Fg Xr8 Vs Commodore Ss Afm On Dyno

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Noticed that too - but realistically what sort of difference would it make?

...and whats with the f*ckers sitting on the bonnets of the cars with jeans on

[Dyno Junkie]

It's very surprising how easy it is to "fiddle" dyno readings, strapping is but only one of them.

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Yeah I realise that, but in this instance with it being allowed to creep forward on the front rollers - what sort of gain are you talking? +5kw?

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  Pete A said:

Slaughter! Send this to all your Expensive Daewoo mates. One thing that WAS obvious. The sound from the XR was fantastic compared to the SS! Would be real interesting to see a comparo between the XR8 and XR6T by these guys.

wouldnt you expect the ford to win though? ones 260kw and the other is 290 pritty obvious

[Iconic Bionic]

Yeah and ones a 6.0L and the other a 5.4L.

I.B.

[Evil F6]

I'd take the Chev V8 any day over the ford V8. So what if the stock xr8 pulls bigger numbers. The L96 are strangled and it's a piece of piss to get big numbers out them. Ford should just stick to turbo 6's.

[Wingnut]

Im with what this guy said lol.

It is extremely suprising how much power can be extracted from the L98/L96/LS2/LS3 with very few mods. Forced induction seems to be the choice these days, but GMM have a car pulling 360rwkw with a cam and a few other bits. Always wanted a big blown 8 but a nice lumpy idle is wet dream for me. Same car also ran 10.76 full weight with only slicks and front runner. My T with 340rwkw would have strugled to get into the 11s.

Anyway, I bought my car purposly before AFM was put into these things as it just seems like your chopping a mans balls by reducing the amount of cylinders a car will use. Not a true 8 but time will tell how good they really are.

[Under-Pants]

I'm so much of a Ford lover that I have it tattoo'd into my arm - so it's hard to say this, but being a realist, I don't pretend for a second that our BOSS V8 has anything on the Chev. That being said, I spent the last few hours watching a BOSS be assembled that will probably turn the tyres in top gear, and so it should considering once wound up I'm guessing it will run some serious boost...

BOSS motors always seem to make great dyno figures, but seriously lack low end & mid-range power...

If I ever get a V8, it will be an LS (LS7 )

[01txr]

youtube serch the ford gt and gt500 and you will see plenty of clips showing the

5.4L to be a pretty good package with plenty making inexcess of 1000rwhp in street

cars.

Cant be to bad concidering majority show the gm cars the way home.

5.4L Defeats 6.0L

When is the FG going to get its credit deserved

The ve got wheels car of the year and the FG is nearly better in every department and doesn't win. BS

5.4L modern engine over old pushrod 6.0L everyday

Stick a Kendall Bell on a 5.4L and easy big power with street manners.

If only Ford AU would build and sell some blown 5.4's

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  ronburgundy said:

There was an article on it in last month's Wheels magazine - very interesting as I recall they returned some pretty awesome numbers (8 or 9 on highway from memory).

Not sure what the specific 'conditions' were but yeah that was the number, Melb to Syd on a single tank was the tagline I think

I think the main problem with that test was the fact that John Cadogan is a professional fuel economist, so their test was run at under 90km/h the whole way with gaps taped up and mirrors folded, whereas this CarAdvice test was run in real world driving conditions.