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#1 User is offline   FireFly90 

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Posted 03 July 2013 - 12:34 AM

So, as advised I'm going to start a project thread. My X-reg Puma 1.7 Black ed. Paid £950 for her and thoroughly pleased with her :wink:

Current Mileage:
67200 (Feb 2013)

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Things that need to be looked at:
Rusty arches and door sills
Other rusty parts
Drivers side headlight unit has broken clip and black tape on it
Near side headlight scratch (my fault :-()
Slightly leaky coolant pipe(fixed at service)
A Good clean all over needed (again)
Rear fogs and Exhaust tail pipe need thorough clean
Cracked aerial (still works but could do with replacing)New aerial fitted
Poorly Horn(replaced and fixed)
Replace Clutch Fixed thanks to GingerTom
Replace Down pipe catalyst due to sheered stuck fast bolts

Current Accessories:
Roof-bars and Roof-Box

Planned Accessories:
Cycle Rack (if it stretches far enough :P)

Painted stuff
Brake callipers and drums
Spare wheel cradle

Planned painting
Engine bay caps (red)
Rocker cover (black w/ red highlights)
Inlet Manifold (red)

Current/Completed Mods:
Aero wiper-blades
HB3 Ultra Brilliance dipped bulbs
Pioneer DEH-X8500DAB
Wind deflectors
ProjectPuma stickers
Smoked side repeaters (may need shortening due to dimness)
Brembo brake disks & EBC pads
Braided brake pipes
Iridium Spark plugs
FRP Airbox mod
Front fogs (with fiesta switch)(not fitted but have bits)
Heated Washer Jets (not fitted but have bits)

Planned Mods:
OBD2 Bluetooth scanner
HB3 Extreme Brilliance bulbs
maybe some nice speakers
Boot spoiler (small and decorative)
Fiesta Ghia X temp clock and temp sensor
Audio controls?
Red LED interior lights
Red plasma glow dials (if they exist)
New Alloys (Silver 15" or 16")(similar to FRP alloys)
HT leads and coilpack
Some nice pedals (if they're easy to fit :|)
Gear Knob (Richbrook ford leather one looks nice)
Maybe some small bonnet vents?
Silicone hoses? (red?)
Top Strut Brace
Lower strut Brace
Front Splitter
Dual Exhaust pipes
Suspension kit (lowered a bit, but not to alter ride quality)
ECU Remap
4-2-1 Exhaust & sport cat
LMS Inlet manifold with plenum

Possible/Wishful Mods:
Front Brake upgrade
Rear brake disk conversion
Quaife LSD
Performance clutch?
IBT kit or Turbo?

I have other ideas but for this car i want it to remain subtle (at least on the outside)

Non-subtle Mods: (maybe for next black puma)
White Rally-style Alloy wheels
Red rally mudflaps
Matt Black paint job
Red sunstrip
Other red trim (i.e. mesh grill, stripes etc)
Black recaro seats (red trim)
Black felt dash cover
Slightly bigger spoiler :wink:
RS200 style Bonnet vent (like warrenpenalver's puma cossie)

This post has been edited by FireFly90: 31 July 2013 - 12:37 AM

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Posted 03 July 2013 - 12:35 AM

Here's some of the stuff i've done so far:

[13/02/2013]

Aero wiper blades fitted
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[19/02/2013]

Halfords Ultra brilliance dipped bulbs fitted

[23/02/2013]

Pioneer DEH-X8500DAB radio fitted
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[26/02/2013]

Wind deflectors fitted
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[03/03/2013]

Smoked side repeaters fitted
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[14-18/03/2013]
Serviced at Ford garage Level 3 service and cam-belt change. Also replaced rear brake shoes and rear axle bushes and some other things

[01/05/2013]
Horn replaced
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[24/05/2013]
Roof Bars and Roof Box fitted (since been removed)
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[05/06/2013]
New Brembo disks and EBC pads fitted + 200 mile bedding trip
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[17/06/2013]
HCV breaks on way back from Download Festival
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Posted 03 July 2013 - 06:02 AM

Nice car, looks in lovely condition.

What do you think of those wipers? I have looked at them but stayed with the traditional design. Do they lift at high speed?

I have a subtle rear spoiler :roflmao: well I can't see it when I'm driving so it must be subtle.
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Posted 03 July 2013 - 12:56 PM

I think the wipers work very well, they don't lift at high-speed as far as i know.
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Posted 03 July 2013 - 09:35 PM

Cycle carrier would need to be the roof one, the rear tailgate might fit but the tailgate glass is not designed to carry the weight.
I had Sparco pedals but took them off, looked great but really altered pedal feel.
The 16" wheels are not good in your link as the offset is very wrong. The first ones are quite nice, and I love white wheels :D
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Posted 03 July 2013 - 10:59 PM

View Posthappy-kat, on 03 July 2013 - 09:35 PM, said:

Cycle carrier would need to be the roof one, the rear tailgate might fit but the tailgate glass is not designed to carry the weight.
I had Sparco pedals but took them off, looked great but really altered pedal feel.
The 16" wheels are not good in your link as the offset is very wrong. The first ones are quite nice, and I love white wheels Posted Image


The alloys in the link were from a few months ago so may have changed, it also depends how much money i have to spend (which atm is not much =/). Are those 15" one's white? i thought they where silver as that was the colour i was aiming for. I'm after something similar to the Black edition 'F1' wheels but in better condition as i don't want it to look too dissimilar than it is at the moment.
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Posted 04 July 2013 - 06:27 PM

Hi
No they were not white, just I like white wheels :)
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Posted 04 July 2013 - 09:00 PM

View Posthappy-kat, on 04 July 2013 - 06:27 PM, said:

Hi
No they were not white, just I like white wheels Posted Image


haha, fair enough ^_^ If i was going for a rally car look with this car i would like white wheels too =)
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Posted 06 July 2013 - 04:47 PM

Sally's new home in Derby =)

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Posted 25 July 2013 - 10:31 AM

Haven't done an update for while due to being busy with stuff, but here goes

Clutch started slipping when i put my foot down so decided to replace it and the slave cylinder with help from GingerTom on saturday :ok:

Though in taking the car apart i managed to sheer the bolts holding the downpipe to the exhaust manifold, might be able to get them off with a gas flame but probably will get a new one with bolts, gonna be a pain to get back in again :|

Also fitted some braided hoses, Iridium Plugs and replaced my broken HCV.
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So whilst she's not running i made my own FRP airbox mod (using 3Ddunk's guide) using the bottom bit from a fiesta as they're both the same shape and there's less plastic to cut.
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Used a bit of cut off plastic to prop it up
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And here is the finished item, using more bits of unrolled piping to cover the large gaps
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Also have some flexi piping to trim down and position behind the grille but first i need to make space for my new projector front foglights which i also haven't fitted yet, need to read up more on fusebox/relay wiring and make some cuts in the grille where they going to go.
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I also have some heated washer jets and loom from a mondeo in the scrapys to fit aswell, not sure whether to wire it into the ignition so they're always on or into the heated windscreen switch so they are timed to turn off after a bit.
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