I was never happy with the standard XR2 engine setup with the Weber carb. I grew up with fuel injected engines and my carb'd CVH wasn't willing to rev neither had it enough torque on low revs. So I thought about a fuel injected engine. Back in 2002 I didn't know how easy it would have been to throw a 16V Zetec engine in. So I decided to keep the CVH. There were three options: MFI Turbo (mostly Escort RS Turbo as the Fiesta RST wasn't sold in Germany), XR3i MFI or XR3i EFI. There's little space in the engine bay for the Turbo setup and I didn't want to cut anything out for the installation. There's a lot more reasons not to turbocharge it like insurance, regulation, the need for bigger brakes etc. Today I think it could have been done easily but back in the days the CVH MFI was the most reasonable decision and I don't regret it.










In 2002 the look of the car wasn't changed, this is what it looked like under the bonnet:



A few weeks later all red parts were painted in main color: