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Can't do any more than 9 pictures in a row, but multiple posts can show you the whole thing.
Thanks, super4ord , you have helped me find out that there was no 2-bbl X code, and no AOD 3.3.
But plenty of 3.8 2-bbl Vee six AOD LTD's and Foxes from 1982 and 1983 onwards :mrgreen:
For the price of just a GM Rochester 2G,2GC or 2GV in small or large base, or IHI/Chrysler Holley 2209 or Carter 2-bbl carb, or the old 2110 Holley, a 2-bbl can be small enough to fit with the EGR on an get all the emissions gear and cables to fit without too much energy. Like this, but with all the emissions devices. This below is the Billy Beer Ford mit 3.3 2-bbl and early 2-bbl Rochester 2Jet
Pretty simple
A 2100/2150 Motorcraft or 2300 Holley 7448/4412 2-bbl is a bit of a squeeze, and requires more kickdown/throttle valve work.
Note: The set up below is equiped with a non standard carb, its a Motorcraft 2-bbl, but it propably isn't the one that came with the XE casting head. It may have been the Variable Venturi 2-bbl or the later emissions legal 2300CG as used in the 370 2-bbl big block F600 Trucks and Carpenter buses. The kickdown linkage would have been different and perhaps the 2150 Motorcrft would have needed a lockar style kicdown. The European 2-bbl Weber 38DGAS and Solex 35 and 40 carb Cologne V6's had a kickdown linkage which mated to the factory C3 and C4 cable kickdown, so within the Ford empire of the 1978 to 1983 era, there was all the technology in the world to make a 2 V 3.3 head on a log intake. Its unsure of what Ford intended for the XE head found on ebay, as it has the biggest log ever, and the kickdown bracket holes on the rear between intake runner 4 and 5 needed a special bracket to operate a conventional C3/C4/C5 or even AOD rod linkage. Click for the larger images.
An AOD can fit to any grey low mount 3.3 six with just slotting and redrilling of the top bolts.
None of this was done as a factory released certified combo, because there is no CARB E.O. or Factory code for a 2-bbl 3.3 I6. I'm sure there were other 2-bbl XE coded heads and engines for the later 1981 to 1983 engines on Ford test benches, but none were sold as Regular Production Options factory cars.
The engine codes were changed three times for 3.3's from 1978 to 1983, but for 1983, the X code is just a 3.3 i6 1-bbl, with a rollover of the updated 1981-82 B code emissions calibration.
None of the drive reports by Motor Trend in 1980 where what they said they were, as there was no VV or Holley W 2-bbl or Variable Venturi 95 hp Capri RS, and if they did, it would have had a separate engine code listed with CARB, the EPA or on FoMoCo's technical manuals. There is no evidence it existed, and Mark P, a member here before 2007, was aware that there were packages, but none were released for civilian use. There might have been some XE coded heads and Campus Security Police Interceptor pre production variants, but no 'real macoy' factory 2-bbl 3.3's.
