My newly acquired Focus (56K Beware) - Page 3 - The Ford Focus Forum

**BowDown** · 10-21-2006, 06:04 PM

You got a clear title for the vehicle? Figured I would mention this before you invest too much into it..

**ax0n** · 10-21-2006, 06:11 PM

When my BeaterScort sat for about a year, it got ants and wasps. And it still had all the windows!

I gutted it except for the headliner and hosed out the whole inside, then put it back together. Good times.

I say gut it, put a racing driver's seat in, buy a rear seat if you want to be able to carry passengers, forget carpet, headliners, and a passenger seat. Who says ZX3s have tricky rear seat access?

That'd be a killer pizza delivery beater fo shizzle.

**BowDown** · 10-21-2006, 06:33 PM

It's kinda weird driving without a passenger seat. Ever done it?

**Thameth** · 10-21-2006, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by BowDown

It's kinda weird driving without a passenger seat. Ever done it?

Yup, its strange as hell. Feels like your gonna fall into the open space the entire time hehe.

Even worse trying sitting on the passenger side but in the back seat with no front passenger seat hehehe, good times.

**ax0n** · 10-21-2006, 08:01 PM

That's how 1badegg's ZX3's been for a long time. Passengers have hella legroom. Well one of them anyways...

**LornesBored** · 10-21-2006, 08:08 PM

Ive always liked the legroom in the Focus, not too much, not too little. but when you step into my brothers RSX-S or my Sisters 5.0GT, or my dads 997.... TERRRRRRIBLE.

If I had that car, I would either leave the baby blue/red paint on, or add a whole plethora of crappy colours and run it as a junker-sleeper

**Bimmerman9** · 10-21-2006, 08:29 PM

nice aquisition . i wish i could get a focus for that cheap . that sux though looks like the used a screw driver on the rear quarter to pry the 3 piece off

**CWCZX3** · 10-21-2006, 09:07 PM

has a clean title. got plug wires and a front bumper for it today.

**xMandax** · 10-22-2006, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CWCZX3

has a clean title. got plug wires and a front bumper for it today.

those pictures do the dirtiness of the car no justice.....or the smell.....its gross.

**Ray** · 10-22-2006, 11:28 AM

wow. you know, i like it. such an open canvas...

**Black03ZX3** · 10-22-2006, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by xMandax

those pictures do the dirtiness of the car no justice.....or the smell.....its gross.

The best part is the ultra-custom gas filler door.

Mad tyte JDM stylez.

Corey...the Ronald McDonald machine is pimp

**CWCZX3** · 10-22-2006, 04:28 PM

Newspaper article from Feb. 04

Quote:

Keith xxxxxx, 22 of Red Lion, for his failed attempt to collect insurance money in the case of the floating Ford Focus. Northeastern Regional Police pulled the car from the Susquehanna River last February and tracked the owner down by calling the number on the “For Sale” sign in the vehicle’s window. Initially, Mr. xxxxxx claimed that someone stole the car and filed an insurance claim for the loss. The case ended this week with Mr. xxxxxx’s guilty plea to charges of insurance fraud and unsworn falsification. He was sentenced to 24 months probation and 50 hours of community service.

DUMBASS!!!!!!!

**2focusd** · 10-22-2006, 04:31 PM

Such a great backstory to the swampmobile too

-Brian

**Sharply_Focused** · 10-22-2006, 08:47 PM

oooooo man. I dig the flat black idea! Rhino line the whole inside floor and slap a recaro in there.

D23 turbo swap and track it!!!

**focalxplosion** · 10-22-2006, 09:05 PM

Given the time it spent swimming I would suggest you go the transplant route and ditch the entire electrical system now in the car.

Good luck.

**o2_designs** · 10-23-2006, 12:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thameth

Yup, its strange as hell. Feels like your gonna fall into the open space the entire time hehe.

Even worse trying sitting on the passenger side but in the back seat with no front passenger seat hehehe, good times.

