Minnesota Focus Owners Club

FORDSVTPARTS wrote:From what I understand Pappys was an untuned dry kit.

nuff said.

Purty Much!
You can only use a wet kit with these kind of cars.
Now I feel better hah.

Mine was wet.

oh =(

Yep,

Mine was not chip tuned, but it was fuel tuned. We worked with it quite a bit to find the proper fuel jetting. My car was rich and safe and it destroyed itself.

Have fun

Pappy wrote:Mine was wet.

Your what?

how many miles were on the car?
Did you find that the nitrous was the cause?

Motor had 30k when it popped. Nitrous was definately the cause, you should see the pictures I posted back when I was pulling the motor.

And you're on motor # what, 3 or 4 now?

From what I can remember, Nitrous has always meant an eventual tear down of the engine. Of course if the motor was built for it, it would last longer than a stock motor, barring any equipment/fueling/tuning failures for whatever reason.

Stilz wrote:And you're on motor # what, 3 or 4 now?

3

You also had those crazy aggressive cams, I wouldn't blame it all on the nitrous.

Pappy also ran it for quit some time before he popped it, and I still think the cams had a bit to do with it also.


And motors are cheap anyways, so I say spray til she pops.

If your really that concerned with blowing the motor don't do the nitrous.

And why even put nitrous on the car anyway?

I have a SVT that ran that funny gas.... I wouldn't recomed it.

It a spendy motor used even.

zurno wrote:I still blame the combination of things for the death of that motor. Aggressive cams + nitrous + lack of a proper tune.

I hear the car was fast as hell though with that setup.

agreed