Minnesota Focus Owners Club

keep it simple. good pistons, good head work, good tune, a little boost . you had no problem pullin on biger cars with out the spray. plus the factory tune sees the bottle as a over strain. get kits that work off of one another.. ie cams that are supercharger friendly, 10-12 psi of boost seems to the norm. you could go all fancy and get fuel coolers and methenol injection for a charger plus inter cooling, can spray the case of the jackson blower( it cools the case and injects nitros into the blower) , you can go with the blitz compressor and have boost that acts like spray. i personaly would go with boost of some sort, cams and head work to help your boost, since you have the spray id work that into cooling the boosted air some how, if you keep the stock rotating assem, i would highly think about using the methenol injection for the pistons. it helps them last longer on a high boost lean fuel sittuation.

option 4? V8 swap

zurno wrote: option 4? V8 swap

good luck!!!!!!!!! i did the math and the cheapest i could/would do it was about 26,000 bucks!!!!

focinite wrote:

zurno wrote:option 4? V8 swap

good luck!!!!!!!!! i did the math and the cheapest i could/would do it was about 26,000 bucks!!!!

I cold do it under 10.

option 5 - buy an sti on carsoup for $22,000 with 40,000 miles on it ... hmmmmmmm.

Option 6, find a tbird sc motor, complete with intercooler/ecu/harness, put T5 behind it, bolt in mn12 IRS, run 3.27 for gears, and, be content with 220hp/315tq.

it looks like all the guys on focaljet think the JRSC sounds good.

Pitch Black wrote: it looks like all the guys on focaljet think the JRSC sounds good.

Yea. One of the finance guys at my work has one sitting in his garage. He used to have a couple blown foci, a few years back. His is a bare non-bbk jrsc. He said he wants $1500, which is way to high, for what they go for these days (he has no idea since he's been out of the game and doesn't know powerworks made JRSC prices dive). I told him to bring it in for me to look at. It's got 2k mi. on it. Worth what, maybe $800-$1000?

sc0tty8 wrote:

focinite wrote:

zurno wrote:option 4? V8 swap

good luck!!!!!!!!! i did the math and the cheapest i could/would do it was about 26,000 bucks!!!!

I cold do it under 10.

with good heads and fuel injection, good intake, stout t5, bigger brakes, coil over/upgraded suspintion? yeah you can get it running and driving for under 10 gs but shit i wanna do it once and play wiff it, not build it then figure it needs better brakes and suchly. i priced out a explorer set up( motor) with a AA drive line built t5( my buddie works there) with trick flow heads, trick flow intake, electric water pump, adjustable fuel regulator, ripper shifter, spax front coilovers, tubeular front control arms, koni coil overs (rear) caltrac style adjustable rear arms, a fox body 8.8 wit lsd and girdled cover, i would make the stainless tank to house a cobra fuel pump, and a painles wire harness. so yeah i said could/would do it. do it right the first time , so when you sell it you get more money

Pappy wrote:

Pitch Black wrote:it looks like all the guys on focaljet think the JRSC sounds good.

Yea. One of the finance guys at my work has one sitting in his garage. He used to have a couple blown foci, a few years back. His is a bare non-bbk jrsc. He said he wants $1500, which is way to high, for what they go for these days (he has no idea since he's been out of the game and doesn't know powerworks made JRSC prices dive). I told him to bring it in for me to look at. It's got 2k mi. on it. Worth what, maybe $800-$1000?

1500$ isn't that bad if it has only 2k miles on it, especially if its the full kit.

I say hit it. Buy your own injectos and a new pulley for it, have someone with a brain stem install the new pulley so you don't fuck up the snout.

The guy I am getting my head from hit 205whp with the head I will have here shortly on a JRSC. The kit can support 200whp, its other supporting mods that make or break the deal. You should be able to keep your cams, look into a ported head and for christ sakes, upgrade the valve train especially after you put that blower on.

focinite wrote:

sc0tty8 wrote:

focinite wrote: good luck!!!!!!!!! i did the math and the cheapest i could/would do it was about 26,000 bucks!!!!

I cold do it under 10.

with good heads and fuel injection, good intake, stout t5, bigger brakes, coil over/upgraded suspintion? yeah you can get it running and driving for under 10 gs but shit i wanna do it once and play wiff it, not build it then figure it needs better brakes and suchly. i priced out a explorer set up( motor) with a AA drive line built t5( my buddie works there) with trick flow heads, trick flow intake, electric water pump, adjustable fuel regulator, ripper shifter, spax front coilovers, tubeular front control arms, koni coil overs (rear) caltrac style adjustable rear arms, a fox body 8.8 wit lsd and girdled cover, i would make the stainless tank to house a cobra fuel pump, and a painles wire harness. so yeah i said could/would do it. do it right the first time , so when you sell it you get more money

26k would build a full race car, if you wanted it to happen, and, happen for less, it could happen. If I play my next hand of cards here I should have a 302 and a ford 9" in my garage by august

go mild built 302, carb, tko t5 from bone yard, stang rear end, a few new suspension bits, brakes, and, the kit, should be under 10k easy. You don't need 1800$ alum heads to make big power. You can make very nice power with a mild cam and ported e7's or even gt-40/gt-40p's, all cast iron. Ported e7's alone on a motor in good shape should net you nearly 50whp and 40tq.

You wanna start talking efi? 94-95 mustang gt ecu/harness, you get maf and, a lot of options to tune, very flexible.

And, for fucks sake would you want a cobra fuel pump? Do you know what the cobra/home brew guys are using for fuel pumps? SVT focus pumps....

I plan to keep the headwork. BBK a good tune. On the jet they seem to think 220whp is feasible

WOOOO HOOOOO

What head work?

sc0tty8 wrote:

focinite wrote:

sc0tty8 wrote:

I cold do it under 10.

with good heads and fuel injection, good intake, stout t5, bigger brakes, coil over/upgraded suspintion? yeah you can get it running and driving for under 10 gs but shit i wanna do it once and play wiff it, not build it then figure it needs better brakes and suchly. i priced out a explorer set up( motor) with a AA drive line built t5( my buddie works there) with trick flow heads, trick flow intake, electric water pump, adjustable fuel regulator, ripper shifter, spax front coilovers, tubeular front control arms, koni coil overs (rear) caltrac style adjustable rear arms, a fox body 8.8 wit lsd and girdled cover, i would make the stainless tank to house a cobra fuel pump, and a painles wire harness. so yeah i said could/would do it. do it right the first time , so when you sell it you get more money

26k would build a full race car, if you wanted it to happen, and, happen for less, it could happen. If I play my next hand of cards here I should have a 302 and a ford 9" in my garage by august

go mild built 302, carb, tko t5 from bone yard, stang rear end, a few new suspension bits, brakes, and, the kit, should be under 10k easy. You don't need 1800$ alum heads to make big power. You can make very nice power with a mild cam and ported e7's or even gt-40/gt-40p's, all cast iron. Ported e7's alone on a motor in good shape should net you nearly 50whp and 40tq.

You wanna start talking efi? 94-95 mustang gt ecu/harness, you get maf and, a lot of options to tune, very flexible.

And, for fucks sake would you want a cobra fuel pump? Do you know what the cobra/home brew guys are using for fuel pumps? SVT focus pumps....