Elvis & Mike Buy A Ford XR8 To Race A Holden In | Wheeler Dealers World Tour 

For rarity & resale I would go the XR8.

I have the BF XR6 Turbo and agree it is quicker. However it'll never sound as good as the XR8

@@gdawwg1125 A Tesla sounds like nothing, you're just delusional.

I own a Boss Xr8 .Love the thing .They do.love supercharging but still go hard Na if you get it done right:)

@@Neojhun a xr6 turbo sounds like a vacume cleaner

maby if it was a 300k beater but that XR8 was mint!

Absolutely correct. The fat mouth is a spiv, would take his grannie's gold teeth. I love it when I've seen folk stand firm and he looks bewildered.

Aussie local muscle 😂😂a crate truck motor from the US dumped into an outdated shit box is not LOCAL MUSCLE

​@@ToranaA9X308Isn't the GTS engine off a Corvette made in the "USA"?

@@vincekara9446 never said it wasn’t but the amount of ford flogs that keep harping on about AUSSIE muscle is hilarious. Ford Australia spent DECADES using American engines gearboxes diffs interior fittings and yet we still get the AUSSIE muscle bs

@@ToranaA9X308 As a supporter for BOTH brands, I think that the definition refers to cars that are made (assembled)here that have decent masculine presence. If we look at every origin of parts that make up the car, it'll be considered a mongrel.

this is the 2nd time they have been in Australia

At least they got behind the wheel of something decent.

the xr8 is becoming the weekend cruiser of choice, its just a great cruiser. im lucky i have a skyline to go fast and a manual xr8 ute for weekdns

I'm hanging on to mine then, although it is an auto. It only has 150 000km too, like the video example.

Literally what i did 5 years ago. People dont wanna admit the covid prices are gonski

I got my ba xr8 for 5k. I daily it and it is a beaut of a ute to drive👌

I know a guy with a 5.4 putting out a healthy 640hp on a blower, do agree that they can be a right pain to tune and the only thing you can really do without changing compression is lower boost applications. Getting the cam size right can make night and day changes... Such a weird pushrod V8, with the mix of Aussie parts and if you put the USA part in it deletes your engine...🤣

boost them, they respond great,

They aren't pushrod for a start. Nor do they have one camshaft​@@adamrandell7946

@adamrandell7946 there not a push rod V8 but

@@smithy2 oh yeah its a boss 260 my bad, somehow i was thinking of the 351..

He loves aussie hungrey jacks

Too many kangaroo burgers M8 😂

​@@Dinobaburas.He's been in a good paddock... Looks like he ate the fence!!

The only trouble with the fat controller is he's only got one mouth! Latest episode Elvis and him go into a shop and buy bag's of rubbish eat's, soon it'll not be Wheeler dealers it'll be Rolly Polly's!

He eats like a typical Pom. Pies sausages eggs and no exercise

Gap Sauce has got some good numbers from a BA GT. Still not a corner carver though.

I would say it was more sabatoge by GM and Ford not to export our cars.

@@_wallnutz_ Ford Australia tried to export the Falcon to the US and other markets but Ford USA didn't want competition for the Taurus and Crown Vic. If we managed to get falcons to the US and other markets, it would've kept production going and we'd still be making them. GM on the hand, fuck them and fuck Ford USA xD

You are right and a perfect example is the AVRO Arrow

We are 5 eyes, we are all the same people.

Yeah your right we Aussies were always overlooked even though our vehicles were arguably better than the US parent Companies products especially the later Ford Falcon models why it was even recognised that the Aussie Barra inline six was the best engine in the Ford world alone and just look at the great Canadian engineering that went into the “Avro Jetliner” that flew around the same time as the British Comet but hard as Avro Canada tried and even Howard Hughes wanted it for his airline in the US but for inexplicable reasons that seemed a bit of financial sabotage took place from what could have been a world beater if development had of progressed and the Avro Arrow looked to be a real winner if it’s development had happened!

ZB was built in Germany.

@@cameroncullen4874 oh ok. I'd heard that Peugot were building them. Good to know.

Perfect 😂😂😂😂😂 they were a gutless turd with a truck engine in an outdated platform and ford knew it

​@@ToranaA9X308Have you owned one have you?I doubt it .Mr a9x

@@petergiannaros9037 worked on plenty enough to know they’re a bucket of crap.

@@ToranaA9X308based of of your username something tells me your a bit biased

Mine ran a 14 flat with a cat back exhaust only back in the day, don't know what more U want from a stock V8 back in early 2004 weighing 2 tonne with me in it lol

Just the one camshaft?

​@@cameroncullen4874way to nitpick bro

But costs $15k to do.

Turbo Barra stuff is getting boring but.

