Madmaxx21

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Hello all! 

I own and operate a custom automotive shop, I recently started production on, custom vinyl decals, custom tee shirts, hoodies and custom magnets. I am wondering if maybe you guys would be interested in any items, I can custom make just about anything. However, I will not make anything that needs to be licensed for commercial use and I will not compete with these lovely forums. If you want a personal sticker made for your personal car, I will do that. Or a t shirt/hoodie made for your car club/group/event I can do that as well. Nothing printed, only capable of die cut. Any font you want, and any design and color you want. Outdoor vinyl is used.

 

 

I'm 20

Unless you shoe-horned an ecoboost engine in there, it would be a very odd decal to add.

Just as taz said, to confuse people. No one in area I live in has ever heard of a cmax before but to most people the eccoboost name is familiar. I'm just trying to be different and add some flare to my car. The way the electric engine in my car whistles it sounds like it has a turbo. and once I add a cold air intake it'll have a little induction noise. Has anyone ever done a cold air on the cmax, curious if it would help anything out

Welcome and I like your mods.  Very cool.  I have done the black wheels and grill on mine and I love the look.  There are pics in my profile. 

 

Still thinking of plasti-dipping more items to kind of debadge.  Also would like to get some tint too.  

 

For the suspension, I like the car a lot but I wish it was tighter.  I had a xB with Tein coils on it that dropped it and I really loved them.   Cornering in that car was really fun.  I don't get that feeling with the Max. 

 

As you look around you will see others that have done some mods too.  I have not seen much with the suspension.  A video showing your system working would be cool.  

 

Keep the ideas and pics coming.

 

Once I perfect the mounts and get permission from Firestone and the other companies im going to put together a kit and sell it through my company. The first 10 kits will be cmax forum exclusives.

 

I did my grill black this weekend because of your pictures. I have some body damage to the passenger side of my vehicle, once they repair it and paint it I'm going to remove all the badges but the ford badges and add ecoboost and blue st emblems.

Here's my headlight spread. The camera gives them a much more blue hue then they actually are.

MM, welcome to the forum. I would really love to hear more about your suspension install. I would like to find a set of coilovers that would fit our cars, I've never been happy with the factory setup. I had Ohlins on my previous car, and they spoiled me rotten.

 

Please continue to share, there will be those that don't get it, but there are some of us who understand your passion.

Thank you! I'm glad that people understand.

 

The kit is a mad mixture of parts all fabricated by me and my shop. It is factory struts, aftermarket drop springs from an older euro Cmax (2011 I believe) the air ride kit makes it ride slightly higher with the air bags at ride height so the drop springs keep it around factory ride height. The air controller is a air lift wireless one air controller, key fob controlled as well as memory programmable(such as my key off air dump). The air compressor is a 200 psi air zenith, I have a 1/2 gallon air tank. The bags them selves have custom mounts since no one makes parts for our cars. They're Firestone, I can't find the automatic ride height kit anywhere it was sold on horsepower freaks and I belibe was made by air lift as well, self levels and does the memory pull from the obd system to get speeds of the car.

Have you thought about a 12v DC power filter? Can you describe the feedback you are getting? Does it seem to vary depending on the RPMs of the motor?

 

I do have a question about the HID projectors. Do you have any issues with them? I can't say I would for for 10,000k as I want more usable light but I am definitely considering some sort of lighting upgrades for the main lights and the fogs.

 

I do think your car looks pretty nice. I'd be interested in knowing more about the intelligent ride height that you put in as well. I wouldn't mind have the car a bit higher when in the city and dropping it when on the highway.

 

The HIDs are 5k, the high beams are standard halogen for the sheer brightness. The fog lamps are projection LED bulbs. 5k also but slightly whiter. The headlamps are modded with bmw orb projection housing so I get huge light scatter with no risk of blinding other drivers.

 

The air ride is set on triggers. For city driving you could have it give you 2 inches of lift at speeds under 25mph. I have it set to dump all air when the ignition is turned off, and it's also set to dump front of car 1.5 inches under stock ride height, and rear .8 inches. to improve drag and aero on highways. The kit was around $2k and I installed it myself.

 

I will upload pictures of headlamps and try to find the kit for air ride.

On one hand, your mods are benign, except the headlights, On the other, none of them impact performance except the air ride, and that won't do much by itself.

 

Things to consider if you'd like mileage in the 100's...it is an Energi, after all.

- front grill block on all three grills

- front air dam

- side skirts (to make the air ride a functional improvement)

- wheel fairings

- (lots more stuff here.)

 

I'd love to suggest the Focus rear spoiler, but we haven't found anything to do to the back of the car that's helpful. Several folks have added vortex generators, but no one's proven they help. I can't prove the air dam or skirts help either, but the grill bocks are well documented improvements.

 

The biggest variable is you, the driver. 50+MPG is good for a Hybrid, but poor for an Energi. You've clearly found the loud pedal has great response because electric motors have all their torque at low RPM. Our focus has been minimizing fuel use, and the mods I suggest all go in that direction.

 

Finally a word on high color temperature headlights. You made a bad choice if you want to drive this car at night. You are blinding oncoming traffic, regardless how well you aim them, and you will be blinded the first time you hit fog as high color temperature fogs are also useless.

 

What you've missed is

- color temperature

- scattering.

 

The higher the color temperature, the more light is scattered. That's why the sky is blue, and sunsets are red, even though the sun defines white light. In fog, your headlights will produce a wall of white as all the blue energy is scattered back toward you, and your fog lights will make it worse.

 

A rational approach to headlight upgrades keeps the headlights no bluer than sunlight, 5K-6K color temperatures, and the fog lights in the 2.5K-3K range. You get true white light, not the bluish "PC monitor white" you have now, and these fog lights will help you see better.

 

So, your car may look cool to you, but it screams a different message to me.

 

Have fun,

Frank

Hey frank appreciate the feedback. I'm not at all concerned with my fuel economy im not concerned with performance gains im concerned with making my car EXACTLY how I like it. And I love it.

 

My headlamps are actuallt 5k sorry for the mistake. My race car has 10k and that's for show. My fog lamps are same color temp. I also have projection housings on my headlamps to prevent blinding other drivers

 

I want the focus ST wing solely for aesthetic reasons.

Hello all! I can gaurentee im probably the youngest member of these forums, (20) and the mods to my car will show it. However seeing cars like "Maxus" makes me feel right at home. My car is a 13 plug in hybrid, I'm a Toyota/bmw technician by day and I build nissan race cars by night. My commute is hell and I traded my fully tuned 2004 Evo for a lovely cmax and I get 50+mpg.

 

 

Mods:

 

Powered coat flat black rims

SVT racing blue powdered coat brake calipers

Intelligent automatic ride height air ride

5% tint all the way around

Smoked mirror lamps

10,000k hid projection headlights

5000k led fog lamps

 

 

My questions are, I am trying to hook up an aftermarket subwoofer to my vehicle using a line out converter. The system works lovely until I drive and the gas engine kicks on, and I get a massive amount of feedback that actually blew my subwoofer. I'm hooked directly to the 12v accesory battery and am using a normal body ground. Have tried a couple grounds and no difference.

 

My second question, has anyone tried to fit the focus ST spoiler to the cmax? I love it and think it would finalize my mods. I am currently debadging the car and adding ST and ecoboost badges all the way around as well.

 

If anyone has any questions about my mods or needs any help at all feel free to ask. I love to help.