I finally installed a supercharger

[Dan]

Well, I finally installed a supercharger. What fun!!!

My friend and I started in on Friday morning and worked on it for around 8 hours. Then we finished it yesterday at around 8:00 pm.

I thought that it was going to be a lot harder than it turned out to be. Installing it really was fun. It sound so sweet and the car has a lot more power now. After the install we just turned the key and the car started right up without a hitch.

I just don't understand why my friend would want a supercharger in his Ford Focus. :)

Yeah. It wasn't a Marauder S/C install, it was in a Focus. LOL. But at least I got to put one in. :) That little car runs like a ***** ape but, even supercharged, it doesn't come close to sticking my Marauder.

Good news if you guys ever run up against a charged Focus. :)

Dan

[CRUZTAKER]

He he....my wife hates the focii. But I have a friend in the neighborhood that has one completely tuned, suspension and all. It runs mid 13's and handles better than any RX-7 I had ever owned.

A ***** ape....that's too funny! And very true. I love riding with him in this little rocket.

[Dan]

This guys car is so tight. He has the suspension "rail tuned."

After driving his car and getting in the Marauder I nearly overshot a corner in a parking lot. (A closed parking lot.) What was funny was that I held the Marauder into the corner and through while my friend had to slow way, way down to go through the same corner at a much lower speed.

When I am driving his car it makes him grab the armrest. Heheh. All I can say is, "Thank you, Skip Barber School of High Performance Driving." :)

Dan

[TripleTransAm]

He he....my wife hates the focii.

I heard a good one last night at our F-body club's Xmas dinner...

The early Focii had a problem when driven very short distances in cold weather. Water would accumulate at certain points in the "well-designed" exhaust system, and would eventually end up freezing. This would block the exhaust completely, and the cars would not start.

The solution from Ford? Two small holes in the exhaust system (one after the cat, the other possibly closer to the muffler?) to allow the water to drain out. One of our members found that out when he noticed his new Focus was making kind of an 'old muffler' kind of sound (you know, that "fffllt fffllt fffllt fffllt ffllt" sound that tells you there's a rust-through somewhere in your intermediate pipe) and the dealer tech explained to him what it really was.

[David Morton]

Ford Focus. It's just recently been put on the inadequate list (along with the Explorer 4X4) on the crash test results run by the NHTSB.

I can hear the mechanics at Ford now...

"It's a Ford 'Broke-us'."

"He drives an 'Exploder four times four'."

Hey, I used to work on the 1990 'Rivi-scare-ya' at Buick. If you had to work on one, you'd be scared too!

:D

[Marauder386]

...Thinking of the CaddyWack 8-6-4...remembering all the grandparents that had accidents...."veddy scarewee Bruno" ...