


eventually got some phase 2 wheels instead of the phase 1's and also fitted a mongoose cat-back:



now... at this point I wasn't entirely sure exactly what route I wanted to go with my little fiesta... as it was my daily I didn't want to completely gut out the interior so decided to go down the OEM route for starters.

so recently lowered it and re-tangoed and fitted a leather interior from the 'Black' edition fiesta:




now while I am fairly happy with the way it is now I have been bitten by the track bug and want to turn it into a bit more of a track toy so the next couple of months will hopefully see the following happen:

- Fully stripped out interior
- Bucket seats
- Coilovers
- 280mm brakes
- Decent 4 Branch
- Rollcage
- Buy myself a van that will help with my job and also something to use as a daily lol

Bigger ideas I have for further in the future are:
- Respray (yellow with black bumpers, side skirts and turismo arches)
- ST150 engine on TB's

etc etc... lol I'm sure you all know the drill

so yeah, hoping my wheels will be black for FITP and orange calipers to keep with the current theme.

thanks for reading, I will update as I go c & c welcome

Callum.

good work, look forward to seeing the changes in the future

mongoose cat back, I had one on my old mk5, I loved it, prefer to the other options

good work chap, and hope to see some updates!

thanks guys can't wait to get into it properly

and as for the mongoose, I much prefer it over other choices and got it 6 months old for £150 which is fine with me lol coupled with a decent manifold and de-cat they sound great

Looks good dude. Keep it standard looking on the outside. Cant beat a bit of tango.

Plans sound good for the future aswell

thanks mate these cars look so good standard that messing with the exterior too much can spoil them so exterior wise I am pretty happy for now

looking good dude, will be nice to put a face to the car now at fitp

keep us posted witht the updates

re-tangoed. good man.

and plans for the next couple of months sound good, keep with the updates.

atticus wrote:

thanks mate these cars look so good standard that messing with the exterior too much can spoil them so exterior wise I am pretty happy for now

I agree. Manks is a perfect example of staying standard on the outside.

thanks for the comments everyone looking forward to meeting you all at fitp, hoping to have a couple more things done by then

oh yeh... re-tango is definately the new de-tango hehe

you are right Mart, Mank's is a perfect example of less is more... I've even considered getting standard bumpstrips back on mine a couple of times to get it looking even more standard

Definetley get the side strips back on, im not keen on zs' without them. Ash on zsoc used to have no strips and he put them back on and it looks so much better.

well I have sold them on unfortunately but may get some others to put back on in the future