Indholdsfortegnelse for July 2017 i Fast Ford

FASTTECH NEW STUFF LATEST GEAR ON THE BLUE OVAL SCENE TAROX MK3 FOCUS RS DISC UPGRADE £828 To improve the stopping performance TAROX has unveiled a newly designed two-piece performance brake disc solution for the MK3 Ford Focus RS. The package includes a pair of high performance two-piece discs to enhance the braking ability of this legendary hot hatch. Featuring unique cooling vanes and an aluminum bell they offer superior heat dissipation and greater braking performance. Plus, they are 4.1kg lighter than the original Ford item, giving an important reduction in un-sprung weight! At the rear TAROX has developed a high performance single piece disc to compliment the front in both performance and style (costing £294) and upgraded brake pads and braided brake lines to complete the set and provide…

DRIVEN DRIVEN STEEDA MONDEO SPORT STEEDA MONDEO SPORT WE GET BEHIND THE WHEEL OF STEEDA’S LATEST OFFERING FOR MONDEO OWNERS, THE APTLY NAMED STEEDA MONDEO SPORT… “THE STEEDA MONDEO SPORT IS DAMN HANDSOME BRUTE” Steeda Autosports may be a huge household name in the USA – they are the world’s biggest privately owned Ford tuning specialists, after all – but over recent years they have started making their mark on the UK Ford tuning scene too. Steeda UK offer all kinds of goodies for the fast Ford fan, but their most eye-catching offerings are the Steeda Serialised Vehicles – these come as complete, turnkey upgrades offered with a full warranty. For UK buyers this means that tuned Mustangs and the new Mk5 Mondeo ‘Steeda Mondeo Sport’ are available to buy direct…

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT ICE AND EASY! We take a closer look at 5 cool products from Pioneer to hit the fast Ford scene in 2017… No sector of the modified car world moves forward with quite the same relentless pace as that of in-car entertainment. Think about it, unless you’re a fully paid up ICE geek then there’s a very good chance that the head unit in your car will have already been superseded and replaced by something far more capable. This is very good news on the whole, as the sheer speed with which the industry moves forward means that there’s no shortage of simply amazing tech to be had, with many feature-filled headunits now available for some seriously affordable figures. Proof of this amazing trickle-down of advanced technology can…

fastford LOCAL HEROES CARS & COFFEE We head to mountune HQ for the launch of the all-new mountune Hub, and to catch up with some like-minded Ford fans at the tuner’s now-legendary Cars & Coffee meet… WHO Cars & Coffee 2017 WHERE mountune HQ, Brentwood, Essex CONTACT www.blog.mountune. com WORDS AND PHOTOS Jamie Mountune’s much-loved Cars and Coffee morning was back on the calendar for 2017. After missing the event in 2016, mountune decided to combine the open day-style meet with the launch of their all-new mountune Hub – a stylish new show room for customers to relax in while they wait for the mountune engineers to fettle with their Ford. Inside, there’s a selection of the latest mountune products to hit the market, some display engines to get…

FIESTA ST MARK OF THE BEAST Serial hot hatch enthusiast Mark Maplesden has put a huge amount of effort into beefing up his ST’s spec list. And it all stems from that little yellow boot badge… Words: Dan Bevis Photos: Aron Vickers “I’d got tired of Stage 2power and started looking at hybrid turbos. I instantly fell in love with the new-found power and drivability” Hot hatches are a drug. They’ve characterised a particular kind of driving thrill since their inception in the mid-1970s, and for a generation teetering on the cusp of Gen X and Millennials – part cynical, part hyperactive – who grew up in the late-eighties and early-nineties seeing these cars pass through a golden age of modifying, there really is no substitute. Sure, a rear-wheel-drive coupé…

FOCUS RS OUT OF STOCK An all-original, concourscondition Mk1 Focus RS will provide solid-gold investment potential. But where’s the fun in that…? Words: Dan Bevis Photos: Tom Harrison Hunter S. Thompson, founder of the gonzo journalism movement and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas among much else, had a view on life that will surely resonate with most of you out there: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’” This pretty much sums up our views on concours motors, and cars that are bought by speculators rather than enthusiasts…

MOTORBASE / FOCUS BTCC DONINGTON WOES… Rounds 4, 5, and 6 at Donington proves a weekend to forget for Team Shredded Wheat Racing with Duo… Our tails were up as we headed to Donington for the second meet of the season. Fair enough the season opener at Brands Hatch a few weeks earlier didn’t yield our best results, but we knew we were in the mix and if Lady Luck had been on our side (especially during Saturday’s qualifying session) we could have easily come away with more points and possibly a trophy or two! So, heading to Donington for Rounds 4, 5, and 6 of the Championship we were cautiously optimistic. If fortune was on our side, this could be our weekend! Unfortunately, though, it soon became clear fortune…

BUYER’S GUIDE SIERRA RS500 COSWORTH Words: Dan Williamson Photos: Ade Brannan If you have to ask the price, you probably can’t afford it. Never before has the phrase been so true for a humble Ford four-seater. But the Sierra RS500 Cosworth is such a legend, such a bank-busting investment, that the money it costs to buy comes a far distant second to its mileage, its history, and how much you need a many-spoilered Sierra in your collection. The Sierra RS500 Cosworth has good reason for its huge desirability. As a road car, it was the ultimate homologation special, designed and built for motorsport eligibility. And as a racer it was almost untouchable, scooping victory after victory until it was banned for being too successful. The RS500 was an evolution of…

