No Wonder This Thing Ran Terrible! // Project Rally Ford Focus SVT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- My project Ford Focus SVT Rally car ran like garbage, so, I decided to give it a quick tune up just to get it up to speed for now. Also, its time to delete this sunroof!
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If any of you want the full interior, bumpers, and SVT wheels off my SVT Focus, please let me know. Everything is available, however, it must go all together!
You really should get a quaife diff for it since the euro st170 has one
I hate how crude people are to their cars ! Especially to a SVT
How much would it cost to ship to TN ?
how much are you asking for everything?
Excelente...!
It's not a placebo effect if it actually got you squeaking high.
Good call letting the engine run to get that plug out and not just turning harder. Simple things like that are what make the difference of pro level work.
Might have just been the camera angle, but Fuse 2, 30A, looks kind of melty. It's a cooling fan fuse, so decent load on it, but it's for low speed. Take a look at the cooling fan resistor, they can rust up and internally short, allowing more current flow. It's screwed into the top of the fan shroud, between the fans.
I love your vids but please don’t wish that people get fired. I was recently laid off from my job of 18 years and believe me it hurts.
Having realistic project cars that are not beyond the scope of most is something that makes this channel great, and of course, you. I really like how whatever task you start you tend to do an incredible job and are meticulous with getting things right. That roof replacement wasn't something I wanted to try so I made sure to buy my "track car" with a slicktop. Cutting cars up with a Sawzall can be fun, I did that once. It is surprisingly easy to cut thru A pillars.
Love those watercooled sparkplugs, what an innovation.
Love the humor and doing all that work in a standard garage. I'm restoring a '66 Mustang for my wife in a suburban garage packed with other stuff so I know what it's like.
One thing my Navy machinist father taught me is to pull on wrenches when things are stuck or tight. If something breaks loose you can stop yourself. When you push is when your knuckles go flying into something. In another video I noticed you made a point of cutting open a package away from you. Same principal. Some times you can't help it, but I try to consider where my hands will go if something slips or breaks. Keep up the great work.
Your glee behind the wheel is contagious! I couldn't help but smile at the joy that bit of Codsworth hooning gave you.
Pretty cool watching your old video and seeing that your dream of getting a shop with a lift came true.
I love that you keep your manicure on point no matter what.........
Hello, I'm a 66-year-old Hispanic impala lover, I found your site about a year ago, and find your reviews, and destructing and re-structuring (is this a real word) cars. your informative, very personable and you know your shit. Love watching you. your look when you gave the TRD Avalon the beans was classic. Very cool lady.
Love it! My white, manual Ford Focus zx3 with 54k original miles was screaming in pain watching this
Sarah - I like how you know "drops per minute" for fuel leaks. I was a flight engineer on a Douglas Dc-8 years ago and when the old beast sat on the ramp leaking fuel, the AMT's had to stand and time the drops from the wing fuel tanks to see if were able to dispatch or not.
12:36 Hahahaha so true! “Had this had a manual transmission in it someone would have loved you!” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Double true
🎶Smelly hatch, smelly hatch, what are they feeding you?🎶 Ok Phoebe 😂
If everyone just hits the subscribe button Sarah can get a new shop! Trust me it doesn’t hurt at all.
'I don't wanna go full sendaritaville on it'. Bloody hilarious Sarah.
Very cool attachment on your vacuum to clean out the tough spot around the spark plugs. I like that you always offer us some hope on your cars when they are down on their luck.
Hey Sarah, Jamie from down under, it's so refreshing to see the girls having a go at the car thing, keep up the great work and videos, top job Sarah 👍🇦🇺🇺🇸
As a mechanic myself, I myself having said just about all of the things you say. I chuckle alot while watching these videos. Glad to see some progress on Sir Codsworth.
**Tip for anyone with stuck bolts or frozen bearings or seized rings** I like using Used synthetic motor oil (high fuel content from emissions vehicles) that I have in a old school handled oiler. And on the case of lubrication and noise Sarah, use thicker oil in Codsworth or check your valvetrain clearances. It may be nothing, just trying to be preventative.
I admire this girl so much with these projects and his strength to do the job... Congrats Sarah... But this time I don´t know how you are going to do it this that car.
