Can you really make a Crown Victoria handle as well a sports car?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1umWh4wmr-g

Can you turn an old cop car into a canyon-carving sports sedan?

Jim Leonard, the owner of this 2008 Ford Crown Victoria P71, explains how he did just that.

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Awesome stuff.  Jim is a great dude!  

The Crown Vics are certainly a growing class in the oval-track world. It's no wonder why.

Now I'm looking at LS powered Caprice police cars again.

I found removing 1100+ lbs helps quite a bit too

edizzle89 said:

 

I found removing 1100+ lbs helps quite a bit too

Do you have a write up on Vickolas somewhere?

I am not going to say that I have slid a PD's P71 around while taking an offramp too fast, but the suspension on those worked well with the police spec tires and vice versa.

The tires were like $200 each in 1998 dollars.  That was about as expensive as tires got.  Even Gatorbacks, known for being silly expensive, were about $200-250 each.

Yes. 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

The chassis, suspension, and steering were updated in 2003.  The later cars have rack and pinion steering and other improvements. 

In reply to tester (Forum Supporter) :

They look a lot like Volvo was told to go to town on it.  At least, the construction methods between its front end and a P2 chassis Volvo are very similar. 

And curse those damned obtuse-cone ball joint and tie rod tapers.  GM didn't see a need to do that.

In reply to Javelin :

looks like you have a ticket under the wiper there. 

jkstill said:

In reply to Javelin :

looks like you have a ticket under the wiper there. 

Run card. SCCA ProSolo in Packwood in 2008. I was way ahead of the curve on Crown Vics.

I autox'd a 93 P71 back in '02 and '03 and won the F-Stock title both years with our tristate club. People would complain how tight our gates were, and the organizers would say hold on, then I'd run through and not cone. It was a hoot to drive. One set of pics at an event in NJ showed so much weight transfer in the slalom, that the inside front wheel was off the ground except for the inner most tread block. It was the biggest momentum car I've ever driven, if you touched the brakes you lost decades...Now there's so much more involvement and improvement, I'd love to do it again.  😂

GM made the police Tahoe handle as well as the Caprice so, why not?