SS vs. Focus RS8
09-02-2005, 04:07 AM
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No the ATI Terminator Focus uses a SVT Cobra supercharged engine and tranny. That costs like 65k to do. The only thing I dont like about the v8 conversion Foci is that there is no room for a break booster, so they are completely manual brakes, which just plain sucks. But all the v8 Foci are just plain fast (with traction problems, which you'd expect from such a light car), and handle friggin awesome. I'd kill to do it to mine.
09-07-2005, 02:10 AM
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^^ Ya know, they actually aren't that light after the conversion. In MT, when they did the head to head RS8 vs. Lambo, they said the RS8 weighed 3300lbs. Not much lighter than a pre-'03 cobra.
09-19-2005, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Goat Roper
For the record I was the passenger in the RS8 who recorded that.
SHO engine can be done actually but man is it tight.
SHO engine can be done actually but man is it tight.
I owned a 95 SHO with all the tweaks except turbo or SC, and it was fast as crap! I hated to get rid of it.
I went from the tweaked out sho to the cobalt base mtx, but I'm planning on getting the cobalt up to speed with where the sho was.
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