I use the following sauce for mine. Mix in whatever meat you want (ground beef, turkey, whatever), beans, diced tomatoes and some diced chilil's. You can vary those other ingredients to your liking. The sauce itself has a 'sweet-heat' taste to it, I altered it from a wing recipe and it works well as the chili base:
2 Cups Red Wine Vinegar
4 tabelspoons Honey
4 Tablesppons Dijon Mustard
5 tablespoons Chipolte Pepper Puree, or a chipolte hot sauce
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 table spoons ancho chile powder
4 tablespoons regular chili poweder
1 stick of butter
melt the butter and then mix in the other above ingredients for the sauce. Brown the meat and then combine the sauce, meat and other ingredients and let simmer for a handful of hours.
If you don't like the taste of red wine vinegar, cut it half or completely and replace with a bbq sauce that you like the flavor of.