FPV GTHO

I think its more that the Ford teams have more to prove. Take SBR out of the picture and its the smaller Orrcon and BJR cars that have been shaming 888, FPR and DJR who are considerably bigger.

Neither the Tornado or Pursuit come with the hard cover standard anymore, I think they took it off to drop the price a bit

Looks too much like the 2003 livery, last years was much better with the black highlights

As far as rear luggage room in L's is concerned, the Falcon wagon is still bigger

Most of the drop in Falcon sales was more from an overall decline in the category, not the Territory joining the range. Its barely affected both wagon and sedan sales as fleets still prefer the wagons cause of the LPG and bigger space. All that matters is the decline in Falcon sales has more than been made up with by the Territory sales

Other than looking about a foot too long, not too bad.

From that angle, it looks like theyve worked more of a diffuser into the rear bumper of the BA bodykit

HRT's got the competition running for their livery, so that should prove interesting. I'll be looking more for the Pirtek and Caltex SBR liveries as theyve been pretty good the past 2 years. 888 had an interesting livery last year as well so this year should be good as well. BJR also released their livery the other day with the new BOC colours

Maybe when the 6 speed auto joins the range later in the year, FPV will secretly revise the F6 or something.

What else does though At least its not all game over like Ford first had people trying to believe when the XR8 and GT was first released.

Hopefully Lowndes will be able to. I'd imagine Ingall will have alot of speed as well.

12kw is too big a difference for different dyno's IMO. I believe the likes of Nizpro and APS have said theyve seen XR6T's with rwkw fluctuations arund 20kw

IMO as long as theyre mass produced, family sedan based cars, there'll always be compromises somewhere. Considering that, both FPV and HSV still make some pretty good cars

Apparently there's a couple of Mk2's going through the shop so considering Herrod stuck a Vortec V2 on a previous one, with the Stealth out it should be interesting to see how many are "only" 320kw still

Theres a Blueprint HP320 that must have been going around between the magazines that was originally entered in that Shannons Expensive Daewoo vs Ford rally leading up to the Clipsal 500. Wheels tested it and got a paltry 6.8 0-100 to a 5.8 from the GTS. Ive got no doubt a regular production HP320 would get under 6's and 14's, as this particular one had a changed diff ratio to suit the road rally's it was entered in rather than straight line performance

Yeah, both those and the APS Edit are all PCM flashes

Only Herrod's is the stealth but its basically the same software as CAPA's isnt it?

Two is always better than one. Some of the fastest GTR's in the world run unbelieveably large twin turbo setups after having a big single which didn't provide enough air. For example twin 3037's over something like a single T51R. I don't think we'll be seeing twins on any of the ford line up mainly due to cost and really I can't see the need. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah well I think its the fastest GTR in the world uses a single. Singles will provide more boost than twins, the benefit of twins is you can run 2 smaller ones rather than one huge one and the smaller turbines will spool up faster

Single's give more power so I dont know why theyre chasing such an idea

At least they supply a full spare, dont HSV give you a space saver or something?

You need to go for both to get an optimum effect, cold air by itself is useless as you still need it coming in at a substantial volume.

YUP .. that's it! and XT replaced Forte as the base model designation because Ford wanted to extend the sporting image of the range right down to the base model and XT was the second generation GT. So will the base model in the successor to the BA be called a Phase I ??? or a SHAKER??? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wasnt the XT chosen cause the T was for touring (like the GT) and the XR drew links with the XR's?

its 330kw (providing its JUST the phase2) compared to 297kw, no big surprises with the result there

I read somewhere that the 6 cylinders rev limit varies between 5800-6200 depending on the conditions

I saw the figures for it all not that long ago, I think they read about 5000 SS's to about 3000 XR6T's and XR8's, although there was 8000 XR6's