NEXT MONTH COMING UP IN fastford 510BHP SAPH COSSIE Awesome big-spec hooligan machine! WIDE ARCH ST Feisty Fiesta packing 293bhp and some extra girth! SUPER RARE ESCOS The almost unheard of Arrows Edition… ALL ABOUT… WASTEGATES Your essential guide to wastegates, actuators, and blow-off valves PLUS • FIESTA RS TURBO BUYING GUIDE • MUSTANG CHASSIS BRACE FITTING GUIDE • SQUIRES CAFÉ MEET • FIESTA MR265 DRIVEN • PLUS LOADS MORE! ON SALE 16TH JUNE Grab yours from the Kelsey Shop: shop.kelsey.co.uk/issue/list/publication/FTF…

WIN! TURBOSMART UPGRADES! WIN! We’ve got five £150 Turbosmart vouchers up for grabs this month! To noise or not to noise…? That is the question! Well it’s one question, and thanks to a selection of both recirc and blow-off valves, from Turbosmart the choice is yours. Turbosmart loves a fast Ford, and since opening their UK office in 2014 they have extended their range of direct bolt-on upgraded diverter valves and actuators to include the very latest crop of fast Ford models, with offerings for STs, RSs, and even the 1.0-litre EcoBoost Fiestas too! In addition to these bolt-on upgrades, Turbosmart are known across the globe for their specialist performance components; their external wastegates, blow off valves, boost controllers, turbo oil filters, and fuel pressure regulators have been winning races…

SHOW UPDATE FACE OFF AT CLASSIC FORD SHOW 2017… Once again the ever-impressive lineup of classic Ford dragsters will be back at Classic Ford Show for 2017, but this time they’re going head-to-head to see who truly is the fastest! These classics are, quite simply, some of the most powerful, most impressive, fastest Blue Ovals you’ll ever see! The lineup includes everything from Anglias through to Zephyrs., and, of course, there’ll be plenty of Cortinas, Capris, and Escorts sprinting off down the track too! The classic Ford dragsters always throw up a few surprises too, and include a few oddball models that you might not expect to see hitting the quarter-mile such as Model As, Mustangs, and even a Thames minibus! All with well over 500bhp at their disposal! 2017…

RS500 HISTORY 30 YEARS OF THE RS 500 Three decades on, the mighty Sierra Cosworth RS500 is still one of the most iconic, most desirable fast Fords money can buy. Here’s why… Words: Dan Williamson Photos: Ford Photographic, Dan Pullen Never bettered, rarely beaten and never outshone, the Sierra RS500 Cosworth is pure fast Ford legend. Never before had one machine scooped so many victories in succession, and never since has a tin-top racer captured the hearts and minds of a whole generation of car enthusiasts. The Sierra RS500 Cosworth was designed to win, and that’s exactly what it achieved. Such was the RS500’s dominance in the British Touring Car Championship that it finished first 40 times in a row. It became so successful that BTCC rules were changed to…

SIERRA RS500 TOUR OF DUTY Paul Linfoot has taken on the responsibility of restoring the original Graham Goode Racing Group A RS500 touring car… Words: Dan Furr Photos: Adrian Brannan Thruxton, Hampshire, May 2017. We’re standing on the grandstand of one of Europe’s fastest racing circuits, watching one of the closest fought British Touring Car Championships in recent memory unfold before our eyes. Crucial points that will make or break the title race for any one of a number of star drivers (not forgetting a strong show of manufacturers) are at stake, yet despite this nail-biting televised motorsport spectacle, we can’t help but cast our minds back to the days of Group A when Ford’s all-conquering Sierra RS500 was the dominant force tearing up the track before us. We’re not…

FOCUS ST PLUM CRAZY An ST on bags? They said it shouldn’t be done. Mean, clean and obscene, this Focus proves them wrong. Words: Emma Woodcock Photos: Ade Brannan Conform!” shout the Hyundais and comfortable shoes. “I can’t do it,” the modifier replies, “I’ve got to be different, look different, build different.” The ready meals look uncertain; the basic bitches cock their heads with frosty-eyed confusion. Yet the modifier holds their ground. Does that sound like you? It sounds like me and, more importantly, it sounds like Chris Goodgame, owner of this dazzling Focus ST that mixes go with low. He’s not one to stand still for long, our Chris. Since gaining his driving licence some 23 years ago, he’s rattled through somewhere between 50 and 60 cars. One or…

ALL ABOUT… TURBOCHARGERS We take a closer look at the dark art of turbocharging, what it does, how it works, and how it can make your fast Ford even faster… Turbocharging is nothing new, in fact it’s been around for over 100 years, but it’s still seen as a bit of a dark art among car fans. Granted, we all understand that equipping an engine with a turbocharger will mean that engine has the potential to produce much more power, but why? How does it all work? Well that’s what we’re going to take a look at this month. So we popped down to the south coast to visit Turbo Performance, to pick their brains and to take apart a few turbos and peek at their innards so we can…