What did you do to your Fiesta ST today ?

[Sam4]

Did some maintenance and got my sons involved, gotta teach them young. Changed out a couple of bulbs, checked clamps, cleaned up the engine bay, etc. We also swapped out the cabin filter and I either did it the hard way or I need to fight the engineer who designed the filter box access.

My son (age 9) got to the filter door but had trouble with two screws, so I had to step in and assist. I also had to handle the filters, which he has done on his mom's Civic.

I need him to swap out my blend door please!

 

[dhminer]

Time for state inspection and had a CEL from my EVAP harness. Ordered a new one from Tasca, forgot mine's modified from running the MAPerformance intake I purchased from here awhile back. Spliced the modified section from the old EVAP harness into the new one (which coincidentally also got rid of the crushed sections of line from Tasca shipping it in an absolutely tiny box) and now we're good! A few laps around some usual routes until I saw the EVAP showing ready on the AP and $30 later through the Ford quicklane my ST is ready for property tax!

I thought it might be a bigger pain in the ass to get the system readiness to pop but it wasn't bad at all. I know there's a post around here detailing driving habits / scenarios required for all the systems. My hunch was higher gear loading around middle range RPM's which absolutely did the trick. Flashed back to my AdaptX tune last night since I'm back on 93 for a week (just because) and that setup a good environment to be swapping these parts around. Again, so happy this thing is so simple.

Also had the opportunity to check out the ST on a lift while they had it. Crash repair damage has been holding up great. I still drive it way to hard and other than some heavy brake wear everything is rock solid. Gave me a better chance to check out general corrosion too since my Fiesta was literally buried in snow coming from salt to get to me. Also not bad! The exahust tunnel brace is pretty gnarly but everything else is better than expected (except my hood).

Did Ford put your car up on a lift to inspect it?

 

[KXNGABE85]

Finally installed my whoosh v3 fmic. Pretty straight forward for the most part. Temps within ambient even below during a couple of pulls I did. Going with dizzy stage 2 next. Curious if anyone has cut the mounts for the trim and if you experienced any bumper sag? Thanks in advance!

 

[Business6]

Gotta get those headlights polished up, my man!

 

[NATYPE]

Did Ford put your car up on a lift to inspect it?

For the state inspection I'm not sure, on my first visit they did since I wanted them to take a look at how the repair work was holding up and wanted to look under it myself. Plus oil change. Wasn't paying close enough attention the second time around when they actually took care of the inspection.

 

[dhminer]

Gotta get those headlights polished up, my man!

Or buy my depo euros I’ve been too lazy to post

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Installed Swave 4 point brace* Took off the beat up Pierce 2 point brace That served its time extremely well and man did it take a beating without that much damage. Then changed oil to Tribodyn 5w30. Let the monitoring begin!

 

[green_henry]

Installed Swave 4 point brace* Took off the beat up Pierce 2 point brace That served its time extremely well and man did it take a beating without that much damage. Then changed oil to Tribodyn 5w30. Let the monitoring begin!

I have a Pierce 2-pt brace that's bottomed out on a few occasions but works like a charm. Interesting in hearing if the 4-pt brace makes a noticeable difference.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

I have a Pierce 2-pt brace that's bottomed out on a few occasions but works like a charm. Interesting in hearing if the 4-pt brace makes a noticeable difference.

It definitely sits closer to the frame* which is nice. But it will go head on into Ice chunk breaking duty soon enough here in Mn* Looks great too.

 

[dhminer]

It definitely sits closer to the frame* which is nice. But it will go head on into Ice chunk breaking duty soon enough here in Mn* Looks great too.

You should try brace-less with your new LSD and see if bracing is helpful on the street now that your trans and diff are all copacetic.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

You should try brace-less with your new LSD and see if bracing is helpful on the street now that your trans and diff are all copacetic.

Already installed* wont take off...but a good idea...i think that the 2 point or 4 point are the best options for bracing period. The 2 point was felt immediately on test drive when i installed it. 4 point is about the same IMO

 

[tikeybun]

My car ended up popping P0420 Catalyst efficiancy even though i'm running a COBB downpipe with a 400 cell GESI cat. I ended up ordering 2 different O2 spacers from Whoosh and will see which one fits the best and clears the code. Got my tracking number within a few hours of ordering.

 

[M-Sport fan]

My car ended up popping P0420 Catalyst efficiancy even though i'm running a COBB downpipe with a 400 cell GESI cat. I ended up ordering 2 different O2 spacers from Whoosh and will see which one fits the best and clears the code. Got my tracking number within a few hours of ordering.

That's sad to hear.

I thought the whole point of those exorbitantly priced catcons (besides maybe better longevity?) was so that you do NOT get any codes while enjoying higher flow rates than the more restrictive factory meows.

 

[tikeybun]

That's sad to hear.

I thought the whole point of those exorbitantly priced catcons (besides maybe better longevity?) was so that you do NOT get any codes while enjoying higher flow rates than the more restrictive factory meows.

I had a similar issue with a KOOKS green catted downpipe with on my Mustang. After getting a properly dialed in tune with Purple Drank I stopped popping the code. I'm not too buthurt about it since I only paid $400 for the downpipe. If the catalyst is bad then Ill just save my money and get a CPE GESI catted downpipe.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

I had a similar issue with a KOOKS green catted downpipe with on my Mustang. After getting a properly dialed in tune with Purple Drank I stopped popping the code. I'm not too buthurt about it since I only paid $400 for the downpipe. If the catalyst is bad then Ill just save my money and get a CPE GESI catted downpipe.

I had Whoosh High flow catted Dp for like 35k...never popped the light or used a de-fouler.

 

[akiraproject24]

I had a similar issue with a KOOKS green catted downpipe with on my Mustang. After getting a properly dialed in tune with Purple Drank I stopped popping the code. I'm not too buthurt about it since I only paid $400 for the downpipe. If the catalyst is bad then Ill just save my money and get a CPE GESI catted downpipe.

I asked a tuner which aperture most people use and he recommended starting with the small one. I have the straight shaped one.

 

[Ludeem1]

Came in the mail last night

 

[M-Sport fan]

I had a similar issue with a KOOKS green catted downpipe with on my Mustang. After getting a properly dialed in tune with Purple Drank I stopped popping the code. I'm not too buthurt about it since I only paid $400 for the downpipe. If the catalyst is bad then Ill just save my money and get a CPE GESI catted downpipe.

Yeah, I remember the KOOKS stuff from my LS1 Z28 days, and my brother's now gone LS2 C6.

 

[rallytaff]

Ordered the Delta wing riser and got my engine cover painted the same colour as the car, Ingot silver.

 

[woodford86]

Does buying a Gopro count? Setting up Solostorm so next project is a headrest mount for the camera