[Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel

[Ron Porter]

Don, go in into the "wayback" machine, this was discussed years ago!!

It is a part of the Heavy Duty Cooling Package on "any" Taurus.....the SHO
community decided to call it the "police" grill for whatever reason. Yes,
the Taurus police cars have the HD Cooling package and therefore have the
grill, but when I lived in Louisville (home to two Ford plants), I saw the
grill on more taxis and run-of-the-mill SLOs than any police cars (never saw
any SLO Police cars around there anyway). It was also a part of the Towing
package.

The purpose of the grill was to aid airflow at low or "zero" speeds, as
idling in traffic, and while stressing the engine at lower-speed towing.
With the aerodynamics of the front bumper, I'll bet that it does about
nothing at speed for getting in more air, as the bumper will deflect the air
up over the hood.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:00 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] cutting vent holes in the header panel


Ron,

How is the "police grill" misnamed?  It IS the grill that 
was on all Police package Tauri from 1986 through 1991.

it also came on the taxi package, so you could call it the 
taxi grill.

It does allow more airflow through the grill, and that goes 
into the radiator, but we determined long ago that the Gen I 
SHO really isn't lacking in cooling.

The reason I and many others have the grill is for looks, I 
think it looks a LOT better than the stock grill.  My 
personal opinion, but it IS the grill that Police cars got.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Doesn't seem to be worth the effort to me.
> 
> I thought that most of the cooling air for the radiator came in below the
> bumper.
> 
> The misnamed "police" grill supposedly allows more airflow while taxis are
> stuck in traffic with the cooling fan running, but at speed the airflow
> comes in from below.
> 
> Ron Porter 
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