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Originally posted by Matt CramerA new SVO would be pretty cool; the originals have a cult following. Two other things I'd like to see it dropped into from the factory are a Fiesta and a Ranger. Putting it in an Escape seems like such a waste.
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You would be way farther ahead to go to Europe and buy a used Focus RS. Basically a road ready factory rally car with AWD and a bitchin 8) turbocharged Cosworth engine. Reported 300 hp :o these cars are animals on the street too bad we didn't get them over here. Maybe that will change now with this set up :P
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Originally posted by Matt CramerA new SVO would be pretty cool; the originals have a cult following. Two other things I'd like to see it dropped into from the factory are a Fiesta and a Ranger. Putting it in an Escape seems like such a waste.I R Bob
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I totally agree with Brian Lohnes about the last generation SVT Focus (a/k/a ST170) (I still have one in my fleet and I drove it just today): Great handling (for a FWD) combined with nearly ZERO area under the torque curve.
I also was an original owner of an 1986 SVO Mustang back in the day. It was another decent handling car (although not as good as some later SVT Cobras) that was seriously hamstrung by inadequate power and insufficient development.
That being said, I'm totally underwhelmed that the tardy EcoBoost four will only pump out a piddly 230 h.p. A 16-valve DOHC head on the old 2.3 Pinto mill in the '80s SVO with no direct injection and no variable cam timing could have done that well (Sadly the conservative bean-counters in the Glass House never allowed mass production of a real cylinder head for the Lima four).
Chrysler's SRT-4 can beat 230 in emission-legal trim.
And "Government Motors" Ecotec turbo 4 slaughters Ford's new four-popper.
Given how much time FoMoCo has wasted in bringing turbo engines back to the market (a market it should NEVER have abandoned to the Japanese), there's no excuse for their comparative weakness.
And don't get me started on the lack of an EcoBoost V8 . . . .
EcoBoost is shaping up to be an ECOBUST!
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Originally posted by Speedzzter.blogspot"That being said, I'm totally underwhelmed that the tardy EcoBoost four will only pump out a piddly 230 h.p. A 16-valve DOHC head on the old 2.3 Pinto mill in the '80s SVO with no direct injection and no variable cam timing could have done that well (Sadly the conservative bean-counters in the Glass House never allowed mass production of a real cylinder head for the Lima four).
Chrysler's SRT-4 can beat 230 in emission-legal trim.
And "Government Motors" Ecotec turbo 4 slaughters Ford's new four-popper.
Given how much time FoMoCo has wasted in bringing turbo engines back to the market (a market it should NEVER have abandoned to the Japanese), there's no excuse for their comparative weakness.
Now the real question will be, was it built to take the abuse of additional boost...?
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Originally posted by Speedzzter.blogspotI totally agree with Brian Lohnes about the last generation SVT Focus (a/k/a ST170) (I still have one in my fleet and I drove it just today): Great handling (for a FWD) combined with nearly ZERO area under the torque curve.
I also was an original owner of an 1986 SVO Mustang back in the day. It was another decent handling car (although not as good as some later SVT Cobras) that was seriously hamstrung by inadequate power and insufficient development.
That being said, I'm totally underwhelmed that the tardy EcoBoost four will only pump out a piddly 230 h.p. A 16-valve DOHC head on the old 2.3 Pinto mill in the '80s SVO with no direct injection and no variable cam timing could have done that well (Sadly the conservative bean-counters in the Glass House never allowed mass production of a real cylinder head for the Lima four).
Chrysler's SRT-4 can beat 230 in emission-legal trim.
And "Government Motors" Ecotec turbo 4 slaughters Ford's new four-popper.
Given how much time FoMoCo has wasted in bringing turbo engines back to the market (a market it should NEVER have abandoned to the Japanese), there's no excuse for their comparative weakness.
And don't get me started on the lack of an EcoBoost V8 . . . .
EcoBoost is shaping up to be an ECOBUST!
