Police / Taxi EFI

Shannen Durphey shannen at grolen.com
Tue Apr 6 03:00:46 GMT 1999


David A. Cooley wrote:
> 
> Actually, the only difference between "police cal's" and regular was in
> California... the cop vehicles would have the 49 state federal cal which
> was a bit more lenient and may have had an additional HP or 2, but
> identical to what you could get in the same type of vehicle if you bought
> it off the lot...
> Police packages consisted of silicone hoses, larger trans and oil coolers,
> heavy duty cooling and an extremely large alternator.
Police spec vehicles I've worked on have no speed limiter, and the
ones I've seen use a 4 cyl engine code in the VIN. 
Shannen  
> 
> At 10:20 AM 4/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Since most of the discussions emphasize performance I thought that there
> >would be more stuff based on police/taxi data, but have not seen anything
> >posted and have not been able to find much in the archives. (Have not looked
> >at every post!)   Also didnt see police entries on any of the ECM tables.
> >
> >One post from Bruce, sometime in the past, mentioned "cop car injectors are
> >larger than the truck.  1991, used 16136965 for the cop car ecm.  BATJ was a
> >"good"cal.".
> >
> >That is all that I have found up till now.   Does anyone out there have more
> >leads?
> >
> >My reasoning is that police cars involved in "hot pursuit" probably have
> >hardware and calibrations to support running hard, or at least not hinder
> >it.  Isnt that the kind of EFI performance we are trying for?
> >
> >Where have I gone wrong?  Where should I look harder?  Interested in
> >applications for both TBI and MPI.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Bud
> 
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