The really cool part about the crown vic police interceptor other than the upgraded suspension brakes and motor, is that the entire front end of the vehicle is bolted together! No spot welds, so you can change an engine on em in like 2 hours!
those motors are usually almost stock and only make like 230 horses
"Our test driver for all our slalom and skidpad testing is a man seasoned with racetrack experience. He drives with the reflexes of a panther and the precision of a neurosurgeon. And he’s the only man on our staff we trust to handle the awesome limits of the Police Interceptor. He attacks our supertight, 450-ft. slalom with the ferocity of a caged lion. His best effort slicing through the cones is a speed of 42.58 mph. Next, he takes the wheel of the civilian Crown Victoria. We notice immediately that the tail end of the car slides around less than the Interceptor. In fact, each run looks smoother than the last. The civilian Crown Victoria is faster through the cones, at 43.12 mph. The same results follow at the skidpad. The Crown Victoria generates .79 g’s and the Interceptor rounds the circle with a lesser .76 g’s of lateral adhesion. If your garden-variety, available-at-any-Hertz-counter Crown Victoria could outperform a Police Interceptor, then what could the recently announced Crown Victoria Sport Appearance Package with its 17-in. wheels and tires do?"
Crown vic interceptors are not at all performance oriented. They are meant to be reliable, durable and to scare people. Oh and I almost forgot....INEXPENSIVE, and disposable
"But enough daydreaming. The moment of truth is at hand. The long nose of the Interceptor is pointed down Pomona’s NHRA-sanctioned quarter-mile dragstrip. Its fat tires sit on the concrete starting line. We mash the throttle to the floor. The rear tires blaze into a white haze and within seconds the speedometer is reading well over any jurisdiction’s speed limit for a school zone. The timing lights say we covered the 1320 ft. in 15.72 seconds at 88.14 mph. Oddly, that’s just about the same performance you’d get from an average family
OpenDNS. We think the calibration must be off on the timing equipment. After all, this is a Police Interceptor. We have the track official triple-check his timing equipment. He assures us our next run will be accurate. This time we run the regular Crown Victoria against the lights. We run through the lights in 15.68 seconds at 88.68 mph. How can this be? The civilian car is faster than the Interceptor? We frantically call our contact man demanding a Police Interceptor with the real cop engine. He hangs up on us."
