you know the more i think about fast cars the more i realize that i will stick with the aerocharger, heres the reason.
In our cars, 200whp for street driving is about as much as you wanna go. Be real, how often do you really race your focus? You say for the hardcore racer who wants real power. For that person, they would also probably wanna start out with a racier car. You dont buy the focus to be the fastest out there, you can go buy a used supra twin turbo for $16000, put 5G's into the engine and run 11s all day with 600WHP. The other 99% of the time you are on the street, at least most of the focaljetters are.
Now, with a kit pushing 15psi and a bigger turbo, its like on/off. Up to 4000rpm you are stock. Then it hits really fast and hard, but in our cars redline is 6500, so you shift before you enjoy all the power. That is a race car to me. Thats no fun on the street. Also, AS A STREET CAR, and i do mean street car, not just street LEGAL, anything more than 200whp on a front wheel drive and a car not designed for it, will be a pain in the ass. I drove a turbo focus with 190hp and it was a blast and should satisfy most focus drivers. The car would shread first and second to redline, those gears were useless at WOT. So imagine more power? and the torque even with the aerocharger will be more than enough for the street. 240ft/lb to the wheel in our cars? Can you imagine that? Thats huge.
Also, this is a no brainer turbo. No oil lines nothing.
Another huge factor. Most of us wanna stay street legal. This kit is 100% street legal. What else?
Once you go for more power and more boost, you cant do it like the honda guys. WIth us, you must get a whole new stand alone system, which, if you guys didnt know, costs $2700, for just the unit. Add a fuel pump, fuel injectors and hours upon hours of tuning and dynos. Youre looking at about $4000 for just the management part. Add a turbo kit to that, say fmax(NOTHING AT ALL AGAINST THEM) just using as example of a kit because it can be tuned. That is about $3500. Now you will need rods and pistons with that, say another $1000. Ofcourse most people stop at this. A car with 130hp from the factory , has a transmition/axles/bearings/brakes/cooling/clutch designed for about that, maybe a bit more. but not 300hp+. So upgrading all that either at the beggining or waiting till they brake, will be nesesary. So you see, going over that 200WHP poses a huge job most dont think about, trust me, i didnt think about it in the first place. But when the bill reaches $10000 just to put it all together, i start reconsidering. Most people bought the focus because of the price, not to tune it. If i knew i was gonna spend all that money, i would have bought an extra side car to make strickly for speed. The focus with all that, probably still wont break past the high 12's on the street. I can make a supra or RX7 go low 12's for under a grand. REALLY. My friend just bought a 1995 supra TT. After some tweaking(this car is amazin), a manual boost controller, intake, exhuast, upgraded some pipes and someo other little things, he raced my friends dads ZR1, and beat him , and that zr1 consistently runs a flat 13 at the track up here. So speed is not the first thing on the minds of focus owners.
But after owning it for over a year, some of us(ME) want more speed out of it. I think for 200whp, a $3000 kit is worth it, thats not too much. Because the fun of driving a 200whp focus, trust me, should last for a while, until my next car. If the aerocharger proves to be all what it should be, if hte 5th injector proves to be reliable and if all the tubes fit, to me its a winner.
Plus on the street, you want the power whenver you press the gas, always. With a huge turbo setup, youre not too much different than NOS.
I also think that the aerocharger stage 3 with the 5th injector and a few other bolt ons, some sticky street slicks is good for mid 13's. Theres a stage 2 with no intercooler runing 15.3 at 6000ft, which equates to low 14's, and thats at like 6psi!!!! So its the aerocharger for me from what things look like now.
Thats my .02
