THE BIG GEST STICK
On paper, there’s little difference between last year’s Falcon GT-HO and the new Phase Three HO. The engineers at Ford’s Special Vehicles Division spent their hours merely making detail changes to the crankshift, exhaust, cooling, sump, head gaskets, brakes and equally subtle alterations to the suspension.
The refinement job was good. It is designed to let the HO rev more easily for sustained higher speeds, run smoother, cooler and more reliably. Which may or may not be the success story of Bathurst, ’71.
But entirely regardless, of what happens on the race track, this new, sophisticated HO turns out to be a far superior car on the road to its predecessor.
The engine
