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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

During those AU years, Mercedes also had a 5.0-litre V8 that produced a near identical 225 kW / 302 hp. That engine was considerably more modern, was all-alloy construction, had SOHC heads with dual spark plugs and 3 valves per cylinder. It also had a similar large bore, short stroke design to the Windsor. I've driven one these engines and it was butter smooth and sounded pretty good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merced...nz_M113_engine

So, when you compare that to the 5.0 Windsor, I think what Tickford did to get 220 kW out of that old engine was impressive. Obviously though, the Windsor couldn't match that butter smooth running, and it got breathless above 5,000 rpm.

Having said that, I'd say they were ma

de very differently. The MB was a production engine with high consistency from build to build. The Windsor, while technically a production engine, each was stripped and rebuilt with port-matched heads and intake manifolds, all done by hand. Some ran hard, some were doggish. There were also slight running differences between the early 220's with alloy heads (T1 and T2 T-Series) and the later cast iron heads (very late T2 and all XR8's). I remember at the time it was noted the cast-iron head engines sounded tougher.



Still, an interested point in Falcon history.

It was an interesting time . My reference to T3,s was to Franco,s post , wasn't really bringing the T series 5.0l into it ,my earlier post was meant about XR8 GT40p equipped 220,s
The thing I find amazing about the little Windsor in comparison to that Merc mill is that the Windsor had very little change to the block since the early 60,s