@@MitchZero9so buy yourself a Ford laser…😂

@@MitchZero9 Each to their own mate, I respect your opinion. It's certainly not the view I hold (and many others I know, again thats not to say theres not others that agree with you) and my first XR6T was one of the first ever made (BA Xr6T Nov 02' 2002) Before and after that one I have had 8's (VT SS and now a VE SS) My biggest regret was selling the XR6T which I had to at the time due to losing my job and still renting at the time. Unfortunately, I wasn't patient when I was finically back on my feet and in the market for a low km black or blue XR6T or/or Typhoon so after only 1 month of looking a saw a low km VE SS in black and went with that. It's a great car, really is. However, I regret not waiting (this was about 4 years ago.. so around 2020) Now I am waiting until (hopefully) a low km XR6T (Not fussed on model either an FG or BA S2 -not likely to have low km's) comes around and I will jump on it while there's still time.

@@RRRZZZSS5000 Indeed it was! (I'm not sure if you were just adding some extra context or indicating that what I said wasn't correct. If the latter, then considering the lifespan of the XR6T I don't see anything wrong with saying a NOV 02 made one was one of the first. Thats up for one's own interpretation I guess) The BA was such a breath of fresh air after the AU. I personally hated the AU. Looked terrible compared to the Holden VT/VX. With the exception of the TE50/TS50. I really liked those!

​@@paulsz6194Oh yeah go for a laser TX3 turbo. Sounds nice.

But it's not a muscle car it's a tuner car lol it's like calling an rb30 vl a muscle car lol

​@stotty117 a Barra is 4.0 Ford. It's what the world sees as Australian muscle. It's It's own thing.

@@stotty117 a barra 6 n/a or hairdyer still in the same league as a VH R/T E49 or a LJ GTR-XU1

​@@klaymann888Are you drunk?

Burp! Maybe

Yeh, way more potential

100%

remote 3582 turbo replacing the centre muffler for a similar cost to what they spent, 600hp

it wont be too hard then

They are probably more noise sticks then performance, not much room in the tune for power either

Depends on the sticks you go for , some a noise for sure and some aren't, tune, cai, 1"7/8 headers full system, diff gears on the zf 3.4s, be plenty for the road we've done heaps. With a BA GT, built auto, convertor, and bolt ons, and cams, tad over 300kw at the wheels street trim and tyres ran a low 12 @114mph 15 years ago, even today for a road car that's heaps mate, and the 5.4s love to rev😉, with the right cam spring package 7k sounds killer.

​@@smithy2you gotta go big on those engines, or put a coyote in it

@tturi2 once you start playing with them, you work out pretty quick why everyone drops a charger on them, cams, tune and exhaust your in the same park as a charger, then your next door to a coyote anyways

@@smithy2 good point,as much as I love a kenne bell, however there's something to be said about a tough Na setup, 290 upwards.

Quite rare to have a rusted firewall. I have purchased 4 falcons over 2 years and never seen this. Usually the rust is mainly located in the boot channel and quarter panel. The car you have inspected must be a flood damaged or neglected.

Perhaps it had been flooded before, or it’s lived beside the beach all it’s life..

Never seen a rusted firewall.and I've had a lot to do with these cars.

​@@petergiannaros9037 Must be the Drain holes blocked for the Rain water / Car washing etc gotta lot of Trees / Leaves in Oz........

In my day that was called air-conditioning inlets, not rust holes.

Turn onto a country road and give it the beans up to 110 plenty of enjoyment to be had

lots of places in Aus where speed enforcement is not so strict

Did money actually change hands tho?! Maybe some smoke and mirrors for the tv

Not at all, the ZF 6 speed was the 'fastest' transmission. Manual is more fun though

One with shorter ratios…..

you've got no idea do you

@@TasmanianDevil3 not really, apart from the multiple 5.4's ive fitted and degreed cams in, including my own twin turbo xr8. I'm only listing the common bolt on mods for the 5.4 that widely agreed upon gives the most bang for buck.

@@TasmanianDevil3 YOU Are A TROLL WITH NO IDEA LOSER .

Not a BA Barra with its spaghetti rods.

It looks cheesy. I own a XR8 ute BF and it has no stickers at all i like the sleeper look.

Same engine was in the F150, that's why it sounds so similar 😁

And slow as hell, the 4.6 4v was much better but ford aus picked the cubes, and took them to long to go to coyotes

​@@dth2brny121same engine block, the rest of the engine is very different.

@@cameroncullen4874It figures as much...

F150 bottom end, Mustang Cobra R top end, i​f nothing else you won't break this engine.

Cold air is dense yes. O2 does change relative to altitude.

Far better than these wallowing shit heaps

it auto a manual $30000

15k tops