If so, yeah it's the same engine we have here, out of the same factory as they were all manufactured in Flint in Michigan. We just had our Aus variant of the accessories, manifold, sump fitted and also the cheaper engine management the 808 and batch injection.
I have a feeling that is what the 3300 variant used which was an ultra low budget version of the 3800, they even cheaped out on head gaskets on them where they were all graphite and no sealant beads or fire rings, just the raw sheet of graphite material die cut with the necessary shape.
All the while, the US remained with the higher tech MAF in TB and full sequential injection. You need to remember, California laws were the setting standards for emission other counties would follow suit in, so they were always the strictest, hence why EFI on mass produced US engines like this were so high tech for the time compared to elsewhere. We got the engine, just with the emissions cut down as we all know, Aus lags far behind, even today.
Because our EPA laws are quite behind, that meant there was opportunity for much cost savings for Holden to pair the engine with what we have than having to use something so high tech like the US used making it easier to compete against competition like Ford who were still using TBI like cave men, so a no brainier to go with A: a cheaper system B: that crapped all over what the competition was using anyway, C: made it competitive in price for the customer.
So yeah, would have been cool, but totally unnecessary to have that here. But on the down side if we did, none of the cool tuning stuff and this forum would have likely existed as the 808's advantage for enthusiasts is the high flexibility and ease of tuning. MAF and sequential for the enthusiast lacks much benefit and dramatically increases difficulty. And also limits EFI conversions to other engines for the most part.
I'm happy we got the dregs of the Delco system
