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striped
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sydney
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so besides the CAI and the cat back exhausts ive seen/heard about, has anyone else done anything else to the motor?
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Candy White GTI
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Not here in australia that we really know about.
Trust me, cat back and cai if done correctly can make a pretty big difference in every way, economy and power when you need it. Next performance mod for me is custom made extractors with a HPC coating, which will set me back about 600 bucks. There arnt many things you can do apart from ful exhaust, cai, spark plugs and leads and a new chip. Other than that things start getting pretty expensive. Im led to believe that you can get a new intake manifold (which replaces the plastic runners) from the uk which will give about a 5-8 kw gain. Fueling shouldnt need to be touched with minor mods i dont think. So there are your options. hope it helps a little
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I would like to hear more about this intake manifold. How much and where?
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striped
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sydney
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so basically nothing
cai and cat back, imo, are mild to basic mods i want something a bit more substancial ;) |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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You will find alot more things are avaible in the Uk and europe. There is even a company in South Africa that is devloping a turbo kit that is suppose to give 250hp. For gearboxes I would be looking at the UK, you can get an uprated gearbox with Quaife LSD for somehting like 1200pounds. Suspension can get done rather easily as a custom job.
If you don't want to deal with people overseas your gonna be looking at custom jobs. If you go FI I would go for a supercharger, with the exhuast manifold being located in the back your gonna run into problems with space and intake. NA is another route and a few people in the UK have developed individual throttles. Or ofcourse you can always dump in a cosworth with AWD and go crazy.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Candy White GTI
Join Date: Jan 2005
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fiesta has enough to stay even with a vtec civic through the pacific highway, found that out the other night...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Sthn NSW
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Ahhh yes, this sounda familiar. Im in the same boat (sort of), finding it very difficult to do anything substantial to the Focus that isnt your basic stuff.
Welcome to the joys of owning a European car.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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If you want bang for bucks it will be very hard to beat moddifing a car (if kits are used). If you are willing to go work yourself you instanlty save yourself a great deal of money. With 15g doing work yourself you could be running a turbo, LSD and serious suspension mods. I would be very hard for a car to beat that for 35g.
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striped
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sydney
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hell you dont even need that much
the old charade i had was just running a "mild" cam, with koni's and kings, and road slicks, yet good enough to keep up with pretty much everyone thru the twisties all in all, about 3k spent ;) |
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Regular Member
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 307
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i wanna see first !! so dicey playing with the cars warranty, i can see them me voiding it if i stick a sticker on it lol !!
wish we got the ST focus/fiesta in Aus !! (new ones) now that would be sweet lol tweak the out of the turbo !! |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Victoria
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im having trouble grasping some things (lol im a car newb :p)
catback and performance? a friend of mine got quoted 2g to fix up his cannon and i hear from tim his one costs about 200$ whats the diff? if its for perf or note it still has a min. kw again? oh and is the a cai kit? or is it all custom made? |
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