Originally Posted by
The Black Count
Hello,
I do not think the focus will ever handle as well as the fiesta, If you want a car that handles and can be used in time attack then a puma entered into the pocket rocket class should be fun.
Staying with the focus your only real course of action is weight reduction, putting in bucket seats and a light weight battery would be a good start, for safety as much as anything else. I assume you are also going to be fitting larger front brakes, if so I have a selection that I could do you a deal on and if you find yourself on my side of the bridge you would be welcome to pop in and have a look. Not sure if you have read my thread but both of the focuses I bought had worn out clutches and were the weak point.
Focus and fiesta/puma both have there pros and cons to handling with the fiesta being much better in tighter turns but not to good in the big long bends where the focus is better.
I looked about entering my fiesta but it's not allowed unless I put a 1.6 in but I'm sick of blowing engines, can't stand the little gutless things.
As for the Focus I've pulled as much as I'm allowed out for the little series but I can replace the seats for the buckets in my fiesta just need to sort out new sub frames as I sold the old ones to Steve on here, as for brakes I've got 300mm st170 brakes with ds2500 pads and black Diamond discs or I've got non sti 4 pots with cl brake pads, so pretty much set with brakes with my size wheels. Not had a chance yet but I'm waiting to kill the clutch off then I'm binning the whole mtx75 setup for 1.8 IB5 setup with HD clutch kit.