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These guys—left to right, Bill Woebkenberg, Dan Haakenson, Dev Saberwal—aren't cops, they're Ford engineers.
But the car did start out as a police-package prototype, and the team went from there, paring down weight to about 4300 pounds and adding serious pursuit potential with a 4.6-liter DOHC 32-valve V-8 fed by a Kenny Bell twin-screw supercharger delivering 15-psi max boost, 535 rear-wheel horsepower, and 550 pound-feet of torque. The suspension is the same setup Ford will sell on '06 Crown Vic cop cars, and the Baer brake system has 14-inch rotors, the biggest the team could squeeze inside the 9.0-by-18-inch BBS wheels. Problems with the fuel-pump wiring—the team scavenged the light-bar electrics to keep the car running—held back the cop car in the overall standings, but it did achieve some measure of glory at the drag strip with a 13.698 ET and second place in the bracket eliminations. |
