Modified Ford Fiesta ST

Make: Ford
Model: Fiesta ST

Ben Ancliff’s Modified Ford Fiesta ST

If you’d built up an S1 with EFi management to a working concours spec, where do you go from there? Ben Ancliff had to ask himself this question and ended up with this refreshing modified Fiesta ST. “The S1 was at a level where I just couldn’t do any more. I was made a very good offer so I let it go,” Ben recalls. Back then, Ben was working at Ford and was using his better half’s Mk6 Zetec S. “I was using it all the time, and started to love it. I saw an ST at work and decided it was for me. Being in Frozen White helps. After so much time with the S1 there is only one Ford colour for me!”

After being told by several places that he needed to put miles on his engine Ben accepted that nothing could happen with the car until the miles rolled on. “I soon clocked up 1500 miles by driving around the M25 non-stop,” Ben laughs. Straight away Ben went for a K&N and a Mongoose system to wake the ST up. “As soon as they were fitted the penny dropped; this is what STs are meant to be like! It was much better. After a few tweaks the car made 169bhp on the rollers. For a new car that is pretty good, I’m quite settled with it now but it was still sitting too high. I needed to get it low, so I got a suspension kit from SPAX and did what any sensible owner of a brand new car does – take it on track.”

After a year of fun and ownership, Ben started to walk down the styling path. Within no time, he spied a set of EsCos wheels on a forum. After a cheeky message to the owner they came to an arrangement. Ben struck gold and swapped his current ST wheels for the Escort Cossie ones. With the wheels fitted and the slammed and stretch tyre look working to great effect, it gave him a taste for more aesthetic mods.

The styling started with a little pin striping on the wheels, then along the ST stripes. “I did the styling as it was different and looked sporty. It seemed to upset a few people on forums, so I knew I was doing something right,” laughs Ben. After working the petrol cap and mirrors in chequer there was only one thing left to complete the look – a bonnet bra.

On the inside, no self respecting styled motor rolls without a healthy hit of ICE. Once again Ben’s stuck two fingers up and gone his own way. “I was told you couldn’t have two 15in subs in the back of a Fiesta. Well, we will see about that,” Ben says. “I’ve started to knock up a sub box for the rear and got it all in.”

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