Boosted Falcon

Its time for some help on weather to keep going with the turbo six or swap over to v8 power ie windsor or clevo with a carbie setup.Whats everyones opinion its starting to do my head in.Im planing on heading over to summernats and a couple of other events towards the end of the year.cheers

imo V8..When the VL turbos and skylines and shit are in burnout comps it gets pritty boring.
Clevo all the way!

Something like this;




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHw05mZ0fdo

V8.

The noise makes skids good.

Plus bogans love skids but don't like turbos. They will mark you down.

yeah any v8 running straight off the header's sounds tuff. doesn't even have to be that powerful, as long as it pulls second/third.

edit.... just read your thing in the wanted section. sound's like you have a pretty serious turbo arrangment. not sure if i'd be getting rid of all that for an 8

Unless its got a screamer, excessive spool noise and flutter, a turbo fails as a skid car.

V8 all the way otherwise!

agreed, clevo V8!

LS3 will do the trick

wicksy wrote:LS3 will do the trick

Yea was thinking about one of them aswell,i did have a vl 308 sitting in there about a year ago and it lined up better than a windsor,are the sumps on a gen 3 forward facing? ive got a budget of around 10-12g i just want to make sure i get it right.

don't know wether this helps or not but my plan is to build a 351 clevo, you can make a good engine using 302 rods (new pistons to make up the length of the bore with the 302 rods) which give more toque with the shorter rod and also 302 close chamber heads which gives u higher compression. apparently they make good power for the money you put in.

Yea a lot of people seem to go that way makes them a bit more revvy as well,when was the last time you saw a clevo throw a rod at a burnout comp you allways see holdens and chevs in pieces sitting in there own oil!!!Theres a good runner 351 on ebay $950 sounds like a good start.

I'd go a V8.

Downside of a turbo car is the mental underbonnet temps, which is a hard thing to overcome in a burnout car as they normally aren't getting much air due to the low speeds.

Plus what Dan said, those toothless bogan dickheads love a V8. Anything else and they'll be booing and punching their girlfriend/cousin.

^^^ agreed

at Easternats, there was a turbo V6 VN, pulled a pretty decent skid, but made no noise and ended up cooking itself.

yep definetly v8 power now,clevo now for something a bit different just need to track down a bellhousing to move the starter to the passenger side,eb v8 k-frame the engine mounts should be the same.Time to start playing again yee hah

What car is this for?

Was going to be my eb xr6 but im going to finish that with the turbo setup its allmost done and ive got a grandpa ea here doing nothing so im going to do that one for a skid car a bit less value than the xr6.cheers

Clevo in an ea?? That would be a difficult task I'd think haha

I no a guy with a 351 windsor in an XH and he said it wasnt to hard to fit.




This thing won the summernats burnout comp i think? So it shows that a 6 can do it if done right.
I've also seen this in action and its quite a site to see!

Dansedgli wrote:V8.

The noise makes skids good.

Plus bogans love skids but don't like turbos. They will mark you down.

Dan's right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBte7CQBHM

^^ Perfect example.

this is why you go v8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHYMnqWvW0

nothing beats the sound of a 347 at 12,000 rpm,

well for 40 seconds or so anyway

sorry it was this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Au8Icw ... re=related