HAHa, I did this last week in my Kona, I was swapping new seats in it, and I got the back seat done, so I sat in it, and I felt like it was a limo or something, I could really stretch out back there...LOL
Then I went to get food, and random parts to finesh stereo, and backing up, I use the passnger seat to turn around, I put my right hand on back of seat, I turn around, go to put my hand on the seat like usual, and it ain't there, it looked like I was swatting at bugs or something...

The car kinda has a "Golf" or old Gt40 race car scheme going with the baby blue, and red/orange color...

**LamarWH** · 10-23-2006, 01:01 AM

Something where you have to strip it down to the chassis, get it bead blasted and rebuilt like when K.I.T.T got owned by K.A.R.R

V8 swap, WRC style motor, the limit is how much $$ u got to throw in.

**CWCZX3** · 10-24-2006, 07:09 PM

More pics some of these are a repeat though.

Interior is gutted now and cleaned up pretty good. Motor turn over freely and had only a couple of drops of water in the oil pan. Removed all the damaged goods like the radiator and the condesor. Looking for a starter now so i can get the keys reprogrammed and see if it fires up or not. Thanks to Xmandax for donating her old plug wires and front bumper.

**Rickter** · 10-24-2006, 08:47 PM

^^^^^Are you watering so it will grow?

Good luck with it hopefully it will kick over.

**CWCZX3** · 10-28-2006, 09:42 AM

i'll fix these soon.

**Ataru** · 10-28-2006, 11:18 AM

Wow.....you have a LOT of work ahead of you!

Good luck!

**boostedzx3** · 10-28-2006, 12:38 PM

i'm going to take a wild stab here and say that front bumper was manda's stocker. We are in the long process of a Z restoration and w/o being in a river it looks worse then that.

**turbo2000** · 10-28-2006, 12:56 PM

i love how all the guages are all maxed out. and tell me thats not like mold in the back of the car....

kyle

**LornesBored** · 10-28-2006, 02:16 PM

damn that car needs some lovin hardcore.

you can tell the quality of that blue paint job lol

**xMandax** · 10-28-2006, 08:30 PM

that is one hot front bumper!

10-21-2006, 06:04 PM	#51 (permalink)
BowDown [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NY State SUCKS! Posts: 9,667	Re: My newly acquired Focus You got a clear title for the vehicle? Figured I would mention this before you invest too much into it.. __________________ Project Red Sled: 2010 Sangria Red Metallic Fusion Sport - Custom SQ Stereo Underway, HID's on order... Project WTF: 2007 Blue Suzuki Hayabusa - Shaved, Rear Links/Spacers (Lowered 1.25"), VisionPro 6k HIDs, Sport Bags

10-21-2006, 06:11 PM	#52 (permalink)
ax0n Devil's Advocate. Just to cheese you off. Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: In ur srvrz patchin ur krnlz Posts: 24,445	Re: My newly acquired Focus When my BeaterScort sat for about a year, it got ants and wasps. And it still had all the windows! I gutted it except for the headliner and hosed out the whole inside, then put it back together. Good times. I say gut it, put a racing driver's seat in, buy a rear seat if you want to be able to carry passengers, forget carpet, headliners, and a passenger seat. Who says ZX3s have tricky rear seat access? That'd be a killer pizza delivery beater fo shizzle. __________________ Cars: ['00 ZX3] ['03 Explorer] Bikes: [DB Sorrento] [DB Outlook] [Trek 1200] [FocusHacks] : Ford Focus Tech & Maintenance Tips [KC Bike Commuting Blog]: Rants from the streets of KC [HiR Information Report (rss)] : Get your fill of Geek Humor, Security, and Unix Latest Geeky Article: Cracking Thumb-wheel combination locks

