A Focus that most will **** anyways

[NorCalFocus]

If you put your wifes wheels on your car leave them blue or at least dont paint them white.i think it will just be a little too much...just my 2 cents...i like where this is heading.i miss my old zx3, super fun cars

Everyone has told me to leave them blue. I've set them against my car and they look good. I'm just leaning white to keep it cleaner.

You car has that early-2000's grey-scale appearance, I think a crazy wheel color would set it of in the right direction. Overall, damn clean and simple. I'm noticing more Foci come out of the woodwork lately, and they're doing it proper. Keep it up.

Thanks man. Those of us on SW are stepping up the Foci game and thats what this hobby is about.

I can really respect your engine bay work and everything, really awesome. That first hood, I was like "yeah that's alright, I can deal with that" but the cf hood...I despise it. Focus more on getting it low and less on the (don't wanna be the one to say it, but) ricey parts. It'll look good on those other wheels with some spacers and low!

Trust me these wheels won't need spacers. Maybe 5mm up front. The CF hood has some history to it. I got it from a friend for trade of work. I would much rather have a OEM CF hood, but I do like this one. I think the SVT front bumper will also fit this hood better.

I think quite the opposite. It appears to me that he's focusing on DE-ricing the car, which I'm all for. The painted interior pieces were worse than the hood, honestly. Regardless, I like it. Simply executed.

Yes the white interior pieces sucked ass. They looked great in 2007 when I first did them, but its time to move on. My car has been on a de-rice mode for about two years now.

I don't know if this has been mentioned but MOAR LOW.

I lacks the lows, I know I got a few parts coming up for sale that should help fund the lows. I'm the only source of income in my houseold, so I try to fund my car through trades and selling parts.

Cool looking Focus dude. Really like it. The sedan's aren't really as popular over here in the UK as they are in the states. Shame really as they can look awesome

Saloon's you mean Yeah modded sedans aren't super popular over here either. Thats why I like it.



Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.

[JonD]

Cool looking Focus dude. Really like it. The sedan's aren't really as popular over here in the UK as they are in the states. Shame really as they can look awesome

[miracLe]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but MOAR LOW.

[Daviticus]

I think quite the opposite. It appears to me that he's focusing on DE-ricing the car, which I'm all for. The painted interior pieces were worse than the hood, honestly. Regardless, I like it. Simply executed.

[w201e34]

I can really respect your engine bay work and everything, really awesome. That first hood, I was like "yeah that's alright, I can deal with that" but the cf hood...I despise it. Focus more on getting it low and less on the (don't wanna be the one to say it, but) ricey parts. It'll look good on those other wheels with some spacers and low!

[Daviticus]

You car has that early-2000's grey-scale appearance, I think a crazy wheel color would set it of in the right direction. Overall, damn clean and simple. I'm noticing more Foci come out of the woodwork lately, and they're doing it proper. Keep it up.

[KürBFèéleR]

If you put your wifes wheels on your car leave them blue or at least dont paint them white.i think it will just be a little too much...just my 2 cents...i like where this is heading.i miss my old zx3, super fun cars

[HooWybrow]

I dig this.

[NorCalFocus]

I think the whole car will look a lot better if you ditch the hood... Not sure if you mentioned that and I missed it.

Its not going anywhere. I love it. I always wanted one and it goes well with the CF trunk I know its not the style thats really in any more but eff it.

howd you separate the lights to get the chrome piece out? i'd like to do something like that with my focus' head lights..

Baked the lights in my oven. Bake em at 225* for about ten minutes then pry em apart. Then the chrome part unscrews and comes out.

[manbeard]

howd you separate the lights to get the chrome piece out? i'd like to do something like that with my focus' head lights..

[Jersh]

I think the whole car will look a lot better if you ditch the hood... Not sure if you mentioned that and I missed it.

[NorCalFocus]

Its that time of the year again. Time to get some more projects out of the way.

What I got coming up/going on....

Repairing and shaving a SVT bumper
euro fender markers because I'm shaving out the bumper ones
fog turns installed in the SVT bumper
Install a SVT sub/box/amp
Build new carpet side pannels for trunk
new trunk floor
custom SRI intake
Battery relocation
tuck more wires
paint transmission
take my wifes wheels
save for coils


Here's some of the welding I got done






And the front side ready to be filled and smoothed. I need to pick up some filler.





These are my wife's wheels (on her car)....



18x7.5" et37 215/35 They'll go on my car blue, but I want to paint them white to match my car. One of the tires blew out last month so I'm waiting on my buddy to get me the hook up. He works at a tire shop.

I'll get some more pictures this weekend. I got the sub installed and need to start working on the trunk.

[xAHx]

Nice Focus! I always thought that if done right they could look sick.

[NorCalFocus]

So a little update. Still no moar lows or wheels as my wife and I are trying to buy a house right now. But I was able to pick up a few things to help the overall build move along. I got some new carpet for the inside finally. After 10 years of DD and kids it was pretty well shot. I also got black which is much nicer than the grey I had before. I also picked up a CF hood in trade for some painting on a friends car. It needed to be recleared and I did that. Then driving from NorCal to SoCal last weekend I put tape on the hood and the clear got effed. So it needs to be redone one more time.


100_0835 by norcalfocus@rocketmail.com, on Flickr

Also the SVT bumper has not been started yet but will be soon.


100_0834 by norcalfocus@rocketmail.com, on Flickr

And here's one of my engine bay for now. I'm picking up a new battery tray to relocate it into the fender well soon too.


100_0781 by norcalfocus@rocketmail.com, on Flickr

[NorCalFocus]

Any plans to get the SVT front bumper?

I have one sitting in my garage as I type this. It has two cracks that need to be fixed and then painted. I hope to have that done by the middle of August.

only thing that bugs me on the car is behind the front grill seeing that white on the radiator support behind the grill... besides that, you know i dig the car, some nice wheels will be nice.

I need to remake some custom covers that go from the grill to rad support. That will help hide the white back there. I already painted the nose of the rad support black.