{"id":1309,"date":"2017-07-07T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2017-07-07T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:50:23","slug":"ford-focus-rs-product-development-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/ford-focus-rs-product-development-update","title":{"rendered":"Ford Focus RS Product Development Update!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right after we finished our prototype Focus RS suspension (camber plates, monotube dampers, & coilovers) and big tire upgrade (Forgestar 18×9.5″ and 275mm RE71R) we did our 2nd round of track testing to see how much improvement we made over the stock RS at MSR-Cresson’s 1.7 mile course. And only 10 months later we finally processed all of the video, data, and wrote updated the build thread – starting here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In the massive 3-part forum update<\/a><\/strong> we cover the challenges of the 3rd gen Focus chassis\/suspension and how we overcame that with prototype camber plates and a modified Bilstein coilover suspension. With big spring rate changes, lots of camber, and more caster, we were able to stuff 1.5″ wider wheels and +40mm of tire under this little AWD hot hatch.<\/p>\n

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The changes to handling balance were nothing short of miraculous. Gone was the heavy understeering car with computer woes, and now we had a damn fast little 4 door on our hands – less than a second off a C6 Corvette Z06 lap time we ran at the same track only weeks before! We show a lot of our MSR testing in this post to give a good comparison of where the little RS ended up.<\/p>\n

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Todd raced the MyShopAssist<\/a> RS for the rest of the 2016 season with USCA<\/a>\/Optima<\/a>m showed the car at SEMA, and even raced in the Super Lap Battle with Global Time Attack<\/a>, which we cover in the forum thread also. He has started racing the RS with Optima once again in 2017 – and we can’t wait to see how the results shake out.<\/p>\n

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You can read more, see 80+ pictures, and watch dozens of videos of the RS in full battle trim starting here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right after we finished our prototype Focus RS suspension (camber plates, monotube dampers, & coilovers) and big tire upgrade (Forgestar 18×9.5″ and 275mm RE71R) we did our 2nd round of track testing to see how much improvement we made over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-thread-update","category-new-product","category-race-summary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}