BITCH ASS: A Build of Average Proportions and Modest Income

[cobrawannabe]

I bought a DD to save the Focus from winters and daily use.

Meet Rose.


1980 Volvo 242
-279,000 miles on both shell and drivetrain
-Complete drivetrain, suspension, brake, suspension, and electrical system swap from a '91 244.
-Cut springs

I am already in love with the car, and am shocked at how well the cut springs ride. I will of course be correcting the suspension, as well as adding widened 15" steelies and some other crap while I DD the car. Once I've got some cash saved for a newer DD, this car will be torn down for a relatively major, but not unattainable build-up/restoration.

[cobrawannabe]

Made more progress in the aim of cleaning her up and getting ready for racing. Looks like my first event in the Focus for the year will be July 18.

Before/After with sideskirts


Rear 3/4 view looks good


For good measure


All kinds of clearance...


Inspecting the oil pan after it was cracked on Monday.


While replacing the oil pan today, I decided to clean up the baffles in the new one, which was out of a car with 80K on it. I decided upon further inspection to not bother, and use the baffles which came out of my pan. This is a comparison between the ones from the other car, which ran conventional oil on regular change intervals until its demise at approx. 80,000 miles; and my car, which has run Mobil-1 changed every 7500 miles since the day I bought it. My car has 154,000 miles on it, and its baffles are at the bottom of the picture. I wish I had gotten a picture of the pans together, the difference was astounding. Once the oil had been wiped out of it with a clean rag, my original pan looked like it had never even been installed on a car on the inside. The "new" pan had to have a thin film of sludge cleaned off of nearly every surface, with as much as 1/8" of buildup in common areas. Absolutely incredible.


Rachel's old intake on my car.



Waiting to be installed:
- SCT XCal 3 with tune
- Redline Tuning hood strut
- F2 header (I wish it were an FSWerks piece, but I got a good deal)


Current mod list, since I decided to compile one in the hopes that I could make myself cry...

Interior:
- SVT pedals
- Redline Goods shifter boot
- Redline Goods e-brake boot
- MY 2000 center console (sans armrest) painted black with silver shifter surround
- Suede-flocked door pull surrounds
- Suede-flocked gauge surround
- Steeda STS modified to work with factory boot ring

Exterior:
- FocusSport lip
- MY 2000 ZX3 sideskirts
- Satin silver headlight housings with amber turn signal chambers
- Clear corner markers with lenses painted to eliminate white stripe
- Satin black rear bumper louvers
- Tinted taillights
- LED plate bulbs
- PIAA yellow foglight bulbs
- Hella 500 Series Black Magic driving lights with custom mounts (not currently on the car)
- Hella Super Tone horns with custom mount
-SVT degas cover

Engine:
- FSWerks Intake with Filterwears pre-filter and ITG filter
- Ported throttle body
- Central Florida Motorsports balance shaft delete
- Self-made 2.5" 304-SS flex-back exhaust

Suspension:
- H&R coilovers
- FSWerks 60mm ID front spring conversion
- FSWerks "Race" camber plates
- Swift Springs 180mm x 560 lb/in front springs
- Self-made (currently removed) adjustable front sway bar endlinks
- Prothane front control arm bushings
- MOOG ball joints
- Alex the Machinist steering rack bushings
- Vorschlag 60mm ID rear spring perches
- H&R 10mm x 674 lbs/in rear springs
- Prothane LCA bushings
- "Cam bolt" delete with Class 10.9 hardware
- SPC camber arms with Prothane bushings
- Steeda toe arms
- Prothane trailing arm bushings
- Self-made rear endlinks with Energy Suspension bushings and stainless hardware
- Prothane rear sway bar bushings
- ARP extended studs
- ARE by Napre wheels, 16x7 et25
- Falken Azenis RT-615, 205/40-16

Brakes:
- 300mm front conversion
- EBC dimpled/slotted front rotors
- HAWK HPS pads

[cobrawannabe]

this thing is sweet and the title gives me a good chuckle every time I see it lol

keep it up man

Thanks! There's a lot of love put into "this old Focus".

[Sprinqer]

this thing is sweet and the title gives me a good chuckle every time I see it lol

keep it up man

[cobrawannabe]

Actually an IS300


But anyways this is so sweet dude!

Hahaha, nobody's ever made that connection before, but I see what you're saying!

Thanks for the kind words, I'm very pleased with how she is progressing.

By far the best focus i ever seen

Thank you so much

[Motoman325]

By far the best focus i ever seen

[cosmo135]

Actually an IS300


But anyways this is so sweet dude!

[cobrawannabe]

Glad to see that you're still alive and care about us here.

[rice4life]

Glad to see that you're still alive and care about us here.

[cobrawannabe]

Yayyyyyyyyy!

You completely miss everything I post on FB and IG, and immediately respond to the only post I've made on S|W in over 6 months. Let the scenepoints flow through you, Ben. Feel yourself becoming the scenepoints, Ben.


EMBRACE THE SCENEPOINTS, BEN.



BLAST PIPES, BEN.









<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[rightfullrudder]

Yayyyyyyyyy!

[cobrawannabe]

Estelle's new look was revealed during my attendance of Focus Rising / Carlisle Ford Nationals this past weekend...


Pictures from this weekend:

Washing her Thursday morning.


Finally fueling up and underway.


My two girls at McNews Automotive on Friday


My edit of Rob's "Miracle Shot" on Friday. Taken blindly from the backseat of Jordan's car.


Parked with Dave on the showfield Sunday morning.


Jordan Willis thinks I'm a ricer because I don't have center caps. He also takes a mean photo!


The hardware:

FR15 Best Stance
Carlisle Events Second in Class


Hitting Sheetz with Rachel before lunch on Sunday.


Dat ace


Dat whole ace


Ready to head home with the Trailer Queen.


I love this car


Also dat ace


Time to start getting ready for the track night at Thompson!

[cobrawannabe]

Wheels look gooood, good luck in the snow

Thank you! I will be racing it in a wintercross event at Lime Rock Park next month, so watch for some pictures and possibly footage of this little beasty really at work in the snow!

I just don't understand....

- It's 2015
- You still don't have blast pipes

Ben, I still don't understand...

-It's 2015.
-You ass is constantly full of dicks.

[rightfullrudder]

I just don't understand....

- It's 2015
- You still don't have blast pipes

[d0wse]

Wheels look gooood, good luck in the snow