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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:00 pm 
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What does the late series 185kW EL XR8 have that's different to the earlier 175kW engines and the AU1 185kW version?

 

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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:47 pm 
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sly wrote:
What does the late series 185kW EL XR8 have that's different to the earlier 175kW engines and the AU1 185kW version?


Upgrades from the earlier 175kw to reach 185kw were explorer manifold and EL GT headers.

Au 185kw's copped a crap cam design but got the GT40P heads, 70mm MAF and 65mm T/B and some had 24lb injectors.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:20 am 
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Also a different ECU profile, not that that is important.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:19 pm 
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Also have a 3.45 diff instead of a 3.23 one.
4 difference in total.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:26 pm 
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also have an optional steering wheel thats the same as the el gt but with black leather with red stitching where the wood grain is.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:34 pm 
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I've got that wheel. Its awesome. I thought that was an option for any EL XR.

 

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:36 pm 
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iv got two of them.lol one for my project and the other is in the mail for my daily. they may have been an option on all EL XRs i have only herd from a mate that it was series 2. iv never looked into it.

 

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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:10 pm 
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also series 2 had roller rockers i believe

 

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Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:32 am 
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also series 2 had roller rockers i believe


Nope, just pressed steel jobbies like every other one.

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:56 am 
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All good info so far, thanks all. The engine spec on this car I'm looking at actually complicates things a bit. For a car with the HO intake and cast manifold, I'd buy an Explorer lower, GT40P heads and headers and get them all port-matched before fitting (along with a cam & 1.7 roller rockers etc) to minimise time off-road. But for this car I'd have to have the manifolds off to be matched to new heads. Or buy duplicates...

BTW what is the stock exhaust spec for this model? This car has a single 2.5" which I'd guess would be close to stock. I'm thinking 3" or dual 2.25" would be a good match with better heads and cam.

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:09 pm 
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I've got 3" exhaust on the port matched GT40P heads and port matched Explorer manifold. Sounds good hooked up to the ELGT headers.

 

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