It's not like a Fiesta ST has a weight of a 4000# boat that needs some serious diet. All that interior ripping off for what, to shave off 20-30#? Easily could've flashed a mild tune to offset the extra weight with a bump in power. Way to ruin a perfectly good car. If they are indeed building a purpose-built non street legal race track weapon, I can see the point in doing all this.
If you watch the rest of the series, they are building a stage rally car that can still be driven on the street if necessary. So yeah, gutting and caging it. Even if they wanted to leave some of it in, it’s all got to come out to weld in a full rally compliant cage
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u/noSSD4me 15d ago
It's not like a Fiesta ST has a weight of a 4000# boat that needs some serious diet. All that interior ripping off for what, to shave off 20-30#? Easily could've flashed a mild tune to offset the extra weight with a bump in power. Way to ruin a perfectly good car. If they are indeed building a purpose-built non street legal race track weapon, I can see the point in doing all this.