adut015

Here's some footage and good quality exhaust sound of driving the Focus RS on back roads in Australia.
Hope you enjoy it!

bealljk

iTrader: (13)

Some good footage for sure ... is this your buddy's car?

All I can think of when the engine pops is the headgaskets on those engines ...

adut015

Thanks for watching! Yes it's my buddy's car.

Did some reading about the issue and I think the internet has uncovered the reason for head gasket issue may be a batch of Focus RS's that have had the gasket from the Mustang ecoboost installed on them by mistake.

The engine block is the same but the cooling ports / coolant flow route is different for both cars. So fingers crossed for my mate!

bealljk

iTrader: (13)

that shot of the ford emblem with the tree-shadows rolling over it was pretty cool...

I think ford is pushing a 2.3 liter engine beyonds it's means - between the HG, the cracked blocks, the failed studs ... I think 175hp/liter is just to much for an open deck...

Those are direct inject arent they?

I'm sure the guys that are having issues are mod'ing and driving the cars spiritedly!!

I sorta ask myself are the 3 liter BMW turbocharged engines going to wear prematurely ... a buddy w/a JB4 3 series has gone through some transmission parts ...

No free lunch!

adut015

Only time will tell. Here's hoping to not having any of these issues.