Has anyone seen this car around lately? The owner lives in Hampton near Bethel High school. It's a young guy about 18 yo. People keep telling me he claims to have built that car himself.

I find that funny considering I built it and sold it to him that way.

Just pisses me off that I spent all the time and $$$ on that car and the little punk takes all the credit.

The next time I have to sell a project, I'll just drive it off a cliff and claim it on insurance....

 

you sold it. who cares?

not like it was a built drag car or something.

 

didnt he also blow the engine twice?

 

I really don't care about the car, but when you put a lot of work into something, it's always going to be yours in your own mind. It's called plagerism (spelling?). It just pisses me off, that he would do that.

And yes, he did fuck it up twice that I know of. Melted the Cat once, because he used 87 octane, instead of the 92 that it needed, and he did something to the CAI intake and Over-bored throttle body and had to put it back to stock. Oh well, at least it's slower than it was....

 

how exactly did he melt the cat on a focus with 87 octane?
seems to me 87 octane and foci go hand in hand.

 

The only time that you'd "melt" the cat is by using leaded fuel. NOT lower octane.

 

 

man thats my car, dont hate

 

The car wasn't exactly stock when I sold it. And with the cat being directly connected to the header, and the combination of some serious ECU tuning(REQUIRING 92 octane), somehow the cat caved into itself and got completly plugged. Maybe melted was the wrong word. It suffered catystophic thermal breakdown in one way or another. When the cat got plugged, it started plowing off all the emissions sensors and hoses on the engine. It was actually running and exahausting through the EGR valve. Weird shit. That's why I have a rotary now, I understand those.

 

why sell it to begin with?