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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
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gday ole mate ,coupla months ago i put myself in hock for a au xr6 series 2 sedan(vct) i havent had much to do with falcon inline 6s always been a v8 bloke , but i was surprised at how good it is on fuel for a big car (treated with respect on throttle)i did a run up to other side of bright (cant remember the name)mostly highway and a bit of the hilly stuff,it returned about 7.5 litres per 100 k,havent done a test around town yet , but i am happy with it,i do a mixture of highway and heavy traffic to werk each day always get more than 500ks out of a tank, best car ive had , I dont think i could get much better than 7.5 l.p.h.k and i was trying(xrs have performance diff ratio not as good on fuel on highway i think)
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This is a question that interests me also. Under hard driving what will usually happen. Under normal commuting or highway travel, what will be the result? Cheers |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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The VCT is a very nice engine Fords first attempt at buiding up the BA DOHC VCT 6.
The VCT will use more fuel because with the IRS back end they are heavier and the extra weight will use more fuel. Efficiency wise the VCT could be very good but not that much better than a HP6 except for the fact Ford didn't spend enough time on the VCT ecu to get the best out of it. |
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My personal belief is that the VCT does not respond to pacemaker headers, I've seen nothing to change my mind on that yet. I have the JMM race headers and they DO WORK. I'd get them first before a chip.
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Holy Crap! What a differerence. 6.8 is not that much slower than an Auto XR6 Turbo is it? Does the cat back system have to be a particular brand / spec? I want a very quiet system , not much louder than stock. Do you think this will affect flow all that much? J |
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I have a redback cat back system and a JMM high flow cat. It is noticably louder than stock. I guess if you added some more mufflers and resonators it would quieten down but I dont know how much this would effect performance.
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I wasn't saying the VCT exhaust was the absolute difference between the two in terms of power, I'm just saying that it was just a part of how they sold the VCT as a more powerful car on paper. We both know the VCT is a good engine.
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With a dirty BMC filter and T snorkel running Safeway premium and the car in need of a good tune it pulled 123rwk. That pacemaker extractor is a good h/way performer with fuel economy and very good top end overtaking. If you are looking for a few more KW. I would agree with the others that the JMM extractors are the way to go for performance. buickman |
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As a overall package the VCT with IRS was a better car to drive with less diagonal pitching no wheel hop and superior traction according to wheels testers. buickman |
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MickyB that 650 km out of a tank your old man is claiming, is that city or highway driving or a combination of both?
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MOTOR always produce better figures. In 1998 the xr6hp pulled a 15.33 and the VCT 15.57. VCT was an attempt to produce a smooth premium six for fairlanes and ghias and filled a niche for a supercharged six cyl commodore competitor in the XR6 VCT. I guess it gave ford aus a bit of practice with VCT b4 the BA
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correct me if im wrong but there was a sr1 or 2 xr6 au with a snail off the side of the motor that was running in the high to low 11s a couple of years back i think that it was a vct motor in it. the motor was stock apart from a decomp plate i heard. the only thing holding it back was the auto it kept chewing them up!
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God, hasnt this been done to death. And who decided to resurect a 2 year old thread anyway?
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Had a quick flick thru this thread, and sorry if Im asking a stupid question.... I have an XR6 VCT, and if it has been tuned down from factory, if I get it flash tuned, will that up my rwkw figure? Its already got exhaust, extractors, CAI and filter.
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A flash tune will give it power no matter what.
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i drove a manual VCT and i was fairly suprised at the grunt....but drove a different one the other day and it was gutless as :S
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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Would prolly do wonders for your economy too! Since my flash tune (still not quite complete) and addition of a stg2 cam I have gained nearly 25rwkw, nearly 100Nm and about an extra 100-130km on my DTE (Around 550 now)
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Wow. I can already push most s1 and 2 xr8's, and pretty much all v6 commodores including VE. If a flash tune is going to help me with a bit most snot, could be interesting to see how it drives. Who are the people to go see, and how much am I roughly looking at?
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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i think its around $500 or so to buy the flash box then you have to get it tuned so prolly another 500 to get that done if your getting the custom tune done but its the only way to go as it will reflect the mods done to your car alot better than a standard tune
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I have the pacemaker 4499 headers. Would the 4480's be a better chode. Or deff go jmm
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I think i can see china with this mine.
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