When you undo any bolt that does not free up..it's often worthwhile to rock it back n forth to break up crystallised rust.
Sarah, this video for me encapsulates my experience of all of the progress you have made in your channel since I began watching. Your humor is more nuanced, you communicate so effectively through your facial expressions and your speech, your editing sounds like it is going faster for a better work/life balance, your confidence level is way up, the way you fully explain what you are doing and why, the way you vary the video speed so as to be appropriate for each situation, and more that I can't remember.
Sorry about the run on sentence.
Bravo! Onward and upward!
Don
I just enjoy to watch you work on those cars. Love your humor, ocd and penguins. Take care Sarah.
Best wishes to Fred the painter! Full recovery!
Having one of those bonnet props would make all car maintenance much more pleasant
Hey Sarah as a Rally codriver here in the US make sure you have that cage inspected and log booked by any nasa, ara o rally America stewards before doing anything else. You can just email them or call them and they will help you
I highly doubt I'll ever get to enter into any events with this car. We have hundreds of miles of open desert roads for me to explore and practice on though.
Sarah -n- Tuned never say never.. “Keep dreaming big and never give up” Travis Pastrana told me that one day when I went to see him race at STPR. 1 year later I was codriving for my brother back in Ecuador, and 1 year after I did my first Stage rally in the US as a codriver... so keep dreaming big
The way you say roof makes me want to complete with "is on fire"
haha, love BHG.
gotta be one of your best vids for the on-fire commentary!
The side butt shots were nice too.
IAmTheOnlyYogo no-do not encourage that behavior.
Wow Sarah your skills are improving on your car work and your editing!! It was great before it’s just that there is something that you have done that is making it that much better and more polished! Great job as always!! Why your are not at 2 million I am not sure. You work really hard and keep going!!! I so proud of you! You go girl!!!
That third plug was giving me quite a bit of anxiety.... And I'm just watching the video!
Those focuses are stupid tough. I followed a bunch of 4x4 trucks to an overland spot with a focus. Rocks and all.
i've always wanted an SVT focus. it's actually one of my dream cars 😁🏁
I also has a Ford Focus Mk2 where the washer jets leaked into the spark plug wells causing a missfire. Placing a waterproof sheath (stips of plastic) taped under the jets inside the bonnet (hood) cured the problem.
More SVT Focus Rallye car content please. Love what you've done so far. Please keep up the great content.
I'm not a car guy by any means. Most of the time I'm confused as to what's going on. I saw a pretty lady and started watching your vids because of that. I stayed because of your awkward sillyness (it that even a word?) and all the car knowledge. Your enthusiasm for cars is infectious. Watching you drive your Rally Car in training and seeing how much fun you were having really just made my day. Keep up the great vids. Maybe I will learn something eventually, until then I'll try to keep up.
Seriously YOU are one of the funniest TH-camrs in all of TH-cam land...😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for getting out another vid so quickly this week, Sarah. Great editing and cool music, as usual.
See when i'm not there you go to the you pull it junk yard :/ i want a refund on my last trip LMAOOOOOOO
See, that's how you get roped into another trip 😉
🙏🙏🙏 please go on another road trip great to see you two together for banter and car fixes
@@urbanjentry222 I told Liz next project car she buys to get it out here rust free and ill drive back with her to NJ!
@@SarahnTuned did you hear about Darth plagues the wise
MICK BETH well you wanna be all fancy and well dressed, junk yards don’t care what y’all are wearing it will get dirty 😂
Our SVT also had the problem of water getting into the plug wells. It's apparently common on all the Zetec 2.0 heads. New plug wires can help, but you still have to be religious keeping water away from the top of the engine. It seems like every drop will get in the valley and leak into the plug wells, causing misfires.
@Sarah-n-tuned watch the helmet charger. Ideo that vtuned did it shows the whole process of roof swap .. get the belt spot weld grinder..its worth it ..