10-21-2006, 06:33 PM	#53 (permalink)
BowDown [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NY State SUCKS! Posts: 9,667	Re: My newly acquired Focus It's kinda weird driving without a passenger seat. Ever done it? __________________ Project Red Sled: 2010 Sangria Red Metallic Fusion Sport - Custom SQ Stereo Underway, HID's on order... Project WTF: 2007 Blue Suzuki Hayabusa - Shaved, Rear Links/Spacers (Lowered 1.25"), VisionPro 6k HIDs, Sport Bags

10-21-2006, 08:01 PM	#55 (permalink)
ax0n Devil's Advocate. Just to cheese you off. Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: In ur srvrz patchin ur krnlz Posts: 24,445	Re: My newly acquired Focus That's how 1badegg's ZX3's been for a long time. Passengers have hella legroom. Well one of them anyways... __________________ Cars: ['00 ZX3] ['03 Explorer] Bikes: [DB Sorrento] [DB Outlook] [Trek 1200] [FocusHacks] : Ford Focus Tech & Maintenance Tips [KC Bike Commuting Blog]: Rants from the streets of KC [HiR Information Report (rss)] : Get your fill of Geek Humor, Security, and Unix Latest Geeky Article: Cracking Thumb-wheel combination locks

10-21-2006, 08:08 PM	#56 (permalink)
LornesBored [FJ] Special Ed. Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: West Van, BC, Canada Posts: 9,192	Re: My newly acquired Focus Ive always liked the legroom in the Focus, not too much, not too little. but when you step into my brothers RSX-S or my Sisters 5.0GT, or my dads 997.... TERRRRRRIBLE. If I had that car, I would either leave the baby blue/red paint on, or add a whole plethora of crappy colours and run it as a junker-sleeper

10-21-2006, 08:29 PM	#57 (permalink)
Bimmerman9 Senior TEAM Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: AURORA,IL Posts: 1,485	Re: My newly acquired Focus nice aquisition . i wish i could get a focus for that cheap . that sux though looks like the used a screw driver on the rear quarter to pry the 3 piece off __________________ www.mwir.net EJ8 SQUAD #125

10-21-2006, 09:07 PM	#58 (permalink)
CWCZX3 Senior TEAM Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: York, PA Posts: 3,504	Re: My newly acquired Focus has a clean title. got plug wires and a front bumper for it today. __________________ 2000 Autumn Orange ZX3 "Beauty" 226hp 211tq Dyno Vid 13.977@100.65 June 06' Focus of the Month 2001 Flat Black ZX3 "Project River Rat"

10-22-2006, 11:28 AM	#60 (permalink)
Ray Driver > Car Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: CT Posts: 28,121	Re: My newly acquired Focus wow. you know, i like it. such an open canvas... __________________ Vacuum Vulture Racing - I can fix your car with a hammer. Intelligence is largely at the mercy of self-control *Roadtrippin.org* \| CART

10-22-2006, 04:31 PM	#63 (permalink)
2focusd [FJ] Addict Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Uniontown, PA Posts: 15,364	Re: My newly acquired Focus Such a great backstory to the swampmobile too -Brian __________________ Godspeed, Colin McRae, may you live on forever as the reason countless people fell in love with the Ford Focus (myself included). 1968-2007 '08 Carbon Grey Metallic Hyundai Tuscani GT V6 Early '00 ZX3 - E-spec in progress (Rattletrap) - Gone but not forgotten!

10-22-2006, 08:47 PM	#64 (permalink)
Sharply_Focused TEAM Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 559	Re: My newly acquired Focus oooooo man. I dig the flat black idea! Rhino line the whole inside floor and slap a recaro in there. D23 turbo swap and track it!!! __________________ 2001 Egg Yolk ZX3 Glossy Sills & Triangles 30%F / 20%R Tint Coming Summer '07: 2" Drop

10-22-2006, 09:05 PM	#65 (permalink)
focalxplosion Senior TEAM Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 1,152	Re: My newly acquired Focus Given the time it spent swimming I would suggest you go the transplant route and ditch the entire electrical system now in the car. Good luck. __________________ Rockin the SVT with the baby seat in the back.

