MK2 Focus RS's, tuning potential?
 

What are the common tuning routes of the new RS? I understand the cylinder liners and turbo are the limitations after 340bhp? what sort of costs are involved. Plus what is the actual factory bhp of this model?

300 hp standard.

Depending on power your after you can get

340- with a performance air filter and ECU remap

360- Air filter, ECU remap, Turbo Back exhaust, Inter cooler

400- Air filter, ECU remap, Turbo Back exhaust, Inter cooler, uprated bosch injectors

then after that youll be looking at, bigger injectors,forged pistons and rods, big turbo conversion, clutch and flywheel.

and a cracked block too

I see, the std turbo good for 400 bhp then? Why was i thinking they were less than 300 bhp std

300bhp standard... If your lucky. Most iirc fall someway short of that.

some where less than 300 but later ford released a update so had to go down and book it in and get the ecu reflashed with the new update then it was 300hp iirc.. I read theres so Rs's running 450-470 hp so if the block hasnt cracked then they must be pretty good.

Cool, what is the cost of getting 400 out of one? with allthe above mods

about 3k mate

Not too bad at all then, thanks for the info

There a different block to the St one iirc.

I've not heard of any blocks cracking on the Rs ... The ST's yes.

wait and see !

Yes they are different.

thought the blocks were the same, just the RS had thicker liners

The later st's have the same block I think it was around 2008 reg cars, they share the same plasma lined block ;-)

Thus the difference...Sorry i should have been more specific.

Your info is a bit dated Mate, there has been 2 subsequent ECU maps/calibration since launch.

Most cars on Fords latest CJ calibration make over 300 bhp.

Mountune warrantied up grade with SC calibration is circa 356 bhp.

Mountune stage 2 about to come out at circa 380-400bhp.

with the zetec and duratec being such a great engine i really cant understand why ford used a bottom end with liners

think someone in development has a r5 ggt lol

whats your point? all aluminium blocks have liners, including the duratec!!

jesus man it was a joke

fuck sake

this forum gets worse by the day

no problem mate lol, i dont take PF very seriously :DD:

just pointing out incase you were being serious thats all

lol

to many people do at the mo so can never be sure lol

no worrys

Was going by what I heard from people that got them when they were first released and reports in the mags etc. Makes little difference now as most RSs seem to have at least a re-map anyway! Lol :-)

Based on what? Womens intuition? :cry:

I think Sitech are working on a big power build their rs if im not mistaken, fully forged etc

That will be Maxwell's car!

Green with Yellow wheels.........

Oh, fully forged etc, that should be good!

Yeah last time i was at sitech he had just finished a forged build on a mk2 rs it was a green one with orange wheels, i think he had only drove once or twice and had a problem with the clutch slave leaking.

Im sure he said he was doing something similar to his aswell. He knows his stuff

i finished gregs car a while ago. and its back on black wheels

simons car is a similar spec just with a bigger turbo, we got that finished and out for running in yesterday.

and as for an rs cracking it block, i havnt heard of any

you are not mistaken, it went out on saturday for running in.

hows the zvh fez coming along? the old van did 344bhp last week!

i only think its a problem with the liners, the block will be ok. There was a thread on here with a volvo t5 that was cracking the liners , above 500bhp though iirc. But the rs liners may be different i dont know...

I cant see why anyone would want over 500hp in a fwd car.. I think 400hp is more than enough before problems start to occur :king:

i think anything over 200 is enough on a wet road, and this is britain we are on about :cry:

very true:cry:

Hey up Bez,

not done owt on the fez as im trying to source some mk4 zetec hubs so I can wheel the car to work. Putting all my efforts onto the firm at the mo due to times being more than hard in this climate, really need 6 numbers on the lottery :-(

344 isnt bad for an old van pal!!!!!

that defo sounds like the right things to be doing, the fez can wait. im also looking for a 6 number win on the lotto, think i maybe waiting for quite a while lol

It is nice to be the only volvo in the uk with 500 hp though :)