Those in the know will tell you otherwise. The 08's had a overly agressive closed loop strategy, running 14's(afrs) in boost is bad. So people were tossing DP's on and Kaboom . I've personally tuned plenty of higher hp 08's , But the first thing I do is change the CL/OL strategy around.
08's suck because they have td04 vs the 09s much larger vf52 i believe.