AKL1411 (which is a later/modern Lightweight, similar to “REV’s” red car before modification) has been delivered with an 302 EFI. The previous owner made some modification incl. aluminium heads and Edelbrock carb. I have the old parts at home the heads are pure iron!! By official permission the car was once rated at 223 hp (which may be was true).
Despite the fact that two engines didn’t reached the 300 hp limit, you can see that the 1993 press release is referring to a HO engine rated 320hp.
And as you can see, Ford Racing is offering through all the years such an engine rated at 340 or 345 hp:
http://www.fordracingparts.com/CrateEngine/Main.asp#smb @MkIV Lux: No, the documents I showed are from one (1 !) set of four A4 sheets covered by a glossy card wallet with a golden “AC”- Logo on.
Page 3 is the backside of page 2 – so the belong together for sure :-)).
A press release is always a marketing tool. So they need a reason to submit, which may have been the new EFI-engine (page 1).
However they still used a best specification of the carburetted engine to impress potential buyers (look page 3 referring to a Holley carb).
There is nothing unusual with such a behaviour. Companies in these days doing the same. They do advertissment about 4ltr/100 km fuel consumption but are presenting their strongest 250 hp model on the photo. (It has been and will always be customers duty to find out what's right and wrong.)