Innehållsförteckning för August 2021 från Fast Ford

WHAT'S NEW DRIVEN STEEDA’S FIESTA ST Perhaps better known as one of the world’s leading Mustang tuners, Steeda’s techs have turned their hands to the Mk7 Fiesta ST, and we’ve been driving it… Words JAMIE Photos JASON DODD “The biggest difference between the Steeda Fiesta and other STs we’ve driven over the years is the way it delivers its power” Steeda is a name that any self-respecting Mustang owner will already have on the tip of their tongue when talking about performance tuning, but perhaps not so many Fiesta and Focus owners are familiar with the brand. Not yet, anyway – but we’ve got a feeling that’s all about to change. Building on its success with the Mustang (a car the company has been tuning since it began the 1980s), Steeda…

2021 SHOW DATES The Ford show scene is the best in the business – check out some of these cracking events coming up soon… JULY JULY 10TH RS COMBE Castle Combe, Wiltshire www.rscombe.com JULY 18TH SIMPLY FORD Beaulieu, Hampshire www.beaulieu.co.uk/events/simply-ford JULY 18TH DURHAM & DERBYSHIRE RSOC CROFT TRACK DAY Croft circuit, Darlington www.facebook.com/ groups/257167457679647 JULY 18TH OLD FORD RALLY British Motor Museum, Warwickshire www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/ AUGUST AUGUST 8TH FORD FAIR Silverstone, Northamptonshire www.fastcar.co.uk/ford-fair AUGUST 28TH COSWORTH DRIVERS CLUB DAY AT BROOKLANDS Brooklands Museum, Surrey www.brooklandsmuseum.com AUGUST 29TH RSOC NATIONAL DAY Donington Park, Derbyshire www.rsownersclub.co.uk AUGUST 29TH THE FORD SHOW Santa Pod, Northamptonshire https://fordshow.co.uk SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 12TH FORD LIVE Knockhill, Fife www.knockhill.com/events SEPTEMBER 19TH FORD POWER LIVE – BRANDS HATCH Brands Hatch, Kent www.fordpowerlive.co.uk OCTOBER OCTOBER 3RD TRAX Silverstone, Northamptonshire www.fastcar.co.uk/trax-silverstone *These…

#PRINTMYFORD See your very own fast Ford in full printed glory! Ever wanted to see your car appear in all its glory in the printed pages of a Ford tuning magazine? Well, if so, all you need to do is ask! Simply email us, or post a picture of your car on our Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram pages and add the hashtag ‘#printmyford’, and each month we’ll choose our favourites and print them in this aptly named feature. Alternatively, drop us an email with a couple of pics, a full spec list of any mods and upgrades, and a few details about your time with the car to fastford.ed@kelsey.co.uk with the subject heading ‘print my ford’ and we’ll pick our favourites for a slightly more detailed review each month too.…

EBC BRAKES’S MK7 FIESTA ST TIME TO SAY GOODBYE The keys to EBC Brakes’s Ultimate Fiesta Build are finally given to its lucky new owner, as the team says an emotional farewell to the charity project that has consumed their lives for over a year QUICK SPEC EBC Brakes Racing Apollo Balanced Big Brake Kit • Eibach Pro-Spacer Kit • Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres • Pumaspeed Stage 4 tune with X58EVO turbo • Forge BOV • Cusco Type RS LSD • ST XTA coilovers • Eibach ARBs • Ultra Racing strut braces • Powerflex bushes • Yiannimize vinyl wrap • Rota Recce alloys • Northampton Motorsport geo/alignment setup • P3 Gauges digital air vent gauge • Motordrive bucket seats • Pandora Alarms Light Pro V2 system with Nav-X •…

FORDS IN MOTORSPORT BRITISH TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP MB Motorsport celebrates another podium finish in what proved to be a tough weekend for the Focuses at Snetterton Words JAMIE Photos BTCC MB Motorsport claimed its fourth podium finish of the season after a fantastic drive from Ollie Jackson in race two at Snetterton. A double top-ten in race one and a charge through the pack from Jake Hill in race three earned further points for the team as they leave round two in third place in the BTCC teams’ championship. Going into the first race as championship leader, Jake Hill was carrying the maximum ballast of 75kg. Jake dropped to eighth place on the opening lap, while Ollie Jackson was able to battle his way up to fourth place. Surrounded by…

