Is the official best Fiesta ST thread?  Hammy?

I bought one yesterday.  It has problems.

http://www.copart.com/us/Lot/38885415#

I hope I can fix it.

looks like a  good candidate for a daily     

ska 92x wrote:

Did you really buy that FiST? 

Absolutely.

It will replacing this car -once it's fixed up a bit, caged, and otherwise prepared.

With all the Copart fees, a broker fee, and some other BS fees, it was $2500

The car could be junk - I'm hoping to get it street legal for $2k, then maybe recover $750-$1200 of those two outlays by selling parts from the car.

My family has a towing business, so supposedly my brother is fetching it next Monday.  I can do a lot of stripping down to see what's broken...probaly have to find another donor car to fix it.

I'm probably super wrong on my costs and am just deluding myself.

If I need front end stuff, I'm going to try to get a rear hit Sedan since they're all so ugly they deserve to be sawzalled up.

This one definitely has a shredded intercooler - but I kind of wonder if a top mount or something more custom would be better for rally.


Can't wait to get into the project. It's far less intimidating having access to the dealer workshop manual through work, but I also know I have real technical problems coming my way when it comes to handling the stability control and the like.

I have no facts - kind of a gamble.  I'm getting too old to sit around wishing I had done a nicer car than my old Jetta.

turbo_dreams wrote:

bentmettle wrote:

I'm probably super wrong on my costs and am just deluding myself.

If I need front end stuff, I'm going to try to get a rear hit Sedan since they're all so ugly they deserve to be sawzalled up.

Can't wait to get into the project. It's far less intimidating having access to the dealer workshop manual through work, but I also know I have real technical problems coming my way when it comes to handling the stability control and the like.

You can fix anything with time, money, and parts. What you really should do though is buy one that got smacked in the back, sawzall both cars, and JB Weld the front of the other car onto the one that's smacked up in the front.   

I'm pretty sure this gets done from time to time with actual welding.

Brother finally got to work this weekend and drug the car inside


Somehow it got a broken tail light sitting in the parking lot.


Start of the night


This side took the worst of the damage.  Broke tie rod in there somewhere, too.


A few hours of taking off the old broken crap and it's looking a lot better to me.

Pretty embarrassing how slow this has gone.  l car spent last winter in my garage getting the body work we paid someone to do corrected enough that the headlights would fit on the car.

I got a cage kit this summer, but was working around recovering from breaking my leg.

I enjoy mine. Ended up keeping the Saabaru (though financially that is probably a very poor choice) and am dailying it during the winter. A lot of little things feel a bit less refined on the FiST (steering wheel, shift action) but overall, it's a substantially similar vehicle- which just goes to show how cars have and haven't progressed over the years, and also shows how little luxury GM added to create Saab's entry level vehicle.

If you do buy new, be sure to sign up for the ST Octane Academy in Tooele, UT. It was a blast!

Looks like it's ready to be wrapped around a tree!