Hi all! This is my first post... So please be gentle with me!

I picked up my 2005 Focus titanium estate (2.0 TDCI) Just last week,i've had a few focus estates (all diesels), and a few hatchbacks too ( one an ST170).

I've had a vision of turning the rather drab estate car into a sportier looking ST! Now i know that ford don't make an estate version of the ST, but i'd like to follow the styling cue's of the ST to add a bit of spice to the estate....

I've assembled a few bits and bobs to aid me in my quest, i have An ST front bumper,a damaged St rear bumper (i'm hoping i can use the lower half of the ST bumper, and plastic weld it to the standard estate upper bumper) A pair of new MS-Design skirts, standard St alloys and tyres,one smoked headlamp (so far), and i'm still missing the front o/s fog light and surround,and the rear fogs and surrounds. I'll probably source these from a ford dealer.

Any ideas on where i can source a decent set of lowering springs for my motor, nothing too wild, 30mm would do the job. And a rear spoiler for the estate?

I've ever so slightly had a "fiddle" in the past with my previous focus'... Here's a couple of pics of em, all were boggo when i bought em (scuse the pic quality on some of em)

























Any ideas on my new project very much appreciated!

Ste.

I was looking at the red one on ebay last week - stunning for a wagon!

Hi mate, welcome to the club.

Firstly, some lovely Focos' there, I really like the White estate.

Unfortunately though, Ford did make a ltd number of ST170 estates, here's a few from auto trader

only 6 on auto trader at the moment

Don't let that put you off though, I'd have yours over a standard st170 anyday.

Ed

i was going to say the same the st estates are rare though, looks like youve owned quite a few nice foci's love the estate and the rieger kitted st

Haha! Small world! I hate selling cars, and selling the pepper red one has had a bunch of silly questions and requests (via ebay) and little action!

I had over a hundred watchers, and not one person came round for a viewing!

It looks like my boss is gonna give me 2K for it, pity really, as it's just gonna get used as a hack, running around with various drivers, and no doubt getting it's fair share of abuse Oh well....

Ah yes, i used the ST170 estate as my inspiration for the styling cues on the white and red cars... I'd have loved a "pukka" 170 estate, but because it's limited to just a petrol engine it wouldn't have been suitable (economy wise) for work. I had a 170 hatch as a 3rd car,i enjoyed modding that, but i lost interest in it fairly quickly unfortunately, i think mainly because i finished it from a boggo standard 170, to a modded 170 in ten days! I'd got to that "what's left to do" stage too quickly if you follow me?

Here's a few (bad quality,sorry) pics early on in the modifying stages...









The white estate: My first ever focus! I'd scrimped and scraped the money together for that car, i broke all the golden rules, i bought it on the strength of a picture,picked it up on a rainy day, (in the dark!)no history, no guarantee, no comebacks for the seller... It was an ex fleet car, and dubious to say the least as it had aircon AND a sunroof! (i suspected a re-shell) My missus found the fully stamped up service book wedged behind the dashboard (i guess it feel out of the glovebox at some stage?), and a call to ford confirmed that the car was one of a fleet of 50 cars, which was specced from the factory with aircon AND a sunroof

It was a 1999 1.8LX TDDI with 80k on the clock, (5 years old then) i put another staggering 206,000 miles on it, and i sold it for £500 less than i'd paid for it 5 years previously!

I had no major issues with the car except having to have a re-con gearbox fitted around the 230K mark. The bumper is from the grey 170 i had, as were the wheels, i only fitted them because i had nowhere to store the surplus parts from my ST170!

I remember spraying the bumper,handles,and bump strips under a tarpaulin in horrible rainy weather, it transformed the looks of the car,and it got many a look from other 170 drivers when they saw the front of what looked like to them a white ST170!

Thanks all for your kind comments!

Hi Sorry Ed, i don't think i explained properly... My most recent purchase is a 2005 Mk2 estate, i'm hoping i can turn it into an ST2 lookalike...But an estate obviously.

I've no pics of it as yet, (it's standard, so i've no inspiration to take a pic) But you can see the rear of the sea grey car in one of the above pics of the red estate. I've been amassing parts for the upcoming mods over the past few months, (even though i only got the car a few weeks ago), One of the smoked headlamps arrived today, and i've just bought another smoked lamp. Buying the car skint me, so i can't start modding it till i've shifted the red estate If my boss DOES buy the car next week, i'll start modding it next weekend.

With a bit of luck i'll have it ready for ford fair.

(that's if i can ever lay me hands on a rear spoiler for the car, and a set of lowering springs... )

I've just had a play on photobucket, hopefully i can get the car to look a bit like this...

LOL, sorry, I misunderstood.

A MK2 eSTate would look cool, good luck with it.

(My Mk1 has Air Con and Sunroof too )

all the best with your project
i turned my titanium 3 door into a ST replica

eSTate!... Nice one Ed, you've just solved my dillema with the badging!

Sunroof AND aircon's gotta be pretty rare, i never saw another MK1foc' with both...

Hi Dazzer, the biggest problem will be the rear bumper i reckon... An ST rear bumper is pretty much a bolt on affair with your car, plenty could go wrong with the fusion of estate bumper, and ST bumper though...

Did you have any issues/pitfalls with the ST transformation on your motor?

I popped into my local ford dealership this monday just gone (Gordan's of Wigan), i ordered the odd's and end's that i needed to complete the transformation, (a foglight surround,rear foglight surrounds and trims,a RHD reverse lamp,LHD reverse lamp, a LHD O/S rear light cluster,and....a rear spoiler! )

The guy at the parts counter said some of the gear would have to come from Germany, so i expected a delay.... The very morning after i got a call from them to say that ALL the items were ready for me to pick up! How does that work? They come from Germany within 24 hours? Not that i'm complaining of course, but i did pull away from ford, and pulled over at the first opportunity to check they had ordered me the correct bits!

All i've gotta do now is sell my red estate to free up the funds for the bodyshop!

A mate of mine does the interior trimming at the Bentley factory, he's top notch, and said that if i can get my hands on some front ST seats with blown airbags, he can re-trim them in the original "carbon" centre cloth, with black leather bolsters... Does anybody know where i can get hold of some damaged front seats? It seems a shame to dessimate a pair of mint ST seats really, i'd like to get hold of some that are ready for the scrapheap really, then get em minted up. (oh, and get them heated)

I'm getting good at this, my friend had a mk2 diesel and transformed it into an ST, due to my expert naming skills his became a Focus STD lol, I truly am a genius.

I thought i may as well post some piccies of my car while it's still standard, i'll re-post the pics when it's eventually ST'd!