Wednesday, November 6, 2013

15k: Rear Driver: 2000 Ford Focus V8 Swap

The US market Ford Focus was launched in 2000 with Ford's "New Edge" styling, a unifying design theme dreamed up by Ford's VP of Design Jack Telnack.  The Mustang also got New Edginess in 1999 as well as the Cougar (and others) but, mercifully, the cars were allowed to return to segment based styling a few years later.  The 1st generation Focus is a cheap car for a beater today, but a surprisingly large number have been converted to V8-rear drive brutes from a variety of tuners, madmen and enthusiasts.  Find this 2000 Ford Focus V8 Swap offered for $18,000 in Holland, MI.   Featured by Zaqataq on jalopnik oppositelock forum.

The Focus isn't a bad looking car - in fact it looks like any number of mid nineties to late oughts hatchbacks and isn't something you'd be ashamed to drive to work each day.  The sporty SVT model was even fast in its own right, but today's front-V8, rear drive conversion puts any stock Focus to shame.


Under the hood is a carburetor equipped 302 cubic inch Ford V8, good for 340 horsepower with the E303 camshaft and sold from the Ford racing parts catalog for around $4k.  The rest of the parts to convert the Focus from a transverse engine front drive to a classic rear drive setup will set you back quite a bit more, the seller of this car claims to have $21k in parts in the car.


It may be a bit late for Halloween, but there is no reason not to put a pumpkin in the back of a Focus - and we can only hope there is some alternate dimension out there where this is factory stock.  Praying for a wormhole to appear now...still nothing...waiting...


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4 comments:

  1. TinmanNovember 6, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    This is definitely making me homesick for MI !

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  2. UnknownNovember 6, 2013 at 7:23 PM

    I LOVE this car. I love a hot hatch that has RWD. I love that it keeps brand integrity. I love how cleanly they put this together. The whole concept is wonderful. With this, I would make donuts, destroy everybody at the stoplight, piss off the neighbors, etc. All of the things make life worth living.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 7, 2013 at 11:16 AM

      After reading this, there is truly no purpose in me posting anything. Well said.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 7, 2013 at 9:23 AM

    sano

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