80's factory lightweights?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sounds real cool. That is a lot of cam in 1985. Should have been easy to notice next to a true stocker. How were they used? </div></div>

ASC McLaren conversion. Two available bodystyles, a standard hatchback and a roadster conversion. All the anomalous cars appear to be hatchbacks. It was thought that ASC installed the cams during the conversion process, but then sometime back a couple of the project principles on the ASC side were located and interviewed. They swear that ASC never touched the engine internals, they came that way from Ford. They were reluctant to comment on the how's and why's, but one of them did mention that, during the unloading and conversion process, a few of the cars sounded much beefier than normal.

One other issue with ASC installing the cams that occurs to me is this: I'm not sure that, during the timeframe in question, such a cam would have existed outside of Ford's experimental garage. Not that roller cams for a small block Ford wouldn't have existed, but they would have mainly been highly specialized, race-only solid rollers. Being the first year for a production roller-ized 5.0, I'm not sure such a cam would have readily available.