Somebody Dropped a Ford Focus ST Drivetrain into Ford Transit

At Jalopnik, we love when individuals give you loopy mixtures to make surprising autos, all of a sudden change into efficiency gods (or wannabe gods). Take this 2014 Ford Transit Join listed on Automobiles & Bids. At first look, certain, it’s only a Ford Transit van. However beneath the sheet metals beats an surprising coronary heart: the turbocharged I4 from a 2014 Focus ST.

Collectively, we’ve what Ford would probably have by no means given us, a Ford Transit Join ST. From the surface, every thing seems inventory, apart from the ST badging. It’s a refined trace letting that this Transit actually is one thing particular, and totally different.

Positive, keen-eyed observers would possibly acknowledge a couple of ST particulars just like the 18-inch Focus ST wheels, the rally car-like mud flaps and the middle exit exhaust. However there’s extra the place that got here from.

Now to be clear, this van isn’t only a Focus ST engine thrown right into a Transit Join. This car has been given all of the mods to make sure that it drives nicely, like a Focus ST, too.

Beginning with the ST’s 2.5-liter turbocharged I4, which in its inventory type makes 252 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque, and is paired to a six-speed guide. That a part of the drivetrain has been modified with a stage 2 tune from Cobb, a stage 3 clutch equipment from SPEC Clutch, a Mishimoto radiator, and a limited-slip differential from MFactory. The proprietor additionally threw on an Eibach reducing spring equipment. Sadly, a dyno sheet wasn’t offered for the Transit’s mods, so it’s not recognized simply how a lot of the work could have elevated energy output.

Inside there’s what appears to be like to be the ST’s Recaro seats and its complete instrument cluster, auxiliary gauges on the middle stack for issues like oil stress and temp, and a pleasant sound system setup together with a Kenwood head unit and an Alpine amp.

There’s a reasonably obtrusive downside with the instrument cluster. The vendor says that when the manufacturing unit cluster was swapped for the ST cluster “the instrument cluster was programmed to show the chassis mileage.” That implies that the precise complete mileage of this factor isn’t recognized, although the vendor notes he’s put 7,000 miles on it because the swap was accomplished in Might of 2021.

Different issues seem to be a listing of bizarre electrical gremlins just like the radiator fan remaining on, or the a/c turning on after the automotive has run for a bit. Energy steering additionally simply kicks in after “the primary 5 or 10 ft of driving,” and the traction management, ABS and rearview digicam all don’t work. Possibly that comes right down to some programming issues. However regardless, all issues to remember.

In case you can see the potential within the checklist {of electrical} maladies, the little scratches right here and there on the surface, and the wear and tear on the seat bolsters, there’s nonetheless time to nab this creation on your storage. On the time of writing, there’s nonetheless six days left, and the bid is at $12,500.