Cool story.... don't buy into it. What intake would have been put on it? What cam would have been specially ground to take advantage of it. Didn't happen.
Intake would have been the already mentioned W2 cast iron intake from Chrysler...
As for the cam ...they could have cams ground to whatever specs they needed in a phonecall.
We are talking about Chrysler ...Mopar... they did this stuff for a living.
As far as it being fact ...who knows ? but could they and would they ? In a heart beat if it meant getting 2 states worth of orders for Hiway Patrol order just to build a few hundred special pursuit cars. Chrysler was desperate for sales back then.
I've been in the car biz for 30 years . The factory will bend rules for sales..... maybe not as much now days but back then was a different time. I just got Acura to fill an order for a NSX build in a matter of days. Normally it would take a few months
before you could even get a build slot. Now that's not the same as building cars that dont meet emissions but it does show that the right people can get things thru.
Besides , I like to think that Ma Mopar was a bit of a wildcat .... don't kill my fantasy...lol
