By Chris Tropea
Jun 16, 2024
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crown victoria,
p71
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.
8/1/23 11:16 a.m.
Awesome stuff. Jim is a great dude!
8/2/23 9:48 a.m.
The Crown Vics are certainly a growing class in the oval-track world. It's no wonder why.
8/2/23 10:11 a.m.
Now I'm looking at LS powered Caprice police cars again.
8/2/23 1:13 p.m.
I found removing 1100+ lbs helps quite a bit too
10/13/23 11:56 a.m.
Do you have a write up on Vickolas somewhere?
10/13/23 7:34 p.m.
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.
10/14/23 3:33 a.m.
Yes.
3/25/24 11:37 a.m.
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.
3/25/24 7:55 p.m.
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.
6/16/24 2:21 p.m.
In reply to Javelin :
looks like you have a ticket under the wiper there.
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