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Can I Beet An F6 Typhoon John Bowe?

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Godzilla all the way, a mate of mine had an R32, N1's with N1 cams, fuel pump with abit of boost, never dynoed but my estimate was 270-280kw (only estimate, could have been less but fk went hard) with four blokes in the car smashed an F6, it had nothing and with windows down he was into it. but to my broken heart, 2 weeks later both turbos gone and after 3k for new ones engine presurised and sold it for 7.5k

oh the memories

Geez...bummer. I hope to go to the strip tonight, gotta get a helmet.

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Godzilla all the way, a mate of mine had an R32, N1's with N1 cams, fuel pump with abit of boost, never dynoed but my estimate was 270-280kw (only estimate, could have been less but fk went hard) with four blokes in the car smashed an F6, it had nothing and with windows down he was into it. but to my broken heart, 2 weeks later both turbos gone and after 3k for new ones engine presurised and sold it for 7.5k

oh the memories

Lol looks like the F6 wins in the longrun without the fkd motor.

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Hey mate for the record i think with a good launch you should be able to beat the Typhoon. I have a mate with the John Bowe mods and believe me they are only the very basic upgrades. 320 rwkw...? No chance in hell! 320kw at the Crankshaft.To build one to 320rwkw and still retain factory warranty would be a bit of a laugh.Nothing against the Typhoon as they are a great car capable of great power. But so too is a GTR if properly modded

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Well guys, the long anticipated result is in. Unfortunately the desired place for the proving ground was not WSID, instead it was on private property in a place I will keep anonymous. But the result is…drum roll….Nissan R32 GTR by many car lengths. All arguments are now put to rest…almost. He decided to pull the whole ‘yeah, but your car is modded, if mine were modded…blah blah’. Didn’t matter, I am content. I am still going to go to WSID because I was looking forward to getting a timeslip.

Thanks for everybody’s support and helpful information that gave me the confidence to face this challenge.

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Well guys, the long anticipated result is in. Unfortunately the desired place for the proving ground was not WSID, instead it was on private property in a place I will keep anonymous. But the result is…drum roll….Nissan R32 GTR by many car lengths. All arguments are now put to rest…almost. He decided to pull the whole ‘yeah, but your car is modded, if mine were modded…blah blah’. Didn’t matter, I am content. I am still going to go to WSID because I was looking forward to getting a timeslip.

Thanks for everybody’s support and helpful information that gave me the confidence to face this challenge.

No time slips = no result

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Yeah well, like I said, im still getting a time slip for myself. The challenge was whether my car will beat his car, and it did. So how was there not a result there?

And either this guy is a bad driver or Typhoon's arent what they hype them up to be (stock). I think one of those R8's would be quicker.

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P.S THe JB gear is counted as a joke around the Ford Turbo sites.

Amen.....

The "John Bowe Performance" series of mods were a huge joke in the Ford community.

They were over priced mods that did nothing for the cosmetic appearance of a Falcon, let alone the power out-put.

Funny thing is dealers thought they'd be a hit and bought up big, making the manufacturers a shiteload.... I know I'm going to have a whole heap to sell off cheap soon :banana:

If were going to continue this discussion we may as well include the "Craig Lowndes Signature", or "Ripcurl" utes as well.... :D

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A friend of a friend firmly beleives that his stock F6 Typhoon John Bowe edt. can go faster than my modded R32 GTR.
He decided to pull the whole ‘yeah, but your car is modded, if mine were modded…blah blah’

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