10-23-2006, 01:01 AM	#67 (permalink)
LamarWH Senior TEAM Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 1,580	Re: My newly acquired Focus Something where you have to strip it down to the chassis, get it bead blasted and rebuilt like when K.I.T.T got owned by K.A.R.R V8 swap, WRC style motor, the limit is how much $$ u got to throw in.

10-24-2006, 07:09 PM	#68 (permalink)
CWCZX3 Senior TEAM Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: York, PA Posts: 3,504	Re: My newly acquired Focus More pics some of these are a repeat though. Interior is gutted now and cleaned up pretty good. Motor turn over freely and had only a couple of drops of water in the oil pan. Removed all the damaged goods like the radiator and the condesor. Looking for a starter now so i can get the keys reprogrammed and see if it fires up or not. Thanks to Xmandax for donating her old plug wires and front bumper. __________________ 2000 Autumn Orange ZX3 "Beauty" 226hp 211tq Dyno Vid 13.977@100.65 June 06' Focus of the Month 2001 Flat Black ZX3 "Project River Rat"

10-24-2006, 08:47 PM	#69 (permalink)
Rickter Dyslexic Wonder Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fixed your a/c. Now pay me bitch (Jax, FL) Posts: 1,412	Re: My newly acquired Focus ^^^^^Are you watering so it will grow? Good luck with it hopefully it will kick over. __________________ '03 Imperial Blue ZX3 93 Red Festiva /GTX Swap (HpyMeal)

10-28-2006, 09:42 AM	#70 (permalink)
CWCZX3 Senior TEAM Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: York, PA Posts: 3,504	Re: My newly acquired Focus i'll fix these soon. __________________ 2000 Autumn Orange ZX3 "Beauty" 226hp 211tq Dyno Vid 13.977@100.65 June 06' Focus of the Month 2001 Flat Black ZX3 "Project River Rat" Last edited by CWCZX3; 10-30-2006 at 09:53 AM.

10-28-2006, 08:30 PM	#75 (permalink)
xMandax Senior TEAM Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Harrisburg, PA Posts: 3,658	Re: My newly acquired Focus that is one hot front bumper! __________________ 2004 Egg Yolk Yellow zx3 SCT XCAL3, MBRP cat-back exhaust, Short Ram Intake, Underdrive Pulley, OBX Race Header, SVT springs, SVT front bumper (soon to have rear done too), custom shorty antenna, 17" Drag Wheels, Painted Interior, Tenzo CF shift knob, STS, Momo Superturismo Pedals [FJ] ALL STAR

10-28-2006, 11:18 AM	#71 (permalink)
Ataru Team Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Oklahom Posts: 13,519	Re: My newly acquired Focus Wow.....you have a LOT of work ahead of you! Good luck! __________________ Owner of SONIC the HEDGEHOG - 2003 Sonic Blue SVT Focus ZX5 [FJ] focaljet - GUIDELINES - GALLERY - [FJ]WALLPAPER - STORE - SPONSORS - SEARCH - Any Questions?

10-28-2006, 12:38 PM	#72 (permalink)
boostedzx3 [FJ] Specialist Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Enola, PA Posts: 5,871	Re: My newly acquired Focus i'm going to take a wild stab here and say that front bumper was manda's stocker. We are in the long process of a Z restoration and w/o being in a river it looks worse then that. __________________ Looking for a riding mower, snow thrower, push mower, weed wacker? Contact me, or email at LNservices@ymail.com Photoshop this euro kit and wheels on my car pleaz! http://forums.focaljet.com/focus-con...it-my-car.html

10-28-2006, 02:16 PM	#74 (permalink)
LornesBored [FJ] Special Ed. Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: West Van, BC, Canada Posts: 9,192	Re: My newly acquired Focus damn that car needs some lovin hardcore. you can tell the quality of that blue paint job lol

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