Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:49:42 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Ayers <ayers@KRAUSONLINE.COM>
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From: Michael Ayers <ayers@KRAUSONLINE.COM>
Subject: Re: Bostig Zetec kit...WOW...
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We have a 2000 Focus ZTS that we bought new and have provided with
reasonably good maintenance over the years. The engine currently has over
196,000 miles and is still running great.
Mike Ayers
'88 Westy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bostig Eng" <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Bostig Zetec kit...WOW...
> Actually I forgot this came up. If you can find the guys who's daughter
> blew
> the head gasket, I bet you $100 that is was a SOHC SPI ford 2.0L engine.
> Not
> only do they blow head gaskets, but I swapped an engine for a customer
> with
> an 01 SOHC focus engine where the cylinder blew a chunk of itself into the
> coolant passage.. it was about a 1 square inch blow!! They are also
> interference engines, and have only ONE redeeming feature which is their
> variable runner length intake system.. but the longblocks themselves are
> junk compared to the zetec.
>
> The only other two times I've see a cylinder wall blow into a coolant
> passage they were both subie 2.5s(this along with the timing
> belt/waterpump
> process, oil pump clearancing, and lifter shimming process, and parts
> prices
> were things that dissuaded us from going the subie route and looking for
> an
> alternative to begin with).
>
> Jim
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AATransaxle [mailto:daryl@AATRANSAXLE.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:18 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Bostig Zetec kit...WOW...
>
> My son was a ford tech at a dealer recently and he or another tech he now
> works with have never seen a Focus blow a head gasket...at least never
> through 2 different delers...thts gotta say something..Daryl
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Stewart" <fonman4277@EARTHLINK.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Bostig Zetec kit...WOW...
>
>
>> For a lot of people the clearance would be OK, but I'm certain I
>> wouldn't be comfortable with it. Here are my pics:
>>
>>
>> Well, for one thing, it was sitting in tall grass on mushy ground, thanks
>> to all the DAMN rain we got for JBB. I think that added to the perception
>> that it was hanging very low. Of more concern to me was the fact that one
>> of the attendees at JBB said this is the same engine that is in his
>> daughter's Ford Focus-and it blew a head gasket at 60K miles. The
>> conversion looked very good, and it's one of the ones I'm considering for
>> my '84. Jeff
>>
>
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