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The boss being Slow probably applies to standard autos. If you mod it or get someone who can actually drive a manual you will be surprised. Then again you could the SS and join the bogans

I've driven harder to go get milk. I wouldn't be drawing any conclusions from that video other than the FG looks alright from the rear too !

Tune only isn't really stock. With the stupid single spinner I am surprised anyone gets a 14 let alone a 12. I used to think it was no big deal but now it's loosened up it's damned annoying!

good times, just to confirm, that's completely stock now ? I don't get how anyone gets any traction with these things. Even on the street without misbehaving too much I get lots of traction issues.

Damned right they have .. there is only a grand difference between the two... that's how it should have been from the start.

I'll take your word for it, I was told otherwise .. and it would explain why it looked factory

even when I was right up close it looks factory. Whoever did it, did a superb job.

I don't think he did particularly well, low 14s .. but it is quite modified ( I'd bet they don't come with a twin exhaust standard ). My guess is he was discovering the bum dragger launch issue Once he gets the launch worked out I would expect much lower times. As for Tiny, he is a big target and hard to miss !

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Beats me why the obsession with beating a GT-P... if it means anything the XR5 got caned by everything else. It's good to see someone out there having a go and it's something different !

silver would look best IMO. I'm considering them for the XR8 ... and if I find someone that makes ones that look half decent .. I'll get some

lol@all the guys that think stock XR8s are slow. I had to check under my feet to see if it was the BS piling up that was lifting them. Stock .. there is nothing in it .. modified, T all the way.

The tyres were toyo proxes. Before anyone gets all excited about these 'mods' the driver is quite a hefty bloke who would make up for any of these perceived enchancements. I have to say that the V8 Blood is starting to thin. Not only is the typhoon cheaper than the GT it's also a lot faster .. and I like the wheels a lot more ... damn that's depressing

I took my getech out on our last HPR day to check out the accuracy. It was very hit and miss. It read mostly a 10th slow on the ET but waaaaay high on the mph... it was saying that I was getting 110 mph from an alomst stock xr8 I wish. As for the magazines carrying on about the 1/4 mile .. the way a track is set up is THE definitive measure, not their correveit or some other GPS based thing. Their system is less accurate by virtue of not allowing rollout not the other way arround. They cannot claim to be more accurate when they have deviated from the accepted norm.

the 290 has higher comp, different cams and valves and obviously different PCM values. There is no reason you couldn't put the 290 heads on a 260 but it would probably need an edit to get the best out of it. I don't know if the lower compression woudl have any real world benefit but I suspect that FPV / Ford didn't give the 290 higher comp just for the exercise. They are both assembled at the FPV .. probably by the same people.