slammed and boosted focus sedan

[StatusRacing]

Really nice focus

May be a dumb question but do you have to have front plates in America?

California, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and a few others require it. I'd say it's like 50% states that do require it. Sucks for them! Here in Arizona we don't have to have a front plate



OP: Your car looks great! I'm liking Focuses more and more.

[lowST]

thanks for the good words everyone! ill post pics of the engine bay and my gauge install once the gauges are done.

Lovely focus mate! Is that America's ST or did you do an engine swop? The European ST is a 2.5 turbo with 225bhp stock, what was your standard output?

I don't understand why Ford didn't release the same Focus everywhere.

yea ford was stupid with that.

i have a 2.3 duratec non turbo stock, but after the Garrett GT28r, its putting down ~250whp @11psi. as far as bhp goes, you can figure about 3/4 actually makes it to the wheels, so maybe somewhere around 320 or so bhp. so the turbo produced about a 170 bhp gain?

again all these numbers im throwing at you are educated guesses, i have no way of measuring bhp.

I dig the focuses I've been seeing and this is my favorite. Where in wisconsin are you at?

milwaukee! are you in wisco too?

Really nice focus

May be a dumb question but do you have to have front plates in America?

in my state, yes. it sucks. in most states they aren't required, however.

-gabe

[lyonsroar]

Lovely focus mate! Is that America's ST or did you do an engine swop? The European ST is a 2.5 turbo with 225bhp stock, what was your standard output?

I don't understand why Ford didn't release the same Focus everywhere.

Not a euro swap. It has this:

Ford introduced the ST variant of the ZX4 for 2005–2007, with a 2.3 litre, 151 hp (113 kW) (154 ft·lbf (209 N·m)

Really nice focus

May be a dumb question but do you have to have front plates in America?

It depends on the state. Some states require front plates and some do not.

[groundupjetta]

This is one of the few times when I liked a focus, nice job

[am4nf]

Love the look of focus sedans, shame they didnt do any decent versions of it over here

[KürBFèéleR]

Love slammed an boosted foci, this one stole my heart with the schmidts though.very cool car.

[KattyP]

Really nice focus

May be a dumb question but do you have to have front plates in America?

[DWIRich]

Looks and sounds amazing mate, keep it up.

[PanzerPassat]

I dig the focuses I've been seeing and this is my favorite. Where in wisconsin are you at?

[Curly08]

Lovely focus mate! Is that America's ST or did you do an engine swop? The European ST is a 2.5 turbo with 225bhp stock, what was your standard output?

I don't understand why Ford didn't release the same Focus everywhere.

[jester4666]

looks good

[MIGS]

Modernlines were a good choice.

car's clean.....

[fuhfuh.Focus]

Looks great Gabe! Car sounds awesome.

[lowST]

hey guys

here's my 2006 zx4 ST focus.

its got a 2.3 duratec, recently installed a stage 2 turbo kit with a garrett gt28r. only a t25 but im putting down around 250whp @11psi on 93 octane, and in a car thats only 2600lbs, it definatly scoots.

the focus is in winter mode right now, hence the god awful plasti-dipped black stock wheels.







video of the boostage:

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heres a picture or two of how she sat at Wekfest Chicago with the Schmidt Modernlines on.

16x7.5 front, 16x9 rear, et35 with 195/40s and 215/40s.






-gabe