Double Posting: Interesting Finding on the FiST...

"Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips) 08/19/2017 at 23:08 • Filed to: None

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At C&C this morning, I parked next to my friend’s FiST and noticed something I hadn’t really noticed before. Well, let me preface this, I had noticed it, but hadn’t really put a lot of thought in it. I noticed that my car looked lower. After making sure it wasn’t the parking angle, we agreed that next time we saw each other, he would bring a tape measurer. It just so happened that we went to another meet tonight, and he brought one. On top of him bringing one:

Five test subjects were at my disposal. So I went to town measuring all of them.

THE VERDICT: For whatever reason, my car is half an inch lower than all of them.

So did the dealer that originally had the car install lowering springs?

bob and john > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:13

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Different and more plausible theory. You live down a rough road right? Maybe your driving down the road all the time settled the springs more then the other duty cycles

bob and john > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:15

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Different and more plausible theory. You live down a rough road right? Maybe your driving down the road all the time settled the springs more then the other duty cycles

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > bob and john 08/19/2017 at 23:20

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It’s no lower than when I lived on a paved road/driveway. It’s always had almost no wheel gap.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:25

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Double posting on the FiST yet didn’t bother titling post “Double FiSTing”

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > bob and john 08/19/2017 at 23:25

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New:

A Few Weeks Ago:

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 08/19/2017 at 23:27

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First post wasn’t about the FiST.

03mach1 - Now has a Fiesta ST > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:28

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Well I don’t know about that but your friend has good taste with his color and wheel choice!

Mine for some reason came with the Ford Performance carbon fiber shift knob. I guess the dealer decided to install the 90 dollar shift knob only to lose that 90 after the sale.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:28

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They dont need to know that.

Bytemite > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/19/2017 at 23:49

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Your shocks might be worn or squeaked by quality and tolerance control?

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Bytemite 08/20/2017 at 07:36

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It handles like other FiSTs, and there is no extra body roll. And again, it hasn’t dropped any since new.

Bytemite > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 08/20/2017 at 15:02

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Hmm were the other FiSTs from the same year? Model years may have changed valving slightly or (are these Bilsteins?) your batch of shocks were slightly different. But really, it’s not a bad thing. Much better than the other way around if your car came from factory with a huge wheelgap compared to others.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Bytemite 08/20/2017 at 15:07

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All 2016.