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- From: zenith89@bcarh1eb.bnr.ca (Chris VanFleet)
- Subject: Re: Ford Crown Vic Police Package
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.130822.21387@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: zenith89@bcarh1eb.bnr.ca ()
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd., Ottawa, CANADA
- References: <uznerk.722203461@mcl>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 13:08:22 GMT
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- In article <uznerk.722203461@mcl> uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu (Andrew Krenz) writes:
- >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
- >was installed, the car still took like 9.9 seconds to go 0-60. In my mind,
-
- Something is wrong here pal. I have an 85 Crown Vic with a 302 & a 2 BBL
- carb, and this old piggy can go 0-60 MPH in 9.5 sec. Sounds like there are
- some seriously restrictive emission controls on the one you read about!
- ...CPV
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