CaptinFord's White lightning build thread

[CaptinFord]

Hello guys, Well I decided that my blue car is too modded to really be competitive in autocross so I bought a new 19 white platinum to make the ultimate H street car. I figured I would start a build thread with this car before I start building it lol I am waiting for parts to show up but for right now I ordered some Koni yellow shocks all around, Greddy catback exhaust, and a few more nic nacks. Rims and tires are going to follow soon, I plan on going with the matte bronze enkei rpf1 rims with some Dunlop Direzza ZIII 225/45R16 tires.

 

[CaptinFord]

Did some Fiesta essentials over the weekend, SSD and drop in panel filter. The Koni shocks and struts are showing up tomorrow, pretty excited to get those thrown in. Greddy exhaust is still looking like tuesday. The blue car has an Ultimate Racing exhaust with a catless downpipe so it will be interesting to compare the two. White lightening has to keep the oem downpipe to stay legal for the H street class for autocross.

 

[CaptinFord]

Got the Koni yellow shocks installed in the rear yesterday. Gotta wait for the left front strut still to get the front ones installed. Just doing the rear shocks the car feels really nimble around corners, I might be running the car like this the next autocross meet. Greddy exhaust is going to be showing up today so I will throw that in later today!

 

[CaptinFord]

Well I installed the Greddy exhaust the other day, had to order an adapter to fit the downpipe correctly. That should be here Friday, but I did get some new rubber in today! I went with the Dunlop Direzza ZIII tires, RPF1 matte bronze rims will be showing up Friday as well. The car is getting window tint tomorrow too, it will be a busy day lol going to attend an autocross meet with this car for the first time on Sunday in Salina, KS. Everything on the car will be complete minus the Koni front struts, now I just need to learn some better driving techniques to really get the most out of this car in H Street. Any advice for trail braking?? I feel like that would really help me lay down some better times.

 

[CaptinFord]

Got the rims and tires on the car along with the Greddy exhaust. I had to use an adapter to get it to properly seal on the factory downpipe. Car felt really awesome on Sunday in autocross. Hopefully soon the left front Koni strut will come in so I can get these installed on the car. The Direzza ZIII tires handled really well, I was impressed with the grip they had.

 

[MRX330]

No squoosh feeling with the 45’s?

 

[CaptinFord]

Not really, I kind of liked how the car had a little bit of roll to it when entering the corners. My blue car has an incredibly stiff chassis and suspension and this one is completely opposite and handles way different too lol it is nice to see someone finally commented on the build thread

 

[MRX330]

How’s the Greddy? Almost bought it

 

[CaptinFord]

It sounds pretty good, not really all that much louder than the stock which is fine by me. I bought it for the looks. I've never really cared about the duel tips from the factory or the other aftermarket options, single tip exit looks better in my opinion. The quality is what you would expect from a Greddy product, top notch!! Although they need to include an adapter in their kit for people like me who bolt up to the factory downpipe, but it wasn't all that much of an issue. Picked one up from Ron at Whoosh and was here in two days.

 

[MRX330]

I got the Thermal because of the shiny dual tips

 

[CaptinFord]

Nothing wrong with that, I personally didn't want to go with something a lot of people have on here. Not that there is anything wrong with the Thermal exhaust, obviously its amazing since that's what most people go with, I just wanted to be a little different.

 

[CaptinFord]

Took the rear sway bar off the blue car and put it on the white car for a MiDiv meet this weekend in Neosho, Missouri. I was there last weekend for a corvette autocross meet and the car did fantastic! I am learning how to run with left foot braking which helps a lot, still waiting on the other front Koni shock to arrive. After that all that's left is a racing seatbelt harness to help me not fly around in the car when I'm racing lol Half tempted to yank the Recaros out of the blue car and put them in the white car.

 

[CaptinFord]

Haven't updated the build thread in a while. Got the front Koni shocks on the car, didn't bother to take any pictures since everyone has seen them before. Also added Schroth seatbelt harness and that felt like it helped out quite a bit! I've taken it to quite a few autocross meets and so far I am loving it. The blue car had an expensive boo boo recently, going over some rail road crossings and bent all four rims. So I decided to throw the bronze rims and tires on it to see how it would look. What do you guys think?

 

[SrsBsns]

Damn, you bent all four? Ouuuuuch. That must have been brutal.

I like the bronze! But I'm probably biased.

 

[FistToFast]

I like the wheels on it, Kona blue looks so good!

 

[JDG]

Man, this is my dream. Heavily modified Fiesta for the street/track and then another to be competitive in PF rallycross. Very jealous of your setup. What's done to your Blue one?

 

[CaptinFord]

Damn, you bent all four? Ouuuuuch. That must have been brutal.

I like the bronze! But I'm probably biased.

Yeah it sounded like the struts punched through the car when I went over it, bent it so bad the rim was making contact with the front struts when turning.

Man, this is my dream. Heavily modified Fiesta for the street/track and then another to be competitive in PF rallycross. Very jealous of your setup. What's done to your Blue one?

Thanks man! The blue car has all bolt on mods with stock turbo set up currently. I plan on moving this car to a road race set up in the near future. It was my primary autocross car until the mod bug pushed me over to a non competitive class which made me buy a new stock one to race haha Still got to do a big brake kit on the car then do a similar build like MRX330 did with his car, built motor with stage 4 cams and big turbo set up. Haven't quite decided which turbo to go with, maybe the GT25-550 reverse rotation turbo but when the time comes I'm sure it will change.

 

[CaptinFord]

Did some Rally Cross over the weekend, had a lot of fun doing it. On my last run of the day I ended up laying down the best time of the day! Even beat a driver in a Foucs RS

 

[M-Sport fan]

Your RallyCross courses are smooth enough to run 40 series tires on?!?!

 

[CaptinFord]

Lol not quite, it was pretty rough on the car. I definitely wasn't prepped for the rally, woke up that morning and said what the hell lets give it a shot. It was my first RallyCross event and I had a lot of fun!