r/FocusRS

This car has a rebuilt title but dose not have any issues you can check my profile for how the build was done and all that was wrong with it I am located in southern mi. 116,000k miles and 17500$ price

Just picked up a focus rs and it’s straight piped I was thinking about running two of these but I was wondering if anyone was running a similar set up

Hey guys, I've posted a couple pictures before of our cars but this is the first one of all three of them together.

The one in front is mine. It's a very early 2016 model that I bought in August 24. It hasn't had any engine modifications but does have a Flow Design splitter kit, whiteline springs and swaybars, Cobb cat-back exhaust, koya rims, Cobb short shifter plus a few others.

The middle one belongs to my boy. We bought it new and picked it up in December 2016. It was my wife's daily for four years. It has a built engine, forged internals, balanced & lightened crankshaft, pro alloy radiator, custom intercooler, Arctic intake, mountune downpipe, scorpion exhaust, whiteline springs & swaybars, mix of maxton & flow design splitter kit, short shifter plus a few other bits & pieces and 400whp.

The one at the back is the wife's 2018 limited edition. Besides a mountune cat-back exhaust it is pretty much stock.

I went after I had my RS for about 6 months and had Autocrossed it many times. So the Autox part was the highlight, found the one with the “best” tire and fully sent it. I moved on from the RS in 2021, but it’s always been a favorite.

This is how it goes owning a performance car.

My first car was/is a 2013 Focus SE; I’ve had it for 6 1/2 years now. When I first got it, I tried modifying it heavily to make it look closer to an RS or ST but always got made fun of, especially by ST owners (4 different occasions did they roll their window down and call me a pussy or loser). Since then I’ve taken most of it off and it’s now mostly just a paint matched RS spoiler and a few other minor cosmetics.

BUT you RS owners have always been so nice to me, regardless of how riced out my car was. Always giving me an “nice” symbol, nodding your head at me, giving me the peace sign, saying “nice car” and then giving some revs. Always seem like such chill people. This is just my daily now, and even so I still get acknowledgment from my local RS owners and it’s great.

This car is my daily, so its duties do include hauling my bikes around when I wanna go on rides, but my problem with a hitch is how hideous it was and how it ruined the appearance of the back end of these fine cars. Solution? Know somebody who fabricates lol.

The receiver end has a square tube in it, and once it is in, it's held in by a normal hitch pin. There is also a set screw to tighten it up, and make it feel like one solid piece again. Pic #4 is before it was fully finished and powder coated, but you get the idea.

The base hitch I started with here was the torklift; I believe it's the only 2" receiver available, at least in North America.

So I bent my lower control arm on the passenger side. It was a pretty big impact so I'm planning to replace the control arm on both sides, at least the passenger cv axle, the sway bar links, tie rod ends and of course the hardware.

Does anyone have any recommendations for where to source the parts or perhaps like a kit?

Hit a pothole two weeks ago leaving the gym and managed to bend one of my forged 19” wheels enough to warrant replacing. Had these winter wheels taking up space in the garage, so I bought some new tires and put them on earlier today.