Quote Originally Posted by Antony Warmbold View Post
Hi Tom, I watched it with interest. They speak about rebuilds etc. Nothing special for me there. I would have liked more info from the gearbox man... I noted from the damper man that the smaller spring is indeed a helper spring and not a tender. Therefore it seems M-Sport is still using a linear spring suspension system. From 10:32 the ride height adjuster was interesting. He says the driver resets it inside the car..."obviously when he is stopped (with a smile)..." The 2004 Focus had a ride height adjuster which was driven by a pump and controlled by buttons on the steering wheel. I understand that nowadays it's supposed to be manual so I wonder how you reset it from inside the car (straight forward question). Maybe they handle a manual hydraulic pump somehow. The turbo part was interesting as well. 155.000rpm, 1.000°c, 70L/sec, 1.000km before rebuild, 2.000km on test car...

All in all a cool video!
Yes, they use linear spring. Small one is helper. Sometimes on tarmac they use additional, very stiff tender, so then 3 springs in total.
Ride height adjusting canister allows lifting the car two times. Then needs to be charged which is done during the service. It is operated manualy - by hand.
Turbo figures sound rather typical, so nothing special.
But I also agree that it's pretty interesting movie.