I found another idiot

[MediumD]

Four things.

1. The craigslist post has been corrected.

2. The Crown Vics trans is the same as ours.

3. Crown Vics are pretty damn close to our cars in acceleration. My 02 P71 is about 3 tenths slower than my stock 94 Mark was.

4. GM should've never stopped making the Caprice.

 

[richduty455]

Four things.

1. The craigslist post has been corrected.

2. The Crown Vics trans is the same as ours.

3. Crown Vics are pretty damn close to our cars in acceleration. My 02 P71 is about 3 tenths slower than my stock 94 Mark was.

4. GM should've never stopped making the Caprice.

Either you had a super fast vic, or a real dud of a mark viii

 

[kustomizingkid]

Most stock Vics are high 15-low 16 second cars....

 

[Rich88LSC]

Most stock Vics are high 15-low 16 second cars....

+1

 

[kustomizingkid]

What Vics are good at is being able to be beat on 24/7 and have fairly low failure rates...

 

[panthermike]

What Vics are good at is being able to be beat on 24/7 and have fairly low failure rates...

Exactly.

 

[luxuryrules]

And being cheap & easy to fix.

 

[MediumD]

Either you had a super fast vic, or a real dud of a mark viii

I guess the Vic's a factory freak then... Corrected to zero density altitude the Mark would've been fairly consistent 14.7s, the Vic would be right around 15 flat. The results were even closer between the Vic and my friends 97 LSC..

And this was about 160k miles on a 02 P71, all stock with 3.27s..

 

[kustomizingkid]

That is way way fast for a Stock Vic... even a Performance Improved one....

 

[1meanmark]

Not really they're plenty of freaks my not too mention i am a avid vic owner .who's baby runs 13's with a 5.4 2v and 4:10's also shes stalled so don't just assume because its a vic its slow .There are plenty of fast vics blah blah blah anyways hello thanks for having me or your great forum

 

[luxuryrules]

Not really they're plenty of freaks my not too mention i am a avid vic owner .who's baby runs 13's with a 5.4 2v and 4:10's also shes stalled so don't just assume because its a vic its slow .There are plenty of fast vics blah blah blah anyways hello thanks for having me or your great forum

Steppin on some toes now are we? We're just talking about bone stock Crown Vics, which are slow no matter how you cut it. A 5.4 Vic would be a fun project, what kind of stall did the owner use and what was it set at?

 

[Rich88LSC]

Not really they're plenty of freaks my not too mention i am a avid vic owner .who's baby runs 13's with a 5.4 2v and 4:10's also shes stalled so don't just assume because its a vic its slow .There are plenty of fast vics blah blah blah anyways hello thanks for having me or your great forum

High 15s/low16s are all you'll get out of a stock Vic. Even the rauder don't break into the 14s stock.

No one said all Vics are slow. I know guys that have faster Vics then you do but I also have a friend building a 800hp Mark VIII. Just about every car out there has at least a few "freaks" out there wanting to go fast.

 

[richduty455]

def...now my 89 vic....that car took a BEATING!!!!! and never flintched.....loved it! with 3.55s, exhaust, air induction and a few other goodies went 16.3.....not exactly fast, but alot better than my 17.3 stock

 

[kustomizingkid]

Not really they're plenty of freaks my not too mention i am a avid vic owner .who's baby runs 13's with a 5.4 2v and 4:10's also shes stalled so don't just assume because its a vic its slow .There are plenty of fast vics blah blah blah anyways hello thanks for having me or your great forum

I don't understand how this relates to stock Vics... my buddy has an NA 4.6 Vic that runs 13.4 in the 1/4.... but it is no where near stock....

 

[danny_holtermann]

and the pre88 vics are good in demos as well, easy exhaust, just flip the exhaust maniflods to the other side and you have a hood exhaust

 

[MediumD]

Next time I travel to Phoenix I'll take the Vic and run it at speedworld... Bet it does 15.2 or so. At 187k miles today... Expect me to necro this thread when I do.

 

[kustomizingkid]

I'll bet $20 you don't go faster than 15.5

 

[richduty455]

money's tight these days.....I'll be a whopper (only on whopper wednesday) it doesn't break 15.5 either...hahaha

 

[chicken]

I'll be a whopper (only on whopper wednesday)

what happens after wed, poof your human again? what if someone eats you, are you missing limbs? does the part people ate expand back when you do?

 

[MediumD]

I'll bet $20 you don't go faster than 15.5

I'll be sure to let you know, although if I don't make it out there until summer when it's still 105* at midnight, your 15.5 might be right.

I'd bet $20 and a whopper, but if I do better than 15.5 it would be too easy to claim I wasn't stock or send my whopper via Media Mail so it would be gross by the time it got here, etc.

 

[kustomizingkid]

If it's 105 I bet you won't break 15.7....

 

[1meanmark]

she stalled at 3800 stage 2 from boc(blue oval chips)o i forgot to mention the j-mod as well shes a pita to keep tires under her i'm sure i could go 13 flats once i get more seasoned on the launch

 

[dnehthend]

Funny how that works. I've even had a couple of LEOs tell me their cruisers had 32 valvers. And yet, I [ask them to] pop the hood and see the SOHC motor. Yeah, ok.

As best I can say, no Crown Vic has ever come with a DOHC. Has anybody ever seen one? In person? Pics, even? It's one of those things a lot of people talk about but nobody can every prove or disprove.

I've seen one of the bondurant crown vics in real life

http://desert-autosport.ebizautos.com/detail-1999-ford-crown_victoria-cobra_32v_motor-3016746.html

 

[kustomizingkid]

It's really too bad you can't put those cars straight onto the street, not legally at least....