DUNLOP SALOON CAR CUP Words and photos PAUL LAWRENCE Four Sierra RS500s arrived at Silverstone for the opening races for the Dunlop Saloon Car Cup. Paul Mensley came closest to toppling the Nissan Skylines with a fighting second place in race two in his lockdown-built RS500, which runs the livery of Murray Carter’s 1988 Bathurst 1000 car. “It’s coming and it’s getting faster and faster,” said Mensley of the car built up from a rare motorsport bodyshell by Premier Motorsport in Bury St Edmonds. Silverstone was only the second race weekend for the immaculate car. Sean Brown and Dave Coyne/Mark Wright both bagged two top-six finishes, but completely out of luck was father-and-son pairing Graeme and James Dodd. Their Kaliber-liveried car is the original Guy Edwards car from the 1989…

FF TECH 10 MINUTE TECH SILICONE HOSES This month we look at one of the great upgrades that simultaneously offers performance and styling benefits, as we find out more about silicone hoses WHAT IS A SILICONE HOSE AND WHAT DOES IT DO? Silicone is an inorganic polymer consisting of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Silicone hoses are stronger and more reliable than traditional rubber-style hoses. They have several advantages over conventional rubber hoses, with their ability to run at much higher temperature ranges and pressures. They will also have a much longer lifespan thanks to them not hardening and cracking like rubber hoses. ARE THEY ALL THE SAME? Not all silicone hoses are equal. Some hoses just offer a cosmetic finish to engine bays but can fail once put under higher-than-normal…

WHAT'S NEW NEWS See what’s going down in the world of fast Fords... UK’S MOST POWERFUL MUSTANG High-performance and luxury car specialist Clive Sutton has launched its CS850GT Mustang – a comprehensive reworking of Ford’s latest 5.0-litre V8 muscle car. Sutton created the new car in response to customer feedback who were frustrated that Ford did not manufacture a right-hand drive Shelby GT500 for the UK market. In the Sutton CS850GT, output has been boosted to 847bhp – making it the UK’s most powerful new Mustang – almost double the 454bhp of the stock Ford Mustang. The new CS850GT boasts a Whipple supercharger, intercooler and a Quad Active XFORCE exhaust that together deliver 665lb.ft of torque and that crazy power figure. To handle the power, the suspension and chassis have…

10 REASONS TO VISIT mountune fordfair EUROP’E BIGGEST & BEST FORD FESTIVAL 2021 Sunday, August 8 at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit — be there! FAST FORD STAND Of course, your favourite Ford tuning magazine will be at the biggest Ford show of the year. You can’t miss the formidable Fast Ford stand, this year sponsored by HP Tuners. With a beautiful array of hand-picked past, present, and future magazine feature cars, the Fast Ford stand always boasts some of the most impressive Blue Ovals you’ll find anywhere at the show. The diverse display covers all corners of the fast Ford scene, old and new, with everything from crazy-power street machines, to show stunners, to B-road blasters, to full-on track weapons all on display in one place. The Fast Ford stand…

FAST FLEET Check out what’s been going on with our projects this month… JAMIE FOCUS RS A trip out to meet the guys from Steeda this month has reignited Jamie’s passion for the Focus. Now he’s got a list of little jobs to sort, an even bigger list of mods to make, and the car’s due an MOT next month too. PAUL COWLAND MUSTANG V8 Paul’s been enjoying the new look of the mighty Mustang now rolling on its sleek 20in rims. What’s next...? Find out soon. DAN FOCUS ST250 It’s MOT time for the Fondeo, but having only done a handful of miles since the last one, it’s a forgone conclusion, right? Wrong! HANNAH FOCUS COSWORTH Shows are coming! With track days fast approaching Hannah is hoping to get…

RS1700T LOST LEGEND Wespeak Motorsports designer John Wheeler to find out the full story of the fabled RS1700T Group B project, direct from the main man himself Words ROBB PRITCHARD & GRAHAM ROBSON Photos FAST FORD AND FORD MOTORSPORT ARCHIVE In its day, Ford’s RS200 was one of the most sophisticated competition cars in the world. It is, in many respects, still way ahead of most things on the street or rally stage, even today. But the legendary supercar wasn’t built completely from scratch; it rose from the ashes of the almost-fully-developed yet stillborn RS1700T project – Ford’s first effort designed for the ultra-fierce Group B era of world rallying. To find out all the ins and outs of the whole saga, we’ve pulled up a chair next to Ford…

WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP The M-Sport team battle hard to bring the Fiesta WRCs home in Italy, but once again show the car has the pace to compete at the front Rally Italia-Sardegna concluded with the M-Sport Ford World Rally Team bringing its cars safely to the finish after three days of action in some of the most brutal conditions we’ve seen on the World Rally Championship calendar. Gus Greensmith and his new co-driver Stuart Loudon claimed seventh place in their EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC. The young Englishman impressed with the maturity he displayed as he got the car fully dialled-in to the tight, treacherous gravel stages on the opening morning and only a gearbox issue at the end of Leg 1 and an electrical fault from Leg 2 kept him…