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Re: Ford Confirms that 2.0L Eco-Boost Engine is On the Way
Bill,
Having owned an SVT Focus since new, I can tell you that saying "it's just a two liter" doesn't make up all the losses in impromptu jousts with larger fours. (Thankfully, the Focus is just a commuter car and I've got some V8s to even the score when necessary) Only the technophiles will care that the lower-tech SRT-4 is larger.
The rest of the folks will make apples-to-oranges comparisons that don't favor the underwhelming EcoBoost four (e.g. "American cars $#@k! My S2000 makes 237 h.p. 'all motor.'"(notwithstanding that an S2000 is a 2.2 liter with a peaky 8,000 r.p.m. redline))
It's just like when the LS V8 fans dog the Modular.
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We're comparing apples to apples, a 2.0l and a 2.4l is not a good comparison.
BTW, the SRT-4 was rated at 240hp, 230 is pretty damn close, and the ecoboost
has better heads, and thankfully isn't a late model Chrysler(i.e.-trash)IMO.
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The Focus was an interesting case. I really liked that little car for the time I had it. A chance encounter that involved me sitting still and a 3/4 ton Ford Van going 35mph using my BRIGHT YELLOW SVT Focus as a cushion to stop, ended that relationship.
Best seats in any car I have ever had. Most tossable, responsive, nimble car I've had as well. The 6-speed was cool, but the shifter definitely did not have a really good feeling to it. Just felt fragile (although I never broke it even though I tried )
It was quick enough around town to be fun but even with the cool Cosworth head and factory tube header, your toupee was firmly attached despite the fact you were wringing it out as hard as it would go. Holding speed around the corners was a different story though and that's where the car really shined.
I'm hoping that there's some room to build more power out of these motors.
I think the 3.5 V6 model with the twins would look awesome in an old Ford roadster.
BrianThat which you manifest is before you.
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Re: Ford Confirms that 2.0L Eco-Boost Engine is On the Way
Originally posted by BluLightningOriginally posted by Matt CramerA new SVO would be pretty cool; the originals have a cult following. Two other things I'd like to see it dropped into from the factory are a Fiesta and a Ranger. Putting it in an Escape seems like such a waste.
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Originally posted by Brian LohnesBest seats in any car I have ever had. Most tossable, responsive, nimble car I've had as well. The 6-speed was cool, but the shifter definitely did not have a really good feeling to it. Just felt fragile (although I never broke it even though I tried )
It was quick enough around town to be fun but even with the cool Cosworth head and factory tube header, your toupee was firmly attached despite the fact you were wringing it out as hard as it would go. Holding speed around the corners was a different story though and that's where the car really shined.
I'm hoping that there's some room to build more power out of these motors.
Brian
As for the SVT Zetec, the internals are the same doorstop-quality, cracked-cap-hypereutectic junk that FoMoCo chucks into the Mustang V8s. Combine that with a high 10.2:1 compression ratio, and adding a decent amount of forced induction to an SVT Focus requires an expensive engine rebuild.
When stock , if you don't pummel the clutch to keep the revs up, you'll even get walked at the line by soccer moms in (non-turbo) minivans . . . . Don't even think about challenging a Cobalt SS or an SRT-4! Even a Marauder can hammer it off the line. However, the trick, SVT-only "variable geometry" intake manifold does broaden the torque some (and seems to be curiously absent from any of the EcoBoost lumps)
The only real downsides to the Getrag six-speed (except that John Coletti won (via-boss' fiat) the debate on keeping a true fuel economy overdrive ratio out of it) are that the shifter has the typical FWD imprecision and that once you get used to having a sixth speed down and to the right, it's too easy to forget you don't in a T-5 or T-45-equipped V8 Mustang . . . .
BTW, the SVT Focus front seats aren't as good as the front seats in an SVO Mustang (which other than the old Recaro option from '79-'82 is probably still the best factory Mustang seat).
And an SVT Focus driven as intended will put you on a first name basis with your local tire dealer.
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