Crown Vics /w Police Package

[geno]

What are the differences between a Police Crown Vic and the Production versions?

 

My roomate has the Caprice squad car version (Florida Highway Patrol). It's got the Corvette LT-1. Don't know about Fords, I'd imagine something along those lines.

 

[noxipoo]

some (at least in chicago) have the LT1 engine. thats a corvette engine if you didn't know. plus all the other cop car perks. (gun rack, HEHE, extra dash stuff for flashing lights, i heard some had nitro, dunno yet). they take out all the fune stuff when they sell it. so you basicly get a crown vic with a corvette engine. i would stay away from them becuase cops abuse the cars badly. oh one last thing, some of them have engine block warmers for winter, so you can start your car warm. (but again, maybe just here since its cold here)

 

[noxipoo]

oh i meant that for caprice. i think the fords have reg engine. maybe its supped up

 

[vi edit]

I also believe that they have the restrictor chips pulled out so that your car doesn't drop dead when you hit 108 MPH in a high speed car chase.

 

[Chooie]

They should also have higher speed rated tires, and most ex-police cars are sold with the driver side spotlight and alternating headlights still intact. I've seen '92-'94 Crown Vics and Caprices go for as little as $3,000 with the lights still on them (not the bar, just the spotlight/headlights) and with only 100k miles.

 

[bigvince]

also they have special badgeing that say POLICE INTERCEPTOR on the trunk at least that's what i've seen in chicago....

 

[PG]

Engine and tranny are the same I think. No real power difference. The cops get a different axle ratio I think. That will make it seem quicker from a stop. The cop cars do have dual exhaust standard which adds 20 HP vs. single exhaust, and they have a bigger alternator too. They also have better cooling for fluids and heat shields between the exhaust and the gas tank and the exhaust and floor. I am also pretty sure that they have better brakes and shocks. Maybe even better springs all around. The speedo's show bigger numbers and are calibrated.

Get one if you can.

The Chevy cop cars never had the LT-1, but it is very similar to it. Another urban legend. The cop cars make 260 HP, just like the Impalla SS, but short of the 300 HP in the LT-1 Corvette of that vintage. But they are still very fast. Those Chevy's with that motor were the 2nd fastest cop cars ever. They have been clocked at 142. The fastest cop cars ever were some 1969 mopar cop cars with 440 V8's, they hit 147. These Crown Vic's only hit in the 120's somewhere, but that's still pretty darn fast.

PG

 

[Jumpem]

Oil coolers. Cold engine oil adds 50-100 horsepower. Too bad they are illegal for civillian road cars.

 

[PG]

<<Cold engine oil adds 50-100 horsepower.>>

WTF? Never heard of that one. I don't think it adds any power at all. It just keeps your engine oil from turning into sludge at high speeds.

PG

 

[Jumpem]

To be honest I'm not sure how. A guy I work with has been building race motors forever. We were looking around at a police auction and he told me that. I've never actually looked it up though.

 

[Kilgor]

<< The Chevy cop cars never had the LT-1, but it is very similar to it >>



The LT1 in a Caprice is an LTI motor. It?s true that it is not the same as a Corvette LT1, but it is an LT1. The Corvette and Camaro LT1?s have aluminum heads and different cams. The Corvette also has a 4 bolt main block. All the parts are interchangeable between the motors.

If your going to buy a used 9C1 Caprice make sure you get the 5.7-liter motor not the 4.3. It looks like an LT1 but it?s not. One way to tell is that 5.7-liter cars came with Duel Exhaust the 4.3 version didn?t .

 

[Soybomb]

Jumpem don't believe a word of what you said. Nothing in that is even remotely close to the truth. You can go to autozone and buy an oil cooler if you want, and the HP difference isn't going to be noticeable, if there at all I'd take a cop package crown vic so I could re-enact the blues bothers hehe

 

[BoberFett]

Watch out for the jelly donut stains on the seats.

 

Yep to kilgore. Same block, but different heads, cam. Maybe different intake and timing... It's the little things that squeeze out those last horsepower, and kill your mileage. And yes, those Caprice's with the LT1--be it not the Vette engine--are F-A-S-T. Now if they only didn't have the gay digital Caprice speedo...

 

[Chooie]

The blues brothers had a mopar

 

[Pacfanweb]

<<Oil coolers. Cold engine oil adds 50-100 horsepower. Too bad they are illegal for civillian road cars. >>

HUH? Cold engine oil neither adds power, nor is it illegal. Cars and trucks with towing packages come with engine oil, transmission oil, and power steering oil coolers all the time.

Oil coolers are designed to keep the oil from getting too hot and burning, or turning to sludge.

 

[Viperoni]

I thought the only diff between the police/Impala LT1's and Corvette LT1's was the computer chip being re-programmed...

 

[geno]

The reason I ask is because I saw one for $2495, just curious as to what it's got under the hood.

 

[The Wildcard]

Yeah but aren't those cop cars beat up by the time they sell them to civillians? like not in terms of dents or bullet holes but i mean like all of the car's internal parts are all worn out since cop cars are heavily and often times, not treated very well, lol.

 

[PG]

Some cop cars might be beat up, but some might not. You might find one that was an unmarked car and was never used for chases for anything. As with anything, YMMV.

PG