ive been lookin through here and im bugged if i can find it again.
i was lokin at the kw outputs someone had listed and he said that your standard v8 was 165 but ya xr8 was 185 arent these the same motors .if they are whats the difference ,just ecu or other stuff as well ?how do i get my ed gli v8 upto 185? or more?
this was for ed model of course.

Was it this one?

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not the one i was lookin at before but thanx anyway

All ED V8s, XR or non, were 165.
The 185kw XR8 you refer to is the EL XR8 update, which had the EL GT extractors and explorer manifold.