Hm, our '04 Focus Wagon is both quiet and peppy. Sounds like something's wrong with your co. car. If I had to do a conversion I'd defintely be considering the Bostig/Zetec. It's a fairly pricey kit but looks very well engineered and seems to include pretty much everything. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA> writes: > Yeah... almost Friday. > > My company car is a 2003 Ford Focus... what a piece of smeg > engine... makes lots of noise when you step on it and when you > wiiiiiiind it out to the top end of the rev range there is a hint of > decent power then and then red line and you have to shift. This is > not the engine I would want to put into a 2500kg westfalia and hope > to get anywhere faster than what it could do with a stock engine. |
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