Mandatory Read Three: Turbo and Hot Falcon History 78-88

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I've got an axe to grind.....

A while ago, quite often in fact, I've made the following statement on how Ford in the 1980's, cheated all of us out of some great cars.

In case the same thing happens again with the next proposed BA four wheel drive XR6 Turbo, make sure everyone knows that a 14 second four paw six cylinder terror could have been in the show rooms in 1987 if Ford wanted it to.

Here is a precentage of steamed dreams that died. Namely:-

the 1988 EA Turbo,
the 1983 SVO alloy head
The 1983 EFI 5.8 Cleveland
David Innals 1984 AIT Turbo,
the 1987 AIT xTrack Falcon 4x4,
the proposed 1985 SVO 5.0 HO XF,
the 1983 XE Falcon Gran Prix Turbo,
the 1985 Dick Johnston/HKS Turbo EFI XF,
the 1980's Phase Five Automotive XD and XE's,
the 1978 Repco Fuel Injection XC 351....get the picture?

The evidence was:-

the 1987 Xtrak Fairmont four wheel drive twin turbo which got crashed by some Aussie journos in Britain. The private company who did the development work went bust.

268 kw twin turbo 4 wd with this :arrow: engine.


Dave Innals AIT concern made these turbo set ups. Snuffed by Ford Aussies refusal to updrade to a proper US spec T5 or automatic overdrive transmission. Owners of this 4 grand turbo conversion couldn't get a full warranty, and the conversion died








The SVO Falcon, Dick Johnstons third knock back

 

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Terry Wilson now of AVO, was the main development engineer for Advanced Induction Technology(AIT). This was principally David Innalls company, and that it was not a financial sucess shouldn't take away credit from the pivotal work these Aussies did on making wild Aussie Falcons.

AIT worked with no service or warranty support from Ford Australia, yet marketed very advanced auxilary turbo kits for EFI and Carb Falcons so they passed the local emission laws. Sophisticated US electronics controlled a secondary injector on the EFI 4.1, and gave a 106 hp boost to 254 hp on the early 1983 versions. Later, the twin-turbo versions of 1987 gave 349 hp, and then the 1988 EA turbo was to get a special 240 hp version. Unhapplily, the whole thing went belly up. See this...

...."I developed the early XF Falcon turbo and twin turbo kits back in the late '80s. We had a twin-turbo four-wheel-drive Falcon, which I took to England for about four months and - the day before we were ready for a press release - I crashed the thing. That car was making about 380 horsepower and about 540ft/lb of torque on the engine dyno. 540ft/lb is pretty good even today - there aren't many cars on the road with that torque, that's a shitload. Yeah, that was a pretty state-of-the-art thing at the time - we had a ZF 5-speed in it and a trick four-wheel-drive set-up. The only problem was the EA was coming out the next year and that made it difficult. I did some work on the early stages of the AIT EA Falcon turbo kit and then I left.

 

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X,

Thanks for the info.! If I could just get something besides "image an not be found" when I hit the "X" in part three

'Hadn't heard much about anyone's turbo projects of late - I guess everybody is getting busy "doing".

This reading sure gives food for thought! I've got a new hitch in my automotive plans - my 16 year old son (SOB) keeps finding ways to eat up my spare time - fixing things he's breaking on HIS Bronco...

Last Sunday it was the radius arm bracket. While I was under there, I noticed FOUR new leaks (they show up nicely with all the freshly dried mud). Before he bought it , last Fall, I was pleased to find that there wasn't a SINGLE leak anywhere. Oh well...

 

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Ink Pink, Loose Link!

The links are dying off due to my trust in HP Photo! I've used an HP 32S for years as a calculator, filling it with so much crap, I thought it would fall over. Well, the 14 year old calculator still goes, the Photo links don't.

I can't promise anything, but I'll try to replace the links since it gets viewed by the staple homegrown Broncos on this site.