[Steves1600]

Hi peeps I got hold of this puma around a year ago it came into were I work so I took my opportunity to grab myself a bargain! Once I got it to my workshop I started looking into what I actually wanted to do with it, lookin into the build of the car it came with a full wrc escort wide track rear suspension set up and wide track wrc front suspension so my opinion to keep it front wheel drive wouldve been madness, but I didn't want to go the normal route of cosworth yb 4wd as it's been done before so I decided to go rear wheel drive, I also wanted to fit an engine that I hadn't heard of being fitted to a puma either (as far as I'm aware ) so I decided to fit a mountune 2.0 I4 which in it's current state is 225bhp. After removing lots of metal and lots of fabrication the engine is in the engine bay, my next job is to fabricate my gearbox tunnel which will be in the next few weeks, this is the start of my project with plenty more to come!. Following pictures are upto current state and will be added soon

[pumapilot]

Blimey S1600 projects like busses around here = 2 at once

[StephenClemente]

Steves1600, on 02 August 2010 - 07:48 PM, said:

Hi peeps I got hold of this puma around a year ago it came into were I work so I took my opportunity to grab myself a bargain! Once I got it to my workshop I started looking into what I actually wanted to do with it, lookin into the build of the car it came with a full wrc escort wide track rear suspension set up and wide track wrc front suspension so my opinion to keep it front wheel drive wouldve been madness, but I didn't want to go the normal route of cosworth yb 4wd as it's been done before so I decided to go rear wheel drive, I also wanted to fit an engine that I hadn't heard of being fitted to a puma either (as far as I'm aware ) so I decided to fit a mountune 2.0 I4 which in it's current state is 225bhp. After removing lots of metal and lots of fabrication the engine is in the engine bay, my next job is to fabricate my gearbox tunnel which will be in the next few weeks, this is the start of my project with plenty more to come!. Following pictures are upto current state and will be added soon

Looking forward to seeing this, there's some good projects ongoing at present!

[Dave2302]

Hi and welome to the site.

I look forward to following this one

Be interesting to see how you attack the bulkhead / tunnel, mind you mine was a bit more severe due to the size of the V6 and 4x4 transfer box etc

To be honest though unless you want it swapping ends everywhere and pretty much un driveable in the wet, personally I'd reconsider going 4x4, the wheelbase of a Puma is very short lololol

Cheers Dave

This post has been edited by Dave2302: 02 August 2010 - 08:41 PM

[volcomstone411]

LOL, we are going to need a day up sweet lamb all together pmsl

[Steves1600]

Hi Dave thanks for the welcome ive only just got to the piont of fitting the tunnel so not sure how im gonna attack the fitment yet, ive got a granarda gearbox tunnel which is to be honest to big so ive also got a fabricated motorsport tunnel which i will be lookin at fittin in the next few weeks so will let u know how i get on lol, as for the 4wd i agree that it makes sence but i also have an escort cosworth n fancied doing somethin a little different plus i would like to enter some drifting but will just have to see how it goes lol can always 4wd if all else fails hopefully will add some photos soon let me know what u think of it so far.

[Dave2302]

Steve,

I cut the tunnel and bulkhead out of my Scorpio complete, but it just doesn't fit the puma floor nicely so I ended up just using the bit around the belhousing and then buying in 18 gauge sheet steel and fabricating my own 3 piece affair. It gets very tight around the centre, at the back end of the gearlever area, as you've still got to fit a pair of seats in there !!

Most bucket seats are about 510 - 530 mm wide at the base. I completely gutted my original Puma seats to get the subframes and then modded the subframes to fit the existing floor bolts but move them outwards slightly. They now give full fore and aft adjustment, and room to fit bucket seats on top. Fiddly but very do-able.

Pedal box and master cylinder is an issue too, especially getting a nice pedal layout, I modded mine to move all the pedals to the right about 25 mm.

