Steve@Tasca
Active Member
So, picked this up last year. It's a 2000 Focus with an Aerocharger Stage3 turbo kit. It was one of the first if not the first full kit made for these cars and in doing a little looking around it's very possible that this is the oldest and longest continuously boosted Focus in North America as this kit has been in the car since 2002.
Really neat car actually, full european body kit, the turbo obviously, lowered, Quaife diff, Hella HIDs and other goodies I'm sure I'm forgetting.
The Aerocharger is a small variable vane turbo, in this car at 9psi it bumps it from 130hp and 120lb.ft. at the crank to 195hp and 215lb.ft. at the wheels which isn't a lot but in this little car it's a whole lot of fun.
Here it is as we got it.
We've been wrenching and cleaning and tweaking since we got it, sent the hood to a friend over the winter and he worked his magic on it.
His and mine together,
Car came with a spare turbo but neither one seemed to be working right so I sent one to get it rebuilt, got it back and installed it and due to a misrouted boost line it spiked to 15 psi which is absolutely above the stock engines limits, after fixing the boost line it was making the 9psi it was supposed to but the damage was done and it snapped two rods the next day.
The rebuilt turbo,
The ensuing carnage,
Yanked it the blown up junk and installed a 111k mile salvage yard Zetec in the garage over the last week and just got it running on Sunday.
Putting the boy to work,
Workbench was a disaster when we got done,
Anyways, the salvage yard engine fired right up and runs smooth and quiet. Turbo makes the 9psi it should so this thing should stay together for a while now. Eventually we want to get a set of forged rods and pistons so we can up the boost. The turbo is capable of 20psi so it's got a lot of room to grow.
Really neat car actually, full european body kit, the turbo obviously, lowered, Quaife diff, Hella HIDs and other goodies I'm sure I'm forgetting.
The Aerocharger is a small variable vane turbo, in this car at 9psi it bumps it from 130hp and 120lb.ft. at the crank to 195hp and 215lb.ft. at the wheels which isn't a lot but in this little car it's a whole lot of fun.
Here it is as we got it.
We've been wrenching and cleaning and tweaking since we got it, sent the hood to a friend over the winter and he worked his magic on it.
His and mine together,
Car came with a spare turbo but neither one seemed to be working right so I sent one to get it rebuilt, got it back and installed it and due to a misrouted boost line it spiked to 15 psi which is absolutely above the stock engines limits, after fixing the boost line it was making the 9psi it was supposed to but the damage was done and it snapped two rods the next day.
The rebuilt turbo,
The ensuing carnage,
Yanked it the blown up junk and installed a 111k mile salvage yard Zetec in the garage over the last week and just got it running on Sunday.
Putting the boy to work,
Workbench was a disaster when we got done,
Anyways, the salvage yard engine fired right up and runs smooth and quiet. Turbo makes the 9psi it should so this thing should stay together for a while now. Eventually we want to get a set of forged rods and pistons so we can up the boost. The turbo is capable of 20psi so it's got a lot of room to grow.
