TornadoJudd Donating Members 818 Member For: 18y 10m 24d Posted 20/05/08 08:09 AM Author Share Posted 20/05/08 08:09 AM Thanks for the reply Ratter. One more question for you. Do you know of many guys that have fitted larger cams and if it was a worth while upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 20/05/08 08:20 AM Share Posted 20/05/08 08:20 AM (edited) I have tuned a 260 that had bigger cams fitted by another workshop and it made similar power to a 290 with the same other mods, but the car has not been raced to get any figures.There have been a few reports of cams being fitted and high power levels, but none of these have appeared as race times, that I'm aware of.Wade from the other forum ran 11.8s in a manual 260 ute that has been rebuilt with different cams, he is the quickest cam change that I have heard of, but that's not to say there are not othersI should also add, that my car was tuned by Bluepower when I was racing it, it was before I had my dyno and software Edited 20/05/08 08:23 AM by ratter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no turbo Member 206 Member For: 19y 1m 12d Posted 20/05/08 08:57 AM Share Posted 20/05/08 08:57 AM a mate spent 4k at a nth brissie tuners shop on a tune and exhaust to run a 13.9 in a bf a6 xr8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordboy1981 Donating Members 2,075 Member For: 21y 11m 21d Gender: Male Location: Sydney, NSW Posted 20/05/08 09:28 AM Share Posted 20/05/08 09:28 AM (edited) haha, mine ran a 13.8, stock with just a tune!mine you when I fitted difillipo's and a twin 3" pipe, it went ALOT better, but I never got around to running it... Edited 20/05/08 09:29 AM by fordboy1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TornadoJudd Donating Members 818 Member For: 18y 10m 24d Posted 20/05/08 09:45 AM Author Share Posted 20/05/08 09:45 AM what sort of power at the wheels are you Boss boys getting without going forced induction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratter Member 6,793 Member For: 18y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: @ my laptop Posted 20/05/08 10:51 AM Share Posted 20/05/08 10:51 AM on my dyno I'm seeing 275-280 rwkw, others are reporting higher figures but do not have times to support it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferlauto87 Member 32 Member For: 16y 8m 9d Gender: Male Location: Country VIC Posted 08/06/08 09:45 PM Share Posted 08/06/08 09:45 PM Ive raced a BF XR8 ZF trans ute at heathcote in my ute, he was running constant 14.5s, I had mid 13's with a dirty single rail 4spd manual , it was stock ( I hope anyway), off the line there real doughy, hope the flash tuner and pipes fixes that?Anyway, I was feeling pretty chuffd the old would do over a new XR8, that was untill the fuel pump couldnt keep up, the single rail didnt play the game and missed top and bent 2 pushrods, still rolled through at a 14.1 at 97mph, before that had 104mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueboost Member 1,204 Member For: 20y 7m 12d Gender: Male Location: Mackay NorthQueensland Posted 09/06/08 10:00 PM Share Posted 09/06/08 10:00 PM Russel ran a 13.2 up in townsville the other week, his best mph was 108mph (1.8 something 60ft),all his best figures were in diferent runs, he was letting it change itself with that, standed airbox, but with exhaust and tune,he made 265rwks,(6speed auto)with bluepower airbox, and rev it a bit more, each gear, and it will run a mid 12, at 112mph.the boss has to be reved out to about 6400rpm, to get it on the power band for the next gear,the owner did not want to risk his oil pump gears. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV PERFORMANCE Senior Member Member 139 Member For: 18y 4m 28d Gender: Male Location: Caringbah 9526-5322 Posted 10/06/08 12:12 AM Share Posted 10/06/08 12:12 AM A customers BF GT with Edit and exhaust on factory tyres runs 13.0 and backed upCV PERFORMANCE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPV TRANNY Im the one and only Donating Members 3,557 Member For: 20y 1d Gender: Male Location: In my house Posted 10/10/08 05:33 AM Share Posted 10/10/08 05:33 AM These Boss V8,s are turds...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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