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I would say that I raced at least 6 or 7 MTX Focus. There are quite a few in my area. Maybe the guys couldn't drive or maybe I just got lucky, but from my experiences a stock Focus (exlcuding the FSVT) is no match for my stock 95 LX. Remember anything can happen at the "track"
The question asked was "What do you think would win in a race". Everyone automatically starts talking about 0-60 times and 1/4 mile times. Those are not the only races there are. From a roll, let's say 40mph a stock 2.5 would absolutely eat up a Focus. From high way speeds the MTX will lose a lot of it's advantage over the ATX.
My vote still goes to the Contour.
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Originally posted by Draino:
From high way speeds the MTX will lose a lot of it's advantage over the ATX.
Why do you say that. An MTX is always more efficient & you can stay in the engine's powerband.
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Thank you. They just don't know. :p
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I'm not too sure, but I know my sister has a FSVT and I have a 2.5 ATX and I think they are almost the same weight. We were just messin around but I was keepin up with her so........who knows.
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Originally posted by Dave:
I'm not too sure, but I know my sister has a FSVT and I have a 2.5 ATX and I think they are almost the same weight. We were just messin around but I was keepin up with her so........who knows. but the original post was talking about a standard focus MTX not the SVT. and does she know where her car is making power at to keep it in the max power band?
Joe Hartley "yes I know it's a MTX Zetec but it beats having a ATX Duratec" Champagne 96 GL MTX some mods dynoed at 114.2whp and 124.4wtq (pre CTA intake) 16.858 @ 80.76mph (yes it's slow but still faster than D Davis) AIM: ZetecRacing My Site My Profile
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Originally posted by ZetecRacing: Originally posted by Dave:
[b]I'm not too sure, but I know my sister has a FSVT and I have a 2.5 ATX and I think they are almost the same weight. We were just messin around but I was keepin up with her so........who knows. Yeah, like I said, we were just messin around. The standard focus is 130hp and 135 ftlbs of torque. Can that really compete with the 170hp and 165 ftlbs of torque from the contour? Or does that not make much of a difference?
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well my Zetec contour MTX keeps up well with modded ATX duratecs.... Even had and SVT owner on here think I had a duratec  he said this isn't bad pickup for a standard duratec... and all I had for mods was intake, exaust, and UDP
Joe Hartley "yes I know it's a MTX Zetec but it beats having a ATX Duratec" Champagne 96 GL MTX some mods dynoed at 114.2whp and 124.4wtq (pre CTA intake) 16.858 @ 80.76mph (yes it's slow but still faster than D Davis) AIM: ZetecRacing My Site My Profile
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Originally posted by ZetecRacing: well my Zetec contour MTX keeps up well with modded ATX duratecs.... Even had and SVT owner on here think I had a duratec he said this isn't bad pickup for a standard duratec... and all I had for mods was intake, exaust, and UDPthen why are you running 16.8's? 
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Originally posted by mikey boy: then why are you running 16.8's? then why are there ATX duratecs running low 17's?
Joe Hartley "yes I know it's a MTX Zetec but it beats having a ATX Duratec" Champagne 96 GL MTX some mods dynoed at 114.2whp and 124.4wtq (pre CTA intake) 16.858 @ 80.76mph (yes it's slow but still faster than D Davis) AIM: ZetecRacing My Site My Profile
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why did you get killed by a atx duratec then? did you miss second gear again? :rolleyes:
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