stuarty135
RMS Regular
Hi all, so a little over 7 weeks ago I picked up this little rocket ship. After talking to some friends about what I have in store for this (who are also on the forum) they said I need to get on here pronto and keep a sort of "build log". So here goes...
I picked the car up over in Scotland after what was about 2 years of searching, as there are next to none for sale over here. The slightly concerning thing was that the snow had just hit, so it was a rather sharpish learning curve of hopping out of a 1.6 Fiesta into something, that as i know now, will set the tc light off with so much as a flex of your big toe. The initial drive down to the boat was just unreal, the Germans certainly know how to build great cars!
Where you even on the boat if you didn't take a photo?
Off the late boat home, and maybe a week later was already test fitting a friends 17" BBS rims to get a rough idea on specs. I could technically run 17's, although brake clearance is more a matter of millimeters on them
The car was completely stock up until the start of last week, until I decided the front end need some changes. A quick nip onto MStyle's store and ordered a front bumper, the customer service from those guys was second to none and even told me to directly email them before placing another order (which I most certainly will be doing down the line at some point).
The bumper arrived and couldn't fault the quality, nor could I wait to get it on.
To me, it gives the car a far more aggressive look, and a bit more purposeful. So just to get it painted then, now this was such a fast turn around I actually had to re-read the message from the paint shop about 5 times. Dropped the car off after work at 5pm on the Wednesday evening, I then had a message at 1:30pm the next day of the bumper sitting on a stand in the drying booth. An hour on from that another photo came through and it was on the car with a message saying "Ready to collect at 5".
And that takes us up to now. The colour match is pretty much perfect and I couldn't be happier! And don't worry the plate won't be sitting in the window for too much longer, waiting on a bracket to arrive next week to properly mount it.
Currently atm, I am just planning on doing some aesthetic stuff first. Jumping from a 120bhp Fiesta to this at 300bhp is more than enough to keep me content for a considerable amount of time. Engine mods will be happening, as the engine is apparently good for 700 on a "safe" map and I can see why some people would dub the N54 as a modern 2JZ in terms of tunability. Can't wait to unlock the potential of this thing, but at the minute I've no need.
So I guess all that's left to say is thanks for reading over this and I will try my best to keep it updated. The build is a good few years long, but then again do they ever really finish?
- Stuart
I picked the car up over in Scotland after what was about 2 years of searching, as there are next to none for sale over here. The slightly concerning thing was that the snow had just hit, so it was a rather sharpish learning curve of hopping out of a 1.6 Fiesta into something, that as i know now, will set the tc light off with so much as a flex of your big toe. The initial drive down to the boat was just unreal, the Germans certainly know how to build great cars!
Where you even on the boat if you didn't take a photo?
Off the late boat home, and maybe a week later was already test fitting a friends 17" BBS rims to get a rough idea on specs. I could technically run 17's, although brake clearance is more a matter of millimeters on them
The car was completely stock up until the start of last week, until I decided the front end need some changes. A quick nip onto MStyle's store and ordered a front bumper, the customer service from those guys was second to none and even told me to directly email them before placing another order (which I most certainly will be doing down the line at some point).
The bumper arrived and couldn't fault the quality, nor could I wait to get it on.
To me, it gives the car a far more aggressive look, and a bit more purposeful. So just to get it painted then, now this was such a fast turn around I actually had to re-read the message from the paint shop about 5 times. Dropped the car off after work at 5pm on the Wednesday evening, I then had a message at 1:30pm the next day of the bumper sitting on a stand in the drying booth. An hour on from that another photo came through and it was on the car with a message saying "Ready to collect at 5".
And that takes us up to now. The colour match is pretty much perfect and I couldn't be happier! And don't worry the plate won't be sitting in the window for too much longer, waiting on a bracket to arrive next week to properly mount it.
Currently atm, I am just planning on doing some aesthetic stuff first. Jumping from a 120bhp Fiesta to this at 300bhp is more than enough to keep me content for a considerable amount of time. Engine mods will be happening, as the engine is apparently good for 700 on a "safe" map and I can see why some people would dub the N54 as a modern 2JZ in terms of tunability. Can't wait to unlock the potential of this thing, but at the minute I've no need.
So I guess all that's left to say is thanks for reading over this and I will try my best to keep it updated. The build is a good few years long, but then again do they ever really finish?
- Stuart
these are such an underrated car, the potential with them is huge and they are a great looking car too