MEGUIAR’S DETAILING FAQS DETAILING FAQS Do you know the difference between a wax and a polish? Are you familiar with the two-bucket method? We speak to our friends at Meguiar’s to find out the answers to some of the most common questions when it comes to car cleaning Car detailing has become massive business over the past decade. Gone are the days of grabbing a bucket, sponge, and your mum’s bottle of washing up liquid (whatever you do, don’t do that, it’ll cause more harm than good!) and giving your car a quick wipe down. Detailing your car is an art form, but with so many products on the market like clay bars, iron removers, snow foams and ceramic coatings, it’s become overwhelming to the everyday enthusiast. That’s why…

MK4 FORD ESCORT DEBUTANTE BALLER Most people’s first cars are pretty forgettable, but Jez Bonner isn’t most people. His constantly-evolving show-stopper has been one of the hottest Escorts on the scene for longer than we care to remember Words JOE PARTRIDGE Photos DANIEL PULLEN Think back to your first car. Perhaps – if you’re anything like us – it was a rusty old hatchback, picked up for a few hundred quid and thrashed to death before heading to the scrapyard a few months later. Or maybe it was something new on finance, a frugal runabout with a food-blender under the bonnet and a black box inside. Either way, the two key facts about most people’s first cars are that they’re a bit rubbish, and they don’t stick around for long.…

SECRET FORDS ACCESS ALL AREAS: ESCORT COSWORTH V6 This month Steve tells us all about the Escort Cosworth. No, not that one – a V6, rear-wheel drive version… Escort Cosworth; the iconic monster hatch that featured four-wheel drive and a massive turbo. Well, all except a pair of rear-wheel drive versions that not many people know about. The two cars were built in autumn 1993; one with the RS2000 unit as a possible motorsport car and this one, with a 24-valve Cosworth V6 from the Scorpio. It’s one of many unreleased Escort Cosworths unearthed while writing Volume Two of Secret Fords; which also includes a Speedster, Coupe, Dune-buggy, Convertible and even an Aston Martin version. Photos of the 24-valve car have been seen before, but little known about the car.…

SERIES ONE RS TURBO CLOAK AND DAGENHAM This stealthy RS Turbo contains hidden swells of flame-spitting power, with regular trips from Scotland down to Essex making it ever-angrier each time… Words DAN BEVIS Photos ADE BRANNAN The internet is awash with nonsense, that goes without saying. Perhaps the most nonsensical thing of all is when you see people replying to for-sale listings, ads or threads with the phrase ‘if only you were closer’. The idea that the perfect car might rule itself out of the running simply because it’s a few hours’ drive away is daft; it’s not beyond the wit of humankind to travel somewhere and then travel home again, particularly given that the car itself is a means of locomotion. Neatly illustrating this point is Robert Hamilton. He…

WHAT'S NEW FORD STUFF The latest gear on the Blue Oval scene MOUNTUNE PUMA ST & FIESTA ST POWER UPGRADES £575 (m235), £675 (m260) Mountune have recently released two new power upgrades; the m235 and a further-developed m260. A first for the Puma ST, the m235 upgrade boosts both power and performance, and is easily installed using mountune’s SMARTflash app. The m235 upgrade delivers increases in both power and torque by 35PS and 30Nm respectively, now boasting a peak power output of 235PS (232bhp) and 350Nm (258lb.ft) of torque. For those looking to extract even more performance from their Puma ST – or Mk8 Fiesta ST, as the upgrade is also compatible – mountune has also developed their m260 software too. Designed to work with the recommended hardware upgrades (induction…

WHAT'S NEW CLUB PROFILE FORD CLUB GB We catchup with Annlouise Gooch to find out more about one of the most all-inclusive Ford clubs in the scene today When was the club first founded? RJ Chalkie started the club on 1 June, 2017, after co-owning the Ford Galaxy Owners Club. RJ saw something was missing from the car scene and wanted to create a group where all Fords are welcome whether they are classic or modern, standard or modified. The club has always stated if it has a Blue Oval we would love you to join us. How many active members does the club currently have? We have almost 17,000 members in the club at present and over 300 active paid membership holders (the membership is not compulsory) and this…

MUSTANG THE AMERICAN DREAM Stephen Mander dreamt of owning a Mustang since he was just 11. His dreams came true a decade later, and since then he’s spent the last five years tuning it into the V8-beater it is today Words JAMIE Photos JASON DODD When you were at school, did you have a dream car that you promised yourself you’d own one day? As fellow Ford fanatics, we’re guessing the Escort Cosworth, RS200 or Sierra RS500 would feature high on that list, while slightly more, ahem, mature readers [Oi! Speak for yourself – DW] might have lusted after Lotus Cortinas and hot Escorts. For Stephen Mander, he’s always been a Mustang man, and can trace that all the way back to a holiday in the ’States when he was…

