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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Ford Crown Vic Police Package
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 22:52:41 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <uznerk.722203461@mcl>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu (Andrew Krenz) says:
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- >I just saw this in an "all Ford" magazine and found it pretty amazing.
- >It showed a picture of a CHP Crown Vic, fully decked out in CHP trim, with
- >a Paxton Supercharger installed on it. The car is the Old style Crown Vic,
- >not the new one, so it had a 351W engine in it. The amazing thing is, the
- >article said that before the supercharger was installed, the Crown Vic
- >took 16.6 (!) seconds to hit 60mph. What a joke! Even after the blower
-
- did you consider a misprint? i mean..think on it...16.6 sounds like a 1/4
- mile time..and the blower alone knocked off almost 7 seconds???..naw..
- i don 't think so...methinks this might be a misprint...could be wrong,
- but this would have been my immediate reaxion(and, in fact, was to my
- reading YOUR post..but you demolish the context of the printed article..s
- i cannot say my reaxions would have been the same, for sure..)
- DREW
- >was installed, the car still took like 9.9 seconds to go 0-60. In my mind,
- >that's pretty pathetic. How can Ford sell such a product designed for
- >law enforcement with such horrible performance?
- >
- >Oh well, sorry to all you Ford fans, I guess I just had to go off on that one,
- >considering the type of car I drive (and its FAR superior performance :)
- >
- >BTW, the article said that 250 Crown Vics would get superchargers installed
- >on them. Not that I'm worried, I'm not stupid enough to try and run from the
- >cops. (Even though a Paxton-equipped Crown Vic could at best only keep up
- >with me:)
- >
- >|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
- >| Andrew Krenz | Visit | Chevy Caprice 9C1 Police Pkg |
- >| uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu| Beautiful | Bad Boys Bad Boys... |
- >| UC Santa Barbara | Isla Vista, CA | What ya gonna do...? |
- >| -------------------------------------------------------------------|
- >
- >
- >
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