180 mph SSP Mustang

[jessesandy]

......That's what the retired CHP officer says.
Jay Leno has an '82 Highway Patrol Mustang on the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyDP3eE-s2M&t=337s
About four minutes in, the retired CHP officer says that when the fuel injected models came out, he drove one to 180 mph !?!

[TURBO4JOE2]

I highly doubt that....
130 mph sounds more like it, maybe 140 on a good day. Especially with the spotlights and the notchback hurting the aerodynamics.
My '85 GT 5.0 5 speed hatchback did 138 mph on a cool night, bone stock.
Mildly modded, it ran mid 13s and topped out at 144 mph.

So the added HP that dropped my ET from a bone stock 14.8 down to a 13.5 ONLY got me 6 mph more on the topend.

Pushing air out of the way takes a bunch of HP....

180 mph takes a LOT of HP.

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[richpet]

Agree. 130 or a little more sounds a lot more reasonable.
I can't help but wonder how a stock height, stock tired, stock suspensioned mustang would feel like at that speed. I would imagine a bit squirrelly! Not much downforce out back.

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[83 4SPD GT]

I saw it on jay Leno’s garage, great looking car!

I worked for a Ford dealership from 1988-2008 as a senior master tech. We had one South Carolina Highway Patrol ssp Mustang in our area, it was a 1990. The Officer was like 6’6-6’7 tall, 260+pounds, they had extended the seat track rails and the front seat was just about touching the back seat. Every time he would bring it in for oil changes, I could barely reach the pedals to drive it in the bay.

He would tell us all these stories about chasing people and running 160 mph in it. I finally told him one day, that it was basically a stock 5.0 mustang with an oil cooler on it. He just keep telling me, it can’t be it’s the fastest thing around.

He was a pretty cool guy and loved to shoot the breeze with us.