I have one of these I'm working on for 4yrs 🙄, some of why mine was not pulling as it should was down to the variable intake runners so you could check the imrc it controls the intake runner has a habit of been abit sticky. The box that controls it is on the bulk head and has a black cable coming out the bottom If your not bothered about bottom end torque, you can cable tie it open which solves the problem of making sure power is in the mid range and top Not sure if this helps but it helped mine and just sharing the knowledge 🙂 Ford (fixed or repaired daily) well mine is 🤣
FYI replacement engines are basically impossible to come by... That's why I went with the Ecoboost from the ST when mine blew to smithereens at 188k miles.
I framed poly in the sunroof LOL
5:27 "the force is strong with this one.."
I was hella sick of jacking up cars every day too. I bought an air bag jack on amazon that's literally saving my back every single day for a couple hundred bucks
Might have to look into these 🤔. Thanks
Wet plugs is condensation friends, quite common here in uk on short trip cars, that n some1 getting over keen with a pressure washer. Rubber friendly grease round the leads helps the seal lips do their thang n fill the gaps, if there’s room switch to proper flat seal plugs too, the taper seats only help them jam in. Side note look up focus banger racing, you see how strong they really are. 👍🇬🇧👍
Hi Sarah, keeping the underside clean is useful because you can spot parts that are going to fail IE cracks on suspension and fasteners coming loose etc!!!. Steve. Hi.
Just a reminder, change the timing belt asap, the sodium filled valves made by Ferrara are $25 a piece. Interference engines rock! Also the controller for the intake runners is under drivers side front wheel well, that can affect engine performance.
Your the cleanest mechanic I've ever seen lol
The problem of the water inside where the sparkplug are is really common, my Fiesta has the same problem, water get inside and sometimes even oil...
Btw amazing project, keep It up!! 🔝
I need to do water pump and fuel filter on mine .love watching the build
I know this is an old upload now, but I couldn't agree with you more on the fuel filter. What a pain!
I thoroughly enjoy your Focus videos! Just the greatest 😊
You should do a roof scoop instead, that would be fire 🔥🔥🔥
Changing the roof first would have made roll cage install super easy. But why not weld/braze a sheet metal piece for the "sun roof" instead?
Hope your friend recovers well. Wow, I have never seen spark plug holes that disgusting before! I'm surprised it ran at all. I think it looks cool, the white wheels remind me of the attitude of the old Neon commercials, where it was just a picture of a car trying to look cute with the word "Hi!" underneath.
I bet you were the bomb to work with in the Air Force! You always make things interesting & funny.
Ive seen the moisture in spark plug holes on a focus before think its from someone pressure washing engine bay. Fyi your videos are great, one of the best youtube mechanics
Liking your channel fabricobbler is a great craftsman 👍 your attention to detail is spot on Liking your channel 👍 watching for a while from the uk since our lockdown covid hope you yanks are OK and taking it seriously as us limeys are stay safe 😉
Excellent, this just improved my 12 hr night shift immeasurably.
Happy Friday Eve Sarah!!
Unbelievable that the engine even ran with all that ass nasty water marinating the plugs, boots must've had an amazing seal.
Thanks as always for sharing more of your adventures and banter with us, and high 5 to Charley. 😎
I was starting to miss the Sir coss videos thanks for this one, they are my favorite!,
possible for the future, IF you run across it again. bottle brush on a drill to clean out the spark plug holes
You are making Great Progress!!! Keep going Sarah!!!
Charlie is a real asset.
Just for future driving. This engine really comes alive at the higher rpms when the dual stage intake kicks in! I've had several foci and love the. Check out focus fanatics and if your not getting rid of the stock ecu Tom is the tuner you might wanna get ahold of
I had the same thing happen to my focus in 2005. Definitely not a fan of that design. Awesome content !!!
If you had a shop and lift, transferring the best bits of Sir Codsworth to the junkyard focus body would have been easier than patching a new roof. Especially if you plan on painting it white. Look luck getting the roof to match up with the rest of the body panels.
3:35 That there has been the question of the century for anyone doing any thing with any vehicle
Little hint! When you have a steel plug in an aluminum cylinder head try tightening it a little 1st then backing it off.😎🇨🇦
I did, still nothing.
