Falcon options that where tested but never made it to production

[Kieron]

Originally Posted by madmelon

I now work with one of the guys responsible for doing trans calibrations with BTR on this car and comparing it to the SOHC engine. He said they lined them up for drag races and the car with the SOHC engine put several car lengths on the DOHC car every time, that's why they went with SOHC.

Story I heard was the DOHC was actually a 3.2 litre but made no more power than the 3.9 SOHC, it was cheaper to build the latter so the DOHC was shelved.

There's a black and white picture with a Ford engineer from the 80's with the engine on an engine dyno around.

Around the same time, they were experimenting with the T drive concept (essentially fwd) with the SOHC motor too, it was installed in an early Ford Taurus.

Another development that never made it to production was the 2l Pinto motor in the XD around the Sam e as Holdrns Starfire 4 Commodore.