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10-11-2010, 08:59 PM | #31 | ||
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The ECU is not designed to run four cam phasers at the moment....
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You are saying that the combined XR6T & G6ET sales are not greater than the XR6T, XR8 & V8 Ghia sales in BF? Seriously? From local experience here the majority of potential XR8 sales were converted to GT/GS if they were V8 diehards and XR6T if they were just performance enthusiasts. As far as the 5l NA not being competitive..... It is 5l so there is a limit to how much torque it can make. The only way it can make high power is through high revs which will make it hopeless in the traffic light grand prix. I drive a car that makes 230kw, 358Nm, revs to 7500rpm, weighs 1400kg and will demolish anything with a FPV or XR badge on the windy stuff. It is flat out getting a low to mid 14 over the 400m and would have difficulty against a XR6 N/A ZF at a traffic light grand prix. The VQ35HR engine has won many awards as one of the best engines ever made. Increase it to 5l (10:7) and you have about 330kw and 500Nm which is only slightly more than a FG BOSS XR8 so how, if the BOSS was not competitive, can this new engined car all of a sudden lead the field. The turbo 6 will still be quicker. The SSV will still be quicker. Nothing will change regardless of all the hopes and faith of the true believers. Why is the 4l F6 so much quicker that the 6.3l GTS? Why is the 4l XR6T/G6ET so much quicker than the 6l SSV? Why is the 5l GS/GT showing such incredible performance? Pitting a NA engine against a FI engine is taking a knife to a gun fight....... |
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Which do you think would be quicker? (Not a trick question)
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so many V8s Commodores.... Holden's V8s are due to get VCT courtesy of the Vortec Trucks shortly to see them out until 2012 and new V8. It's hard to know what the future holds now that Gillard is proposing a CO2 tax on vehicles, maybe it's just political sabre rattling but maybe big cube V8s are looking down the barrels... Perhaps buyers or lack of them have already sealed the fate of certain cars... mind you, a cheap and dirty 430 hp from a 6.2 V8 Boss is hard to walk past. Last edited by jpd80; 10-11-2010 at 11:05 PM. |
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But how would having a cheap XR8 drag customers away who are already buying high end vehicles such as HSV. Surly FPV is the preferred marque to stand against HSV. I have yet to hear any argument other than price for any potential XR8 sales and you use an example of a customer base where entry level for P platers is low 6 digit income per year? Did it ever occur to you that holden sells more V8s than ford because that is all they have? You are obviously a V8 true believer, if Holden/HSV is so much better why are you driving a Ford? The F6 is much quicker than all HSVs and significantly cheaper so why don't all of the HSV buyer get F6s instead? But no one has answered the original question. If a XR6T can dance with HSV let alone thrash SSV and of course BOSS XR8 and the BOSS XR8 market was dying anyway how will a new N/A smaller capacity XR8 recover this market? Do you really think that a N/A 5l XR8 will outperform the T6 or a 6l SSV? Really? And if this XR8 is S/C how would it be different from GS? What is its reason to exist? |
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10-11-2010, 11:50 PM | #40 | |||
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You grossly overestimate the SS. You know quite well their power drops off a fair bit when the media's done their business.
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Car A has 529Nm @ 4250rpm Car B has 530Nm @ 4400rpm Car A has 307kW @ 6500rpm Car B has 270kW @ 5600rpm Car A's power of 307kW, in n.a. form, is just the beginning with plenty of scope. Car B's status on this is the opposite. You should guess by now which which is which.
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different to FPV's cars and able to match it with Holden's LS engines. A cheap, simple crate engine courtesy of F Truck production... And Flappist, Those people buying SS Commodores and HSVs that you referred to as " six digit income P platers" and "cashed up Bogans" is a complete and utter nonsense as those P Platers are prevented from driving high powered V8s. I think you have just slighted a heap of decent hard working people. Last edited by jpd80; 11-11-2010 at 12:14 AM. |
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11-11-2010, 12:13 AM | #42 | ||
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My vote is we go back and read what the topic was about? The rest can be discussed else where ..... and which I am sure already is.
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A $57,000 GS with standard brakes for crying out loud.
FPV should have at least offered Brembo brake package as standard. Apart from that thumbs up for the GS and GT packages. |
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It is interesting that the more expensive performance Fords is were the V8 won, but the cheaper end the I6T won. I guess it could be seen as the buyer with more money doesn't care about outright performance, or the F6 wasn't seen as value for money compared to the XR6T.
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Why are people sooking about the brakes on the ENTRY level FPV V8?
I agree they could have been an option, but not standard, got to leave some element of premiumness (is that a word?) to the higher spec models. BUT was i misreading in wheels when they did the one off 100kph-0 test the GS pulled up just as quick if not a few cms earlier than the GT with the optioned brakes? Might have been a freak car, but a majority of people who buy these cars probably wont even track them (i havent tracked mine), and the standard brakes would be fine for day to day me thinks
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according to the web site gs has high series brakes which are fairly decent 322 mm front........303mm rear |
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the addition of better brakes should be seen as one of the very first upgrades. One hard brake application is not enough to assess a braking systems capacity, interesting to see how the standard brakes hold up after several hard stops. Those high series brakes are the same ones that didn't meet NSW Police Highway Patrol specs. |
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11-11-2010, 05:45 PM | #49 | ||
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Maybe Ford should have went back to performance PBR for GS.. Atleast red painted calipers with police spec pads. This would have fixed the issue and left Brembos out of the equation..
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11-11-2010, 06:14 PM | #50 | ||
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[QUOTE=vztrt]Actually the only thing that changed was the name. The FPV XR8 was to be the same price.
Maybe Daniel is right, i seem to remember other "XRs" going through developement at FPV before being handed over to Ford as straight production line cars, while FPV moved the bar even higher
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a highly competent system that does not fade after repeated stops. While the bigger front brakes are better, maybe they start to fag out after a couple of hard stops... |
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Coppers are still allowed to drive briskly, I had a tip in back of one to hospital to be with a seriously injured relative. Now it was late at night and in 60 kph zones but the guy didn't waste any time and would have be some of the best driving I've ever seen first hand, a real credit. Last edited by jpd80; 11-11-2010 at 07:09 PM. |
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On topic, I critisize FPV for putting standard brakes on the new Supercharged GS after the previous one had good brakes, I don't follow the logic in that... |
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Gettin way to personal......
On topic, I critisize FPV for putting standard brakes on the new Supercharged GS after the previous one had good brakes, I don't follow the logic in that... FG R6 but I don't speed. |
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