Just payed for this today:


It is the SVT Focus header with a custom exension to match up to the ZX3 flex-pipe and O2 bungs welded into the primaries. Only paid $240, as opposed to $340+ for aftermarket units. Should be interesting to see what kind of power increases this will produce. It also eliminates the need for an EGR, so I have to get a custom chip burned to ditch the check engine light for the lack of an EGR and a cat.

 

Yes'sir. Fixing the wheel bearings actually had alot to do with the decision to keep the car.

I may need your help with this header. I can do the actual installation with my eyes closed (I've done it 3-4 times before so it is REALLY quick/easy for me), but I think I may run into problems with that extension pipe. It needs to be a particular length so it can hook up with a very important brace behind the oil pan that supports the collector/flex-pipe intersection. The people who made this part are FocusCentral, and they do not believe in the importance of this brace, so many of their exhaust products are made so that one cannot utilize it (the brace basically keeps the collecor end stable, putting less strain on the header up at the head...without it cracking at the welds will occur). So I may need your welding skills to cut out a small section, then reweld the flange back on the pipe so it will mate with that support.

 

I appreciate the offer. It will probably be a few weeks, possibly a month. I'm going to have the clutch/flywheel/quaife installed before I do the header, and I need to save up the cash to get that custom chip so my ECU doesn't go nuts without the EGR and cat.

Oh yeah...I'm always keeping an eye out for your car on my way home from work and I never do see it. Do you work 5 days a week or...?

 

Looks very easy to install, I wish mine were :-\

 

The FOCUS lives...muhahahaha!!!!

 

Seriously, congrats on the find...looks like I will have a Focus for competition now.