V6 vs Focus
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RE: V6 vs Focus
ORIGINAL: jthorn9
"drives a stock svt focus" That's what the guy said. Why does the car have SVT on the side along with SVT written on the intake manifold on the engine if it wasn't designed and built by SVT.
"drives a stock svt focus" That's what the guy said. Why does the car have SVT on the side along with SVT written on the intake manifold on the engine if it wasn't designed and built by SVT.
How's that for an explanation?
Too bad Ford killed the SVT Focus, it was the only decent sport compact they had once they killed the ZX2.
As for the race... As Nan said, if your V6 is a 98 or earlier, you'll probably get toasted. SVT Focus's are mid to high 15s stock with the 6 speed.
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RE: V6 vs Focus
ORIGINAL: richmustang1880
my cars faster stock at 0-60 and 1/4 mi by almost a second according to factory specs i dont kno im going to race him tonite so ill get back and let u guys know
my cars faster stock at 0-60 and 1/4 mi by almost a second according to factory specs i dont kno im going to race him tonite so ill get back and let u guys know
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Hey guys, I was wondering. there's this stock SVT Focus 6 speed that wants to race me. Can I win?
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RE: V6 vs Focus
ORIGINAL: jthorn9
Well dude, unless your car is really well off in mods, he will own your ***. A guy I work with owns one of those and that thing is fairly fast, and it has no top speed limitator and he hit 135 with the car and it was still accellerating, but he was too scared to push it any furthur. Remember dude, this car was designed and built by SVT, you know that team that made the 394 hp SVT Corba, and the new 450hp Shelby Cobra. He may have a four, but he doesn't have cheap crap under the hood, that car is built for speed and only for speed.
Well dude, unless your car is really well off in mods, he will own your ***. A guy I work with owns one of those and that thing is fairly fast, and it has no top speed limitator and he hit 135 with the car and it was still accellerating, but he was too scared to push it any furthur. Remember dude, this car was designed and built by SVT, you know that team that made the 394 hp SVT Corba, and the new 450hp Shelby Cobra. He may have a four, but he doesn't have cheap crap under the hood, that car is built for speed and only for speed.
I don't know where you got that... The SVT Focus was not built for speed. It was given enough hp to make it a little more fun in the curves. It is built to handle, and it does it well.
Stock for stock a SVT Focus WILL easily beat a v6 Mustang. And remember, there is quite a aftermarket for the focus, as well as a few diffrent companies that produce blowers just for the svt, then your taking about 220 hp or so with a fairly low boost.
I hate people thinking of every focus as the SPI that most people are driving. There are quite a few diffrent engines for them.
2.0 SPI <--- about the most crappy engine ever put in a car.
2.0 Z <--- what quite a few of them are, and the SVT focus sports one of these, with diffrent headers intake exaust ext.
2.0 and 2.3 duratec <--- the 2.0 produces a little more than the 2.0 z, but the 2.3 is a hell of an engine. Quite a bit of ft/t and responds VERY well to mods. They posted a dyno of a 8-10 hp increase with just a cai on the focus forums, and sevral turbo and superchargers are in the works. This is also the engine used in the mazda's new lineups.
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RE: V6 vs Focus
Well I hate to burst you guys bubble, but these cars can and will kill a 99-04 stock V6 off the line and to the finish, remember even with the top speed limitator removed the V6 tops out at around 120 mph because the fuel injectors are too small to take on extra hp, chage those out and you could probably hit 130, but that's still under the SVT Foucu's top speed of around 145, like I said these things are built for speed, not like speed in a GT or V8 point of view, but in the 4 and 6 cylinder neighborhood they are well off.