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Here we go then, the Goodwood Hot-Hatch Breakfast Club, a dyno run, and some random musings on how this thing is very similar to my Clio 172 Cup...

The floor hinged pedal has taken a different approach to just using the throttle generally. When heel toeing it works fine though. Filmed this morning, editing is currently WIP. I should have it uploaded tomorrow.

Surprisingly no! It must be the fat back tires...unless the roads have a really bad surface it mostly stays fully hooked up in the dry through 2nd gear. That's in a straight line, though. Introducing a single MM of steering input changes everything LOL I have the balance of the original...

Not sure if serious?! I've been shamelessly wh0ring myself on here for well over a decade!

SRR results yesterday are 356.8 bhp and 396 lbft or 537 NM. Torque!

Can anyone advise on wrap removal from my grille? I spoke to the original owner for an hour last night. As well as finding out what an absolute gem of car I've found, he also said that the usual chrome bits of the front grilles are wrapped black. He's also sending me the original grey mirrors...

I expect they will go a little lairy with the setup for the more powerful versions, but I understand it will be a 2.0 four-pot and, yeah, it may get some form of 4WD/AWD. What there won't be is anything that's simply a big engine up front and driven wheels at the back...which for years it what...

I find it really noticeable, the switch between comfort and sport+ is marked...not as night and day different as the switchable dampers of the FRS were, but my wife and children all noticed it when I secretly switched. As for how it is in terms of it being a truly active system reacting to...

Seeing that makes me want to go and buy it!!! In other news the original owner contacted me on IG last night. It has a few, internet essential, choice mods done already fixing some shortcomings they have as they leave the factory...under body bracing, radiator and paintwork protection and so...

Why would he mention it? It has no Field Service Action outstanding on it because it has the correct gasket fitted and the engine number matches what's on the V5...that's all any buyer needs to know. It does...just like my RS which, apart from the spoiler and exhausts, looked like just about...

Part-ex with the dealer I bought this from. He has it up on AT already. I still have the C-Max, that's been trouble free. Now that I have this I can see my wife wanting the BMW C-Max equivalent when we come to replace it. They are, very much. Without it you can feel that it has potential...

It's surpisingly frugal! 30 MPG driving it the same way that in my RS would see me getting 24. They're what I had on my Fiesta for years so I think they're good enough for now. It'll definitely be Michelin P4S when they get down to the canvas. I'm sure it will lose value but it has a few...

Having got thorughly fed up with continual dealership visits and a Focus RS that always had something wrong with it I finally cried "Enough!" and managed to find this peach. It was registered in March 2017 (the exact same day my RS started rolling down the production line!) and had 10,060 miles...

F***...that was over 12 years ago! I've been on here too long LOL

The RS has given me a taste for steering from the rear. I like that a lot. Also, the fact that the next gen 1 series will be FWD, have no straight six, and already you can no longer buy a manual 140 made me think that if I don't do this now, I may never get the chance. The RWD six cylinder 1...

If the rear seats was more usable and I could have found one with low miles for a straight swap, definitely. but having dropped £35k cash on the Focus just 18 months ago putting any more money into a car was a no no for me. I accept it's not the raw sharp thing the RS was, but with 340-360...

M140i, manual, killer spec. straight swap, same age, but with 4 new Bridgestones and 9k less miles than the RS. It actually feels like I've stolen it. Oh, and as Jeff has said many many times, it so needs a diff. Like really really badly.

So, umm, yeah, this happened...

I've had quite a few owners contact me saying they've also had the turbo oil pipe banjo pipe seeping a litle oil so I'm expecting/hoping that's what's causing the oil loss...I'll have that confirmed this week. I also spent a good session today just driving the car really really hard and, much...

Aye. Pass received here.

Was that a click-bait thumbnail and title? I have a boost leak and an oil leak that suggests my engine has a problem...I thought it was pretty accurate! The news is...there isn't any, yet. The HG oil I saw, looking at the pictures I've been sent from other owners, does seem to be the norm...

Technically I don't have to let them sort it out...I can just reject the car. The first engine went pop within six months of delivery, I gave them a chance to fix my car, and now 10k miles later this engine still isn't right. From day one in exchange for my hard earned they have given me a...

...not from the way it drives...but because of Ford's monumentally sh*t ability to build an engine that works!

They didn't do anything to it as it was a complete factory supplied engine, turbo, clutch, and intake manifold included. I hope it's something simple. Mind you, I'll take another engine so long as they give me a fresh 5yr/100k warranty on it.

It's going in on Monday for them to give it a visual once over. The tech they and I want to work on it is unavailable for two weeks after that. It drives just fine, MPGs are where they should be, it feels punchy enough, but it's weeping oil from the very edge of the head gasket. Does that mean...

At the moment this is what I'm thinking, but it's not letting coolant in this time, it's letting oil and compression out.

F***ing hell. Just watching that scared me. What an experience!

308 bhp v the 347 it ran there last time.

It was nice to meet a few new faces on Saturday, thank as always to Tim for organising. My slightly odd dyno figure doesn't, at first glance, seem to be boost related so I'm booked in to Ford on Monday for them to have a look at it. I think that I may well have found a new way to break the...