To remove stuck things, use a true penetrating oil... Kroil and AeroKroil are some of the best on the market. I use it a lot on old trucks and rusted things. I've even unlocked the rings on an outboard boat motor that sat outside uncovered and frozen-up for almost 30 years. And it even still have plenty of compression. I was shocked to say the least. So, it's good stuff to have around the shop. 👍🏻
Soo.. I didn't have any.
@@SarahnTuned It happens. Haha The heat-up method you used was pretty ingenious. 👍🏻
@@SarahnTuned in a pinch I've used acetone and ATF trying to get stuck hub bearings out of my Dodge Cummins and it did better than anything else I've sprayed out of a can.
I really enjoy the Focus-content! Great to follow the progress!
Wait for your friend to heal up from surgery to paint the flares. It will be worth the wait in quality and in showing how much you value and respect your friend.
That was some narly sparkplugs.. great job getting them out..
ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR!!
I love the smell of petrol too......it used to smell even better back in the eighties believe it or not 😂
Thanks Sarah a brilliant video as always, the things you come up with always make me laugh thank you
So funny watching it. I enjoyed the fuel filter changes comments.
Sorry for your friend and take your time with your focus you doing a great job with your car beautiful
Not surprised it worked. You r a great mechanic...
don't forget to strap in! Safety first, Sarah!
its rain water leaking through the washer jets.
My ford focus mk2 had the same problem. They hadn't it fixed even on the mk2.
Amazing.
Really ? 😂. I thought it had been power washed
It's the core plugs in the head leaking
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"Please don't break..." I felt that.
Love your comments. Great job with the car.
"Is this a 7mm? Who uses a 7mm bolt on a car?!?"
Heh..... Ford.
"Who %$@# designed this thing?"
Ford....
And sometimes Ford makes those bolts out if old cheese. I had water pump bolts snap at 7--seven!--ft lb of torque!
@@99tym Sounds just like my 67 Buick Electra 225 back in the day. Had like seven or eight of those mounting the water pump. Broke four but only got three out of the block. Glued the crap out of it with gasket sealer and quickly flipped the car. Only had one teeny tiny little slow drip but best I could do. I cursed GM engineers for years after that. I think all of them try it at some time. In 67 they were not 7 MM but they were the tiniest bolt I ever saw in an engine bay and of course they all were corroded.
Yeah, my f350 duals has some 7mm and 8mm bolts. I mean, wtf, Ford?
Metric has been around forever. It’s universal but the USA is fighting the system . Lol
Don't they literally use 7, 13, 15, and 18? Like opposite of everything Japanese? Plus Torx? ARGH!
Get you a jug of WD40 and cut a soda can in half. Make a lip on the soda can to pour your WD40 like a measuring cup. Works great for pouring into tight spaces. Aerosol doesn't penetrate as well when you need gravity to get the oil down.
"Please don't break" the mechanics ford tune up prayer.
Ha-ha! I did the same thing for my project car. I went to the junk yard and cut the roof off of another Mirage. They didn't know how to charge me so they rang it up as a hood lol
Almost every bolt I have snapped in life my brain went duel mode.
"just a little bit more"
"Don't do it"
"It'll be ok"
SNAP AWE S$IT
"Told ya so"
I like the way you eased that plug out..for me that would have been a much different video..lolp
There's nothing that a brute force can't fix... yeah, sounds familiar =D. Although I've started to learn my lesson...
Those Racetech seats are sick!
Hi. I also have a focus. You need to replace the valve cover gasket. That is how the water got in there, and if you do t it will happen again
Word to the wise - never drive a car with a roll cage without wearing seat belts. If things go awry it'll leave a mark.
Cousin Dos
Really enjoying the focus project. Doing a great job.
Charlie is an angel!
No worries soon the focus will be rally ready 😎😎👍👍👍
I found that Kroil is the best penetrating oil (better than PB blast or WD-40). I squirt stuck fastner with penetrating oil then hit with either a hammer (or impact) no to try to break loose but helps to promote penetrating oil to go further in surface. Heat also works. Let soak and repeat. Then try to remove. Another great penetrating oil is GM heater control valve spray.
echan100 what I did worked.. just saying
Love your channel Sarah . You and Liz are awesome.
No drops per minute are acceptable. 😂😂 You really worked on aircraft. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Love your videos, always so full of enthusiasm 😀.