Breathing life into Ford’s four-potter
IF THE whole Tickford thing is confusing you with memories of AU Falcons and stroked Windsor V8s, here’s the skinny: Tickford has been reborn as a brand and is essentially the road-car division of Prodrive Racing Australia. PRA, you will recall, runs the Mega, Super Cheap, Bottle-O and Monster Energy Falcons in the Supercar championship, so modifying a Ford road car for more poke shouldn’t be a problem.
The Tickford road-car range kicks off with a variation on the Mustang EcoBoost theme which, in the form you see it here, is renamed the 270 Power Pack in celebration of the new output of 270kW (up from 233). Torque is up, too, from 432Nm to 520 and that’s all down to a new cold-air intake, two-and-a-half-inch exhaust and a reflash of the ECU to allow for more boost and to tie it all together.
This story is from the October 2017 edition of MOTOR Magazine Australia.
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