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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:14 am 
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Morning all

A mate of mine os buying an EF-EL XR8, basicly he wants to know how much roughly to get a good amount of power out of it, say 250kw. Also how strong is the falcon 5.0, what amount of forced induction would it take without cracking it open.

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:21 am 
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A custom tune with a stroker kit in it with GT40P heads and a decent manifold will see 250kw as thats what the AU T3 series had and they made 250kw at the engine. You'd also need bigger injectors and throttle body and MAF.

Going from 170kw at the engine to 250kw at the engine would cost about $8000 if not more.

Now if your talking 250rwkw. Then expect to pay a lot more.

There is so much you can do to them and so many people have differing opinions on how to do it.

A little more info on what your friend wants to spend and whether he wants NA or forced induction would make it a little easier for people to give you their opinions.

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:57 am 
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He is looking at putting a blower on it, mainly to keep up with what i'm buying next :lol: i know he will spend the money too, so him aiming for 250rwk possibly 300rwk i wouldn't put it past him, but it will be a project so knowing which way to go and getting out of it as cheap as he can will be the aim.

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:11 pm 
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My 347 in my EF XR8 cost me $10K or so in the end. 230rwkw. Look at my build thread in my signature for specs and dyno etc (Very similar to what Timmeh suggested). Anything higher and you arent just looking at an engine build, you will need Gearbox upgrade and possibly a diff aswell. All depends how you drive ofcourse but It would be adviseable.

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:45 pm 
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8psi on a standard motor, between 220-240ish rwkw.

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:54 pm 
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Supercharging the stock motor might be the cheapest option.

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:03 pm 
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Vic, why is your avatar looking down the dizzy hole of a windsor?

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:13 pm 
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I just rotate photos of the engine build through my avater. Just for personal amusement.

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:08 pm 
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I thought I was supposed to be looking for a dropped oil pump drive or a f**k oil pump or something :(

 

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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:13 pm 
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Negative ghostrider, the engine runs.

 

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