I use to race a ummm well dont laugh but a 80 ford fiesta. I loved that car because it was different than most of the other cars racing in the club. A lot of people were quite surprised with the performance of this rabbit looking ford. What was really cool about the fiesta was that it came with the 1.6L kent engine used in the open wheel fords. Now as far as stock performance goes it was lackluster but add some bigger wheels and tires and massage the engine with some european intake and cam and all of a sudden you had an increase from 96 hp stock to about 200hp. So in a 1800lb car well hehe it surprised a lot of vettes at the stop light. My boss I worked for at the time had a toyota mr2 twin turbo and he was surprised as we were leaving work one day because the innocent looking little econo box blew his screaming yellow doors off. Kind of fun since he use to laugh at me when I was doing all the work to this piece of junk hehe. I still have feelings for that silly car......and ummm well ford is gonna start selling the fiesta again in 2011..... hmmmm. As for autocrossing with it, it was very nimble after bumping up the wheel and tire size so burning up the orange coned parking lots in N. Wa. was a fun little part of my life.
John
The 850 Resource