FOCUS RS ESTATE ESTATE OF THE ART From Photoshop inspiration to four-wheel-drive, load-lugging masterpiece, Shan Kahn has created the Focus RS estate that Ford failed to produce. And it’s a 420bhp, drifting, donutting wagon-weapon Words DAN WILLIAMSON Photos ADE BRANNAN One illustration. That’s all it took. One Photoshop rendering, and it brought us one of the most inspirational fast Fords in years; a car that’s so perfect it should have been a mass-production model; a car that’s the genius work of Shan Kahn and his mate Terry. While the majority of us with a passion for sporting wagons gazed at X-Tomi Design’s visualisation of a Focus RS estate and willed Ford to build it, Shan saw the CGI and made it happen. Shan recalls, “I saw the picture of the…

MK6 FIESTA ST HIGH FIVES This may look like a stock Mk6 ST on a bright set of wheels. But as anyone who’s met Mark Weeks on a country road has discovered, there’s 500bhp of Focus five-pot brawling away inside… Words DAN BEVIS Photos JASON DODD Some people have a natural affinity for modifying. We’re all into it – that goes without saying – but there’s a certain rarefied strand of DNA that exists within a chosen few individuals that means they’ve got a good eye for a quality mod, the tenacity to carry it through to completion, and the eagerness to keep pushing on past what other people might see as a job well done. In the case of Mark Weeks, owner of MWMotorsport, this all manifests itself within…

FORD ENGINE SWAPS Here’s our pick of five of the most inspiring engine swaps from recent issues When it comes to performance tuning, sometimes you’re better off throwing the original stuff in the bin and fitting something that’s just plain better to begin with. And there’s plenty of choice for engine upgrades from within the fast Ford family tree. Over the years we’ve seen all kinds of engine swaps appear in the magazine. Naturally, big-hitters like the Cosworth YB and even BDT feature frequently in some of the craziest track-spec builds ever seen, but inspired by both Shan Khan’s Mk3 Focus RS Estate (page 34) and Mark Weeks’s Focus ST-powered Mk6 Fiesta (page 44) in this issue, we’ve been flicking through the archives to find some of our favourite engine…

DAN FOCUS ST3 TESTING TIMES Dan’s been showing the Fondeo some love after lockdown… and, of course, he’s bought a couple more Fords too QUICK SPEC Focus ST-3 • Direnza MVT intercooler and hard pipes • Gravity sports cat • Gravity full exhaust system • Peron/AET Motorsport stage one remap • Steeda cold air inlet system (CAIS) • Turbosmart dump valve • Steeda short-shifter • H&R 25mm lowering springs • H&R 20mm wheel spacers • Powerflex Handling Pack • Focus RS Brembo callipers • EBC USR discs • EBC Bluestuff front/Yellowstuff rear pads • EBC braided brake lines • ST Mk4 19in alloys A mere 1707 miles. Between two MOTs, that’s the total of what my faithful Fondeo covered. For a daily driver, that’s crazy. COVID-19, of course, is to…

FORDS IN MOTORSPORT BRITISH RALLYING Words and photos PAUL LAWRENCE When the British Rally Championship and the Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship shared the billing at the annual Neil Howard Stages Rally at the Oulton Park race track, there was one of the best entries ever seen for such a rally. From 144 starters, 74 were Ford, with 30 top-spec Fiesta R5s and similar, 23 older models (mainly Escorts) and 21 Fiestas, largely the youngsters in the BRC in modern 1.0-litre models. On a hot early summer day, the pace was just as hot, as eight special stages were set out on the circuit, its access roads and low-grip rally school stage. Eventually, Irishman Sam Moffett beat Rhys Yates by a second to top the BRC pack as the Fiestas…

FF TECH BUYER’S GUIDE MK5 FIESTA ZETEC S Fun, funky and flippin’ thrifty, the Mk5 Fiesta Zetec S has a tight chassis, rev-hungry motor and serious investment potential. Could it be the perfect beginner’s Blue Oval? Words DAN WILLIAMSON Photos DAN SHERWOOD IDENTITY “Seemingly immune to crazy price hikes of most ageing Fords, the Zetec S can still be picked up for pocket money…” Check the chassis number on the V5 matches the VIN plate (on the bonnet slam panel), the tag on the nearside dashboard (viewed through the windscreen from outside) and the numbers stamped into the driver’s-side floor beneath a flap in the carpet. Don’t be concerned about whether you’re buying a (pre-2001) phase one or (2001-onwards) phase two – the early car’s silver-top engine (with bare alloy…