Well i hope your not shooting to race this thing. its a slow car to start off with you have to really work at it to make it fast. 0-60 in 8-9 sec range 1/4, ppl don't sit around that long for a car to go down a track lol i know a kid with a yellow ZX3 and he had exhaust/cam gears/ intake/ and some other shit and he wasn't even keeping up with my car when it was pretty much stock. I own a 2000 Z24 5 speed. Not saying my car is slow but its not fast either. I feel a Z24 5 speed is a good place to start off when you wanna mod up a domestic. Dude if you really like ford get a mustang GT, or a older Probe GT thats a real close race with my car, but i'm still faster lol, and after this week even fast cause tomorrow i'm ordering 800.00 worth of parts. And i currently run low 15's. So just a word of advice from a fellow domestic a focus is not a good car to work with.