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.