While your doing it put the bulge in it on the O/S to clear a 4x4 transfer box then if you want to go 4x4 later on it will be a doddle.

Have a trawl through my thread it may give you some ideas, and you may well be able to improve on some of it too. There are a few things I'd do differently next time, havng now had the experience lol

Get them pix up

Cheers Dave

[Steves1600]

Hi Dave

Thanks for the reply the info u gave will come in most useful im welding in seat bars to mine so even though its gonna be a tight fit im hopin my bucket seats will fit, im also gonna use a floor mounted bias pedal box so hopefully will give me enough space to be able to them where i want them but it is small inside the puma lol. This project is lots of trial n error, ill try to get the pics up soon and will check out ur thread

Chears steve

[Dave2302]

Steves1600, on 03 August 2010 - 11:16 AM, said:

Hi Dave

Thanks for the reply the info u gave will come in most useful im welding in seat bars to mine so even though its gonna be a tight fit im hopin my bucket seats will fit, im also gonna use a floor mounted bias pedal box so hopefully will give me enough space to be able to them where i want them but it is small inside the puma lol. This project is lots of trial n error, ill try to get the pics up soon and will check out ur thread

Chears steve

Yeah, know what you mean lol, mines been lots of trial and error, and make it / modify it as I go

Cheers Dave

[volcomstone411]

i'm going to be getting a 8mm sump guard made, does anyone want me to get them made, more merrier, cheaper.

[Steves1600]

volcomstone411, on 03 August 2010 - 06:13 PM, said:

i'm going to be getting a 8mm sump guard made, does anyone want me to get them made, more merrier, cheaper.

Hi ya na its kl ive already got one but i know someone who might, what is it made of and how much are they??
Thanks steve

[Turby]

and how will it be mounted ?

[volcomstone411]

got to get underneath car and look at designs first, but there is a fabrication company opposite my work and he is a good mate, so i asked him last night. bout £300, which is pennies compared to birkbecks.

[Steves1600]

Hi guys is anyone interested in a real carbon fibre roof for there puma as i have found a manufacturer that is interested in making some the carbon is pre-preg same as used in fomula1 thanks steve

[Steves1600]

Hi peeps finally got round to adding a few pics of my puma!! More to follow soon.

















These are the designs for my new graphics. Would like to know what people think.......

[t783vkj]

was drive train was in the car when you first got it?

[Dave2302]

Looking good Steve, bejesus, you didn't mess around cutting out that bulkhead lol, cut out more than I did

Cheers Dave

[Steves1600]

t783vkj, on 06 August 2010 - 11:25 PM, said:

was drive train was in the car when you first got it?

Hi ya no the car came as a rolling shell which was a shame lol.

Dave2302, on 07 August 2010 - 07:38 AM, said:

Looking good Steve, bejesus, you didn't mess around cutting out that bulkhead lol, cut out more than I did

Cheers Dave

Hi dave yer i did cut loads out but wanted to get the engine back as far as i could so now its the case of making the bulkhead and tunnel lol
Thanks steve.

[Dave2302]

Steve,

I had the Scrutineer round earlier today, looking at my work so far and measuring up. Just a word of caution.....

Watch your maximum width across the wheels front and rear, my rear came in at 1700mm which is the absolute maximum MSA will allow, other than that being well close lol, everything else was bang on !!

CCLB now started, me happy

Cheers Dave

This post has been edited by Dave2302: 08 August 2010 - 09:44 PM

[volcomstone411]

Dave2302, on 08 August 2010 - 09:42 PM, said:

Steve,

I had the Scrutineer round earlier today, looking at my work so far and measuring up. Just a word of caution.....

Watch your maximum width across the wheels front and rear, my rear came in at 1700mm which is the absolute maximum MSA will allow, other than that being well close lol, everything else was bang on !!

CCLB now started, me happy

Cheers Dave

is that wheel to wheel, or centrline on hub?

And if you want paintwork and sticker work done, we can sort it out for you