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Without doubt this has got to be one of the best all round Fiesta RS Turbo's in the UK, what started it's life off as a BT van has been transformed into an EVO eating, blue oval wearing flying machine!!!

You may be thinking to yourself, I think I have seen that somewhere before, and you would be right but Warren's fiesta has evolved considerably from when it was magazine featured several years ago - as back then it was a van packed out with more subs, amps, sound deadening and speakers than most car audio shops carry in there showrooms!

After deciding Warren wanted it faster he decided to take the radical approach of removing all his stereo gear and going for a more stripped out theme, in total around 40 stones of audio and sound deadening was removed which on its own transformed its power to weight ratio quite considerably.

The Original engine was a 1600 FRST jobbie but after going as far as he could with that and realising he wanted even more power Warren went back to Dean at Shepherds for some more engine and gearbox work.

In the end a 1900 low compression bottom end was decided upon and this mated to the T3 Hybrid Turbo now produces some serious grunt!

Helping to put it all down is a Quaife ATB diff as well as some custom selected gear ratios and final drive to better suit the cars increased level of power.

But as you can see its not only the engine itself that has had some serious modification, EVERY aspect of this car has been attended too and the level of finish and the amount of detailing on it is nothing short of jaw dropping!

Along with its recent respray Warren has filled and smoothed the roof lines, rear tailgate, fitted a Zetec-S rear bumper, cosworth style front bumper and bad boy bonnet to mention but a few. But then he took it furhter by having all the kit blended into the body to remove all the join lines as well as Audi door handles and a trick set of grooves cut into the front wing!

It's the type of car that the longer you look at it the more subtle changes you will notice, and changes for the better at that!

Warren is mad on his 1/4 mile action so has two sets of wheels fro the car, these 17" Kahn RSS's that you see it gracefully sitting on here and a set of 15's wrapped in Yokohoma's finest A032R semi slick tyre which from my own experience I know is an absolutely awesome tyre that provides more grip which with the amount of power Warren is running is a great help particularly on the strip!

Of course there is no point in having huge amounts of horse power if you then cant stop yourself which is yet another area Warren has addressed, sitting behind the huge rims are a set of cosworth calipers and Black Diamond cross drilled and grooved discs, fitted again by Shepherds, and although they look dwarfed by the Kahn's they are more than upto the job, and in a light car such as this they stop it at will.

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