johnnymk

The August issue of Motor Trend has a showdown between a 5.0 equipped Ford Focus and a Lamborghini. Their performances came pretty close.

The 5.0 conversion parts are available from Ford for nearly $15,000. Add another 200 hours and you have a $40K rocket, although I doubt there will be many takers, considering how homely the car is.

http://www.focaljet.com/allsite/content/rs8.html

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bachviet

It's not only about how fast the car but it's also about the styling.

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InfiniteNothing

Actually, the fastest focus I know of runs 11s. It has pretty much a stock engine that's been built up a bit. They also run in the 11s if you do the terminator V8 swap. I believe the turbo and the beefed up transmission for the 11s focus run 8K + drag radials. That's on the 2.0L engine. The 2.3 L engine is just starting to be tinkered with but it looks promising. Basically a 14 second car with bolt ons.



I really like the bold shapes of the focus. It's all very geometrical I get compliments all the time on the interior too.

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attgig

I think it's ugly....

but yeah...maybe I'm getting old or something, but for 40k, I'd rather just get a decent luxury car.

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DarkFury

And a NEW "Sho-gun" is born...

I wonder what the 0 - 60 times are on it? The Sho-gun was like 0-60 in 4.8 seconds with a Yamaha SHO V6 in it.

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look_ma

I think it is neat to see a project where they turned it from a front wheel drive 4 cylinder, to a rear wheel drive V8. You have to give them some credit fitting all that crap in there.

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InfiniteNothing

The RS8 or the ZX3 body in general? No point in arguing aesthetics but with the move towards the hatchbacks and wagons (I could name a bazillion). I think the slope in the back on the zx3s is great. The perfect compromise between backseat head room/trunk space and aerodynamics/curveyness. As for the RS in general, I guess it's sort of a niche car but I think it's awsome. The fender flares allowing for flush 18X8" rims. The front fasica, the euro headlights. Handling that will own a WRX. But I agree 40K for that RS8 is way too much. I'd rather have an elise at that point. Turboing a focus to 11s is a much better way to go. Upgrade the suspension and you'd have a really nice car for around 20K. Upgrade the interrior bring that to around 25k.

johnnymk

4.4 seconds

DarkFury

WOW...


That's fast.

InfiniteNothing

and that's with a good amount of slip

There's actually alot of people doing this. It's no coincidence the focus bay accommodates a V8 engine with no shoe horn and crash materials intact.

Apex

I like how they converted it to RWD. Definitely thumbs up to that.

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